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At this point it's the third best server OS in the Linux space and a below average desktop experience.

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As Canonical has been doing nothing but worsening the user experience in Ubuntu for end user desktop use I see "performing every task they need it to" as decreasingly likely.

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No, Apple gives off hipster vibes to the average PC user. Apple products are basically jewelry, you choose Apple products largely to be seen with them, so that when you slide that phone out of your pocket there's that Apple logo on it. So that your bubble is blue in iMessage. That's hipster shit.

The average PC user has never seen Linux running on a PC and doesn't understand what a "distro" is at all. Ubuntu and its default Gnome DE isn't as easily mistaken for Windows as KDE or Cinnamon is, so this one might spark the conversation a little faster, and "average" Windows users tend to compare Linux users of all stripes to vegans.

WIthin the Linux community, Until maybe 5 years ago Ubuntu had the "beginner OS" stank to it. "Start here until you're ready to edit xorg.conf like a real man." Canonical has been shifting away from "Linux for the masses" and more toward "Leveraging synergies" to the point that I straight-up recommend against Ubuntu for daily use as their Snap ecosystem has a lot of disadvantages for desktop users especially gamers. To me, Ubuntu is a radial arm saw, the wonder do-all death trap grampa won't shut up about that no one makes anymore. In the modern day, best practice is to forget they exist.

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"Concealed" is an interesting way to spell "Poisoned."

UN votes to back Palestinian membership, prompting Israeli envoy to shred charter ( www.theguardian.com )

The UN general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to back the Palestinian bid for full UN membership, in a move that signalled Israel’s growing isolation on the world stage amid global alarm over the war in Gaza and the extent of the humanitarian crisis in the strip. The move drew an immediate rebuke from Israel. Its envoy to...

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Premeditated Tantrum would be an excellent punk rock band name.

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Needs to be on one of those giant dot matrix light signs so it can be animated.

Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad ( www.theregister.com )

The ad itself depicted a mechanical crusher destroying artifacts of human creativity. A trumpet, guitar, sculpture, piano, drawing board, paints, a metronome, several analog cameras, a turntable, and hi-fi equipment were among the much-loved items yielding to the machine's unstoppable force.

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In 2007 I had a Gateway convertible computer. This thing was like 14 or 15 inches screen size, it had to have weighed 5 pounds with the battery attached, closed and without worrying about the battery's additional thickness it had to have been an inch and a half thick. The thing is, it worked fine.

The Dell Inspiron that replaced it has one of those soft shell lithium batteries that inevitably bulge and stop the trackpad from clicking, there's a fan that scrapes its housing because of how tight the clearances have to be...all so the thing can be about a half inch thick? Why?

EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again ( www.techspot.com )

EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during 'Replay' moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being highlighted in...

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I cannot buy fewer EA games. The last EA game I bought ran on the Super Nintendo.

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Does that refresh take place across the entire eye simultaneously or is each rod and/or cone doing its own thing?

How old is the oldest building in the town you live in?

To those from the Western hemisphere, it's always fascinating to hear that some homes and businesses from the times of the Greek philosophers still have inhabitants, and then you remember that the Western hemisphere is itself not without its own examples, for example some Mexican villages still have temples from the times of the...

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Early 1800s is the best guess. It's a log house that is maintained as a sort of museum these days.

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You ever play Subnautica? You know how some characters are given to using business lingo in their personal lives? The business lesbian in that one audio log in the first game and the doucheboss in the second? Apparently that shit's real.

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  1. Play Subnautica, it's great. Go in as blind as possible.

  2. To be more accurate it's either an "everyone's pan in the future" setting or there's at least one business bisexual. There is a recording of two women, one dumping the other, so she can spend more time with "That dumb guy and his dumb robot suit." The sequel features at least two homosexual relationships and one heterosexual one; there's a guy who mentions his husband a few times, a couple of women who sorta pair off, and a man wrestling with his relationship with his wife and daughter. None of these are major plot points to either game.

