That must be how they named this.

You have convinced me to investigate The Thaumaturge.

Also … Excellent points, all.

edit: s/Everyone/Excellent/

FWIW, my understanding is that the owner of Epic is actively anti-Linux, so your third feature is a unlikely at best. The fourth was only remotely likely due to market share.

Pretty much, yeah.

My condolences regarding your second shift.

I have a family living a normally scheduled life now, but if I didn’t, I would go back to third shift in a blink.

It sounds like you already have this problem solved, but just in case:

Back when I still used Windows, the workaround was just to make sure you didn’t have a network connection when installing the OS. This could be done by unplugging the NIC during install on a physical system or by deleting the NIC in a VM (or other ways, obviously, but these were the simplest). It still took some convincing, but then you could make your username whatever you wanted.

I don’t know if that still works - it’s been years - but if you still use Windows and still have that problem, this might be worth a try.

edit: program -> problem

Yeah, if I had to pick a shift, second would have been my third choice.

Two things coming together finalized my choice to leave Windows:

• the ability to play almost every game on Linux thanks to Valve
• the fact that you couldn’t create a local account during a Windows install (back when I discovered this you still technically could with some workarounds; I don’t know if you still can but you shouldn’t have to put in any effort IMHO)

That’s approximately second shift. I suspect the original comment is referring to third.

(Though the point still applies)

I genuinely miss third shift, though.

It’s entirely plausible that this is the case for your wife’s family and others, but it’s hard for me to imagine a household without at least one non mobile computer. However, I can.

Without non mobile internet, though? Again, I can imagine it … But it seems wrong.

It shouldn’t be so hard; I was around before the internet was prevalent. My life now involves constant internet access, though, so I guess it’s weird to me that some people have lives that don’t - and especially that that might be the average.

One must always remember the words of George Carlin, I suppose.

Is that really the average user? Especially not having internet service at home? I can reluctantly but relatively easily believe the “no computer” bit but, average or not, I don’t think I know anyone without some kind of non-mobile Internet.

My 2014 Ford Flex was the same way, except that they didn’t contact me.

The car with which I replaced the Flex doesn’t have onboard navigation, instead relying on Android Auto. I was pleased about this, thinking at least it wouldn’t track where I was going … Until I opened the app and saw it could still report its location independently. At that point it seems like there might as well at least be an option for onboard navigation.

Is that a machine that scrubs robots or a robot that scrubs?

Sober is not a way to play this, IMHO.

With all respect, the first paragraph seems self contradictory.

Believe that’s the point.

The problem is that testers are competent, often intelligent individuals. Users, not so much.

Maybe I’m misinterpreting the meme, but no one I’ve met who does this with any consistency has cared unless I complained about it to them. I stopped complaining as it changed nothing and often caused contention with that individual.

Thanks! I didn’t even know.

Per day … Right?