Yeah, I mentioned fish, or zsh, only because day to day shell and scripting shell can be different.

If you want to script, bash is the way to go. For day to day, any personal preference is fine.

As you’ve mentioned in other threads, bash is a hard requirement for the OS, so if it’s already installed, and the default on most Linux distros, bash is probably the best option.

The dash shell isn’t designed to be user interactive. It’s a lightweight scripting shell/language.

The ksh shell is an older standard shell. Years ago I worked for a company that ran corporate Unix systems and on those systems only ksh and tcsh were available. Ksh was the default, and as someone only familiar with bash it was a bit different but mostly the same. So there is at least one point for maybe choosing ksh.

However my personal shell preference is zsh. When I write scripts I do so using bash. The two shells are 99% similar on a day to day basis, but I prefer zsh for a user interface. So I use one for day to day and the other for scripting.

Other threads have also mentioned fish, which is also a great choice if you don’t know where to start.

Are zsh or fish “heavier” or “bloated”, maybe. But remember to consider your attack surface. If your house is on fire it doesn’t matter of you fix the leaky faucet in bathroom or the kitchen.

To quote Jeopardy host Ken Jennings,

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Since we’re stuck with the two parties at the moment it’ll need to be a Democrat.

Mark Kelly has mentioned interest and seems to be willing to fight back, so I’m leaning towards him at the moment.

But it’s early so I’m open to candidates who meet the first requirement.

Wait…

I’m also not sure how you watch Better Call Saul without having seen Breaking Bad. It’s like watching Wicked having never seen The Wizard of Oz. Sure, you can do it, but a number of scenes, especially in the final season, don’t really make sense of you don’t know Saul’s story from Breaking Bad.

Also if you’re going to watch Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, while not a TV show, the El Camino film is worth watching as well. It’s a nice Breaking Bad epilogue that we didn’t need, but is well done and worth your time.

Phone call someone and during the split screen physically jump into their side of the call.

In contrast, Linux won’t stop you if you try to use a command that deletes every file on your PC (“sudo rm -rf /”).

Actually AFAIK it will stop that specific command nowadays. I don’t have a VM handy to test, but without the “–no-preserve-root” flag it should give an error.

(Don’t actually run that command on a machine you care about, I’m only 80% confident.)

Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?

Google will pull it as soon as Apple does, they’re a follower not a leader.

That’s why I find it important to look at both critic and user reviews. If they agree, they’re probably right. If they disagree things get interesting.

If critics liked it, but audiences disliked it, it’s probably technically good but boring. If critics disliked it, but audiences liked it, it’s probably kinda bad but exciting.

Both are also affected by social media, especially user scores, so if “the Internet” hates/loves something if can be unfairly inflated/deflated.

New, but not brand new, films also usually have a more accurate score. I enjoyed The Godfather, so I would rate it positively, but if I didn’t like it I’m probably not rating it at all. I saw it X years ago and unless it was absolutely terrible or I have a vivid memory of disliking it, I’m just going to ignore it.

The one in the bathroom or any sink?

Mirrors!

It’s possibly from people trying to help, but don’t understand AI hallucinations.

For example a Wikipedia article might say, “John Smith spent a year Oxford University before moving to London.[Citation Needed]” So the article already contains information, but lacks proper citation.

Someone comes along and says, "Ah ha! AI can solve this and asks AI, ‘Did John Smith spend a year at Oxford before moving to London, please provide citations.’ and the AI returns, “Yes of course he did according to the book ‘John Smith: Biography of a Man’ ISBN 123456789”

So someone adds that as a citation and now Wikipedia has been improved.

Or… has it? The ISBN 123456789 is invalid. No book could possibly have that number. If the ISBN is invalid, then the book is also likely invalid, and the citation is also invalid.

So the satisfaction was someone who couldn’t previously help Wikipedia, now thinking they can help Wikipedia. At face value that’s a good thing, someone who wants to help Wikipedia. The problem is that they think they’re helping, but they’re actually harming.

The cable is fiber optic, which is to say light. Light don’t care about gold and silver. The highly polished lens bit is probably also bullshit, but at least light cares about lenses.

Genuine question, has your opinion changed now that the singer has died? In no way, shape or form is the person who sang the music benefiting in any way from you listening to it.

People often say to separate the art from the artist. In an acting role I kinda get it, because an actor is playing a different character. For music, it’s kinda the same. The music is its own thing separate from the person. Maybe?

Turns out I was wrong, Lightstorm Entertainment is who produces the film and owns the Avatar production technology, and that company is owned by James Cameron.

It’s Fox who does the distribution, and Fox’s parent company is of course Disney.

So Cameron is just waiting for it to be an actual success before announcing the sequels (although they seem to already have release dates.)

Avatar 2 & 3 shot together (or back to back) and that’s the same plan for Avatar 4 & 5, so waiting a few weeks isn’t really a big deal. Plus various planning is already underway, so it’ll really just be an “announcement” that everyone expects.

Above is a photo of Barbara Streisand.

The Streisand effect describes a situation where an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information results in the unintended consequence of the effort instead increasing public awareness of the information.

Publicly Cameron has been saying he is going to wait and see how 3 does before he announces 4 and 5. He likely has the money to self finance them, although they are expensive films, like some of the most expensive films, so it’s really probably Disney or whomever who is waiting.

I think if it bombed completely, he might have paused and made some changes to the upcoming films before moving forward.

But in the long run 4 and 5 are probably getting made regardless.

The second and third paragraphs outline it in terms of box office, but it’s basically good. The Christmas holiday season is also different when looking at films and their opening weekend. People are more likely to wait and see a film at/around Christmas proper, aka this upcoming week. The lower review scores might cause a slightly lower turnout, but most people know what to expect and probably aren’t dissuaded.

Will Avatar 3 break box office records? Probably not. Will it make enough money that James Cameron will get to make Avatar 4 & 5? Likely.

No six months to a year is probably about right. They’ll have enough data by then to say “most people don’t turn it off” because realistically most people will use the default, which is on.

Twenty years from now Firefox will be in a new controversy that we can’t even begin to guess.

Plus, while I can’t predict when the AI bubble will pop, whatever they add in the next year will be removed within the next five years. AI isn’t like browser tabs, or extensions, stuff that will always be a great idea, it’s just the current fad.