My thoughts exactly

Also keep in mind that the maximum number of monitors depend on the resolution(s) you want to use. Don’t expect to be able to have a monitor @ 4K in your chain for example. https://www.displayport.org/cables/driving-multiple-displays-from-a-single-displayport-output/ has a table with some examples of resolutions and the corresponding maximum number of monitors you can add to your chain.

I’d say it is either zombie apocalypse or those viruses immediately get obliterated by our immune systems because they lack 50.000 years of evolution and natural selection. Only one way to find out I guess…

I prefer the IUPAC name: Oxidane. Terrible stuff, it’s even used as an industrial solvent and yet we are exposed to it every single day of our lives!

Kill the Abomination!

I use Manjaro as my daily driver for my work laptop, and have used Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu before that. All have their own weird quircks.

And from a user perspective Linux is far from perfect: both X11 and Wayland simply suck at supporting multiple monitors for laptops. Yes, you heard that right, Linux sucks at that. No matter the distro I use, I always need to manually set my ultra-wide to its native resolution when I plug it in when my laptop is in sleep mode, which happens every time I worked at the office. Meanwhile Windows has no problems with that. That’s annoying enough that I simply will not declare Linux as the superior system.

And then there is of course Pipewire. It’s much better than that flaming turd PulseAudio, which was just laughingly bad at supporting Bluetooth headsets, and I’m impressed how fast that project reached a pretty decent and stable state. But it still has problems with sound streams crashing from time to time, so again: not perfect.

I feel that Linux is more stable on fixed desktop PCs than it is on laptops, which might in part be due to better manufacturer driver support for Windows. So while that might not be Linux’s fault perse, from a user perspective that is irrelevant.

I would say both Linux and Windows have their uses and you should pick whatever suits you best. I use Linux for work as it works much better for things like developing Ansible playbooks, Python programming and managing our Linux servers. When I want to relax and game in the evening I boot up my Windows PC, as I already make a living managing Linux environments, so I don’t want to deal with Linux quircks in my spare time. And Windows simply provides me with a rock solid experience these days. But I sure as hell wouldn’t want to manage a Windows based corporate network, been there, done that, never again.

My surname contains spaces. I’ve yet to encounter an airline that is able to handle that properly, so my last name on a ticket never matches my passport name. Either parts are missing, or they just print it as a single word. Never given me issues, so I doubt a slightly truncated middle name is going to pose a problem.

The reaction between a shield and laser is completely random, not knowing wether you are going to vaporise a few molecules, an entire city or everything in between makes it very unreliable for warfare purposes.

And you’d probably find the whole Landsraad against you, as using atomics is outlawed. While a bomb like that isn’t an atomic weapon by definition, the effects are the same and it stands to reason that they’ll therefore still retaliate in full force.

Well, to be honest, it was kinda the plot of that whole episode. Poor Daniel. 😋

Always nice to see some Stargate content in an unrelated community btw. 😄

“Shit, telling people that I’ve got an alien voice inside my head must have sounded a bit crazy.”

I would have settled for (Eyes of) Ibad Blue.

Why YSK: there are times when you need to not be stinky. A multi-day outing with friends staying in one house comes to mind.

Sorry, I have a hard time coming up with reasons why you should not be stinky in such a case. Do you have a toilet in the middle of the living room on outings? Otherwise who cares? Shit stinks, perfectly normal, absolutely no reason to hide that. People should stop being ashamed for bodily functions instead of medicating them away.