GreatAlbatross

Always strange how enthusiastic friends from the americas are about dogging, cottaging, and double-fisting.

Let’s just hope that it doesn’t end up like Snowpiercer!

Looks like a lovely place to relax after a long day asking people for heroin money.

“We realised we could use the same neural pathways that rabies does. Isn’t it lovely when nature saves a large corporation development money?”

I love Mint for this reason.

When my OS works well enough that I don’t even have to think about it day to day, it’s doing its job.

Yep. Damn Wizards infiltrated the UK commercial media a decade ago, and they never left.

It’s a balance to hit in article sharing communities too.
Too much leniency, and you just end up with people posting DMG articles, and tiny un-sourced blogs with snazzy titles.
Too tough, and you end up spending your entire life justifying why various borderline sources are not suitable.

imperial measurements have been legally defined in reference to SI units for decades

This is the important bit.
Effectively, we are metric, but display things using the old units sometimes.

And you sometimes get people ordering lumber for the first time giving bad reviews because they feel they’ve been cheated out of some wood.

I just assume I’ll do 45.45 MPG, then I’m pleasantly surprised when the fuel bill is lower than expected.

I end up doing a lot of lazy maths, and remembering rough numbers.

45MPG? That’s about 10 miles per litre.
8 inches? Eh, 20cm.

Anything remotely technical, I convert everything to metric (and actually take the time do accurately).
Having the inch-fractions to mm table on the back of a ruler is very useful when using old drill bits and spanners.

I still don’t get why my laptop shipped with BIOS raid enabled.
It only has one drive!

There is nothing wrong with using things that “just work” when you need them to.
Same reason people buy Toyota and Honda.
My life has enough chaos to handle, without starting my day faffing with Arch for no good reason.

It’s reminding me of the 3rd party utility apps on the Apple Store.

They seem to have ditched “limited features for free” in favour of “nothing at all until you subscribe, first 7 days free”

It feels a bit like when a company has been taken over by a VC firm.
And you start finding out how they’re going to suck the juice out, while all the management involved in the decision pretend it’s all rosy.

And did you know if you were caught and you were Smoking crack,
McDonald’s wouldn’t even want to take you back
You could always just run for mayor of D.C.​

You take the green USB, it’s Ventoy.
You click the wrong option in the list, and suddenly it’s GParted.

2 days later, squiddy will be buying the books. Ideal christmas gift for your parents!

You don’t understand though, by being visionaries who disregard accepted margins of safety, they lowered the cost per (attempted) launch by almost 3%!