You’re right, I was too hyperbolic when I said 4th grade was enough. Biology was indeed useful and so was history. Likewise, learning a second language from 5th grade was crucial for the conversation we’re having right now.

Still, I’d put the usefulness “cut off” point at 9th grade or so.

On a side note, I know people who did the whole of university with me who today are anti-vaxers. I know IT BSc graduates who think Trump totally isn’t yet another fascist dictator, and I know a doctor who believes name brand ivermectin cures cancer.

Turns out more education isn’t necessarily related to coming out the other side of the pipeline not being any of the things you mentioned. It’s maddening.

It’s not a take, it’s how children (and adults, frankly) feel about school. It’s not great at making you a capable adult.

Do you know how useful my two diplomas were to get a job? Nothing. Zero. Zilch. None of the theories I learned were useful, neither on the job nor for their own sake.

As for middle school, exactly what did you learn that you think is so useful for daily life? I’d happily replace learning “how to discover x in n dimensions” with basic financial literacy, for example.

The school system as it is is quite literally a waste of time. The useful stuff you learn before high school.

Because school is boring, that’s why.

Most people don’t need to learn beyond the fourth grade, especially because calculators and now GPT exist for instant answers.

And I say this as someone who wasted his time all the way up to a Master’s degree just to show society I too followed the beaten path. It’s time I’ll never get back.

Yep. They know there is a growing discontent in Europe. The rise of the far-right is one of the many signals.

They foresee instability going ahead so they are already taking measures to curb all dissent.

Not if you flash GrapheneOS on your Pixel. :) then only the good ol’wiretapping can get you.

Happens on the time. Especially in professions where your life is basically work.

Too bad it comes at the expense of Google knowing everything you talk about, and to whom.

We don’t want US shit. Simple as.

Nope, governments are moving over due to the one-sided trade war started by Trump.

The EU was more than happy to pay the price of Microsoft to maintain good relations. That’s gone, now.

Narrator voice: “But it did not last forever…”

Microsoft knows the allure of Open-Source projects. And the EU is investing in those also.

They are hoping people will dual boot into Linux using a VM instead of switching to Linux entirely.

I smell desperation. The prospects of the EU 🇪🇺 abandoning Microsoft en masse must be scary.

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Today I learned.

Just doesn’t seem to be particularly helpful when it’s been published in a medium that the author probably won’t see.

But the guy who commented said Dailymotion has no comment section, so I guess my point is mute.

I’ve heard good things about CashyOS! Its supposed to set everything up for you OOTB, with all the perks that come with being an Arch distro.

I’m very happy with OpenSUSE currently, and don’t really want to go distro hop. But I confess I’m curious about it. I’ll probably give it a go at some point, though.

Thanks for mentioning it. 😄

In my case, because I watched that Louis Rossmann video where he said he basically has a business today because of all the failures of Seagate drives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFscU8JUohA

There’s a benchmark, and Seagate is above all other brands on failure rate.

You could be right, I don’t know Dailymotion that well. I wonder if the author will be able to see your comment here, though.

“Why hello, consumer. Trying to get in harm’s way by making decisions by yourself again? You silly goose. Let’s get you back on track.”

I cannot shake the feeling the Finder icon has the most condescending demeanor ever seen in software, even more so than Microsoft’s Clippy.