Love the image of wheeds just popping up all over your garden where you don’t want them.
It’s a great metaphor for the “HEY, TRY THIS NEW THING!” shit microsoft pulls.

Additionally much software (and hardware even more) primarely targets windows as a platform. The way printers mostly “just work”™ on Linux still amazes me, because printer vendors have all the incentives to make their stuff work for the most used platform, which sadly isn’t Linux right now.

Full disclosure: I ran manjaro as a daily driver for a while a few years back bad have been forced back on windows as well by company policy. So I’m not going to be the ultimate authority to answer your questions.
All I wanted to comment is that with iTunes and Office you have picked two pieces of software by two companies that have a very strong interest in not letting you migrate away from them. I tried to migrate my gf’s password manager from the iCloud one to bitwarden and it’s amazing the hoops they make you jump through to get at your data. So what you might be experiencing right now is a thing called “vendor lock”, and I wish you the best of luck for finding a way out. ;)

Yeah, I remember the first time I saw the :// thing I felt myself having a little design-gasm.
This doesn’t touch the same spot for me…

There’s some joke about pointers here that I’m not C++ savvy enough to make.
I’ll let you workshop it.

Absolutely not an expert or anything, but is it possible that the partition of your harddrive that you’re trying to install Debian on (hd0) is too small?

This is not really “not the onion” though…
Sure, the headline is written kinda funny with the “forced to use brain”, but I don’t think the story is wild enough…

It’s surprising, I’d thought he would be team shark. But I’m glad he’s finally answering all the important questions.

I was asking myself the same thing. This is a pathetic state of affairs… The only thing missing is that the google banner would now also acknowledge the Bing box and tell you specifically “don’t listen to the other popup!”.

Yeah, I’ve seen better strategic thinking…

Yes, if you reorder only the text and not the whole bubble it’s also correct. =)

In case you are serious: It’s probably not.
When you’re not careful with parallel processing / multithreading, you can run into something called a “race condition”, where results of parallel computations end up in the wrong order because some were finished faster than others.
The joke here is that whoever “programmed” this commic is bad at parallel progmming and got the bubbles in the wrong order because of that.
The image makes perfect sense if you read it in the order 3, 1, 2.

“That funy feeling” by Bo Burnham

As many said before here, if you’re concerned go see a professional. But overall this sounds like your brain is just very keen on doing its pattern matching thing.

I think the most important aspect is whether you’re “suffering” from this or whether you just notice it from time to time and can shrug it off. If it’s the later, I’d keep an eye (or ear?) on it, but not worry about it too much.

To all of you reading this who are interested but don’t have home assistant (yet): I just set a timer for as long as the laundry takes. If I can’t go get it when the timer goes off I will place a “memento” somewhere (for example placing something on the ground in my way where it doesn’t belong) so I remember. The “set lighting to hell until I do it” solution sounds neat too, though. =)

Haha, okay that’s a great moment. Thank you for providing the link. I think every interviewee should have a David around the corner.

What is this from?

Is it different for the current generation?

That’s exactly what I thought when I saw this. Looks very “lying with statistics”!

Also not necessarily true. You might loose a limb and survive, but it could mentally wreck you and you’re definitely weaker with one vs. two arms.