I do the same over here in the UK with Nigel Farage:

“You’ve made a right fucking Farage of that!”

Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux. Yes, it is liberating, isn’t it?

I found keeping Windows on a dual boot system when I first migrated to Mint was enough to make me never want to use Windows again. It kept fucking things up and I wiped it off my system shortly thereafter.

Rather than add a secondary drive, why not run a Windows virtual machine? I created a Win7 VM just for those two pieces of software that Linux doesn’t have. I have blocked it from internet access and so it does everything I need on the rare occasions that I require it.

Yeah, I thought that too for a while, but over the last 5 or 6 years I’m sticking with my initial gut feeling on the matter.

Some people function fine with it and others don’t. Just like some people get aggressive with alcohol and others become funny or idiotic. I used to smoke weed in my 20s and early 30s but then it started to make me paranoid so I quit. I know people that have smoked it all their life and are fine other than being a bit lazy or boring. It’s a good tool if you play an instrument and write music. Some of the strains that are available these days are more akin to taking a psychedelic than smoking the weed I remember.

I met Rogan briefly back in 2003 when Stanhope invited me out to his desert party. They were both working on The Man Show at the time and we went out to the studio cos Doug had a couple of things to wrap up before we took off to Panamint Springs. Rogan was sitting at a computer that he barely looked up from. I took an instant dislike to his dismissiveness. I don’t get starstruck easily and back then he was hardly the celebrity he is now (me being from Scotland I only knew him as some half-rate comedian that I never found that funny). Something about his demeanour pissed me right off. I’ve always been the kind of person that goes with gut instinct when I meet someone for the first time (it’s served me well over the years) and my gut told me this guy was a prick. He seemed to come across as having a sense of entitlement. It was a very brief encounter and introduction, but I never forgot it and haven’t been too surprised by the level of fame he has achieved. He came across as someone very focussed and driven on making it big at any cost. I guess we now all see the cost. There was a sweet spot a few years ago when his interviews were good and entertaining but now it’s just him repeating himself all the time and getting the same guests on like his CIA handler Mike Baker. There’s clearly a political agenda to his show and Rogan has been bought and paid for many times over.

The GUI is intuitive. It boots initially into an OS with a bunch of useful tools. The disk cloning software is straightforward and it works perfectly - I can vouch for this since I’ve had to resort to it on a couple of occasions restoring my system from the back up images. It’s also not complicated like Clonezilla.

Foxclone every time. Excellent piece of kit.

https://foxclone.org/

Hindsight is all well and good, but a bit of foresight comes in handy now and again.

I’m old enough to know where this is going.

Did I just hear a POP!?

Let’s face it, the arse has fallen out of it already.

If you’re going to use quotes then at least make sure you quote me correctly. I didn’t say that it wouldn’t generate wealth - read my post again. I said “very little of value [is] being generated by most end users”.

I can see why you need AI.

The pop of the AI bubble will probably be much worse. During the Dot Com era, people were actually generating wealth for a period. With AI, so much has been invested in the concept with the result being very little of value being generated by most end users.

The Dawn Breeze, perhaps?

He used to be on the TV all the time during the mid-1980s to early 90s. He was almost on everything. Think he might have had some mental health issues if I remember correctly.

Just tried it on Ask Jeeves as you suggested. It wasn’t very helpful:

https://uk.ask.com/web?q=chinese+keyboard

And the point is that I’d rather talk to a human.

See, now I’ve learned something that I wouldn’t get from Google.

I don’t use Google. I deGoogled my life. Besides, if we just used Google for everything there would be no point communicating at all and thus no point in Lemmy. We could all just ask the Master Google questions, chat with it’s AI and stay locked in our bedrooms eating pizza sponsored by Google.

Don’t need any of them which is good because it saved me having to watch some shitty YouTube vid.