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If I understand correctly, a major player at Netflix actively doesn't like theaters and sees them as competition to eliminate.

On a completely separate tangent: You remember those occasional attempts at online virtual hangout zones back in the 2000s? They were implemented in anything from Flash to the Source engine, often resembled a physical shopping mall, "Hang out with your friends, customize your avatar, engage with today's products and brands!" And a lot of them tried to have virtual movie theaters, because of course people wanted to sit in their computer chair in front of their 15 inch CRT and watch a very low resolution "whatever will fit down a 2002 era DSL connection" stream of Shrek 2 in its entirety. And of course it never really happened that often because no one would license them the rights to any decent movies.

Study reveals "widespread, bipartisan aversion" to neighbors owning AR-15 rifles ( www.psypost.org )

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that across all political and social groups in the United States, there is a strong preference against living near AR-15 rifle owners and neighbors who store guns outside of locked safes. This surprising consensus suggests that when it...

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"A well-regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." --The full and complete text of the 2nd Amendment.

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The AR in AR-15 stands for Armalite Rifle. Armalite being the company that initially designed and manufactured it, though basically everyone has had a go at making a variant of it. You won't find the term "assault rifle" in significant use, at least not in English.

The AR-15 sold to the public cannot "spray." They are semi-automatic. One pull of the trigger, one bullet out of the barrel. Fully auto or burst fire modes aren't available to the general public; I believe a few made it into circulation but collectors tend to hang onto them. It's not a bullet hose.

There are a lot of rifles out there that have walnut stocks and such that look like grampa's huntin' gun that are functionally similar to an AR-15, ie same ease of operation, same capacity, same (relatively small) caliber, same rate of fire. But you don't seem to be afraid of those. So I can only assume you have a fear of black plastic. That's the main unique feature of the AR-15 compared to other semi-automatic rifles on the market, the stock is made of plastic rather than wood.

Here's the real truth: mass shootings in America are not caused by firearms engineering, and restricting features of firearms isn't going to solve the problem. A shooting is carried out with an AR-15. People start talking about banning AR-15s. Remember Columbine? That was actually a failed bombing, most of the killings were done with a TEC-9...what would you categorize that as? An open bolt pistol? A "That's not an Uzi?" and a shotgun. Well TEC-9s were banned. Sure stopped school shootings. Virginia Tech was done with pistols.

You want the problem solved? Work on reducing hopelessness in young men. People HATE that answer, because, well...people hate young men. But that's the answer.

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The smallest of the three pyramids at Giza has a giant gash down the side because some Muslims tried to tear it down because it was from another religion and Islam is founded primarily on hatred and violence.

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Last three times my toilet needed fixing I was the one that did it.

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There's a Youtube channel out there called Post 10.

This guy drives around looking for culverts to unclog. Has a day job in lawn care, decides to spend his free time recording himself raking leaf litter off of storm drain grates and pulling beaver dams out of drain pipes.

He has over 2 million active and engaged subscribers and his videos routinely pull in millions of views.

Given their needs are met and they have the time and energy, people will do the job they see needs doing. Just because you're too precious to fill potholes doesn't mean everyone is.

Will I ever be seen as truly British?

My family immigrated to the UK from Poland when I was six. I'm 20 now, speak much better English than Polish and feel like this is my land/culture. However I have a Polish first and last name, Polish passport and "unique" accent everyone picks up on, so despite this I'm usually perceived as an outsider. It makes me really sad...

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That well meaning curiosity is the America I know.

I was born in North Carolina, I speak with a textbook Piedmont white guy drawl. I'm as American as high fructose corn syrup, no question. Here's some hell I've caught: Europeans struggle to cope when I describe myself as "German and a little Scottish." To me, that's my ethnic background, to a lot of Europeans I've argued with, it's stolen valor. "You're not personally from Germany, you aren't German." Then explain my genome. Or my surname.

I think us who live in the New World have a whole different understanding of diaspora.

