I believe there’s some truth in both viewpoints. What you’re saying is definitely true, but there’s plenty of men who would do almost anything a beautiful woman asks for while not giving a plain woman the time of day.

As I get older I’ve grown annoyed at the power a truly beautiful woman has over me. It’s just a pretty exterior, why should she deserve different treatment than any other nice person? But my heartrate and power of speech don’t seem to agree with this unfortunately.

Ah, that sounds better. My tumor was found when I was 30 and initially caused me lots of IBD problems, and then proceeded to blood in my stool. Butt probe then confirmed it even though my doctor was expecting something else because I was so young. A test like that might not have helped much in my case but I wasn’t the most average case anyway.

Is that a blood test? Those aren’t always effective. I kept testing negative even when I had a massive tumor in my bowels. The only thing that really works is going in there and taking a look, i.e. a colonoscopy.

My bank gave out a limited run of credit cards with this picture as a background a few years back and it looked gorgeous. It’s been back to a boring slab of dark plastic ever since.

That already happened though. Tens of thousands of games on Steam can be played by hitting the install and then the play button. Only a few “competitive multiplayer” holdouts with rootkits and an irrational hatred of Linux don’t work.

The Mario one is gold

4 looks like a wild ride

Absolutely, that’s basically the same thing

I once switched from Debian i386 to amd64 in-place. That was MUCH harder than you would expect, I guess somewhere between medium and hard in your list. That server is still running that install btw, so in the end it all worked out.

That is a very useful article, thanks for linking it!

I’m now pondering hooking mine up to a BBQ somehow…

Yes

You realize that the plane pictured, an SR-71, possibly the coolest plane ever made, has been phased out many years ago? Another sign the USA isn’t what it used to be! /s

Yes, please. Would be nice to have a life again.

Which is easily disproved as people started having long covid long before we had vaccines.

I have read them. While Vaxry makes his points in typical Vaxry fashion he’s not wrong IMHO.

I think it’s ridiculous and unprecedented to demand that other open source projects adhere to the rules of another project. If more projects would do that then where will it end? The big COC wars where camps of open source projects are split and fractured along opinions of how one should moderate their own communities? This is not the way to work together with others.

The demand was not about Vaxry’s own behaviour outside freedesktop, but about his community. I disagree that behaviour there reflects on freedesktop itself. Hell, I think a lot of people who use Hyprland couldn’t even explain what freedesktop is and does.

So in my opinion Vaxry was right to refuse the demand, and right to publish the email conversation about it. Openness in open source about these sorts of things is important. His hostility in writing about it is something else altogether. Feel free to judge him on that, but it doesn’t retroactively excuse freedesktop’s behaviour.

Last part isn’t true, he was banned for refusing to give his own community a COC that was compatible with the freedesktop one. Which is quite an overreach IMHO.