There are workarounds to almost every issue you may have. You can run Windows in a VM for software that requires it, or dual boot. M$ Office can be ran in a browser now. There is no reason to buy a license, just DL windows10 direct from M$ and never register, all they do is lock you out of some display options and add a watermark to your desktop.

I appreciate this as a science meme because it reflects the recursive problem with homoculi.

A paid version of Linux (almost) isn’t a thing. You can buy the install media, you can donate to a foundation, or you can subscribe for support.

If you’re paying for the software, it’s not Linux or your being cheated. That’s weird and I didn’t know that.

There is an unintended benefit to putting an obstacle between people who don’t know how to use the terminal and pasting code into it.

I am a Linux noob as far as the desktop goes. But I’m quite comfortable in the terminal because for years I’ve maintained a home server running Debian. After I install the OS, I unplug the keyboard and monitor and the only way to talk to that box is through SSH.

I went back to Windows10 so I could dual-boot with Secure Boot turned off. My system will dual boot popOS or Debian without issue. Just make sure to install windows first.

Yes, and all snakes rattle and hiss constantly. No mater the species, they can’t help themselves.

Adjusted for market, 200gold is $8M

Psychology has an embarrassing history.

Half of their studies aren’t reproducible. Their most famous study is basically a fraud. They’re behind lobotomies, the satanic panic, and Eugenics.

I’m not anti-intelectual or a Scientologist or anything. I guess what I’m trying to say is that psychologists like Jordan Peterson might want to clean up their own room before trying to lecture the rest of us.

I don’t get it. Is “tree” some kind of notation?

Down-voting because it implies Sagan behaved like a cop.

It’s not a kind of cocaine, it’s an amount of cocaine.

It lets us apply results from statistical physics to quantum field theory through a Wick rotation.

That sounds like Geordi’s plan to save the Enterprise.

People drag the Soviets for being reckless with the lives of their crews, but forget that the USA melted three men in a training exercise.

Why don’t people use Linux? Fair question. It’s because people who don’t use Linux are stupid and lazy.

Wow, galaxy brain stuff.

Helo flights are stupid common in dense urban areas. Helo crashes make news because wealthy and important people die when they crash.

Speculation is useless because the NTSB will account for every paint scratch and stripped bolt. (assuming that, the NTSB will exist and be competent post DOGE)

Had a buddy with an impressive vinyl collection and an audiophile setup. Awful taste in music, just dogshit.

Fuck yall calling drake a pdo.

This dude has been called a pedo in the Superbowl, the State of the Union, and the Gettysburg address. Let it go.

Who’s going to build these factories in the US when the tariffs are on-again off-again like a sitcom couple?

We’ve had about 9 different tariff regimes (all responding to the same “emergency”) in a little over two months. Trump thought he could ride into Tokyo on Godzilla’s shoulders only to raise a white flag out the bottom of a footprint moments later.