It’s impossible to get someone to understand what their salary depends on not understanding

Or take a selfie, that’ll generate a picture of an ape!

If it was enough for you to write down then it’s enough to work on not giving a fuck about

That’s a great question, on the face of it I can’t find very much info online. Wikipedia has an entry for monotype but not hybrid. The page ‘hybrid font’ does not exist. If anyone has more info please feel free to tag me, I’d love to know.

If you want problems do the exact opposite of this OP. That should solve your lack of problems.

M’butu

Adobe’s licensing model is also a paper sack of hot liquid shit. If you’re gonna switch to an alternative it might as well work on Linux.

As a sysadmin I would try making the PC’s hypervisors and syncing a VM? Might be over engineered but I think it would work.

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/High_Availability_Cluster

That’s all fine and dandy but OP said they’re not very technical. Conceptually Virtualbox is a lot simpler to deal with. There’s a lot of advantages (philosophical and practical) to be had with a KVM or QEMU setup for sure, but if you want a simple to understand click-it-together setup then Virtualbox is better. If OP wants to graduate to a better setup then I hope they go for a good FOSS solution eventually but going straight for the deep end is rarely a good idea if you want people to understand what they’re doing.

That depends, if you’re going to run a barebones W10 install with what amounts to a word processor I think 2GB should be enough. If you can run Chrome you can run a VM. 4GB if you’re feeling generous, that’s a fair compromise as compared to the disadvantages of dual booting.

Provided your CPU has virtualization features (described here) then the performance overhead for virtualization is negligible. So very probably you’ll be fine.

The latter thing you mentioned would work, but you can set up some shared storage between the VM and your machine. Here is some more info: https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-create-virtualbox-shared-folder-access/

This describes a Windows host and a Linux VM, I’m sure you’ll be able to figure out the other way around. :)

The upside is you can treat it as just another program with a big flat file that serves as it’s hard disk. You can move a VM between computers, they’re universal. Hell you can move it to a data center and hardly notice a difference. You can make a snapshot, try something out, and if it borks, roll it back to a previous snapshot. You can copy the VM any number of times.

Basically it decouples operating systems from hardware so you can treat a computer like software.

Does that screenwriting software require a lot of performance? You might opt to install Windows into a virtual machine, as described here: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-setup-windows-10-virtual-machine-linux

Essentially you’re using some software to emulate a computer inside your computer that can run any operating system you want. It doesn’t need to touch your actual operating system installation, you can treat it as just another program. For your use case that sounds appropriate; you occasionally need to run specific software that has low system requirements. This way you can do that without risking Microsoft borking your Linux machine any time it feels like it.

It’s not like a well compensated, prestigious job like prime minister requires accountability, a sense of duty or decency in 2024. Take it on the chin Liz, even if you’re fired. That was part of the deal.

I tend to agree. The report states:

BTP has continued its efforts to tackle violence against women and girls. This year saw a 25% increase in recorded violent crimes against women and girls, a 99% increase in crimes involving sexual harassment and a 2% increase in sexual offences.3 This does not necessarily mean an increase in occurrence of these crimes but that victims are more confident and willing to report it because of the messaging and efforts across the network.

Furthermore, when it comes to violent crimes and robberies, the report states:

BTP recorded 12% more violence against the person offences and a 36% increase in robbery in 2022/23 compared to the previous year 2. However, both crimes saw a reduction in the number of crimes per million passenger journeys. There were 4.7 violence against the person offences per million passenger journeys and 0.5 robbery offences per million passenger journeys in 2022/23, down from 6.1 and 0.6 respectively.

No such affordance has been made for violent crimes against women and girls. The report mentions:

The Office of Rail and Road reported a 46% increase in passenger rail journeys in 2022-23, compared to 2021-22. Therefore, I am not surprised to see that notifiable crimes have also increased, and BTP is changing and adapting its ways of working in order to tackle this increase in an operating environment which is very different post-pandemic.

So off the top of my head violent crimes against women and girls increased by ((9,438 - 7,561) / 7,561) * 100 = ~24.8% while journeys have increased by 46%. This means violent crimes against women and girls have actually gone down with respect to the number of journeys taken in total.

This website has to be the shittiest journalism I’ve seen in a while, it’s a blatant content mill. Not only do they get the raw numbers wrong (the cited numbers do not yield results when Ctrl + F’d), they also draw the opposite conclusion from what the numbers do state. Clowns.

Thanks, I did a cursory search but found confusing results. Much obliged!

“The statistics from the British Transport Police Authority’s 2024 annual report showed a jump in offences targeting women and girls, from 7,561 in 2021 to a staggering 11,357 in 2023.”

That’s not doubled? It’s a lot, but not double.

edit: Instead of linking to the cited report, clicking on the link you would expect to link to the source instead links to an aggregate of that term on the same website. What a crock of shit.

Fun fact: Decimation is originally a Roman practice. It’s a form of punishment where every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort.

The bastard Jack Welch implemented this as a business practice with a sanitized name: rank your team, fire the worst 10%, even if the team did great.

Shareholders cheered at this practice. They bought shares in droves when businesses literally decimated themselves. Shareholders are mostly glorified gamblers with a boner for hardship. Making employees suffer is just dandy, as long as it can be sold as an improvement.

My point is that shareholders usually don’t know wtf they’re doing. This doesn’t surprise me.

Rotate the left display 90 degrees clockwise. Now they’re both in landscape. Ta-da!

Sorry, I’ll see myself out.