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See what I mean? And I bet Herr Wernher von Bianchi would have way more interesting stories to tell than most genuine Germans.

Reminds me of Japanese drivers licenses, which don't have a field for eye or hair color the way Western ones do. Not pertinent information in Japan where virtually everyone has black hair and brown eyes, it's like having a field for tongue color. The answer for everyone is "What? Reddish pink I guess? Why?"

Now imagine you're making a form for people to fill out about their background and personal history. Europeans apparently cannot imagine needing more than one line to answer the question "Where are you from?" because of how short and boring their own answers always are.

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I knew they'd come out of the woodwork to make my point for me.

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Unity is the weird one here, and I'm really hoping it is entirely replaced by Godot and Unity just fucking dies.

Most other game engines like Unreal or Source or CryEngine etc. are designed in-house by a larger game developer for some big project, like, well, Unreal, or Half Life 2, or Crysis. They made their money from the sale of that game, and licensing the engine out to other studios is an additional revenue stream.

Unity on the other hand had the same role as Adobe. They make the tools, but don't produce anything with those tools themselves. Unity doesn't make games. They rely entirely on B2B transactions and their cut of baked in advertising in games. And greed will eventually destroy this business model; I would argue it already has.

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x works with my touch screen laptop via Mint.

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If I'm honest, it's because Pop!_OS isn't really that good. What does Pop!_OS do particularly well other than "download this one for Nvidia drivers"?

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It's not hard to feel premium compared to Ubuntu these days. Canonical gave up trying to be an end-user desktop OS years ago. Look at their corporate garbagepuke website these days. Ubuntu is now merely the other Red Hat; it's an enterprise grade thing that normies should ignore.

Mint runs circles around Pop!_OS in the "just works, just keeps working" department.

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In my experience?

Mint has been around longer and has had more of the lumps smoothed out. Mint, and their flagship DE Cinnamon, has always been about actual usability. There's a pragmatic streak that runs through Mint that isn't there in some other distros.

It has been my experience that Mint is usually the one that "just works" and the one that "continues to just work." Cinnamon's UI strikes a balance between KDE's "ALL THE FEATURES! MAXIMUM CLUTTER!" approach and Gnome's "Nuance doesn't exist, implement as little functionality as possible so the window stays empty and beautiful" approach. You won't find yourself asking "why can't it do this?" the way you do with Gnome-based distros. You don't have to start installing extensions just to get things that were considered basic features twenty years ago. You aren't sent to the terminal particularly often, you can genuinely manage most of the system from the GUI.

I would also say that Cinnamon is going to be more familiar to a Windows user than Gnome. Trying to use Gnome the way Windows users are used to handling things, say by minimizing and maximizing windows, is deliberately a pain in the ass on Gnome, and has a tendency to make newcomers think "Man this shit is unusable." Cinnamon doesn't have that problem; it's still fun convincing people that I'm running Windows 9.

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hahaha a three hour round trip is an overnight stay hahaha ha that is goddamn adorable.

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With a theme tune that slaps way harder than it has any right to.

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Absolutely sure. It's not really a factor in construction because of how the structure is engineered, but woodworkers have to constantly think about it.

Wood expands and contracts across the grain, but not so much along it. If you take a board that has been in a dry environment, put it in a humid environment, and allow it to acclimate, it will increase in width and thickness but not in length. At the microscopic level, wood is kind of like a bunch of ropes glued together with sponge, as it soaks up water the sponge wants to expand but the ropes don't let it expand along their length.

Us woodworkers have to think about that when building things like doors, which might fit fine in the winter and then stick in the summer. It's why we build frame and panel doors like this:

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The large panel in the middle can expand and contract so much that it might be a problem, so we literally put it in a box. The outer dimensions of the frame are made mostly of the length of boards so it won't expand and contract much, and the panel rests in a groove in the frame, not nailed or glued in place so that it can safely expand and contract as it wants to.

Attaching wide boards end-to-face can even present a situation where the boards want to move in different directions and they'll eventually break each other.

