I’m sure a lot of semiconductors can be explained via “Help, step bro, I am stuck!”

I’ve never seen an octopus spell “no” either. Presumably due to Black Swan effect.

To be fair, pelted by silt and rocks is the actual no - octopi can’t speak.

“We’re off to fix the shitter…
This wonderful shitter of ours”

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Love Dark Side of the Moon. Best Rush album ever. Plus, James Hetfields vocals on Stairway to Heaven remains unmatched today, 25 years later.

Same

You’ve never had to bike over to a friend’s house 8km away to download a modem driver and copy it onto a floppy and bike back home only to realize that the floppy had bad sectors and you had to do it all over again, and it shows.

That’s just the way network hardware has always been, regardless of OS.

Yes, but it’s easy to work around.

Source: I bought a brand new Lenovo Legion autumn 2024, and the GPU needed a very recent nvidia driver, which in turn needed a newer kernel than what was available by default. I had to install a mainline kernel, and download nvidia driver from their site. Took maybe 30 minutes to get it up and running properly.

One can argue that Linux Mint isn’t that up to date. But in my opinion, it’s up to date enough.

It’s new enough that you’re not living in the digital medieval era, and at the same time, any software installed is for the most part mature, well tested, and stable. And I find that more important than bleeding edge versioning.

And on the few occasions where I need something newer than what can be found in the standard repos, there’s always the option of building from git or adding additional sources.

I’ve been a linux user off and on in varying capacity since the 90s, combined with some FreeBSD, but linux was only a secondary OS on my desktop until I made the complete switch once I saw the trajectory of Windows 8.

Mint reminds me of how Windows 7 was designed: Simply a good OS.

Where did xmms go, by the way?

I’d tell you a joke about brown dwarves, but it’s kinda dark…