pbjamm @ pbjamm @beehaw.org

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The fact that BarBurrito is allowed to call itself Mexican food is evidence that more Mexicans are needed in Canada. That place makes Taco Bell look authentic. I feel sad just thinking about the one time I ate there.

Technically a Sub can stay underwater forever, it is the crew that is the problem there. If they had Star Trek replicators to make them food with that reactor then boredom becomes the limiting factor.

Johnny5...alive?

Part of the Star Wars Trek, not the Star Trek Wars.

I worked IT for a machine shop a while back and one of the giant machines had a sign posted next to it :

"This machine has no brains, so use yours"

Always Something There to Remind Me - Naked Eyes

a dear friend of mine's mother and grandmother died the same week. this song came on the radio when i picked her up at the airport and we both started bawling.

The Heart Remains a Child - Everything But the Girl

just because it is heartrendingly real.

I moved from the US in the summer and purchased a house in BC. My wife (who is still American) was no allowed to be on the deed, otherwise we would have to pay a giant tax bill. So it at least works against the little guy, if not against the corporate buyers or people rich enough to pay workarounds.

Must be part of Napoleon and Snowball's "more equal" clique

The best kind of days.

Be ready to wait at the ER for a long time if you’re not a priority at the triage, but I’d rather wait than paying a fortune when I can’t see anyone else because all the clinics are full and you don’t have a family doctor.

All of that is true in the US too unless you have amazing (expensive) insurance or just pockets overflowing with money. It can take months to get an appointment with your Primary Care Physician so if you need to see someone sooner than that you can prob in to see a nurse sooner, or go to the Urgent Care. Either way you are paying Co-Pay (for me it was us$35) plus for your prescription. ER is very likely to be full of people who are injured or uninsured so have no other option. In the later case they have likely been putting off a visit to a DR for that very reason and are now desperate.

And multiple people are disagreeing so that claim means nothing. The real issue is that your top level comment reads like it was written in the 1990s when entering the wrong monitor refresh settings could set it on fire. Other parts dont make any sense :

"If that’s the state of Linux where my 8-year-old Windows 10 machine still gets updates regularly and runs fine."

Your next sentence :

"“Go ahead, hope you read all the patch notes for the 1000s different updates you are about to get!”

Is clear hyperbole. If you run a modern desktop focused distro like Mint then you click upgrade and let it do its business. Or dont, you dont have to.

I get it, you had some bad experience with linux and were frustrated by some driver issues that were a PITA to remedy so you gave up. Totally valid, but not a failing of linux as a whole. Windows comes pre-installed so you do not have to deal with all those driver issues because someone else already did that work before you ever press the on button.

4GB in 2023 is comical. My Lenovo tablet has 6GB and I think that is really the new floor for any kind of desktop use. I have a 4GB Raspberry Pi and it makes an adequate desktop but it would still be better with more RAM.

Drivers for new/cutting edge hardware will often lag behind for linux. Installing on hardware that is a few years old will generally be a breeze if you choose one of the big name distros. I personally use Linux Mint for the "it just works" ease.

That is because your statement is not particularly reasonable or rooted in reality.

If you want to dis linux that is fine, go right ahead. I crap on Mac all the time and hate MS with a burning passion. I still use them, which I suppose is why I hate them. I frequently hate linux too, that is just the nature of being in IT.

compare this to your previous statement :

"if I wanted a server, Linux would be great for that, and if I just wanted a PC for email, internet, word processing, spreadsheets, and the like (ie, a basic office computer), Linux would do just fine too"

Can it do all these totally normal and useful things or is it trash because you can not do anything with it? What nebulous "stuff I need my computer to do" is linux not stable enough for?

It reminds me of their short lived Butterfly Keyboard

Which is only a mild annoyance unless you are in a wheel chair. Then it is a serious one and possibly dangerous if you have to navigate into the street to bypass them.

He put out some great music as Lemon Demon as well. Big fan of Spirit Phone

I remember thinking that in 1998 too. It is too late to extend copyright for Steamboat Willie before it expires but that does not mean that corps like Disney won be fighting tooth and nail to extend it again in a few years when things they actually care about are expiring.

I wonder how many of the comments are also "AI" whose job is to like and reply with some variation of "WOW! 😍"