What’s wrong with Casu?

Americans can come to my country with few limitations (Canada), and it shouldn’t be overly hard to get either dual citizenship or to become a Canadian citizen. Our immigration policies are not nearly as strict as other places and we have a gigantic, and mostly undefended border with the USA. Little more than border guards stand in the way, and as long as you’re not a felon, and you have a legitimate reason to enter the country, you’re welcome here.

We have universal healthcare available to all citizens.

Once here it’s a matter of getting an employer who will sponsor your work visa… Then it’s a pretty clear path to citizenship from there.

We’re not super different from the USA. More taxes, no guns. Some other differences. But we’re like… America lite.

The last comments in the image are exactly right.

It bothers me when I screw up and someone says “I fixed that for you” without explaining how I screwed things up, or how they fixed it.

If I’m wrong, I get it. I’m not always right, nobody can be right 100% of the time, IMO, that’s impossible. But when I’m wrong, let me learn so I can avoid being wrong in the same way twice.

IMO, schools have failed us, they teach us what we should know but don’t encourage us to always be curious and always be learning. It’s okay to make mistakes, and it’s okay to be wrong. What’s not okay is never learning from your mistakes, and being so stubborn that when you are wrong, you double down on being wrong instead of seeking more information so you can be correct next time.

Being wrong is always condemned. You get low grades, you fail and get held back in some cases… It’s been rare that any teacher I’ve ever had would review anything from a test after its over. A very small number went back and said “a lot of people had trouble with x question from the test, here’s the answer and this is why it’s the correct answer”. IMO, that should be way more common… Review the test after its over and let the class know that low marks are not the end, they’re a wonderful beginning to learning. If you know what you don’t know and you have even the smallest amount of ability and willingness to improve, with the addition of opportunities to learn that, then you will always succeed.

Be successful. Get a bunch of shit wrong.

I can’t afford to live now, when I’m old and can’t work, I might as well die because I certainly won’t be able to afford to live.

As someone who lives somewhere that’s supposed to be cold for 5+ months of the year, with snow on the ground and everything… Our grass was green last winter, not white because it’s covered in snow.

We had cold snaps but they lasted days, and the majority of the “winter” was spent above freezing. I haven’t seen anything like it in the last 40 years (my entire life), and I expect much the same next year.

Good thing I invested in that snow blower… It makes for some lovely decoration in my garage and does a really good job at collecting dust.

I fucking hope not.

Agreed. I’m less than a decade out from it and I’m a millennial.

I’m hoping to at least make it to 65+.

Though, the prospect of retiring is something I consider to be out of reach, so… I’ll be working until I knock off.

Hopefully you donated it, instead of just throwing it directly in the dumpster.

There’s still people who use them and not all of those people can afford one.

IKR, my SO owns two.

IDK what OP is on about, though, I’ve never used one.

I live in a place with socialized healthcare (Canada), and did a sleep study, which didn’t cost me anything, in January… In about two weeks from now, I sit down with a doctor to review their findings.

The sleep study is very much a non-emergency. I did it because my lady has complained about the noise I make when I sleep, I also frequently get bad sleep for one reason or another.

It’s non-critical, and I’ve spent more than six months waiting for results.

Bluntly, I’d rather wait longer than pay more. I know anything important/life threatening would be completed same-day, and I’ve had that experience too. Though, at the time, I wasn’t really in a life threatening situation.

Many mainboards have moved to a small piezoelectric speaker, not dissimilar to the buzzer on an old style of digital watch (think Timex), rather than a speaker pinout for the system.

It’s soldered right to the mainboard. It’s different than the crap cone style system speaker.

The cone style usually was bundled with the case and was usually mismatched lowest bidder garbage.

I’m pretty sure that even very modern mainboards have a piezo style “speaker” on them, though many might forego this in favor of lights or something.

I always hear interference, especially from a mouse, in onboard audio.

I’m happy you haven’t had this problem, but I consider that to be an outlier in the grand scheme of things.

I’d also be willing to bet you have the problem but just haven’t noticed it. Which is fine. If the issue isn’t one you have noticed, and you’re fine with onboard, go ham. Have fun. That’s not me though.

I do everything I can not to white knight about anything.

I support the right to choose. I support women’s rights, and I support bodily autonomy for everyone.

Once you have the choice, then you can do with that whatever you want. If you want my opinion on a specific scenario, I’ll provide it, I have no issue with that, but final decisions are up to the individual who is responsible for that decision, the person who will live with the consequences of that choice.

Baked into the kernel or not, the drivers are there.

But Windows supports so many different and strange configurations that the generic drivers included with Windows may not work with the specific audio device you’re using.

Sounds poor.

It was the early days of computers, so it’s not like that’s really saying much. Most of it was a mishmash of stuff

On board is easier and for any audio enthusiast, sounds like trash by comparison.

I have yet to meet an onboard audio solution that didn’t give you garbage in the output. Whether it’s coil whine, a low hiss or a 60hz him, there’s always something.

Onboard, in my experience also distorts way earlier into the volume slider by comparison.

But yeah, onboard is much easier.

I think the only floppy disk that I know of that I didn’t use was the 7"? I think it was 7. The one that’s larger than the 5.25" that was really common.

From there I’ve used or handled just about every type of digital storage. The 5.25" floppy disks are classic, but easily near the bottom of my list for favorites. They’re down there with anything on tape (which is useful but always a hassle), and early USB drives when they used the cheapest solid state IC they could find and no matter what you did the IC was always painfully slow and there was nothing you could do about it because every manufacturer did that shit.

3.5" was rigid on the outside, floppy in the middle. Still a floppy diskette in my view.

Back in my day, there was a little speaker in the case that connected to the motherboard by a couple of wires.

It sounded terrible and we liked it, because it was better than nothing.

My fairly modern computer, originally released in 2014 (yes, that’s modern compared to a lot of the computers I own), has no sound card.

I picked up a Yamaha AG06, which has a USB connection and creates both audio inputs and audio outputs to/from my PC. I can quickly plug in my phone or a Bluetooth receiver (which my phone connects to), and get other audio into my headphones with very little trouble. I prefer it this way, and if my next PC has onboard audio, I’ll probably disable it in favor of the AG06.