$650-1200 USD

Well, they should be looking at low to mid range modern gaming laptops and minimum the pro versions of consoles

Sounds like the rings of the Elves to me

Have you tried wearing socks on, shoes off? I have never in my life been at a point where my feet were too cold for just socks indoors, have mostly lived with hardwood or tile flooring, and also live somewhere with fairly cold winters.

I just cannot fathom shoes-on arguments. Shoes can be so uncomfortable when lounging around the house.

“You” the general public, not “you” mrgoosmoos

Exactly…? If no one goes in, the store gains no benefit (only expending the cost of being open). But stores will open just on the off chance of customers coming in. And customers do go in, because the stores are open. Sometimes they go in and don’t even buy anything.

If you want retail employees to be able to spend holidays with their families, don’t go shopping on holidays. Make it unprofitable to be open.

The catch 22 is that the companies are opening on these days to catch the customers that come out. People go because the store is open, the store is open because people go. If people consistently, collectively didn’t go in, the stores would close.

Yeah, so if a snowman was built on their lawn, on their property, and not on the street, and that snowman happened to have a solid core, whoever built the snowman should not be liable for any damages

Doesn’t it depend where the obstacle is, though? I’m assuming these are cars parking on the road, or at least a shoulder or driveway. If the cars are pulling up onto a front lawn and parking under the kitchen window of a house, that’s entirely different. I’m pretty sure filling a traffic cone with concrete and placing it in a path a car is expected to drive on is going to get you in trouble anywhere. I doubt building a snowman with a stump or concrete core in the middle of a lawn on private property would get you in trouble in most places.

That is much more understandable xD also, a little jealous, that sounds nice

Do you usually just walk back from the shower to your locker dripping water everywhere?

Looks like you have your answers! Many places have lots of underground utilities already (at least enough that they would have to keep switching between buried and raised, or just stick with raised), and they would have to change then over piecemeal.

It makes much more sense to stick to burying utilities with new construction where able, rather than replacing all the lines currently raised on poles.

People who don’t like winter act like they are freezing to death the second it’s below 50F

But if this is in a config file for an individual app or piece of software, I’d assume it would be importing the default, system-wide settings in some capacity. Even if it wasn’t a default setting in the config, being able to add modifiers to otherwise default settings isn’t the same thing as burying a setting under several layers of menus.

It can be shipped with a default mode of “this is how we intend this software to be set up and used”, and then the 500 page manual for “customize at your own risk”.

It just seems like there are several steps between “all the options” and “no options”. And changing cursor speed, for example, could be an accessibility thing. Needing to be slower/less sensitive for a sliding bar in a specific gui menu, but can be normal speed for the rest of the system.

Or if I want to change the colors of different windows. Whether for organization purposes, or to fit a theme, or whatever. I just thing getting to play around with and customize some of that stuff is neat, so it’s nice to hear the other side of why that customization wouldnt be allowed, even if I’m still unconvinced in this instance.

Damn, my bad, I’m so sleep deprived I would have bet money this was under the other comment thread

I am in a position to see first hand people regularly dropping ~$4000USD on “mid-range” PCs. It hasn’t slowed down purchasing of PCs, if anything it is speeding up compared to this time last year.

From Cocodapuf? Or from the article? Because you replied to a comment that wasn’t even talking about the article…

Not that I would want that feature, but what’s a good reason against it? I don’t see it hurting anything by being able to customize that, and if someone wants to why is that a problem? It seems a weird hill to die on is all

No no, it’s not based on income, it’s based on social and spacial awareness. That’s just an example of one of the stores for the demographic left out of OPs idea!

It is this, coupled with so many people not even knowing that they are using OneDrive (because it was automatically enabled if you have a Microsoft account linked to your Windows install, and Microsoft pushing to link your account).