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Is it that wierd little box thing that you have to take out of your smoke alarm to stop it beeping?

I read that with an extra "i"

In which case, yes if they can then sell you the drugs you'd need for the rest of your life.

It's like coca-cola + insulin, from a financial perspective , complementary investments.

That's for schoolgirls. Now here's a course with some chest hair.

Control and/or ownership of the means of production should be more distributed among or more accountable to the people who use those means.

1 for debian.
No need to mess around with debian derivatives for whatever pointless extra widgets they have.
It's good enough for most stuff and has "allow nonfree drivers" choice which helps with annoying hardware problems of the past.

If you don't care about desktop env, you probably don't care about wayland vs xorg either.
So I'd try XFCE, simple, basic, lightweight, fast, probably not the most modern or flashy,
but you're getting to work faster.

Yeah i have a relative who wanted to switch to linux, due to windows being dog-shite, but she want's to have netflix with offline download feature.
Anyway it's a right pain in the arse.

I ended up going with the Waydroid emulator and using netflix android app.
It needs wayland so sadly I had to betray XFCE.
You can get it to work on the plain lineageOS waydroid image ( without gapps) - I think either via aurora app store or just sideload the apk into waydroid directly.
There's a waydroid utilities/helper script that installs widevine into the vitrual machine.

I got it working on stock debian+KDE(5), I'm not so sure about other distros but I assume GNOME would work fine also.
I looks like the downloading for offline view works, i'm not 100% sure whatll happen with disk space. And I didn't check the resolution available.
She's not actually switched over from windows yet, but we did a quick proof of concept.

I'm not sure if the waydroid route is easier or not but it's an option, and if you're wayland already that's one less hurdle.
UI through the emulator is s bit annoying, but manageable and you might be stuck with the android bar at the bottom so no true fullscreen.

Yeah, screw em. I use mine to produce lots of stuff.
I try to avoid producing too much manure though.

I think lots of IT people have an extremely limited experience of what it is to produce something.
I mean if opening a ssh hole to the whole world to fuck with is an important part of what they consider "production" - well I'm not really into those types of websites.

"stable" release of Arch?

If I pray to you will I be able to get my printer to work?

careful now.

Normally I like to treat questions like telephone calls; ignore them for as long as you can and hope they go away.
I guess that is basically defensive but maybe "passive defensive".
It's what I do to viruses too.

imbibed like tequila?

I use cloister by the way.
It's like arch but you reinstall it at least 10 times in a row before you get anywhere.

Hah, Dirty Blvd by Lou Reed:

Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor - I'll piss on 'em
That's what the Statue of Bigotry says
Your poor huddled masses, let's club 'em to death
And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard

For toothbrushes, are they worried repair won't re-seal it effectively so make it unsuitable for use in the wet environment?

Yeah 100%.
They should be given a more threatening name.

Maybe the word "global" is supposed to invoke fear (maybe it does for people who review shonky c++ code a lot).
But I don't think that is so for most people.
Better to call them "High risk unofficial theme" or something to prompt people to read the small print.

expeachable

Yep to all these other people.
They nose.

shareware - I mean they probably didn't make much money.

But apogee, epic, id all came fom releasing shareware initially.
but also nethack and all that stuff.

I can't really remeber how it worked, but i think you got these bundles of paper stapled pamphlets for free with hundreds of shareware packages listed with a few lines of text describing each one.

If you didn't have BBS, you sent a real mail back to a distributor and they send you disks in the post ffor a fairly small charge.

Some shareware was so good the magazines had to cover it (for example, doom)

Also i think there just werent as many big budget titles back then (on PC),
Consoles probably had most of the money.
elite 2 was massive, but still only 1 bloke i think.

get a worse or more boring job.