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  • It’s a short sighted argument to say baddies don’t follow the rules so your only restricting honest people.

    In Australia assault rifles and automatics are just outright banned. You need a licence to own any type of gun, which takes 6 months waiting for background checks to be done. Guns must be kept in Safes etc.

    So whilst a baddie might want to get an assault rifle and go on a kill rampage he can’t. There just aren’t any around. You can’t break in to a house and steal one.

    Can organised crime get them? Sure. But that’s not what this is trying to stop. It’s preventing the impulsive bat shit crazy person going on a rampage.

    It absolutely helps, as proven by Australias lack of mass shootings.

    People who want to go hunting still can.


  • I get up at 4am on days I have to go to the office. Driving an hour to work at 4:30 sucks but it’s better than driving 2 hours to work at 6:30.

    On Fridays I either have the day off or have to work 4 hours, alternating each week.

    I get up at 4am on the working Friday and finish at 8 exactly like this guy suggests because it feels like I have every week being a 3 day weekend.

    It is shit cramming a full working week into Mon-Thursday though. My employer implemented the 4 day work week if we wanted. You still have the work the hours though, so it’s quite shit.

    I know quite a few people just went back to working 5 days to shorten each day.






  • uglyduckling81@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldWindows 11
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    I don’t agree with the Mac one.

    The Mac UI is basically windows 3.1.

    It’s absolutely awful.

    Also, windows will never brick your machine because of a full hard drive. My wife has a shitty MacBook air. She filled the drive completely. The OS can no longer function. It boots and that’s it. You can’t open anything, you can’t delete anything. Every single click says free up HDD space, even deleting files.

    It’s so fucking bad.


  • I work a 9 day week. It’s shit. 4 day work week only works if you don’t have to do a 38hr week crammed into the remaining days.

    I have to do 9 hr days to get that day off. The Friday I have to work is only a 4 hr day.

    I often dream about just working all 7 days just so each day is shorter. If I did 4 hrs on Saturday and Sunday I could just do 7 hr days.

    I fucking hate 9 hr days. I’m completely over it by 6 hrs.

    I also consider just cutting back my hours to 24hrs, but then I think about my retirement. I don’t want to be super poor when I’m old so I need to work as much as possible for the next 10 years atleast before dialing back a bit until retirement.


  • I flipped around a few different distros to try them out.

    As it currently stands IMO Linux won’t be taking market share from Windows.

    I actually think the best use case for Linux is for the very old. People that want their computer to work and never change. They only need a browser and a word processor and email. I considered setting up Mint for my mum’s PC just so its a consistent and solid experience forever.

    She likes playing the Windows card games though with the score board so it ruled it out.


  • uglyduckling81@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldI just want to help!
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    I’ve tried several times. I’m pretty test savvy. Last time I tried I said I’m sticking with it for 3 months minimum to get a grip on it.

    I lasted about 4 months before I went back to windows.

    It just makes life hard. Windows might be tracking every moment of my usage but it just works as Jensen would say.

    The amount of hours I spent reading posts and forums trying to figure out how to get things working the way I wanted.

    Linux really needs to unify a bit. Stop being so fragmented. It’s so stupid having different versions of Linux that require different versions of software to work.

    Until a single common standard is adopted it will never gain traction.

    Plus they need to get away from the terminal. It’s not the 80s anymore.