One change of clothes for a 2-week trip… now that’s a man’s man!

Twitter/X should be called Twix and a tweet should be a twext.

I’m embarrassingly proud of this.

“Somebody disagreed with me! Conservatives are a persecuted class just like Christians and black people and those other races!”

subtle Buckaroo

True - remember Windows phones? Me neither.

If you debloat Win10 and 11 your system will run better. Debloaters are aggressive to differing degrees (I recommend Chris Titus), but a lot of things are turned on by default that shouldn’t be - like the Xbox service when you don’t have an Xbox - using resources for no reason.

True, even user-friendly Linux distros have their pain points. The real difference between Linux and corporate OS products is that you don’t periodically need a new version because of a product churn schedule.

Slaves have owners, prison convicts don’t.

Slaves are kidnapped from their homes, having done nothing wrong, shipped somewhere and sold like cattle in markets to whoever wants to buy them. Convicts aren’t.

Prison sentences have limits - an individual convict could happen have a life sentence, but that’s not a characteristic of prison. Most convicts have a future parole date when their sentence will end. Slaves don’t - their fate is up to the whim of their owner. If there is a fixed end date then they aren’t slaves, they’re indentured servants.

Indentured servitude would be a more appropriate term for prison labor - so why not use that? Because it doesn’t sound as serious? “Slavery” has more impact? Sure, it sounds like a stronger point is being made, but “sounds better” isn’t a good reason. People who insist on attaching the slavery label to prison labor are the ones who should be justifying themselves.

COVerts?

I bet somebody’s done it. There are people in the Linux world who dedicate themselves to getting it to run on anything - a TV, a toaster…

But it would probably be a lot easier to just run Linux on a Raspberry Pi or something and use the TV as a monitor.

Yes, having an owner is what the word itself hinges on. The imagery and emotion that go with it aren’t a handy colorful Post-It to stick on something else.

Grandpa knew things. Apparently so did grandma.

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Good things about Hitler:

1. He killed Hitler.

On reddit I was once literally told to go fuck myself for saying it was a nice day. There are psychotic people everywhere, and I really do agree the solution is just to block them. When someone’s comment to me consists of “You’re an idiot” or some other insult, I generally block them. And no, that’s not how I comment.

Someone will see ANYTHING as an attack on the internet. The default interpretation is, “How can this comment be an offense against me and everything I believe in?”

That would be nothing new. After Bonespurs pretty much disemboweled the Republican Party we really had an opportunity to get a solid progressive wave going. The trick is people have to show up.

Name-calling - a time-honored way to win any argument. Respect!

Slaves have owners, but call it flapjacks or pudding or whatever makes you feel like a keyboard justice warrior.

Having a good laugh now and then really makes the money roll in!