It’s been like that that since I can remember. Upgrading can extend the lifespan by a few years, but often it’s a good idea to replace the whole system.

It depends on a lot of factors of course. If you buy a midrange machine now, you can upgrade it in five years to a high end machine from today, then five years ago.

Rarely do you get to take advantage of technology shifts like hard drives to SSD. A couple of years ago, adding more RAM and an SSD made machines usable, that had these bottlenecks. Still the best thing you can do to an old laptop or desktop.

Over the last decade performance hasn’t improved that much for most typical use cases. An i7 from ten years ago with 16 GB RAM and a 1 TB SSD, and a NVIDIA GTX 1080 is still a decent computer today.

What makes PCs great is that you’re more flexible regarding how you configure your machine. Adding more storage, more ports, extension cards, optical drives inside your machine etc. is just nice.

With a laptop you end up with crappy hubs and lots of cables.

A loving community that personally knows you and how you operate help of course. Not being along when swimming or someone else driving for example. Or you living a life where you don’t even need to drive a vehicle daily.

Exhaustion and depression are a result of constantly being overwhelmed, hypervigilant, and so on.

Your environment and activity can change your neurochemistry in a major way.

Let’s say you lived in a multi generational family. You don’t need to do all the laundry and household chores by yourself, nor do you need to manage them. Singing silly songs with a companion during chores make them more easily doable for someone with ADHD.

MAGA turning on Trump is a possibility.

She is a symptom of the state of American politics.

Unmedicated ADHD isn’t half as bad, if there’s a supportive community surrounding people.

Smaller families, atomized society, individualism all make is harder to socially compensate and coregulate.

These solve different problems. Making an environment inhospitable to the homeless, gets them out of sight. So the well off don’t need to see them anymore, which makes them feel better.

Problem A: filthy and misbehaving people being a nuisance and eye sore

Problem B: people being so unwell and poor they live on the street

A and B are related as in B causes A. However it’s possible to solve A in some areas and not bother with the harder problem B.

Mobile penis inspection

These are advance troops that will figure out logistics, where it makes sense to deploy a bigger force. What they need, and infrastructure.

The Venezuelan President Maduro was captured by a special American police unit and flown to the US.

This decapitation strike might mean no war for regime change necessary.

Some excerpts.

The new directives require international NGOs to submit lists of their Palestinian staff, who are then subject to security vetting, and to refrain from any activity deemed to “delegitimize the State of Israel” – a criterion considered vague and politicized by humanitarian workers and diplomats. If vetoed, an NGO loses the right to have international staff in Gaza or to bring in aid – a ban already affecting dozens of organizations whose status has been in limbo since March. Israeli authorities defended the move as a means to exclude any “hostile” actors. NGOs see it as the politicization of humanitarian assistance and a drastic tightening of working conditions.

Of the roughly 100 international NGOs affected by the new procedure, half refused to submit applications, arguing the rules violated humanitarian principles. About 50 others (facing the December 31 deadline) applied for accreditation. Some of them declined to submit their employee lists, fearing how the data might be used.

Save the Children. The NGO filed an appeal, including before Israeli courts, while continuing its work on the ground thanks to more than 300 Palestinian employees, local partners and purchases from the local market

COGAT downplayed the role of NGOs with unresolved status, claiming “the daily volume of aid entering Gaza does not depend on [them], and enforcement of the law will not lead to a future reduction in the scale of humanitarian aid.”

Yet UN staff (apart from UNRWA) are limited in the enclave, and the agencies rely on local NGOs, who serve as the backbone of aid delivery.

The threats of a ban have already claimed one victim: public advocacy. Faced with the risk of being banned, in a context of humanitarian emergency for Gazans, many NGOs are now keeping a low profile or speaking out anonymously.

This is a reaction by Israel to the spread of misinformation by NGO‘s. Prime example are the repeated exaggerated claims of famine, that are then retracted a couple of months later. NGOs also serve to launder misinformation and propaganda from Hamas. You can easily observe this, because they never talk about executions by Hamas or victims of friendly fire, i.e. Palestinians killed by defective Hamas rockets that fall short or the ubiquitous booby traps.

Handschuhe ist korrekt. Perfekte Rechtschreibung. Gratuliere.

Yes, it took a couple of days before this became a story. Anyone seriously looking into the files would have discovered that quickly.

German Word for mittens is Fäustlinge, literally fistlings.

Also ketamine

Happens with leftists and really all kinds of extremists as well.

Also do at least two psychoactive substances.

New information will come up about this for years.

Not that I know. Grist and Proton Sheets are worth checking out.

Depending on your exact needs a more specialized tool like SmartSheets or AirTable (browser based, subscription) can be good. WPS office is a little better than Calc in some ways, but no full replacement for Excel.

LibreOffice Writer has eaten comments on documents several times for me. Word handles comments much better.

Exactly. Excel is the workhorse. The combo between Exchange and Outlook is the other major major strength of MS Office.