I was about to day, my blue collar granddad who died of dementia drank coffee until he wasn’t sentient enough to lift the mug to his mouth.

No Duh?!

Okay, he was 6’5" and she was 5’2".

TNG is at its best when:

• Picard is learning the shit out of a situation.
• Picard is pontificating about right and wrong; Picard’s got absolutely no declination on his moral compass.
• Data and Geordi are solving the sensor readings. These are often my personal favorite.
• Some alien character is being more human than usual for them. Spock is the classic, Data, Troi, Worf and even Q get it in TNG, on Voyager it was Doctor or Seven; the human adjacent character looking in toward humanity from the edge.
• Something horrifying is going on. TNG and TOS before it leaned farther into horror than people give it credit for.

For awhile there, PPAs were the reason to stick with Ubuntu as a base, because the .deb package format was (and still is) very popular, and PPAs allowed fairly easy distribution of software without dealing with the standard repository. Flatpak has kind of solved that problem by now, and so like you say defuckulating Ubuntu is just getting to be a bigger and bigger chore.

Which is why LMDE exists.

Wasn’t Google Assistant named Iris at one point? Or was Iris a different thing that was announced, rolled out, and then canceled like basically everything else they’ve ever done?

It is my understanding that pull requests say “Hey, I forked and modified your project. Look at it and consider adopting my changes in your project.” So anyone who wants to look at the “experimental stuff” can just pull that fork. Someone in charge of the main branch decides if and when to merge pull requests.

The problem becomes the volume of requests; they’re kinda getting DDOS’d.

I have no hands on experience with Elegoo’s printers, I have a pair of Arduino Uno clones with their brand on it though, and they aren’t bad.

Printables belongs to Prusa, so, below average enshittification rate?

Prusas are expensive but they fucking work.

They don’t seem to be aware they’re delicious with barbecue sauce.

Ticks. Because disease parasites.

I touch type on QWERTY with a few variations from the standard. For example, I use right shift seldom, to type a capital A I shift my left hand over, hold shift with my little finger and strike A with my ring finger. the Y key I type with either hand depending on what else is going on with my hands at the time, and the rules I follow I don’t even understand, so most of those ergonomic split keyboards are no good for me. I don’t know if I type 6 or B correctly, I use the right hand for both.

I was given typing tutor programs as a child, I took a keyboarding class in 9th grade, in fact I was in that class when the planes hit the towers. My typing proficiency really came from Yahoo! and MSN. Turns out, teens will pick up a skill on their own if it’s useful for socializing with other teens.

Tarheel here: The lottery was illegal in this state until fairly recently. Old North at least once had a thing against gambling.

or /dev/urandom?

I think I have to do categories:

Hottest competency porn: Jean-Luc Picard. I love how in Darmok he learns the shit out of this situation. Nobody can figure out how to talk to these aliens, he spends a weekend with one and then he struts onto the bridge and speaks fluently to them.

Manliest conversation: Worf and Data. In Gambit, when Acting Captain Data repremand Acting First Officer Worf for essentially insubordination, Worf accepts the dressing down, and then Data checks in on a personal level with Worf to make sure there are no hard feelings. Worf admits he was at fault and they agree to still be friends. Manliest conversation ever filmed.

Goodest Boi: Porthos.

Hottest Chick: Quark

Well, my experience with Meshtastic is: Make the shittiest least finished chat app you can think of, and then give it a range most efficiently measured in inches.

Instead of using Meshtastic, just raise your voice a little, then you don’t have to spend money on shitty little Chinese-made circuit boards.

Yeah I consider the bridge burned; their install media maker .exe thing doesn’t run on Linux so I Just Can’t Help You Install Windows Anymore^TM.

The best kind of true.

I am in the wrong goddamn business, I need to be selling $9,000 kettle cords to music morons.