SOB_Van_Owen @ SOB_Van_Owen @lemm.ee

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A shame to hear how far HP has fallen. Back in the day they had some solid, workhorse laser printers that delivered for years with no issues and pretty good toner efficiency. Based on what I've read here, I'm not likely to buy another.

Yes! Those channel knobs were so easily broken. I thought we were the only ones turning channels with pair of vice-grips clamped on the nub.

This reminds me of a recent meme pushing back against the "greed is human nature" narrative. Was something like:

"If you see a bear riding a bicycle at the circus, do you assume it is the nature of bears to ride bicycles?"

Also frequently hear the same argument made for any change to the thoroughly corrupt healthcare scheme in the U.S.

That any form of socialized medicine would collapse the insurance industries putting thousands out of work and damaging stock portfolios and retirement accounts that may have invested in such. But hey, it's totally ok to bankrupt tons of citizens and enslave ill folks to lousy jobs because they can't afford to lose employment-tied insurance that would never be affordable as an individual.

See also: survivorship bias.

Can anyone recommend a good alternative that works well under Linux and block ads and trackers well? In particular YouTube ads?

Also started with Puppy. Then went on to Red Hat and finally settled into Mint.

Still remember a print ad for The Grudge "Runs circles around The Ring!".