I’ve just installed Fedora. Apart from some installer wonkiness (tbf in Windows) that would totally put off casual adopters it’s been fine and I don’t have to fiddle with anything.

Or just stay up North to save a train ticket.

Stop it! I’ve had enough “want to feel old?” for one day and it’s barely gone 9.

Dad?

I remember when I was supposed to be impressed that it was 11:11:11 on 11/11 11 as long as you just ignore the great big 20 in the year.

This made me think of the YouTuber who takes his cat for canoe rides.

In Britain they tend to count the variant spellings as different names - I’ve worked places with so many Mohammeds they went by their middle names.

Wait until they get to the end of level one and have to turn the tape over and press play.

Yeah, but if Microsoft spy on your work machine that’s the company’s problem. I still have to use Visual Studio, but not for anything out of work.

There’s barely anything you “need” Windows for anymore. Especially as something like 99% of most people’s PC usage is web (including cloud-hosted Office type apps).

It’s never going to be as funny as Americans hearing us talk about “smoking fags” though, is it?

Uncle Monty meme

In “How To With John Wilson” he finds an actual Avatar fan group who like to dress up as blue aliens, but it still felt super niche for a multi billion dollar film series. It’s like everyone simply forgets about it when there’s not one on in cinemas.

I use Arch by the way.

Translation?

So many basic pages are still done as an SPA when they’d work fine as a postback form. It’s infuriating, but web development is rife with magic hammers.

I built an internal tool that works with or without js turned on, but web devs want something simple for them with a framework, which is why you have to download 100Mb just for a basic form page.

Dunno. I’ve only used laptops in the last few years so I guess it’s just whoever now.

Funny, sometimes I wake up in the night and think about work because I know people like this maintain my livelihood at their whim.

This result is quite an achievement with the immense global soft power of US cultural institutions like Hollywood buoying it up.