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grue, (edited )

Lots of places have maple trees, you know. Various maple species grow all the way down to Florida, not to mention Europe and eastern Asia.

And even if you’re talking about the sugar maple specifically, most of its range is in the US, not Canada:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Acer_saccharum_range_map_1.png/480px-Acer_saccharum_range_map_1.png

The only thing special about Canada is that that’s where it gets cold enough for the sap to run so it can be collected for syrup.

grue,

I think on earth is preferential

Something something “resonance cascade.”

grue,

From Microsoft’s perspective, the bloat is the point because that’s where their profit comes from.

grue,

No one here is saying that every application in the world should be restricted that way, grandpa.

Maybe not here in this thread, but aren’t there some folks who want flatpak/snap/appimage to basically replace traditional package managers?

grue,

BRB, modulating my RGB to send data…

grue, (edited )

There are two basic ways of doing “random” songs:

  1. Pick a new song randomly each time a song ends. This is the naive way to do it and can result in playing the same song twice.
  2. Randomly shuffle the list of songs once and then go through the shuffled list in order, guaranteeing that no single song gets played a second time before all songs have been played.

The strategies are different, but I’d argue that they’re equally “random.”

I’ve got a cheap Chinese aftermarket head unit in my car that uses strategy #1, and it’s mildly infuriating.

grue,

Primary difference being you sit in your car versus at a table, of course.

That’s a big difference! Literally, I mean: 10’x20’ for a parking space vs. what, maybe 6’x6’ for a 4-person table?

grue,

Hmm, I guess etymology (linguistics) sort of counts as science.

grue,

You mean:

“Employees found not skimming or taking kickbacks will spend 3 shifts at a ‘scheming seminar’ and will pay 1 strip of gold-pressed latinum for tuition. That’s 1 strip per class session, by the way.”

grue,

“I wonder if he and Keiko are still together.”

Translation: “I wonder if I should get with them each separately or if a threesome is on the table.”

grue,

Linux broke compatibility with 386 back in 2012. The kernel maintainers also began considering dropping compatibility with 486 late last year, but as far as I can tell they haven’t actually gone through with it yet (apparently it’s likely to be coming in 6.2).

So, strictly speaking: yes, almost any computer that was ever capable of running Linux should still be capable of running the newest kernel version, with the sole exception of 386s.

Whether it can actually do anything useful beyond getting to a command prompt on a serial terminal is another issue entirely.

grue,

So the 286 and 8086 are still compatible, then? :P

No. My comment was carefully worded: if it could ever run Linux, then it still can (unless it’s a 386). Mainline Linux has always required an MMU, so 8086 and 286 were never capable of running it to begin with! 🤓

grue,

Stealth !risa meme (the pic is from Star Trek: TAS).

grue,

I’m just glad your go-to was Torvalds, not Sebastien.

grue,

The trick is knowing how to do it. I still haven’t fixed my Zoom install to successfully download emojis (which I suspect requires a filesystem permission it doesn’t have by default)…

grue,

Your feelings do not match actual reality.

grue,

Nah, check out:

  1. !fuckcars
  2. !fire

See also this motivational blog post that happens to lie at the intersection of the two.

TL;DR: change your lifestyle to (among other things) not need a car, then use the savings to retire early.

grue,

That’s exactly the opposite of nonsense; it’s proving the point. They get called “bad apples” specifically because the idiom is that “a few bad apples spoils the bunch.”

The people who say “it’s just a few bad apples” as if that excuses it are the ones who don’t have the slightest fucking clue what they’re talking about.

grue,

Dude, I said I needed Windows for games in 2002. I’ve been Linux-only for gaming for the better part of a decade now.

As long as you’re okay with skipping the few games from asshole developers who deliberately make it difficult, the transition you’re hoping for already happened.

grue,

LOL, my Microsoft joystick is so old it connected to the gameport on my sound card – I’m pretty sure XInput didn’t even exist yet.

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