ThePowerOfGeek

Those upcoming changes are why I’ve been playing with the idea of a complete switch to Linux. While I use Linux regularly (but certainly not exclusively) and feel comfortable making the transition to it from Windows, my wife and kids would struggle with some aspects of Linux. And committing all of us to that OS transition would mean a commitment for me of troubleshooting, assisting, and educating the family.

Thanks OP for this post. I know you’re getting some shit for it, but I and others appreciate your honest findings.

I don’t think OP’s analysis should be taken as offensive or disingenuous by others here. And I don’t understand why they are getting shit. I’ve been using Linux off and on for 20 years. It’s come an insanely long way in that timeframe with its usability for less technical users. But yes, there are still some gaps to fill. And the way to fix them is to listen to honest feedback like OP’s.

I have no idea why anyone still goes to McDogsbreath (I’ll likely hear some reasons in responses to this comment, but I’ve heard them before and don’t buy them). Back in the day I rarely had positive experiences when I was dragged out there reluctantly. Plasticy food of subpar quality, and very uncomfortable, plastic furniture.

And in recent years, between the prices quadrupling, the limited menu for people who don’t like burgers, the shite Wi-Fi, and now them not even being willing to lose 10c on a relatively small % of customers who get a soda refill… Why go there at all! There are so many better fast food options than that disaster of a chain.

That’s some low-key trolling there.

I like it.

Nah, they are just saying that to live is to short the market.

So they are labeling a brand new (and obviously flawed) AI as a priest, but women (who are human beings) still can’t be priests?

Sorry ladies, you’ve now fallen further down the ladder.

• Regular straight Catholic men - acceptable priest
• Gay Catholic men - acceptable priest (as long as they don’t get caught)
• Male converted Anglican priests - acceptable priest (in some scenarios)
• Catholic men with gross sexual habits - acceptable priest
• Flawed AIs - acceptable priest
• Corporations - soon to be priests?
• Catholic women - ABSOLUTELY NOT!

If Arctic Blitz isn’t one of them, there will be a backlash that makes Vatican II look like a mild disagreement.

Every couple of years for the last 20 years I would download the most popular Linux distro of the day, install it, and play around with it. And it’s mind-blowing to me how far Linux has come with UIs, usability, troubleshooting and customizing stuff.

Back in the day I spent many hours compiling obscure and dependent code bases just to get my sound card working. Now it’s pretty rare for me to need to do even a fraction of that.

Also, if you want to play around with Linux you can just download a VM solution like VirtualBox on Windows and then spin up as many virtual machines as you like and install a different iso on each one. Not to mention tinkering with Docker containers via the Docker app.

In short, it’s a great time to play with and possibly adopt Linux.

I’m going to hold my excitement in check until January of next year. Because if a certain former president gets reelected then any hopes of net neutrality will end for another 4 years.

I know who it is.

It’s aliens.

“That’s where I visited your mother last night, Trebeck!”

Or as Sean Connery would say: Worship Worship!

There are multiple layers to this hornet’s nest of a topic. But from a personal perspective, I know I was (still am?) terrible at reading such interest from women. Luckily, I’m happily married, so I don’t need to worry about it now.

In the past I’ve literally had to have women launch themselves at me or graphically proposition me before I was aware that they were really into me. And even then it was often a surprise. And there were a few times I asked out girls who I knew and seemed to have done chemistry with, and they recoiled in alarm. And I’m a fairly average neuro-typical guy. So yeah, I think some of us definitely have trouble reading the interest of women in those one-on-one situations.

Quite a few of my make friends have run into similar experiences. While a few others assumed any woman who spoke to them must be into them. Which is, of course, the other side of the same ‘unable to read women’ coin.

But adding to all that, there are all the tricky social obstacles to navigate. Things like:

• a minority of women wanting to be chased off they said no to an approach (depending on who was approaching them, of course); or
• worries about making women feel threatened or distressed by offering an unwanted advance;
• or how it’s sometimes difficult to differentiate between a purely platonic friendship, or a pure romantic friendship, or one that the woman wants to transition from the former to the latter;
• or just realizing a woman is into you but feigning ignorance because you (the guy) isn’t into her and doesn’t want to exploit her for sex or ruin a social group dynamic.

So yeah, it’s a fucking (pun intended) mess.

Ooh shit, this is a good take! Tiktok needs to change ownership to an American company. I could see them using Reddit as a kind of masquerade it or shell company, where they put all the legal and geographical ownership under the Reddit name, but really all the decisions (for both platforms) are being made by the TikTok owners.

Where I live there are a few little mom-and-pop dry cleaning businesses that do clothing alterations for a reasonable price.

In America, Falun Gong followers are often massive Q-anon conspiracy believers, overt racists, and Trump fanatics. Further proof that that group is filled with nutters.