I mean, obviously. Just look at her squirting!

the general perception that rolling distros are annoying since they might break sometimes, with the reality that non rolling distros definitely break shit when upgrading versions.

Personally, I still prefer the non-rolling distros.

A rolling distro might break on any update, and you never know when.

But for non-rolling, you can wait until you have available time to deal with any issues. Sure there will be issues and things that need reconfiguring – you basically just reinstalled your whole OS. But you can choose when and if that happens, so you can schedule it for a convenient time when you’ve got time and energy to work on it if necessary.

(And, personally, I wouldn’t do the dist-upgrade thing at all. I just download the newest LTS version and install it as a fresh install, then port everything important over from backups. Nice fresh start with no old baggage hanging around. Often, I’d do that at the same time as a major hardware upgrade as well, so it’s basically a new PC.)

Then … don’t do that?

Is there something that 24 had and 22 didn’t and you just had to have that feature? If not, just stick with 22.

Or if you’re one of those who just has to have the latest of everything, you should be on a rolling release distro instead, and you won’t have this issue.

So many of these things just seem incredibly bizarre once you’re used to Linux.

A significant portion of farmland in the US is used to grow corn solely for ethanol production.

If this land – and this land only – was instead used for solar farms, it would produce several times more electricity than the entire country uses, easily allowing the US to be 100% solar powered. (Not with some hypothetical future solar tech – with the tech we have right now.) Corn production for food and even for livestock food would not be reduced at all, only ditching the cornfields used for ethanol production.

Or just, you know, put some solar farms in the vast desert areas the US has, where there’s even better sun exposure and hardly ever any cloud coverage. Then they’ll be even more efficient, and most of that land isn’t used for anything anyway, except maybe some light cattle grazing. (And light cattle grazing can work perfectly fine alongside solar panels. The cows might even appreciate the shade on hot days.)

Windows and Linux don’t feel fundamentally different these days

Try Windows 11 vs. Linux on a shitty old laptop with a budget 2-core processor and 2GB of RAM. Then tell me Windows and Linux don’t feel any different.

When you become one with the penguin, though … then you can begin to feel how much faster modern hardware is.

Hell, I’ve got a 2016 budget-model chromebook that still feels quick and snappy that way.

It’s not a fallacy if the slope actually is slippery.

and it had Turbo button, which did absolutely nothing

These old ‘turbo’ buttons actually did do something – they limited your CPU clock speed.

Because some old games (and perhaps other software) relied on counting CPU cycles for timing the game. The faster your CPU, the faster the game would run, and the faster things in the game would happen. When CPUs got too fast for this, such games became unplayable because everything was happening in such fast-forward speed that the player could never hope to keep up. The counter-intuitively named ‘turbo’ button would bridge a jumper on the motherboard and change your CPU clock speed to a lower value, slowing it down so these old style games could still run at a reasonable, playable pace.

Ironically enough, the ‘turbo’ button made your PC slower.

(Personally, I think turbo buttons are due for a comeback, but as fan control options. Use a ‘turbo’ button to switch between fan control profiles – turbo off for quiet profile, turbo on for maximum performance profile.)

Sorry, I just wanted more RAM.

Use with caution.

Back in the day, I used this multiple times. It was all good fun at first, but after a few dozen times, something went wrong involving a black hole and the destruction of the universe. And what’s worse, after I rebooted the universe, I still had issues. Harambe got killed and then humanity was shunted to the bad timeline. Still looking for a fix.

Just FYI, don’t double your RAM too many times in a row without taking into account the mass-energy content of all that RAM.

Need some ridiculous and stupid rules.

• No foxes on Fridays. 30 day ban.

Don’t be an ass.

This rule is heavily biased against donkeys.

I envy you.

Eh, it will still affect you somewhat, just less directly.

You can still go to the grocery store just fine … but the truck that brought deliveries to the grocery store so you could buy them? It ran on diesel. As did the truck that delivered the food from the packing plant to the distribution center. As did the truck that delivered the food from the farm to the packing plant. As did all the tractors and other heavy equipment used on that farm. And if they all have to pay more for fuel, your groceries are going to get more expensive. If shortages get so bad that they can’t even get fuel, then you might be seeing a lot of empty shelves at the grocery store.

It’s nice to have personal independence from fossil fuels, but it’s an unfortunate fact that our society and economy as a whole are still very dependent upon fossil fuels.

Hm… Would I rather have boobies or a functioning liver…?

*Tylenol sales suddenly increase by 500%*

Even if they were to notice, a lot of people would be hesitant to acknowledge it in a professional setting.

“Hey, bro. Noticed you got tits now. What’s up with that?”

Yeah … that’s a conversation you won’t be hearing in most workplaces.

‘passed’ should be ‘past’.