here in the midwest, i see random packages of frozen game meat from the food pantry every now and then. usually venison, sometimes bear… elk once, even. and not always packaged by a commercial meat locker, either.

i know this is a link to that other site, but this old post has a link to the full essay as published in 1980.

https://old.reddit.com/r/asimov/comments/6616rh/a_cult_of_ignorance_by_isaac_asimov_1980_via_pdf/

i pieced together a comparable 2tb on pcpartpicker, using the cheapest reputable choices and vendors. it was about $200-250 less for the pc (without an os) in a standard matx tower form factor.

an image viewer with the feature set and workflow of irfanview on windows.

“broken” and “stopped” are not the same thing. that’s why “even a broken clock…” doesn’t make sense. the wording should be “a stopped clock”

a “broken” one could just be a little “fast” or “slow”, spinning erratically, or otherwise inconsistent and unreliable, and rarely (if ever) report the correct time.

‘hybrid sleep’ does write the hibernate file before going into ‘sleep mode’. if you have an older system or one that doesn’t use ‘modern standby’ and you have an ssd, you might want to double-check that setting in your power scheme advanced settings.

the culprit is actually probably “fast startup” which writes a hibernate file every shutdown. every “normal” ‘shutdown’… close programs, logoff, hibernate, power off. this feature is unnecessary on systems with ssd but it continues to be enabled by default. it was created in the days of old to make hdd systems appear to boot up faster by not actually starting up windows on every power on.

hibernate isn’t enabled by default.

the other writer of hibernate data, hybrid sleep, doesn’t even exist on a newer system that uses ‘modern standby’… but is enabled by default on desktops that do not.

acrobatics on horseback is most definitely a thing. and it’s absolutely crazy the stunts they can pull off.

not me. not a problem here. even a toddler with a tantrum in the grocery store – the noise doesn’t bother me… it’s the horrible ‘parenting’ from their ‘adult’ that often accompanies it that does.

the neighbor’s incredibly loud music at all hours of the day and night, more specifically-the subwoofers thumping. it just penetrates your very being and there’s no earplugs or noise-cancelling headphones or white noise machines to help with that.

uh, oh. i bought two extra pair when i found some that actually fit and were ‘affordable’. still wearing the first pair, so these other two have yet to be taken out of the bags they came home from the store in. that was almost two years ago.

you’re on the right track, i think, but not bazzite–that carries a lot of extra stuff that isn’t necessary here. just ordinary fedora silverblue. clean up the app grid or put dash-to-dock on it and put the few launchers they need down on that. gnome is actually a good desktop for basic users that just need to run one or a few applications. updates are somewhat frequent but should be almost entirely automatic.

i have a few users like your parents on endless os, which is similar to silverblue, just based on an in-house immutable debian instead of silverblue’s fedora base. i rarely ever hear from them, it ‘just works’. i also have it at home, it’s currently my only linux desktop there (i do most my ‘work’ at the office, home is just doom-scrolling and media for the most part these days). updates are less frequent but endless is switching to a gnome os base with the next major version. that will probably increase the frequency of updates a bit compared to their older debian base. that upgrade to v7 should be mostly invisible to the user, they’ve done a good job in the past with upgrades.

it was my mom who ‘taught’ me how to skip ads on tv. we had one of the earliest betamax when i was a kid, she recorded everything she watched and always fast-forwarded through the commercials. that first vcr had dials for channel changing and could only do one scheduled recording… but it was used a lot

… my blocking ads is a courtesy so you don’t waste your time, cpu cycles, and bandwidth on serving them to me.

but the doctors and big pharma are the ones that get to cash-in.

many were there first, long before microsoft bought the site. but now? yea. why tf are people still using it.

looks like a mini-putt, with a giant hole on the end that he’d still miss by a mile.

damn. they beat me to it. i was gonna make a gif of the toilets at the office flushing green to blue.

and then there’s also this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_vaulting

we’re now well into our second playthrough, and the bugs and crashes are even worse than the first time.