For those who haven’t studied relativity, this thought experiment is great at showing the “Relativity of Simultaneity”.

The only way the doors can shut from the pole vaulter’s reference frame is if they close at different times. The exit door opens and shuts first, before the tip of the pole has gone beyond it (otherwise it would hit the door, obviously), and then later, only once the back end of the pole has cleared the entrance door, does it close.

Nvidia Shield - The Android update (from 9 to 10, iirc) turned mine into a sluggish, unresponsive piece of crap. I ended up downgrading back to Android 9 and blocked the update servers in my router.

Switch Joycons - This might be a placebo, but I swear that every second Joycon update completely messes with their ability to connect to the tablet via the rails. They still disconnect every once in a while, but I’m certain that some versions of the Joycon firmware made my Switch completely unusable in portable mode.

Nobody’s said Me and Bobby McGee yet?

In intermediate, there was a guy who was always a massive dick to me, but we had a mutual friend and were in the same house so we interacted far more than I would have liked.

Turns out he fucking killed someone.

This is my favourite lyric in any song ever.

It’s from Death or Glory by The Clash, for those who don’t know.

I’ve tried some weird and wonderful partition schemes in the past, but I think I’ve settled down and just go for simplicity. Half a gig for /boot, and the rest for / (in ext4). I’ve tried btrfs, but I’ve never been in the position where I needed snapshots, and ext4 is a lot more simple.

I also like having the flexibility of not having a separate home partition. I back up my super important files, so it doesn’t matter if I lose home (not that I distrohop much anymore, anyway). And I don’t have to stress about whether I’ve made my root partition big enough. For the same reason I use a swapfile rather than a swap partition (though I do need to look in to zram and zswap) - I like knowing that I can resize it easily, even if I don’t really plan on doing so.

Hannibal

I enjoyed Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs, but I just couldn’t get over how hamfisted the series was with the whole “It’s gory, but isn’t it bEaUtIfUl?!” thing. I don’t normally like using the word “pretentious” as criticism, but I can’t think of any other word to describe it.

As long as you’re happy, I guess.

Any reasonably modern, well maintained desktop distro should be fine; whether they’re “for gaming” or not shouldn’t matter. I’ve successfully run WoW on both Debian Stable and Arch.

I’ve had similar thoughts, too, but as I get older, being extremely fat just isn’t something I can continue doing. Having back pain and requiring a nap every day after work just ruined my quality of life too much, and I’m only in my early 30s.

This clearly isn’t true though, otherwise there wouldn’t be so much FOSS software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_software_packages

Buy never software

Okay… I hate taxes too, but how else do you propose we pay for things like roads?

Poes Law very much applies, but I’m pretty sure Conservapedia is a troll. Just look at their list of “Greatest Conservative Songs”.

Either “I hate poor people but I love weed” or “I’m lying because my actual views would scare people off”.

Never. I exclusively use my left thumb for the space bar, too.

I could probably type faster if I fixed those issues, but 30 years of bad habits die hard.

Manchester United Football Club

What is possible is to use the bicycle to bypass smaller walls, which means that the AI is linking the two together, which is actually scary and shows, perhaps, tiny glimpses into future AGI.

I have no love for AI, but whoever wrote this article has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about. This simply isn’t a thing in the OG Pokemon games.

I really need to stop being lazy and swap to Jellyfin…

If you’re buying a PC that doesn’t have the specs to run Windows 11, you’re probably only using it for web browsing tasks anyway. I’d wager that many of them wouldn’t even notice that they’re using a different OS.