Reject Mint, embrace Debian.

Me, the mystery dude in the game server who doesn’t have a mic, doesn’t use any voice features, never text chats, but always shows up and plays.

So math is like painting, you can just arbitrarily add a splash of color somewhere to change the mood…

No, OutKast, not Lil Jon.

My kid discovered that he can hit the “report” button on the YouTube app on the TV to skip the ads immediately. So now every ad gets reported as “inappropriate”.

I’m proud of him.

“Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.”

There may be a thin cloud layer or two on Jupiter you might enjoy.

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Keeping it closed source so no-one could see what sacrilege he’d done to get there

I often feel this way about my own code. Yeah I wanna share but…I don’t want to get torn apart by 10x developers. There’s a lot of things I’m ashamed of.

Tankies are just fascists who like the color red.

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called “the People’s Stick”.

-M. Bakunin

That’s the thing, she’s getting tired of having to do all that bullshit and then getting a lot of it reverted during an update. The annoyances are starting to outweigh the convenience. She’s not dumb, she knows her way around computers and is well aware of methods to disable this crap.

I’m just here waiting for my wife to finally snap and ask about getting Linux on her gaming PC. I’ve been using it for 20 years now. The complaints are becoming more and more numerous these days, it’s only a matter of time.

Nope. Guess again.

You don’t get it because you have never felt uncomfortable in your own body. Your brain’s perceived gender matches your physical sex characteristics. Wearing pants as a male or a dress as a female didn’t feel “wrong” to you. For some, it does.

It was canceled because of budget issues and also the fall of the USSR itself. USSR wasn’t really doing too hot at the time, economically. Not because it was dangerous. It was obviously proven space-worthy.

I guess it’s not great for things requiring domain knowledge. Programming seems to be easy for it, as programs are very structured, predictable, and logical. That’s where its pattern-matching-and-prediction abilities shine.

AI is helping me learn and program C++. It’s built into my IDE. Much more efficient than searching stackoverflow. Whenever it comes up with something I’ve never seen before, I learn what that thing does and mentally store it away for future use. As time goes on, I’m relying on it less and less. But right now it’s amazing. It’s like having a tutor right there with you who you can ask questions anytime, 24/7.

I hope a point comes where my kid can just talk to a computer, tell it the specifics of the program he wants to create, and have the computer just program the entire thing. That’s the future we are headed towards. Ordinary folks being able to create software.

The Buran was actually quite technologically advanced. It was able to fly to orbit and land itself completely autonomously.

Yes, you do. We all have the potential for the most horrific acts of evil you can imagine in the right circumstances. That’s why we usually have such a hard time when we give people power to rule over others and need a convoluted system of checks and balances to make sure nobody becomes a dick. Yet it still happens. Benevolence is not the default human state. You have to work to stay that way. That ability separates us from the brutal world of the wild.

“PC” actually refers to a specific architecture based on the original IBM PC. PCs are personal computers but not all personal computers are PCs.

It’d be like as if we still referred to ARM-based devices as being “Acorn” devices. It’s one of those brand names that the public has turned into a generalized noun, like Kleenex and Bandaids.