I used to work in an outbound call center. Worst job I’ve ever had, but that’s beside the point.

There is a surprisingly common surname that’s spelt “Cockburn” but pronounced “Cou burn” (Like Coat, but no T)

Nobody told me this until I was halfway through the list, which was several dozen names long.

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While it is theoretically true that you can turn one distro into another, in practice it’s not worth it. It’s the same thing as trying to sell someone on “you never need to reboot to apply updates or fix things.” Ye, technically true, but unless you’re maintaining huge corporate servers where downtime is measured in dollars, 9 times out of 10, it’s just easier to reboot and see if it fixes the issue. And yes, it will often still fix the issue.

The reason for distro hopping etc is because picking a distro is essentially choosing your defaults/ideology/character alignment. There are no wrong answers. Just go with what feels right. Newbies should distro hop to see how they align, experienced users should do it for fun and to see if a different way suits them better.

We should be herding beginners towards beginner friendly distros so they don’t run into a cliff of a learning curve, but which specific one is basically arbitrary.

As for your other examples: Don’t let your dreams be dreams. You can 100% use batocera as server if you like, it’s entirely possible. You’re just going to have to dedicate a shitload of time coercing into a server shape… but nothing’s stopping you

If this doesn’t exist, someone should get on it because that sounds amazing!

more humane than they deserve tbh

I have a better idea. There’s only like 3000 - 3400 billionaires. Let’s just put them all on an uninhabited island, and bomb that instead! Wouldn’t even need to be a nuke to get them all!

It could be, but the game is called The End of the Sun, and has a pagan aesthetic, so using the rune for “sun” makes sense. The game logo uses the same symbol for the S in “sun” as well. It’s a lot more plausible than “Musk is just autistic” but who knows

ϟ <- that was the symbol, and they placed it twice which is the SS logo. They were apparently intending it to be on either side of another sun symbol, and the symbol itself as a rune apparently means sun or light

I can see it being an accident

I’ve been there. I know what you mean, but also, you’re essentially confirming what I’m saying. You’ve trained yourself to sleep through them, which is why you need 8. The problem is that you’re just increasing your training and making it harder and harder for yourself to wake up.

When the first one goes off and you snooze it, and go back to sleep, your body tries to start a new 3 hour cycle, but then 10 minutes later your next alarm interrupts it. That’s what that heavy, groggy brain fog is. It compounds with each alarm as well.

If you do this over an hour, you’re also robbing yourself of an hour’s worth of good quality sleep.

If you want to fix this, cancel all your alarms except the last one, and put your phone somewhere you have to get out of bed to reach. Disable snooze completely. Snooze is the enemy. Also, set a new alarm tone as your current one is now useless.

You can also get a cheap smart bulb and have it fade in to full bright at the same time as the alarm.

I also found it useful to use a Playlist or radio alarm clock.

Going forward, routine is your best friend here. I know it sucks, but stop sleeping in on your days off, and go to bed as close to the same time every night as you can.

Source: I nearly lost my job due to oversleeping. I learnt because I had to, I’m not an expert

Don’t do this. You are just training yourself to sleep through alarms

Where is this data from? I seriously doubt NZs current thumb in chief has the stones to remove his tongue from Trumps ass long enough to arrest Netanyahu

Americans will use anything but metric

Hail Satan!

Remember kids, don’t be female illegally!

Congrats op!

I’ve not seen one in the wild yet, but I will refuse to scan them. TIL I am a robot.

Also PS4 is x86, not some weird proprietary BS like PS3 was, and look how far that’s come!

Ah looks like I got the name slightly wrong. close enough

My dad used to be a police officer in South Africa. He had several interesting artifacts from his time there.

One such artifact was an unmarked black cylinder with a spray nozzle. One day after school, I had managed to get locked out of one section of the house and could only get into the kitchen and my dad’s office. (Houses in SA often have security gates inside locking off sections of the house.)

It was sitting in this office, waiting for someone else to get home and let me in that I absent mindedly started playing with this cylinder. I sprayed a small bit out. It made made a really cool heat haze effect in the air. Awesome, but what the fuck was this stuff? Well I’d just had a highschool science lesson on how to test an unknown gas… you waft it towards yourself, you do not sniff it directly. So I sprayed out a bit more and wafted it carefully towards my face…

Instant regret. My nose felt like I’d just done a netti pot of hot sauce. Eyes streaming, snot dripping.

Lesson 1 learned. Don’t play with random cylinders of mysterious chemicals.

I found out later that it was tear gas.

Hey pop quiz: What’s the worst thing you can do if you get tear gassed?

That’s correct! My dumb ass ran straight for the kitchen tap. Lesson 2. DO NOT USE WATER to clean off tear gas. I will say that I knew IMMEDIATELY that I had fucked up a second time. Felt like my entire face was on fire. Baaaad times!

Both. It’s both. It’s gives them somewhere to go, but it also highlights just how fucked up things really are.

I kinda want the opposite. I want official alerts only. NewRandomYouTubeGamerX64_L33tSauce’s opinion on “What a good price for the Steam Machine would be, and 10 reasons it won’t be that price” really doesn’t interest me. Has Valve said anything new? No? Then kindly STFU.