Fighting with Windows 11 introduced me to Linux Mint, which works perfectly! I’m not an OS geek, so I really don’t care about the OS – it’s just the thing I deal with on the way to Firefox.

This appeared this week on our home Windows 10 machine as well for the one account that does not use a Microsoft account. It’s a new behavior.

This is very upsetting to me–more as a point of principle than in fact–but I appreciate that it doesn’t bother younger generations at all.

I am in a support group with over 100 senior citizens in it. Getting a file with a *.rtf extension used to be a thing, but it hasn’t been a thing in years. I do get *.doc and *.docx files so they’re probably getting lured into Office like you said even before Wordpad is removed.

That’s why downvote buttons exist?

No (and not downvoted) … it’s about controlling visibility.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

My take: Upvote the stuff other people should see. Downvote the stuff that should have never been here at all. You don’t have to agree or disagree, you can even have no opinion. But if you find it worthwhile to others, upvote it. Detrimental, downvote it.

ET-2800 does have a USB connection and linux drivers

I have the ET-2720 which I like but appears to have been discontinued.

I’ve had one for a year. I print a lot, in color, and I’m impressed.

They don’t even have to work that hard. Figure nine officers working full-time 240 days a year. Have to write between 2 and 3 tickets a day to get to 5100 tickets a year.

The rest of these reservists are reserves on the books to do fine collection, some of them from Houston 3 hours away. They also can accept traffic details and security details and working for private contractors and apartment complexes.

Now 12 officers full-time splitting a million dollars comes out to 83,000 an officer, and I suspect that still isn’t enough with benefits. So I’m not sure that we have the whole store here or not, as much as this story already stinks.

More: https://www.khou.com/article/news/investigations/coffee-city-police-department-suspends-division-amid-legal-questions/285-85d5c28d-db26-43d5-a5ee-7d72a3b9e316

15 minute video - 3 five-minute segments - on KHOU’s full investigation: https://www.khou.com/video/news/investigations/this-texas-town-has-about-250-people-it-has-50-sworn-police-officers/285-571bdd10-d17d-4959-a052-442f0bdbad4c

All the Williams titles are pretty terrific. Pinball FX (Zen) has done a good job with these.

We (76 and 60) shop with our plastic (credit, never debit). Next cash if it is hand-to-hand, or we can get a receipt. Otherwise check, but we don’t carry a checkbook. I may do PayPal, Venmo, or Zelle, but only if I know you personally – if you’re dealing with my spouse, you’d better take a check or plastic or wait for me.

to the detriment of literally everyone else.

How so? It’s an option. The other option may be “no sale.” We grew up on these and we understand them. All the high-tech ways are ever-changing, and we’re never sure where we stand with them.

Suddenly? Nothing sudden about it been going around for years.

From the article:

[In 2022], banks issued about 680,000 reports of check fraud, nearly double what they reported in 2021. And one expert predicted total check fraud will hit $24 billion in losses this year, roughly twice what it was just five years ago.

This video has 7.6M views and was posted 2 years ago

A lot of the comments so far are trying to stay with the negative connotation to exploitation. You exploit your comfortable shoes to walk further each day. You exploit the microwave oven’s ability to more quickly warm your coffee than the stove.

This is the same with discrimination. You choose the raspberry danish over the cheese danish. This is you practicing discrimination, and it’s fine.

Any evil in it comes from abuse or impact to yourself with respect to others, that second definition of exploitation in the OP.

trains and busses that actually work and get people where they need to go with minimal hassle and a reasonable cost

Trains predate cars and busses have always been with us since the car. People have voted – with their cars.

The Interstate Highway System started in the 1950s. Population has more than doubled since then. Of course, we have more traffic, we have more people!

Thanks.

By the way, that’s not Marcus but The Enchirideon (by Epictetus), 33.1

Marcus undoubtedly owned a copy of this. It may have something to do with Meditations 3.05

In action be neither grudging, nor selfish, nor ill-advised, nor constrained. Let not your thought be adorned with overmuch nicety. Be not a babbler or a busybody. Let the God within direct you as a manly being, as an elder, a statesman, a Roman, and a ruler, standing prepared like one who awaits the recall from life, in marching order; requiring neither an oath nor the testimony of any man. And withal, be cheerful, and independent of the assistance and the peace that comes from others; for, it is a man’s duty to stand upright, self-supporting, not supported.

or Meditations 10:16

Discourse no more of what a good man should be; but be one.

Yes. When somebody else has a better take and I want it to be the top comment, I will downvote mine.

cook and sous chef

Mad respect from me. I can’t think of a more difficult job, you have to keep up, you have to juggle orders were some things are easy and some things are hard, you have to deal with the temperature and the standing and the moving. This is a tough, tough job!

A new study by human resources and payroll services platform Gusto Inc. shows smaller companies that have embraced remote work cite higher performance, better employee retention and strong corporate culture built on a foundation of flexibility. As small companies compete with deep-pocketed giants for talent, those gains could provide an edge.

“SMBs are increasingly looking to extend the flexibility that their workforce enjoys,” said Gusto Economist Liz Wilke. “Not only to attract them, but to keep them less stressed, more able to manage their lives, and to build a culture and a team that works for them.”

Companies that started in the past three years are 31% remote and 46% hybrid for their workforces, far higher percentages than more-established companies. Only 22% of younger companies are fully in the office, according to Gusto. Overall, companies that were 100% on-site before the pandemic are split between hybrid work and being fully in the office, with 8% fully remote.

from: https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2023/06/13/remote-work-small-business-success-tips.html (paywalled, unfortunately)

Nobody is forcing anybody – freedom is in the freedom to abstain, and all of us can abstain from working for an employer that demands RTO. There are plenty of remote jobs remote roles are possible, and the smaller the company, the better the job because you (as the individual among fewer) are valued. Big companies don’t care and don’t have to care.

It’s probably another fact missing from this article, but while larger companies are doing RTO, smaller companies are not. Larger companies are making a mistake here, most likely. They’ve got problems and are blaming remote work rather than innovating. Smaller companies are nimble.

This is terrible reporting, emotional, practically yellow. Two academics are quoted. The article and headline tell you how you should feel about this. This should have never gotten past the editor’s desk.