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This is a pretty good idea, my wife dual boots and I'll suggest it to her as Windows keeps trashing the EFI partition.

This would work but assumes the primary use of the machine is Windows and derates your performance under Linux significantly due to USB speeds. Even if you're storing your data on the Windows HDD, NTFS drivers are dog slow compared to EXT4 and other *nix filesystems.

Also some BIOSes are a pain to get to boot off removable drives reliably so it really depends on what your machine is.

I've used Linux as a primary dev system for well over a decade now, and with the current state of Windows I'd really recommend just taking the leap, keep your Windows box if you need Windows software and build a dedicated Linux workstation.

You're missing one:

• dedicated, air-gapped Windows box used for legacy industrial software

Aside from "lightweight apps in VM" this is the only solution I use now. (Unless you count Proton, but having Steam games Just Work barely feels like a "solution" as it requires zero effort on my part)

I don't even trust Windows to dual boot off a separate disk without trying to break something anymore.

I play a lot of couch coop with my kid but adults would enjoy all these too. Most can be found under $20 on Steam and a lot are fairly lightweight games but have good coop mechanics and can be a lot of fun to sit down for an hour or two with.

• Overcooked 1 + 2 (but 2 really is better) you will love or hate it depending on your personalities, nothing in between. We loved it
• Ship of Fools
• Enter the Gungeon
• Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
• Moving Out

On Switch

• Cadence of Hyrule
• Don't starve together (only split screen on console not PC... Wtf)
• Pikmin

Your local janitorial supply is better than Amazon.

Honestly every household should have an account at one, everything there is practical and works well unlike most modern consumer products. Dirt cheap too.

Stuff like broom and dustpan, mop and bucket, spray bottles, squeegees, concentrated cleaning products, paper towel... Buy commercial grade, buy it for life.

steel which perfectly absorbs heat. No, the best solution is to use aluminum.

Aluminum is far more thermally conductive and makes both a far better radiator and absorber of heat. Ultimately it's a coating that does the absorbing though, as shiny metal reflects IR regardless of the material. Source: I work with this stuff

Light coloured or reflective roofs do make sense though and that's why traditional homes in most hot climates are painted white.

It's even referenced in the Bible, showing that the writers had a good idea of the maximum human lifespan even back then.

[Genesis 6:3] Then the LORD said, "My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years."

Just try it the other way. Random face punching today, years of medical and psychological treatment later!

This word, forced, means that as individuals they didn't have a choice. Why punish them rather than the ones giving the orders?

You could claim that they should refuse the orders, and this the responsibility is theirs, but in a country with mandatory service this does not usually play out well for you.

That's a valid point, the dev cycle is compressed now and customer expectations are low.

So instead of putting in the long term effort to deliver and support a quality product, something that should have been considered a beta is just shipped and called "good enough".

A good example I guess would be a long term embedded OSS project like Tasmota, compared to the barely functional firmware that comes stock on the devices that people buy to reflash to Tasmota.

Still there are few things that frustrate me like some Bluetooth device that really shouldn't have been a Bluetooth device, and has non-deterministic behaviour due to lack of initialization or some other trivial fault. Why did the tractor work lights turn on as purple today? Nobody knows!

My type is a dying breed too, the guys who do their best to write robust code and actually trying to consider edge cases, race conditions, properly sized variables and efficient use of cycles, all the things that embedded guys have done as "embedded" evolved from 6800 to Pic, Atmel and then ESP platforms.

Now people seem to have embraced "move fast and break things" but that's the exact opposite to how embedded is supposed to be done. Don't get me wrong there is some great ESP code out there but there's also a shitload of buggy and poorly documented libraries and devices that require far too many power cycles to keep functioning.

In my opinion one power cycle is too many in the embedded world. Your code should not leak memory. We grew up with BYTES of RAM to use, memory leaks were unthinkable!

And don't get me started on the appalling mess that modern engineers can make with functional block inside a PLC, or their seeming lack of knowledge of industrial control standards that have existed since before the PLC.

The problem is the "race to the bottom". Sure, some grindy desk jobs can gladly be taken by AI.

What about the jobs that AI does poorly, but when the low cost is taken into account it's still seen as feasible?

Think of all the horrid DTMF phone menus and barely functioning voice recognition systems. We hated these as customers, colleagues, anyone who had to use them despised them

Cheaper than a receptionist, though.

Now imagine that level of frustration and poor service spread across every industry at every level. We're talking about a total collapse of productivity across the entire economy. Not only do people lose their jobs, but the work isn't even getting done to any standard, either.