Malgas

Seriously, it’s like nobody in this thread even read the seminal paper, “Scrimbling Considered Harmful”.

AFAIK it only ever does that if grub is installed on the same physical drive as Windows.

My mom didn’t hyphenate, but she does include her maiden name when writing her full name, after her middle name. It never even occurred to me that that’s uncommon.

Shit in, shit out. That’s AI.

“On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

—Charles Babbage, on his analytical engine, 1864

Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

I used to use a system that was perfectly happy to let you use a semicolon when setting the password, but then login would fail if you did.

You say that as though he isn’t one of them.

Indeed, friend citizen. Would you like some Bouncy Bubble Beverage?

e.g. have a gui installer

I assume you mean a GUI for editing configuration.nix? Because the initial NixOS install is GUI-based.

Also “doctor” means teacher. The specific term for someone who practices medicine is “physician”.

Well, not always: Plural ‘they’ is a borrowing from Old Norse ca. 1200 AD, and the earliest attestation of singular ‘they’ is about a century later.

But, yeah, you’d think 700 years of continuous use would be enough to make it uncontroversial…

On the other side [Wayland] is buggy af.

I’ve been having the exact opposite problem since recently coming back to Linux after a long hiatus. For me, Wayland has been flawless, while anything x11 looks like somebody ran the screen through a shredder, discarded half the strips, and smooshed the rest back together.

I don’t know how to troubleshoot that. I don’t even know what to type in a search engine to get relevant results.

Pfft, catapults. A trebuchet can launch a 90kg advertisement over 300 meters.

He did specify a large 3D printer. So it might be 2 or even 3 feet in length.

It’s amazing how often things are similar to what they are.

Jojo Rabbit featured Jewish Maori Hitler and was very well received.

Oil is corrosive? Doesn’t it usually prevent steel from rusting?

Excuse me, but clearly it’s UNIX that leads to Dilophosaur consumption. We know this.

Not exactly what you’re talking about, but LeVar Burton Reads is amazing, too. It’s like Reading Rainbow for grownups.

It’s actually not quite an exception, because cocaine is a Schedule II drug (can be prescribed as a vasoconstrictor or topical anesthetic) and the Maywood plant is the only facility licensed to produce pharmaceutical grade cocaine in the US.

So the coca leaf extract they sell to Coca-Cola is technically a byproduct.