Mint: come for the ease of installation and use, stay because it’s just Ubuntu and Debian under the hood so it has tons of support, and the terminal is right there if you need to out so some real shit.

I think mine doesn’t roll off the tongue in quite the same way.

I don’t disagree in many cases, but I think there is a lot of ignorance and low-information voting involved too.

The two go hand in hand though.

Yep, this study would have to divide things up by age. As a fellow member of the Oregon Trail generation, all my early computers were also Apple ][ and b&w macs. But then eventually by young adulthood it all turned into PCs.

I enjoyed a stint with Solaris in college (that’s SUN Solaris thankyouverymuch) which I consider my true intro to Linux/posix/whatever-ix.

I like this new world of ours where CEOs get the public recognition they deserve for all the hard work they do.

Thank you, CEOs, for giving us somebody to look up to. By name.

How can one be denied and the other given a pass,

Unfortunately I think the honest answer is something like “fuck off, pleb”

legally?

Oh sorry, I missed that last word there. In that case I think the answer is something like “fuck off, counselor”

Boy I hope no future healthcare CEO assassins copy this calling card, and I especially hope their bullet shells aren’t covered with the names of people killed by the CEO’s company denying them healthcare.

Not only would that encourage more copy cats, but it would really capture people’s attention and get them thinking about the issue. If the public starts considering crazy propaganda like how seeking maximum profit at the expense of widespread human suffering might not be life’s most noble pursuit, just imagine what could happen!

Surely you’d make an exception if the mass-market seasoning used on a CEO was sold by that CEO’s own company!

The fact that many people have never met a trans person (that they know of, right?) is a big part of why they make such a great bogeyman for conservatives.

Working to correct that should probably involve exposing those people to a larger variety of other humans. Unforunately I think they already “know” that humanity, much like education, the media, and the internet, has a known liberal bias and cannot be trusted.

The details make the headline come across like “humans who refuse to acknowledge mental heath and emotional needs are at a higher risk of suicide” which tracks, especially from my American point of view. What passes for manliness, at least for some who really care about being traditionally “manly,” is essentially an excuse to act like a child and/or cope while in denial of mental illness.

With some people it seems like a subconscious addiction to self harm. It can be so hard to have compassion for oneself sometimes. At some point you have to give yourself permission to pursue the things that actually make you happy rather than the things you’re supposed to like. (Details vary based on the individual and their local culture)

Don’t underestimate the value of the “I’m going to wander outside for a couple minutes” break on your well being!

I’m sitting here realizing that my big hobby project of the past few years — a koi pond in my back yard — is essentially a reason to just go outside and chill.

My work dell has that stupid issue too.

Or at least it did, until I booted into Mint for the first time. 4 screens immediately usable. Boot back into Windows and it goes back to not working. You get one monitor mirrored.

Maybe they have some shady limitation in a driver unless you have the highest end models?

On my work machine, just a Dell laptop with a dock and some monitors, Mint Cinnamon actually gave me a better out-of-box than win10.

I didn’t try Mint until 21 (the version before current) and it’s just so smooth now.

Unfortunately, it is not even slightly difficult to imagine a situation where he becomes president. The GOP nominates him because they don’t give a fuck, then 75 million people vote for him because they don’t give a fuck, then the Supreme Court upholds the results of the election and swears him in because they don’t give a fuck.

My gut feeling is that he won’t want to bother with it because his current strategy is working fine. But good god how different the world could look in 5-10 years. Or months.

Ooh, maybe this means cheaper used Teslas.

…but then you’d have to drive a Tesla. Shit.

Mint is basically Ubuntu without the controversial bits.

Plus the “lake lovers” should probably be extended over to at least include the city that shares a name with one of those lakes. (Erie, PA)

Well yeah. If you’re ready to kill some fool then marijuana-ing once might not be enough.

Marijuana: maybe twice or thrice!

You need your knives, CHECK!

Gotta love when the conspiracy is so stupid that it’s the people who dedicated their lives to building and spreading human knowledge are the ones keeping the knowledge away from Joe public.

You know how Trump has been called the poor person’s idea of a rich person? I’m trying to think of the caricature they use for “scientist” in their minds. Maybe a woke Joe Rogan?

If you want a baby that’s relatively healthy, adoption can be an absolute nightmare. If anybody ever says to adoptive parents that they got their kid the “easy way,” it made them sound profoundly ignorant. It’s one of those life experiences where you learn about a whole shitty world that exists right under the surface that most people are blissfully unaware of. That includes adoption, fostering, child protective services, and all that crap.

The only reason my wife and I have a biological kid is because the adoption process drove us to give it one more try with a new doctor in parallel. If we happened to adopt AND conceive, then fine. Instant family.

But here we are with a 7 year old only child that’s biologically ours, not adopted. We might start fostering in the next few years though.