spauldo @ spauldo @lemmy.ml

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Just keep telling yourself, "two Christmases and two birthdays" until greed washes away the pain.

Then try to be less of an asshole to your kids.

Other than rumors that HiDPI stuff works better on Wayland (which only affects me on my laptop since I was stupid enough to buy a 4k one), I've seen no real reason to switch away from X. It's always just worked for me, and has since the 90s.

Maybe I'll reevaluate again in another decade. Perhaps Wayland will be finished by then.

I'm a smoker. If I get lung cancer, it won't be from secondhand smoke.

I'd suggest actually learning a bit about cancer. The claims by the CDC are technically true but misleading. Unless someone has a specific condition where they react badly to tobacco smoke, the biggest threat to their health in the smoke pit is the car exhaust (airport smoke pits are almost always on the arrivals terminal). If the NRC held the same standard, we'd all be living in lead boxes.

Sure, buddy. Keep thinking that.

Go outside and sit with the smokers.

Smokers talk. Everyone's equal in the smoke pit. You can meet some really interesting people that way.

A few hours of secondhand smoke won't kill you. Otherwise humanity would have gone extinct in the 70s.

You must have been living under a rock for the last decade. Is there any more space available down there? 'Cause I'd love to live somewhere where I don't have to hear antivax nonsense.

Sorry, but as soon as a website starts throwing pop-ups at me I close it. Why people tolerate that nonsense is beyond me.

ISPs included email because almost everyone was a modem user (and hence only connected sporadically) and email servers need constant uptime or they lose messages.

They also ran news servers and hosted user web pages for basically the same reason.

Only freaks and weirdos (like me) ran servers from home.

Uncle Gandalf, more like.

Be careful with those cameras, they're collector's items now.

GNU is a project whose goal is to create a free operating system.

Way back in the dark ages when commercial UNIX was relevant, it was common to install various GNU utilities to get a better user experience or get things like a C compiler without having to pay tons of money for it.

The kernel part of the project didn't work out, so the de facto purpose of the GNU project morphed into creating better utilities and libraries for other operating systems.

When the Linux kernel came around, the GNU software was the base of system. That's why RMS insists on the GNU/Linux thing.

Things like the window system and desktop environment aren't really considered part of the OS by folks like RMS (and me, for that matter). It's probably an age thing - used to be there was a "core" system and various add-ons. The core system is the OS in our world view.

That's exactly right... For now.

But if there's coal in that mountain, we can level the whole thing like they do in West Virginia and leave a nice flat spot for an industrial park when we're done.

Fair enough. I thought it was decent, but you could tell it wasn't written by Adams.

To be fair, it's difficult to come up with something funny that wasn't a Far Side comic.

Nobody, and I won't work somewhere that puts up with that shit.

I've had bad bosses and coworkers before. When I was young and easily replaceable I put up with it until I realized that the jobs were just as replaceable as I was. "Oh hey, I can make the same money almost anywhere, so why deal with these assholes?"

Now I'm specialized in a high demand field. Corporate plays stupid games among the executives but they know better than to mess with us - you can find an MBA under any rock but people with my skill set are the core of the business and we're hard to find. My team is professional and helps each other out. Any of us could quit and likely get better pay elsewhere, so we make sure to weed out the troublemakers.

Not great. It's good for looking at memes while I'm out on a smoke break, but it doesn't really have communities I care about.

Most of the subreddits I followed were small technical ones. Lemmy doesn't have the user base to support those.

Also, apparently tankies and commies are just as annoying (if not more so) than the edgy little nazi wannabes on reddit were. Who knew?

IIRC, Radon hasn't been proven to be a noble gas. Xenon is downright promiscuous compared to the other noble gases, and some chemists think that trend continues into radon.

She really gets around, if you know what I mean.

There's another HHGTtG book by Eoin Colfer (with permission from Adams' widow) called "And Another Thing." In case you want to complete the collection.

I'm basing that on my Chinese coworker, who travels to Japan on business but doesn't speak the language. Of course she can't read hiragana or katakana, but she says she gets the gist of the Kanji.

I doubt she could read a novel, but she's not illiterate when she's there like I am.

(There's little point to throwing Kanji at me, BTW - when I lived there I was young and more interested in looking for a good time than learning the language, unfortunately.)

Very true.