Aye aye.

Patrick Stewart and Jason Statham, among my favorites, show you can look gorgeous with a nice trimmed dome.

Damn, I went to read the linked post I Want to Love Linux, it Doesn’t Love Me Back and it is, indeed, a banger.

They call it “affluenza”

You could argue both ways.

On the one hand, it is of course a very good thing to use all parts of the animal you killed to the largest possible extent.

I mean, imagine killing an animal for food and then even only using the tastiest bits and throwing away the rest?

On the other hand, of course, having a market for these “waste products” potentially acts as a subsidy for the meat itself, encouraging its consumption.

I don’t know, Reiser is not a serial…

Unironically, 7zip is the best. It’s widely available, open source, and… Multithreaded. Really helps when I need to compress a few hundred gigs of experimental data at the 24 core workstation.

Yes, they help make my terminal prettier.

I’m 14 and this is deep.

Oh, sweet summer child…

Of course you can introduce all kinds of serialization and parts pairing just like you do on any other device. Below is a fairly mild example, but just look at all the bullshit John Deere is pulling on their tractor repair or the BMW where the car will intentionally malfunction if you don’t replace your battery at a dealership.

https://carnewschina.com/2024/08/08/xiaomi-su7-cannot-do-ota-due-to-changed-lights-and-owners-worry-about-flooding-their-frunk/

Fira Code is seriously awesome. I love how it is delightfully quirky. Not too much, just enough to give it plenty of character without becoming weird, annoying, or hard to read.

I also really like how it is more wide than most. If I’m supposed to finish all my lines at 80 characters there’s no point in using something that condensed.

Actually, I would really like to find a similarly non-bland proportional character to use beside it.

Not really. I lived in the Netherlands for a decade. I can promise you the Dutch don’t mind.

Actually, I think the expression “doing Dutch” fits them pretty well to this day.

I have lots of complaints about DOP/PDO, but on the other hand it has its features.

While it’s true that, to paraphrase Vesper Lynd, there is parmigiano, and there is parmigiano, and I prefer the latter kind… The worst parmigiano I can buy in EU is still damn good cheese.

Huh? Joke? On the Internet? No way.

I see here no-one has a clue and expects Italian farmers to behave like american businesses, so I’ll have to explain. The ideology of Italian farmers (and pretty much all euro farmers) is pretty ugly, but also different from your typical murican grift.

In the specific case, Parmigiano-Reggiano producers are obsessed with the idea that they are losing billions to “Italian sounding” products like american Parmesan. Which they believe are sold interchangeably.

The thing that guarantees the absence of fraudolent data is that only “legal” Parmigiano producers from the Modena-Reggio-Parma area would be allowed to enter data in the system, and your american counterfeit Parmesan would be barred. Of course such a system is blind to the fact that they themselves are likely lying about the origin of their milk, but that’s a feature, not a bug.

Unfortunately this is not even peak farmer craziness around here, but that’s a different story (the farmer parties e.g. the dutch one are really ugly).

And this is all beside the obvious fact that Parmigiano-Reggiano is indeed the finest cheese in the world, so far ahead of the Parmesan competition that no person could mistake one for the other in a blind test. And the French and Dutch can bite me.

Of course I love other people telling me what I am or am not supposed to want out of my tech. That’s why I exclusively use Apple products. Oh wait, I actually don’t.

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And BTW, this is in fact a shitty joke, because even iPhones and Pixels and Teslas actually let you set a charging limit.

It is definitely an overreaction.

The rational part was that I have to mantain his installation anyway. I have a lot of experience with KDE, and having seen trouble with GNOME from the get go, I ran back to the safe choice.

I don’t know… Friday I installed Linux on my dad’s “new” Thinkpad T495.

I tried to go with Gnome. It’s supposed to be the user friendly one, right?

First thing I want to do is change the charging limit of the battery to 80%. It’s not impossible to replace the battery, but it would be nice to not blow it too fast.

After 20m of trying and failing I switched to KDE, where the whole thing was 3 clicks.

And even if I didn’t know how to do it, the systemsettings window has a search function that will get you the right option in a split second.

Yeah, did the Chinese invent a mechanism for rapid growth of 3D printed ladies?

Because since the change in policy was 10 years ago, your 23yo chinese factory worker better like his ladies very young.

But I would also be careful attributing all the selective abortions to the OCP.

Sex ratio in live births was still something like 110% or 115% in 2020, and looked stable.

India also has a sizable sex imbalance in live births, and never had a OCP.

All the girls that just do not exist because of selective abortions?

Put in a SSD and you’ll be surprised how far it can get you.

My father is still using a 13 year old 14" Dell I gave up 6 years ago. He’s even using it with windows 10, and having a SSD it works almost bearably well. They keyboard broke, and with the laptop not being Win11 compatible, he asked for an upgrade.

I got him a 6 year old Thinkpad, but I’ll install Mint and give him a VM for the few SWs he needs Windows for.