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I use a thumbs up reaction as “I acknowledge I’ve read and understood this, but don’t think you require a push notification” so I guess your mileage may vary

If you want an out of the box distro that just works and has that old-school flavour, maybe look into Mint.

If you want something a bit more modern, then pop_os! is something of a Linux darling

Ubuntu probably has the widest community support. Although it does seem to have some issues

I’m not clear on what your bugs are, but if it’s like, you run a command in the terminal and a bunch of scary sounding messages come up, that’s normal. That’s just how it likes to be

If it’s been a while since you’ve seen used it, then I’d say Linux is probably worth another shot. It’s come a long way, and it only gets better with age

When I was a kid, I only heard people say Godspeed on TV and in movies. Star Wars was on a lot in our house, so I thought it was something like lightspeed, but for religious people

Mandatory tipping is baloney. I feel like there’s a word for when you charge a required percentage on a transaction, but I’m taxing myself trying to think of it

I don’t get why restaurateurs think they’re special and don’t need to pay their employees a living wage.

Hotline Miami 2 comes with a digital comic series. Five comics by Maurizio Furini, Federico Chemello, and Alberto Massaggia. There’s quite a bit of character development and backstory here, particularly around the new Killer Beasts gang

I feel like a maker space with a tool library attached would be the best of both worlds.

I don’t have any major power tools because they’re a huge investment, and even if I did I wouldn’t have space to house them.

Some projects you can’t take to the maker space though. Most home improvement projects would require you to bring the tool to the site.

So anyway, I guess I want the best of both worlds.

In English we have an idiom, “same shit, different day,” which means dealing with the same sort of unpleasant task until it’s routine. Do you have something similar?

This Hamburg court thing sounds like something I’d call “same shit, different pay,” which would be like when you have an issue with your boss so you appeal to their boss, and find out that they’re just as bad except they’re higher in the organization.

Yeah, I’m not sure this is the generational thing that the author is trying to make it out to be. It seems to me like one of those things that leans on personal preference.

The author’s sample for the behavior of generations is a few anecdotes from personal friends. How many friends does a person have, 3, or 30, or 300? That means n is pretty small when there’s something like 3 billion mellenials

Initial attempts to search for this were frustrated because my search engine kept trying to find rhymes for “FOSS” or “Open Source”

However, I did find an app with credits that showed what libraries it used.

In particular, this one might be up your alley: Carnegie Mellon pronouncing dictionary. It looks like you’d still have to combine it with an existing dictionary in order to find the rhymes, but at least you can get the pronunciation

You’ve found a way to sum up how I feel. I haven’t been able to put it in words, but the place definitely has a different vibe post-ressurection

That’s not to say I’m not happy to see more activity. I just miss the “fantasy retro” computers

You seem like somebody who might have an answer for me:

A streaming service that I’m using lists the spoken language of the show, and I’ve often seen Spanish, Espanol, and Castilian listed. What’s the difference between Espanol and Castilian - is it like a regional dialect? Also I’m probably misinformed, but I always thought that Espanol was the English word for Spanish, which makes it seem odd that the service would list both Espanol and Spanish separately.

* Walter, this isn’t a guy who wrote the Magna Carta, this is a guy…

Just start WWIII with Canada on a whim.

I live in Canada, please don’t. It’s challenging enough being a neighbour to the US in this political climate, being a vassal would be so much worse.

I’m queer as heck, so if I’m not killed in action it’ll be the camps for me.

Of course, if I am killed in action then I won’t have to worry about how interesting life is getting anymore. Gotta keep an eye out for those silver linings.

I’ve been thinking lately that it would be great if my life was less interesting.

Finally a community to live vicariously through

My dad recently got hearing aids. The technology has come a long way. His are bluetooth and pair with his phone.

Back in the day of you wanted to ignore someone you’d just turn off your hearing aids. He uses his to listen to music now.

I’m sure there might be some practical difference between hearing aids and airbuds, but it does seem like there’s a lot of overlap

Is that why the back lot of the hospital smells so enticing?

The Tao of Pooh is awesome. I had a similar experience to you when reading it, where I realized that it was already pretty close to my philosophy.

The Te of Piglet is also there if you want some more reading through a western lens, but really the Tao of Pooh is all you need to get yourself thinking

Wake up
Sun is shining
Birds are singing
Have tea on porch
Watch the squirrels frolicking in the leaves
Despite everything, it’s all going to be okay
Oh, hiya neighbour
Doing some yard work?
BWARRRARARARRRGHGHHGHGHGHGHG

I like to think they plugged in two inputs and now it’s not working.

Bonus points if they have both VGA and DVI and had to get an adapter so they could plug one cable into both ports. That sounds like something my grandma would have done.

Do you think of life as being an ordered system? It seems pretty chaotic to me.

Anyway, if I relate my concept of a ‘natural system’ to biology, then I’d point out that there isn’t really an upper limit to how fast animals go. I mean, sure, they’re limited by their size or aerodynamics, but a cheetah doesn’t have a ‘top speed’ that it bottoms out at, it could push harder or be induced to move faster.

If I think of it as a force of nature, I’d think about how water flows. The speed of a river isn’t constant, and it could be manipulated or induced to move faster.

So from that lens, it just seems odd that there are universal constants, like the speed of light. You’d think some lights would move faster or slower than others based on their composition, because that’s the behaviour we seem to experience in nature.

This isn’t a serious debate or belief of mine. I accept the laws of science because they’re testable, demonstrable, and repeatable. But when you contemplate the unknowable (what does God look like, anyway?), it’s a fun diversion.

Also we’re such an infinitesimally small part of the universe that I’m inclined to believe that if we are in a simulation, we’re the bug that crawled into the computer.

I’ve often had the thought that the universe is a simulation.

Like, why are there hard physical limitations on things like the speed of light? That doesn’t make a lot of sense for a natural system. Also what kind of bullshit is it that if you move super fast time goes slower?

The universe is a simulation, but it’s not very well put together.