Have had a similar experience with Dell. Have exclusively used new and second-hand Dell Laptops (Inspiron & Latitude) for the past fifteen years with no problems. Purchased a XPS 15 directly from Dell five months ago and the battery charging circuitry has fried itself. Support ticket has been open for 40+ days awating parts...
> I’ve only ever see Prozac as a part of a turn for the worse.
You might be interested in the book "Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty"[1] by Patrick Radden Keefe. Although it focuses on Oxycodone and other painkillers it touch on Prozac and other SSRI's. Quite the eye opener...
With the daggers that I have seen and handled, the blade is curved but does not run the full length of the scabbard. It is not unusual for the blade of a L shaped scabbard to be cresent shaped[1], meaning that it is quite easy to pull the blade out.
>This is one of those comically out of touch armchair historian takes.
Having lived in the Middle East and owned a traditional curved dagger, I can safely say that the type of dagger mentioned in the original article is not used primarily for warfare. They serve as a symbol of manhood and social status. It is seen as highly disrespectful and dishonorable for a man to draw his dagger.
> Curved blades were made back then for the same reason they are still made.
Traditional Arab swords and blades intended for warefare are normally 2+ feet long. Not too sure that a 3" dagger is too effective.
Historically in the Arab countries, people mainly rode camels or horses while wearing a dagger in their belt. A pointy scabbard would foible the wearer in the leg and groin. Curving the scabbard solves that problem nicely.
The blades do tend to be fairly short but longer than you would imagine as they too are curved.
Curious as to what the basis for this is? As I understood it much if not most of Apple's OS and software is a pandoras box so we have no real idea as to what it tracks and/or sends back to Apple.
There is a well researched documentary presented by Ray Mears entitled "The Real Heroes of Telemark" where he recreates parts of their journey which puts the feat of the resistence members into perspective.
Parents should be responsible for regulating the access they allow and time that their children spend on social media. There needs to be laws on how addictive social media can be intentionally made by companies.
Furthermore I don't see any reason why any children <16 should be on or have access to Facebook, Twitter, etc...
TLDR: Companies need to be prevented from making their applications excessivly addictive and parents need to parent their children more when it comes to social media.
Just to clarify, I am asking this question as I recently found out that on the next LTS version of Ubuntu, firefox will only be available as a snap. I myself am considering moving to vanilla debian but am interested in what others may be doing.
Depends on how far your willing to go and/or if you buy into the "Audiophile" scene. For me the price that I am willing to pay for a pair of Headphones comes down to quality of sound, build and ease of repairability. The Beyerdynamic DT770's meet all of those markers for me at £130. There are other who will spend thousands.