The professor that taught my algorithms & data structures course said if we were going to keep one book it should be the one for that course. I followed that advice and it’s the one textbook I still have. It’s been 8 years since graduation and I haven’t opened it once. I tend to just read Wikipedia if I need to understand a particular algorithm or data structure.

I have a Surface Pro 4 (I think from 2015) and the battery life now is awful. I might be able to get an hour or two depending on the performance mode, I usually just plug it in while using it now. If I forget to plug it in between uses, it will definitely be dead the next time I go to use it.

Plus it’s starting to feel pretty slow. I do still have Windows on it, perhaps installing Linux would help make it faster but it sounds like it takes some work to get everything working properly so I haven’t bothered.

No, I mean doesn’t it only look for updates of the current tag? That works fine if you set every container to the “latest” tag, but if you set your containers to specific version tags then you won’t get a notification unless that specific tag gets updated.

That will just pull the latest image though right? I.e., if you explicitly have a container on a tag for v1.2.3, it wouldn’t upgrade you when v1.2.4 is released right?

I learned this when I got an electric toothbrush. It only has room for about a pea sized blob and it’s surprising how far it goes.

I one time woke up at like 3am and mindlessly went through my whole morning routine (ate breakfast, showered, got dressed). Then I realized it was 3am and had like 5 hours before work… I think I just went back to bed

To play devil’s advocate, tab completion would have also likely caught this. OP could have typed /mnt/t<Tab> and it would autofill temp, or <Tab><Tab> would show the matching options if it’s ambiguous.

Ehh I wouldn’t say variables in programming are all that similar to variables in algebra. In a programming language, variables typically are just a name for some data. Whereas in algebra, they are placeholders for unknown values.

Or you’ll go to put the new battery somewhere and find the old one already there.

It probably depends on the type chip. If they’re the scoops tortilla chips, they would be quiche.

There’s also people with the last name “Null” that break things https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160325-the-names-that-break-computer-systems

If you’re at work, it’s not really “your” data. It’s “your company’s” data. And your company might be collecting even more data on you than Microsoft.

My guess is they tried to write “hippa” and it autocorrected, because it’s “HIPAA”

It’s been a long time since I set it up, but I have Microsoft accounts in my usual TOTP app (Aegis). Maybe I did it manually? But it’s definitely possible.

I haven’t used it personally, I think Tailscale would help here. It sounds like it doesn’t require port forwarding, and uses Wireguard under the covers.

I’ve never heard of YumoHost, but I don’t get why preventing upgrades to an application deemed to have “issues” makes sense. If it has issues, wouldn’t you want to upgrade it when the issues are fixed?

One of the great things about Linux is that you can almost always just run whatever distro from the USB drive before installing (and just reboot without the USB drive to get back into Windows) So you can download a few ISOs and try each one for a bit before committing to anything.

This is nice if there’s anything specific that you need to work, you can try it and make sure it’s usable for you before making any permanent changes.

For example, I’m legally blind and use a screen magnifier. I tried a few distros to compare the built-in magnifiers before settling on one.

I’d also recommend using Ventoy on your USB. That lets you just plop ISO files on the drive and choose which one at boot.

I’m guessing it’d be cheaper for MS to just keep providing security updates for Win10 than to create a whole Linux distro…

Like in your pocket? I keep a battery bank in my work backpack but that’s about it.

Could get a clock with a backup battery.