Yeah, part of the reason I like open-source. The devs don’t need to sell you anything, so they can just tell you that what they made is a steaming pile of garbage.

What do call an ork wearing jeans?

The German anthem starts with “Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit”.

Thanks, I cringed.

Somehow that sign saying “CAUTION! Low Bridge Clearance 15ft. Large Trucks Prohibited” cracks me up the most.

A few years ago, I was working in a warehouse for a couple months and had a colleague who worked there around the same time. We were working together pretty much all the time.

One day when we were bored out of our minds, we were telling random stories from our lives and she was like, back in middle school we would bully our teacher, that was great.

I was genuinely speechless. I wanted to rebut something, but yeah, just genuinely appalled that she would tell that with such pride, too. But also really confused that she would tell it to a guy who’s been bullied all his life, seemingly expecting me to celebrate the bullying.

I did eventually forgive her, because clearly she was just a fucking dumbass tugging along in the bullying and did not actually see the targets to initiate the bullying. But it took until our last day there that I understood the extent of it.

We were helping two folks and I was the tallest among us four while we had to stack packages up high, so I was putting in extra effort to not slow us down and I was sweating.
Anyone with a brain would have been thankful towards me, but not those folks. They had to bolster their lack of self-esteem by punching down, by mocking me for sweating.

And yeah, this time it was my lady friend who was speechless. I think that’s when she understood that I was a target. That she should’ve been bullying me all along, since she enjoys it so much.
But she’s also this really sporty girl, so she really did not understand the problem with sweating. Nor this whole fucking situation. I feel like that’s when she put together how fucking dumb bullying is.

But I could also tell that she was trying to side with me, which was probably a novel situation for her entirely, to have to defend against bullies. I still remember her eyes shifting back and forth as she was trying to put all these thoughts together and rebut something. Bless her.

Yeah, if I had planned it better, I could’ve cooked quinoa or lentils or something while I’m chopping the bell pepper. 🙃

somewhat logical, but entirely in practice verb-noun command structure.

That’s supposed to be “impractical”, not “in practice”, for others reading along.

For example, the “proper” command to list a directory is: Get-ChildItem
The “proper” command to fetch a webpage is: Invoke-WebRequest https://example.com/

In these particular cases, they do have aliases defined, so you can use ls, dir and curl instead, but …yeah, that’s still generally what the command names are like.

It’s partially more verbose than C#, which is one of the most verbose programming languages out there. I genuinely feel like this kind of defeats the point of having a scripting language in the first place, when it isn’t succinct.
Like, you’re hardly going to use it interactively, because it is so verbose, so you won’t know the commands very well. Which means, if you go to write a script with Powershell, you’ll need to look up how to do everything just as much as with a full-fledged programming language. And I do typically prefer the better tooling of a full-fledged programming language…

Yesterday, I had made a salad with bell pepper and green beans for dinner and figured, I should add a protein. First thought was white beans, which I decided against, because bean-on-bean action seemed perhaps a bit too samey.

So, I look over my counter and see tofu …which is also beans.
Oh, I also have these chewy soy chunks …which is also beans.

I ended up putting cashews into my salad. 😅

I guess, it would’ve been fine to pick one of the bean options after all, but yeah, just had a mild existential crisis when I wanted to not eat beans for once.

I just want to say that you’re probably worrying too much about it. Of course, there is lots of things one can do to improve security (which the others here are listing dutifully) and it is foolish to just assume that one’s computer is entirely secure, because as a user, you will always have the ability to bypass that.

But there’s a pretty firm consensus in the IT industry that Linux is more secure than Windows. And that the popular Linux distributions are more trustworthy organizations than Microsoft.

So, it’s good to inform yourself, but if you survived on Windows, you at least should not worry about the Linux side of things. It’s more than fine.

I kind of love the idea of the ternary operator. C is all about being a procedural language, except this is of course a lie, because it does have mathematical expressions.

