𝕮𝕬𝕭𝕭𝕬𝕲𝕰 @ ALiteralCabbage @feddit.uk

A Literal Cabbage. What do you want from me?

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My phone service provider used to do daily roulette type giveaways.

I won a free return flight to basically anywhere in Europe.

I actually never did anything with it, because at the time I couldn't afford to pay for someone else to go with me (I would have gone with my partner).

I regret not just flying on my own, but them's the rubs - I was, and am, a bit of an idiot.

I also once won a game key by making a funny YouTube comment on a Unit Lost video once too - but I never used that either; it wasn't a game I was interested in, I just liked to watch the vids for a bit of a laugh.

I don't win much, but when I do I squander my wins.

Gary always comes across as a bit of a grifter - couldn't say what exactly it is about him, but he makes me uneasy reading stuff by or about him.

Is unionising not protected in Canada?

I'm 35. The older I've got the more I've understood about the world and the more left wing I've become.

The best part is it all started because as a religious child I got into red letter stuff, and took "love thy neighbour" to heart.

A nation which legislates against fathers fucking their sons?

Never mind a lot, it's most of the country.

Unless you live in a large city you're basically screwed without a car. The public transport here is atrocious.

Elderly women use this one trick to make friends!

At least you can fork ff

Me too! But only on one arm.

Thanks, mild localised hypermobility.

Bike shops are awash with innuendo. Part of the fun of working in them.

The right answer is "yes". Some cash in the moment is a nice thing to do, and will alleviate an immediate want or need potentially.

Donation to an organisation that will help the problem long term is a worthwhile thing to fund.

Why not give a man a fish to eat while you're teaching them to fish for themselves, if you're in a position to do so?

You could have asked him what he wanted first, if anything at all?

It smacks of elitism, that's all.

The OS is simply a means to an end. If Linux offers a way to do what they want in a way that is less hassle, and it meets their needs, then that's a good thing.

customizable and configurable

Whatever you think of OPs proposed use case is definitely falls under the above.

It's this kind of 1337 h@xor approach to the OS that makes people feel like it's unapproachable when that's so far from the reality these days.

My great uncle left a load of masonic stuff but my dad returned it to his lodge before I could have a rummage through it.

My parents are religious and took a dim view of it.

Some of that stuff was pretty cool - it was a part of my great uncles life I would have loved to asked him about and I didn't find out about it until he passed. Sad stuff.

young women are taking up sex work for financial stability when they shouldn't have to.

This is true, and depressing.

But I think Kate Nash and Lilley Allen pros have other options to raise cash here - I doubt OF is a last resort for them. It is, however, a headline grabber for the British gutter press and will generate a lot of cover for two artists who really don't have a huge amount of space in the public consciousness these days.

For what it's worth, there are also some sex workers who do it because a)they enjoy it and b)it's a faster way to make money than other avenues available to them. Nash and Allen both seem to fallm under this bracket.

What the fuck

"I've seen this one before!"

Not really - there's plenty of use cases where running memory intensive stuff like that isn't an issue and running a small footprint distro makes more sense than, say, a maximalist, fully featured desktop distro.

I'm not trying to run a media centre or play games on my 11 year old MacBook!

Point taken!

I don't think the lite distros are to blame for performance drops in that case, are they? Unless it's down to a lack of system optimisation.