Why the fuck would they name it PRISM?

We cannot stop collecting data about you because collecting the datum that you want to stop having your data collected failed.

I wonder if the situation in Europe is different, where such bullshit is illegal.

The website is quite tight-lipped regarding features. What’s a ‘smart playlist’?

I’m not sure anymore how I got into a state where that was necessary, but do keep a reference around for how to boot Linux or Windows from the Grub command line.

Second-hand physical books often cost 3,01€, where 3,00€ are shipping. That’s no match for digitals. Also I hate handheld devices that can’t take a beating (looking at you, smartphone). I’m clumsy. I drop things. Books survive that. E-readers… I don’t wanna test.

Also, for whatever reason, I read physical books more carefully than text on screen.

Yep, and align isn’t a real property, either.

It’s a typo. The colon should be a semicolon. But since it’s the last declaration, it’s optional.

sudo maintains ‘sudo state’ for 15 minutes. After that you need to enter the password again.

For those who don’t know: It’s basically an Age of Empires clone.

14 days ago I tested Ubuntu. I couldn’t access my Wifi. The network was visible, but it refused to accept the password. (Yes, I quintuple-checked that I entered it right.) When I tried Linux Mint, it worked on the first try.

Moral of the story: Drivers are hit-and-miss on Linux, too.

I never understood this logic

You’re looking for logic in a joke.

Do you question why Donald Trump, the pope and a kid are the only passengers on a plane that’s about to crash?

More like

Problem → new ProblemSolverFactory().createProblemSolver().solveProblem();

You’re making the claim that mp3 is unsupported while I listen to mp3s on my smartphone, my linux laptop and my MS laptop without issues, my friend.

More like 503.

I found out a long time ago that I can’t hear the difference between compression levels starting at 192kbps. So there really isn’t any use for lossless for me.

All my songs still are mp3.

I just remembered that the Dell docking station I’m using makes a sound when it processes data. I can literally hear my mouse move.

Don’t buy Dell.

I can’t of anything that makes an unwanted sound. Old CRT TVs used to, but I haven’t used one in years. My monitor at work makes a sound when it turns on or off (I believe there’s an ass-old fuse in there), but it makes no sound otherwise.

I’m still young and hear very well, as exemplified by my annoyance of half-closed bottles of carbonated drinks, which do make a sound.

What you’re showing here is an extra processing step, but I wouldn’t call that manual.

Yes, it’s not manual by the dictionary definition, but it is an extra step. This is another meaning of manual in my particular bubble [Edit: that I didn’t think to specify].

But a much better idea would be to use sensors -j to get json output, intended for machine reading, and pass that to jq.

This is my initial point, exactly. Dealing with objects is way easier than using the ‘default’ line-wise processing. Only Powershell made that the default, while in Linux you need to hope that utilities have an option to toggle it on – and then also have jq installed to process the objects.

I look forward to seeing how you would do this in PS. As I said previously, I don’t know it at all, so I’m not sure what you’re comparing this to.

[Edit, since I forgot to answer your main point:] I don’t program in PS. I don’t like the verbosity. But I do think MS has a point in pushing objects as the prime unit in processing instead of lines.

For instance: Get the temperature of the “Composite” sensor from this output:

$ sensors
k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
Tctl:         +37.1°C  

BAT1-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
in0:          16.07 V  
curr1:         1.80 A  

amdgpu-pci-0500
Adapter: PCI adapter
vddgfx:        1.46 V  
vddnb:       918.00 mV 
edge:         +35.0°C  
slowPPT:     1000.00 uW 

nvme-pci-0200
Adapter: PCI adapter
Composite:    +28.9°C  (low  =  -5.2°C, high = +79.8°C)
                       (crit = +84.8°C)

acpitz-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
temp1:        +37.0°C  (crit = +120.0°C)

Without a cryptic awk incantation that only wizards can understand, that would be:

sensors | grep Composite | grep -Po 'Composite:.*?C' | grep -Eo '[[:digit:]]{1,2}\.[[:digit:]]'