But then they realized that it’s not just mathematical expressions where being purely procedural is kind of shit, so they wanted to introduce if-else expressions.

But oh no, we can’t have it look like the if-else control flow element. This is where madness functional programming lies. Let’s make it look like a mathematical expression instead, by choosing the ugliest syntax known to man.

But what really makes it a meme is that other languages decided they needed to look like C, so they copied this terrible design and even though JavaScript has almost nothing to do with C anymore, webdevs in particular get to suffer from the unreadable syntax all the more.

Having recently found out I might be allergic to wheat, I also have to say I’d rather have “gluten-free” printed on the most ridiculous products than to not be quite sure. You would not believe in how many products, there’s some form of wheat (which in particular also includes barley and spelt).

For example, I bought some vinegar recently and then saw that it contains barley malt syrup. I guess, my assumption was wrong that wheat isn’t a liquid. But I’m not even sure, if that one would be covered by “gluten-free” either.

Mint’s desktop environment, Cinnamon, is technically based on GNOME Shell (i.e. a fork of it), but we’re not just talking “pretty heavily modified”. In many ways, it’s its own thing now and you can’t really assume things to work similarly.

But then what is the joke?

I have never heard of this software before, but 13 years ago sounds like it didn’t survive the shift towards smartphones.

Basically, in the 2000s, most people looked at webpages through desktop computers or laptops, which had a certain screen size at minimum.
Many of these webpage builder programs therefore just had you placing boxes on a grid which was roughly that minimum size, allowing your page to be viewed on any screen with the same or larger size.

Then smartphones happened and had a significantly smaller screen size. While it theoretically still works to build a webpage for the smallest screen size, the size difference is just far too big for it to still be ergonomic on desktop.

All of web development at that point switched from fixed pixel sizes to a rule-based approach that would allow for different layouts based on screen size.
And in particular for these webpage builder programs, this was a significant step up in complexity, because you needed to come up with some intuitive UI for users to enter these rules. I imagine, most of these programs never got updated to support the new paradigm and it was rather newly implemented programs that took their spot.

One thing to understand here is that it mostly depends on the “desktop environment”, which is basically the GUI of the system. (Imagine you could have the Windows XP GUI on a Windows 11 PC. Or the macOS GUI on a Windows 11 PC.)

Distros intended for desktop use will typically come with a certain desktop environment by default, so to some degree, you can talk about the distro, but yeah, there’s just gonna be a strong correlation with their default desktop environment.

To my knowledge, GNOME and (recent/Wayland versions of) KDE have good support. Most comments here imply these two desktop environments, so for example Ubuntu, Fedora and POP!_OS are typically GNOME, whereas Kubuntu and Nobara are typically KDE.

Some folks here also mention Linux Mint and LMDE working well, which use the Cinnamon desktop environment, so I guess that works well, too. Cinnamon is somewhat based on GNOME.
Well, and Elementary OS’s whole shtick is its Pantheon desktop environment, which is also based on GNOME.

So, basically, as Elementary’s Pantheon is its own thing, there’s no guarantee that it’ll work, but I would not be surprised.
As someone else already said, you can use a Linux Live USB to try it out before installing. You should be able to just follow along the installation instructions of Elementary OS and shortly before you actually install things, you should find yourself in Pantheon and can try it out.

I’m guessing the whole texture was created on a CRT screen. The artist obviously had the shading skills, where they could’ve faded the eyes red-to-grey, but well, there was no need to.

I mean, we did also end up in the timeline, where conserving the planet Earth is somehow the progressive stance, even though the Earth was kind of important in the past, too. So, I think it’s rather that these labels are nonsense, and conservatives just allude to a (fictional) past when it fits their preferred narrative.

Okay, well, maybe you could’ve told me then. I had to find that out myself…

Ah, in that case, I have a lifehack for you, too. You can actually buy instant spaghetti smoothie in the store. Just mix the powder with water and it’s done. The brand is called “Flour”.