The recovery backup…

Not sure about a specific article for planes, but some forms of solar radiation can cause random bits to flip to the opposite when it crosses through computer hardware like memory.

These randomly occur already just by us existing in the solar system, and error correction algorithms, hardware like ECC memory, and shielding helps to prevent and correct these issues when they do happen. The intense radiation recently, the same that caused the extended auroras, caused more and stronger occurrences though.

One flight we know was affected despite systems that help prevent issues like that, so they’re having the software reloaded on every plane that might have been affected.

Oh Pearson definitely does thst as well. But not everyone lives near or has reliable transit to a testing facility. Online testing is essentially a requirement for those people.

Pearson is a testing company. They use all sorts of sketchy shit under the guise of anti-cheating. Much of that requires specific plug-ins and stuff that only work in Windows.

Even if you could get it working, but they’ll likely just say you were cheating, and take the $300+ you paid to take that required test.

Giving winring0 vibes.

Well you’re in luck, that should be coming soon.

It is. And so do I. The terminal isn’t hard, it’s just for the average user, it feels intimidating and/or extremely old and thus inherently bad. They rely on the GUI as the user experience. And to be honest, they’re right. A modern system should not require terminal interaction for every day use cases, or even infrequent use cases. It’s just not a user-friendly interface for a consumer.

And that doesn’t even get into the youngest generations that have grown up with touchscreens, where many can barely use a mouse. Even those most would probably consider to be more tech-literate, like gamers. PirateSoftware (I know, I know, but it is a real world interaction versus theoretical) brought a demo to one of the conventions, with 2 stations for a game, 1 KB&M and 1 controller. For the few kids that tried to use the KB&M stations, they moved the keyboard out of the way and tried to touch the screen to interact, because they didn’t know how to interact with it like that, they knew how to use a controller and a touchscreen. That was how they played games. Their tablets, and controllers probably on consoles. Youtube Shorts video explaining. That’s the average user. No one anywhere near a place like lemmy is an average user.

It’s nothing about learned helplessness, it’s about what the average user experience is for new and inexperienced users. And terminal commands are just not new user friendly. If Linux ever wants to consider being true competition for a Windows replacement with the average user, it has to provide easy to use GUI options for most commands, and it needs to do all basic functionality without a terminal ever being needed.

Like @user224@lemmy.sdf.org posted elsewhere in the thread, KDE has a good GUI for an end user experience for this exact situation. It shows files are open from the device, and what has them open, in the same interface an end user would use to eject the drive.

And the same works 99% of the time in Windows. We’re talking about the small fraction where pressing eject doesn’t work for whatever reason.

It’s insane how nose-blind Windows users are to how user-unfriendly their OS is.

Oh the irony. You clearly don’t work with any sort of end user.

For 99% of computer users, if the GUI doesn’t have an option, it doesn’t exist. They aren’t searching past a basic Google of the issue showing them step by step instructions of how to use the GUI to fix the problem. If there is no way to do so in the GUI, it’s not getting fixed by them, they’ll take it to the Geek Squad if they even decide to fix it at all. They’re must more likely to just ignore an issue. In this case, just removing the USB drive and complaining about something being corrupt later on. The idea of the terminal scares the average person.

Windows doesn’t even have basic package management like every Unix-like OS does Well that’s simply wrong. winget upgrade --all I just upgraded 44 apps I definitely didn’t install via winget, they were all installed via individually downloaded installers at some point in the past, but all upgrade with a single package manager command in a terminal. Certainly seems similar to me. It may not be everything, but it’s certainly the majority of things on this system other than the games.

By default Windows disables file caching on external USB drives. It should be writing those files directly. That doesn’t prevent a program from locking a file or folder that it is using though.

So a complicated set of terminal commands and alternatives you need to have memorized ahead of time. That’s definitely the linux solution. You can do it, but no average user would ever be able to when they need it.

Windows probably has some equally complicated way of finding what is locking a file/folder… or you can just install File Locksmith which is a Microsoft PowerToys tool, and just have it in the context menu everywhere.

Okay Journathan

Because the meme isn’t about the actual facts. It’s about the joke at the end. Which you clearly missed.

It’s also a justification for the millions of dollars they already spent on office space that isn’t necessary anymore.

I just order online ahead of time, at my leisure, or on my way home, and pick it up quicker than it would have taken to place the order and pay in person. Almost all the places that have shot like this also have online ordering.

You’re surprised that a fast food manager could be cutting corners even more than corporate requires? Or even just that fast food staffing is a clusterfuck of excessive call outs to the point where the location doesn’t actually have enough staff?

McDonald’s already did this years ago, and cut workers taking orders in store. The in store kiosks use the same interface as their mobile app. He’ll it’s probably literally just the mobile app running on a large touchscreen. Half the time you can’t even order with a person.

Charge data centers that use carbon producing options double the rate.

Not sure how this is any different than buying any of the branded fashion bags. Those offer no special or unique functionality, just a name and maybe a specific material design.