Bullets are seldom made of iron though; they’re usually lead sometimes jacketed with copper, so they’re not magnetic. Conductive, but not magnetic.
Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast
Bullets are seldom made of iron though; they’re usually lead sometimes jacketed with copper, so they’re not magnetic. Conductive, but not magnetic.
Headcanon: Stacy’s index finger is along the barrel, ring finger on the trigger, and ring + little finger on the pistol grip.
Also she seems to have three fingers on her left hand.
Connected through every single coax connector made by man.
isn’t it the graphical equivalent to an rtx2070 or something?
To be fair on the guy, Canonical’s website is corporate sewage. finding the right ISO is a chore.
One of the last conversations I had on Reddit was with a guy complaining about how crap Linux is, that he installed Ubuntu and the desktop didn’t even work, it went straight to a terminal, and after some prodding he said that he couldn’t even get APT to work, and it hit me: “You didn’t install Ubuntu Core, their embedded OS version, did you?” No response.
It’s a penny farthing, so he probably fell off and it hurt really bad so now he’s crying.
Are you required to “swim” in the traithlon, or do you have to do a distance across a body of water?
There was a time when Ubuntu was the distro for the masses. It was the one that “just worked.” It was the one you could use for school. They distributed marketing material with a bunch of diverse young people holding hands.
Now Canonical’s website is, by area, mostly corporate logos. They’re B2B now, we have lost them, and it shows in their engineering.
If the system you’re shopping for an OS for isn’t installed in a room with halon extinguishers in the ceiling, you shouldn’t even be thinking Canonical’s name.
Is that what that was? I got a grey box with no text in it that popped up over Satisfactory and my mouse control went from the POV to moving a cursor. I was building and it was a brief interruption. I got the actual text via email.
Yeah typing “apt install firefox” and getting the Snap version does loudly and obnoxiously disqualify Ubuntu from any devices owned by me or my family.
Bodger is:
Blue collar. If he ever wore a collar.
Constantly fixing shit. Or scamming adventurers.
Yeah the full and complete story of the joke in this comment chain:
In 1993 there was a somewhat offbeat slightly Sci-Fi action movie called Demolition Man starring Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock. Stallone plays a cop from the then future dystopian year of 1996 being frozen for several decades only to emerge into a late 21st century future where the entire world is rated G, the police have to be told what a murder is.
In one humorous aside/extremely blatant product placement, Stallone’s character is invited to a fancy dinner at Taco Bell. Making small talk with Bullock’s character on the way, he mentions that he feels strange being taken out to a fast food restaurant, and Bullock’s character says that Taco Bell “won the franchise wars” and so now ALL restaurants are Taco Bell. Cue the cast arriving at a fancy four-star restaurant that serves plates of artfully drizzled sauce with a futuristic Taco Bell sign out front.
That’s the original version that Americans are familiar with, at least. In 1993, there were effectively no Taco Bell restaurants in the UK (There were two; both at RAF bases that had attached USAF presences, and the restaurant was restricted to base personnel) so the joke/product placement was lost on the British public. I don’t know if they altered it in theaters (or if the movie got a theatrical release in the UK at all) but for television broadcast in the UK, the scene had its dialog redubbed to change the joke to Pizza Hut, a sibling brand at the time under PepsiCo’s fast food division. Which is why you will see people referencing the movie swear the joke was Pizza Hut rather than Taco Bell: Because in their region it was.
The closest one to my house is a liquor store now.
No that was Taco Bell.
There are political, practical and aesthetic reasons to choose GNU/Linux as an operating system.
Political Reasons
The Linux kernel, various components from GNU, a large part of the software library etc. are released under Copyleft licenses such as the GNU Public License (GPL), which cannot be revoked. This prevents a lot of evil shit the corporate world likes to do with software. It also menas it can’t be taken away; My license to copy, examine, modify and redistribute the Linux source code is irrevocable.
The kernel and much of what goes into a Linux OS these days are largely developed by larger corporations (Red Hat is now owned by IBM) but a lot of the app ecosystem is community driven. A lot of applications in the Linux ecosystem exist because someone wanted the tool to exist, not because someone begrudgingly accomplished something to increase shareholder value.
Practical Reasons
The vast majority of Linux distros are provided free of charge.
The majority of Linux distros are lighter on system resources than Windows; Windows’ system requirements have forced a lot of perfectly functional hardware into retirement where they run just fine with Linux.
With a few notable exceptions the Linux ecosystem is free of the ads and spyware built into Windows these days.
Microsoft has a habit of rearranging their UI kind of for the hell of it, meaning constant retraining for users. In the Linux ecosystem, only Gnome is in the habit of making drastic unasked for design changes, and it’s very much not a user’s only choice.
Microsoft has a lot of monetary incentives to be user hostile. Not a lot of people use the Microsoft Store to search for software because much of the software the userbase wants competes with a Microsoft product, so they aren’t found in the store. For example, Edge is the only web browser found in the Microsoft Store. Microsoft will not distribute a product that competes with one of their own. A typical package manager on Linux is full of actual useful software and is the preferred way of managing software on Linux. In fact, Windows is basically the only platform that hasn’t managed to make a package manager or app store the default way of handling software.
Microsoft has been eroding the end user’s ability to control or even own their devices. Linux does not become unusable for several minutes due to updates the way Windows does. Linux doesn’t routinely take away features the way Windows has been doing lately.
Aesthetic Reasons
Windows is becoming less customizable as time goes on. Linux is only getting more impressive. It’s not difficult to make the experience YOU want on Linux. Windows doesn’t let you put the Taskbar on the side of the screen anymore. Get a load of this, I’m using Fedora KDE right now. By default there’s a thing that works very much like the Start button on Windows; icon in the lower-left corner that pops up a menu from which to launch applications. I can right click that, click “Show Alternatives” and I can have a full screen thing similar to the MacOS launcher, a smaller cascading menu type thing that works like the Windows 85 Start menu, or by default a two-pane thing that’s more typical of Linux systems. It’s just so much more flexible.
And yet it probably actually doesn’t.
Next time you have the opportunity give Old Spice’s Wolfthorn scent a try and tell me it’s not just orange Starburst.
Linux is just Socialism: The Operating System.