You can even calculate the amount of wood movement given the species, of the wood, the dimension of the board and the amount of moisture change, you can read about it here.

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The consumer doesn't need to know the dimensions at harvest. But the lumberjack and the sawyer do. They care about how much of the tree was needed to make a particular board, not how much board the customer ended up with.

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I think if I was you I'd go have a talk with your sawyer, talk about "man if I wanted my wood this wet I wouldn't have broken up with Meagan. Is your kiln in working order?"

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Would you call that a "structural use?"

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Okay, are we talking about "boards sold as 2x10s might vary in width from board to board?" Because I took you to mean that a given dried and milled 2x10 might move up to an inch, which it had better fucking not. Because yeah, the likes of Georgia Pacific are going to be a bit sloppy with the final dimensions of 2x10s, because it rarely matters that much for what that board is going to be used for.

I'm a woodworker, I buy rough sawn lumber dried over a period of months, I shop dry it for a couple weeks then mill it myself. I can predict with a fair degree of accuracy how much it will move.

A sawyer is an occupational term for a person who operates a sawmill. My sawyer's name is Bill.

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From Wikipedia:

Sawyer is an occupational term referring to someone who saws wood, particularly using a pitsaw either in a saw pit or with the log on trestles above ground or operates a sawmill.

Operator of a sawmill = sawyer.

A 2x10 can move a half inch while drying? Sure. It shouldn't be "while drying" while the construction crew is installing it.

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The word "Sawmill" from my quote was a link. This is the first picture on the page it links to. Hell of a hand tool that guy's using.

You're not only stupid, you're dishonest. I bet you vote Republican.

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Which is why I buy stock rough sawn and mill it myself.

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Maybe, if you ask the sawyer nicely.

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if you own a thickness planer, you don't immediately need a jointer. You can flatten a face with a sled and shims in the planer, and joint edges a frillion different ways. I have a jointer and sometimes I use my router table for edge jointing.

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I mean, I'm okay with disposing of these shitty people. They're obviously irredeemable.

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They worked pretty well when I was in high school marching band. I didn't drive yet so I didn't need road vision, they darkened while out at practice and were clear elsewhen. Got an actual pair of prescription sunglasses in flight school though.

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Depends on the soup I find.

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Canned french onion soup? meh.

Homemade french onion soup? Yeah!

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Pretty sure that's called a baculum.

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So, in the book:

When he's making water out of hydrazine from the MDV, he gets the process a little wrong and accidentally causes an explosion. This slightly stresses the canvas around one of the three airlocks. He prefers to use that airlock to the other two because it's the closest to the rover chargers, so he uses that one the most. Every time he cycles the airlock, it slightly expands and contracts, repeatedly stressing the canvas until it fails.

The resulting explosion hurls the airlock over 100 meters from the HAB, cracks the airlock and in the resulting tumble he bashes in his EVA suit's helmet. So he fixes the crack with duct tape, cuts his space suit's arm off, uses the resin from a patch kit to glue the arm material over the broken helmet (in the movie the helmet is kind of cracked and he tapes over it) so he has to go into the wrecked HAB, get one of the other space suits, change in one of the rovers, then fix the HAB.

It is established that the mission was designed to survive a HAB breach, and was supplied with spare canvas and adhesive resin to make repairs, which he did. He had to reduce the height of the ceiling in that section of the HAB to make it fit, and from then on he alternated use of the other two airlocks.

The book kicked a lot more of the shit out of Watney. The movie doesn't even mention killing Pathfinder, the dust storm enroute to the MAV or rolling the rover over.

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Just a yellow filter.

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I think this meme is talking about how tough life is for any given organism in kind of a TierZoo sort of way.

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It is my understanding that the Three Mile Island incident was a meltdown, that the fuel rods got hot enough to melt themselves and pool in the bottom of the reactor vessel but did not escape containment, unlike Chernobyl whose reactor core is currently a big lump in a sub-basement.

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What do you think a "meltdown" is?

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