There’s this amazing invention; it’s called “wash your vegetables”.

You’re going to have to explain this convoluted logic to your grandchildren when they ask you why you voted for genocide.

If we can’t get rid of the electoral college entirely, electors should at least be proportional. For example, if Kamala Harris gets 25% of a state’s votes and Trump gets 74%, then Harris should get 25% of the electors from that state (instead of zero).

So, what do you think is happening in Palestine? In Lebanon?

Maybe it’s not very addictive for you. It is for most people.

The way you are with coffee is the way I am with nicotine. I’ve smoked. I’ve quit smoking. I’ve started again. The most craving I’ve gotten for a cigarette was incredibly mild. Once I read that nicotine could trigger certain diseases that run in my family, I quit tobacco completely and I’ve never looked back. I haven’t had a cigarette in about 18 years, and quitting was trivially easy for me.

Based on this, I could say “Cigarettes aren’t very addictive. They’re easy to quit!” And of course, I’d be dead wrong.

Really? There aren’t updates with new features that you look forward to? Ever?

Garuda. It’s an Arch derivative that creates a snapshot of your system every time you update. That way, if the update breaks something, you can just roll your system back to the last working snapshot.

A surgeon can have a little fun as a treat.

If you don’t like it, don’t use fork Ventoy.

Where did I say that I wasn’t going to vote? I’m voting Green. If there’s a good Democrat running for Congress, I’ll vote for them, too. This isn’t complicated.

I live in a blue state. Using that same logic, my vote for a Democrat is a wasted vote, because my state is going to go blue whether I vote for them or not.

I read a biography of Stallman several years ago. The whole free software movement was an attempt to preserve the early hacker culture where everybody freely swapped code. So, Stallman didn’t really “invent” FOSS; he just codified that early hacker ethos.

What was minix then? A non FOSS version?

It wasn’t FOSS, but then neither was Linux originally.

Wait…you think those are intuitive? Fuck no.

Who’s going to intuitively know that “long hand pointing at 2” means “10 minutes after the hour”? Also, having the long hand for minutes is super unintuitive when hours are longer than minutes.

GNOME + Debian

Into the trash it goes.

Were you asleep the first time he was in office? Read Project 2025. That’s what they plan on doing if he gets elected.

Nobody wants Hillary to run. Not even Hillary.

Doing things the hard way doesn’t make you smarter.

Yeah, same, but I always set my editor to insert spaces instead when I hit Tab, so that the spacing won’t be different in other environments.

You’re always going to see people with problems in support forums. If your Linux system is running well, you’re less likely to post about it than if you’re having problems.