Nah, every conservative I know hates toll roads with a passion. They want the roads to be taxpayer-funded because that’s what they use as an upstanding member of society, while social programs and public transit should be profitable or shut down because those are for the poors who need to get their act together.

Basically, they think everything conservatives and billionaires rely on should be taxpayer-funded, while everything they don’t need is “for the poors” and needs to either turn a profit or be cut.

Seriously. I hear a lot from the right that public transit, bike routes, and social programs need to be profitable or they shouldn’t exist. With no mention of the roads they drive on every day.

Yeah, it confused me at first, but now I love it and never want to have to go back to dealing with Device Manager freaking out if I need to move a drive or swap out hardware.

Linux doesn’t have a Device Manager or database like Windows does. It automatically picks the appropriate drivers for the hardware in the system when it boots, based on what drivers are installed. And as others have mentioned, most distros ship generic kernels with all the open-source drivers included.

Fun fact, it’s a carryover from when dial service was first implemented in the United States!

In the beginning, you’d pick up the phone and hear “Number please?” and then you’d tell the operator the central office name followed by the number, like “Bubbling Brook 3-2468” or “Murray Hill 5-9975”

Once dial service was implemented, you’d instead hear the dial tone and then dial the first two letters of the office name, followed by the rest of the number (BU32468 or MU59975), using this arrangement of letters.

Once phone numbers went to all-digits around 1961, the letters on the dial got repurposed for numbers like these. Of course, they got repurposed again for T9 texting and contact search.

AT&T has an old video about this topic

Former gas station manager here.

The vast majority of people fill up in the morning. Then they accused us of making them late for work.

I have an industrial job where I’m on my feet all day, and most of the day, I have various pieces that are at different stages in the process all at once. Everybody else in my department also has ADHD. It’s a cakewalk for me, but I’ve noticed that most neurotypicals struggle with it.

I would get way too antsy sitting in an office or at home all day.

In my area, once T-Mobile became a viable option as a home ISP, Spectrum freaked the fuck out and went nuts chasing people down at the grocery stores and telling people T-Mobile is bad. Spectrum was the only option in town for a very long time, so they got very expensive, and now T-Mobile is offering 5 times the speed for half the price. It’s insane. Yeah, T-Mobile isn’t perfect, but it’s nice to finally have some competition.

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