Definitely going on my list of “memes you can hear” … Or at least we olds can.

Cowboy caviar

I think we’re only missing Wham! Last Christmas for my nightmare list from working retail.

Well, and anything from the Amy Grant Xmas album, but that’s my dad’s fault.

Oh wait, can’t forget Christmas shoes… (Shudders involuntarily).

They have some very premium brands as well, that definitely deserve praise: hardin’s creek, little book especially.

Anything labeled Jim beam is swill to meh (except Lineage, but you’ll never see that on a shelf). The old grandad (bonded or 114) line is bang/buck.

Love it. Gives a new meaning to JBOD too: junk box of disks!

Hey, you forgot his most important qualification: children’s book author.

Drei bier ist auch ein schnitzel und dann hast du nichts getrunken.

Three beers are also a schnitzel and then you drank nothing.

I don’t speak German, but this phrase spoke to me.

I was going to buy the Lego Star Trek enterprise, but it was sold out before I got there. Oh well, they saved me from myself with artificial supply restrictions.

Instead, I didn’t buy anything.

Absolutely.

This irony, however, is delicious.

For sure.

I am excited to see more arm-based Linux devices for consumers. And the Snapdragon-based VR is exciting on that front.

It definitely won’t change anything for tomorrow or next year, but it does make me hopeful that better support is in the relatively near future.

It’s beautiful!

Missed opportunity for jazz.

I run Bazzite and Garuda (with the cachyos kernel). Only the Garuda box is Nvidia and has been great since kde+Wayland+Nvidia stabilized a year or so ago.

I think any of them (including cachyos) is a good choice. Optimization is diminishing returns, so I’d be looking for a distro with the default settings and tools I like as a much higher priority.

For example, I like Garuda’s btrfs with automatic checkpoints on upgrade so I can just send a garuda update (which is pacman Syu with bells and whistles) and almost ignore the output even when I get lazy and don’t update for a month. Don’t take this as a recommendation to ignore updates on an arch-based distro. There will eventually be consequences.

With bazzite, updates really are in the same class because of the immutable base. But I’m also deep into containers and have no issue with the ergonomics of layering and management, which are improving, but definitely not very newbie friendly.

Anyway, give them test drives. You’d be surprised how much changing a package manager can impact your ability to do things for a while if you aren’t familiar.

While that is true, Democrats get to campaign against Republicans using it. They can say things like “we fought for you last year and Republicans finally gave in; now they’re taking it away for good.”

Granted, without actually feeling the pain, and knowing it was Democrats that proposed the new end date, it rings a bit hollow, but I’m no political marketing person.

Same.

We’re quickly spiraling into a Star Trek evil timeline origin.

TRS-80 then IBM PCjr here. Both hand-me-downs though.

Mom wouldn’t let me on the 386 until I could touch-type and write a program in BASIC. She was a Cobol and IBM RPG programmer.

“Vexillophile” is a word you probably won’t ever need again.

Omg thank you for the money!

It will depend on where you live.

Many US states have laws that carve out exceptions for work done on your own time and equipment. If the contact doesn’t call these out as exceptions somewhere, it’s a lazy contact.

Layers, intentional or not.

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