fratermus

The relevant case law may be found in Molotov vs. New Construction .

will linux run on arm?

Millions of Raspberry Pi say “yes, it will”.

TBF he does have personal experience with brainworms

Pommesgabel (fries fork)

I was stationed in [the former West] Germany from 1985-1988. Upon arrival we had a week-long quickstart intro to German culture. One of the lessons taught was srsly, don’t pick up your fries with your fingers!!! I forgot about that until reading your comment. :-)

surge of anti-Muslim rhetoric

Chumming for mouth-breathers.

I’m an atheist but lived quite near the biggest mosque in NE Texas. Many of the congregants (?) lived in my neighborhood since it was in walking distance. These Muslim neighbors were kind and well-educated. My evangelical neighbors not so much.

how come I can receive messages but not sent

Exactly. Their problem with Sharia isn’t the theocracy, it’s just the wrong flavor of theocracy.

yet another small town famous for the wrong reasons

I found out how to close vim but I could never quit

I forced myself to learn vi around 1995 by making it the default editor in pine. Since I was using pine for email and newgroups it was sink or swim. The first couple of days were rough …

The randomness of mod assignment could be a good thing. A mod with no subject matter expertise (real or imagined) would be less likely to be biased by their personal opinion.

It doesn’t feel like it was made with the idea of being anything more than a clean product that gets the job done

I mean, “clean product that gets the job done” is fine with me. Let people theme/customize and it’s win-win IMO.

it paid $6.3 million in sales tax to the agency but received $1.9 million worth in services.

Hard to argue with their decision from a financial POV.

how do you make sure that on lid close: the laptop suspends and locks?

I’ve had it fail (ie, stay on and deplete the battery) often enough over the years that I just suspend/hibernate manually before closure.

They do this by running a script/app that sends the user’s comment history to OpenAI with the question “analyze this content for evidence of specific political ideology sentiment.

To me the problem is what they are looking for not how they are doing it. Thought experiment: in what way would it be qualitatively different if they hired a team of people in Upper Elbonia to do the same thing?

vi, since it’s ubiquitous.

apt just quietly “keeps back” the package. It doesn’t fail, it doesn’t break the system, and it doesn’t trigger a rollback. It just waits for me to notice. Since I wasn’t looking at the list of upgradable packages

Depends on what quietly means. To me it means “with no indication”. Any written warning is quiet, I guess, if one is not reading it.

I prefer it over stock debian and normal mint.

I normally run debian but I ran LMDE for a couple years and thought it was nice.

timebanks

For those interested in the idea, Skinner’s Walden Two describes a community with a form of time-banking. Everyone’s time is valued equally but less desirable* jobs accrue credit faster.

• the ones that people aren’t signing up for.

If there’s a Texas connection here I overlooked it.

In 2024 the state committed $750 million in low-interest loans to help Corpus Christi develop a seawater desalination project, which the city then canceled in 2025

[insert meme of shoving stick into own bicycle spokes]

For simple read-only: one could set up Calibre to pull RSS feeds or other resources and convert to ebooks. Sync to ereader and enjoy. Delete after reading or archive at will.