I assume “destructively scan” means to cut the spine off so they lie flat, and that one copy of each book will be scanned? Isn’t that a pretty normal way of doing it in cases where the prints aren’t rare?

I discovered that there’s a separate application which just reinstalls Teams all the time. I don’t remember the name, but it had Teams in the name. After I uninstalled that it finally stopped popping up.

I think it’s more that they’re not really making money on Windows anymore. The money is in cloud services like Office 365. So Windows is just being used to push people towards what actually makes Microsoft money, disregarding whether they actually want those services.

https://pureinfotech.com/microsoft-windows-11-ai-brakes-copilot-recall/

Note that this article completely buries the lede. This is the last paragraph:

#Enterprise pushback is also influencing decisions#

Separately, enterprise users have pushed back against Copilot in managed environments, prompting the software giant to test options that would allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot more easily on business devices. This indicates that the rethink isn’t just about consumer sentiment but also addresses corporate deployment challenges.

The reason they’re having second thoughts is due to enterprise customers, who are the only customers they really care about the opinion of. If it was just home users complaining, they would not be adjusting course.

I imagine this is why MS is finally backtracking a bit on the aggressive pushing of AI in every app. They’re doing Clippy all over again, but OS-wide this time.

Just impressive how hard they managed to screw the pooch here. Have they forgotten that every other Windows release is universally hated? They had a good thing going until they discontinued Windows 10 before Windows 12 was out. Now they’ll probably need to rush out another version, because the name Windows 11 is forever tainted.

In this case “Doomer” is probably an alternate word for Gen Z. They are sometimes called the doomer generation.

Depending on how the question was phrased, they could be Republicans who registered Democrat to vote in Democrat primaries.

They’re happy that brown and/or LGBT people are being hunted in the streets.

Or, if you’re feeling generous, they’re not paying attention at all, but their pastor told them that everything is better when the president has an R next to their name.

/dev/md127 is probably a raid 1 from a previous installation. Assuming you don’t need the data on it, you can either delete or ignore it.

I’m not familiar with this exact installer, but I have installed Debian a bunch before. Judging by what I’m seeing here, you probably need to do a bit of manual labor. I’m guessing you first create partition tables (usually gpt), then raid partitions, then combine them into a raid, and maybe then put lvm on top of that again, and finally a filesystem. If you’re planning to go the lvm route you probably want to create a smaller raid on the start of the disk for /boot (250-500MB should suffice) separate from the lvm, because last I checked you can’t boot from an lvm volume.

Most teams I’ve been in would do a time boxed task (sometimes referred to as a spike) in those cases. Basically, you get a task with maybe 3 or 5 story points, and the goal is to either complete it or find out what it takes to do so. Then you make follow-up tasks for the next sprint. It’s worked pretty well for me in those cases with a lot of uncertainty.

I imagine they do when training in Norway at least, but the whole point of those exercises is to make them better at dealing with winter warfare. The Norwegians already know how to dress for the cold, so it’s not exactly an even pairing. Not sure the results would be the same if they did the same exercise in Texas heat.

Yeah, basically. Speeds up new installations, less duplicate downloads. Not interesting at all if you’re updating regularly, which most people are.

I’m not making excuses, I’m trying to explain the behavior. Understanding the reason for the behavior is step 1 in changing the behavior.

There is some reason which is resulting in Norwegians still buying Teslas. Similar countries, like Sweden, are not buying Teslas. What’s different in Norway? It’s very obviously not that they’re all uninformed, and it’s not that they’re all fascist. There has to be some other reasons which result in Norwegians choosing to give money to Elon.

Not everything is black and white. I don’t want to give money to Nestlé, but I also need to eat. I think Intuit is a terrible company, but TurboTax is also the most feasible way for me to do my taxes, so I hold my nose and give money to them. There’s nuance to everything. I’m curious what’s tipping the scales for Tesla specifically in Norway and not other places, and wondering how that might be changed.

Of course tax incentives apply to all EVs. I don’t think my point is coming quite across here. These aren’t the tax incentives you’re likely used to.

In the US, tax incentives for EVs amount to you getting a $3k or something like that discount on your electric car. Electric cars are more expensive to manufacture, so the incentive roughly cancels this out, so people who wanted to buy an electric car can afford to do so instead of buying a comparable ICE vehicle for roughly the same price.

This is not how Norwegian tax incentives for EVs work. Norway has a tax on combustion engines. The bigger the engine, the higher the tax. EVs do not have combustion engines, so this tax does not apply to them. The result of this tax structure was that ten years ago, a Tesla Model S was the price of a VW Golf in Norway. That was while people still bought Golfs. It’s hard to compare now because everyone buys EVs.

In every country there are assholes. Some vehicles appeal more to assholes. While there certainly are assholes driving a Prius, you’re more likely to see them in a Hellcat, an F1 Raptor or some huge diesel truck. If you wanted to buy one of those in Norway, you’d have to sell one of your mansions. If you don’t want to sell a mansion, or don’t have multiple mansion money, you buy a Tesla Model S or X. In most other countries assholes drive a variety of cars. The asshole market in Norway is 100% dominated by Tesla, and assholes don’t mind that Elon is a nazi.

If you want to compare with other countries, you’d get more meaningful results if you took another country’s data, substituted all performance ICE cars with Teslas, and then compared the results.

This isn’t the only reason. I listed a bunch of other contributing factors in my original comment. I forgot to mention the extensive Tesla supercharger network in Norway, but that probably also plays a role. I’m pretty sure other vehicles can also use those chargers, but it’s probably less convenient.

Okay, sure, I was thinking cars and consumer products, not aerospace.

With more limited volume products like jet engine parts the savings of manufacturing in a lower cost country probably also diminish. There’s a constant overhead in outsourcing things to somewhere far away, and without enough volume to spread that cost over it doesn’t always make sense.

Plus they probably can’t outsource a lot of the stuff being made for the military, so there has to be domestic manufacturing capabilities for that sort of thing anyway.

I did give a bunch of other reasons earlier in the thread, which are logically consistent. “Norwegians are fascists” doesn’t line up with the political reality in Norway, no matter how much some passionate people on the Internet want it to.

Sure, that lines up great with how half the countries in the west are drifting towards fascism, while Norway is still a rock solid social democracy. I guess the fascists in Norway are too busy driving their Teslas around to vote?

And a good deal of the parts were manufactured in China, with a spec which didn’t request trash.

There are people ok with supporting a fascist worldwide, that doesn’t explain why the Norwegian ones are buying more Teslas. Tax incentives do.

Yeah, those two first paragraphs were more about Chinese manufacturing in general, not about the Volvo. The US is still full of Chinese-made stuff, it’s just a bit more expensive now. And there are no BYD cars, but as far as I know you can still get Volvos.