How did I get this far in life without hearing that? 💀

Well, she was most likely trafficked herself. So it’s extra gross when she hides/defends others doing it.

I want to make a 2001:ASO reference so bad, with your username and the context and all, but I can’t for the life of me muster any cleverness. I also would love to know the answer. So let’s be dumb together, Dave.

Edit: Solar eclipse! Thanks someone further down the thread. Looked it up and it appears they had a 54-minute solar eclipse and 40 minutes of radio silence. Must have been amazing.

They drove a van with 90 anti-protons around the CERN campus a couple weeks back. Did you mean dark matter?

Hey stranger. I always advise a dual boot setup to start with. Use windows as your daily driver and boot into Linux to learn.

Take your time. Don’t worry about terminal stuff right away. Explore (and maybe break) things. Just don’t have anything important there at first.

Backup twice and often. Timeshift is good. Borg (Vorta) is great.

I wouldn’t start with mint. Probably an unpopular opinion. Debian is the way. It runs an older kernel and doesn’t get a ton of updates, and fairly forgiving. Great distro to start learning terminal with.

Test out desktop environments. Find one you love. Then make it home. Start messing with terminal stuff. Learn the basics. Watch YouTube a lot. Learn Linux TV is an excellent channel. Learn rsync + cron. 🐐

Then backup twice.

Start using Wine and/or Bottles to run windows apps. Learn about appimages, flatpaks, deb files, etc. Permissions is a massive must learn. FOSS is life.

Backup twice and often.

I highly recommend an atomic desktop. Fedora Kinoite is brilliant and you have to really try to break it. Plus you get KDE Plasma! But any atomic distro will do.

Backup everything twice and often.

Slowly wean yourself off windows. When you think you’re ready for the jump, don’t do it and give yourself another week. Then learn about qemu/kvm or any other virtual machine package you like. Get a windows iso file and create a windows VM. Install apps in the VM. This is where windows lives now.

When you think it’s time, backup twice, format your hard drive, install distro of choice, install apps, windows VM, and backup twice. Now you have the best of both worlds without windows having access to anything, and you’re a full fledged Linux user!

Or dont. I dont care.

Well, fuck.

Interesting night indeed.

3.5ish hours till Trumps 8pm Eastern deadline.

It’s going to be an interesting night.

*gems

It’s the first post on his truth social account, which I won’t link here.

It’s still there.

US “Intelligence” would be more of an antonym than an oxymoron. You were right!

BTW, you seem smart AND nice. Us non-US folk are very happy when your kind pop up. It gives us hope for you. 🖖

True. I should have said ironic. But oxymoron is a fun term to toss around.

It’s an oxymoron any way you put it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor?wprov=sfla1

Heads up. I think you meant to reply but made a new comment.

Well there’s a fun Wikipedia hole for me to fall into. Thanks!

“Preferences? Yes, I would prefer this not to look like ass, please.”

💀

Stop it you two. Things are bad enough. We don’t need the Swedes and the Finns agreeing. Nothing good can come of it.

I god damned near choked to death. Brilliant.

It again.

I should have known. lol. Thank you.