That comes with its own risks because Windows has been known to destroy dual boot setups when doing updates. Not always, but it can happen and it’s burnt people.

Dual booting also makes it harder when you decide to get rid of windows fully, because you might yourself accidentally screw your bootloader as part of removing windows.

The option I would personally recommend if you are unsure is to disconnect your windows hard drive, keep it safe, and install Linux on a separate drive. Then you can always drive swap back if you need and you know everything is safe.

You can even put the windows drive back in after installing Linux, and then just use your BIOS boot drive selector to switch where you are booting from. Each drive has it’s own boot record in that case, so there’s less risk of any accidents.

You could argue the other way around - growing up with decent and non-predatory practices makes you less tolerant of when companies try to extort you because you already know what “good” looks like.

I’m sure the corpos would love nothing more than kids getting exposed to predatory practices from a young age so they grow up feeling those things are acceptable and normal.

12:15 in the afternoon is uncontroversially 12:15 PM. I don’t think anyone could disagree with that. So are 12:10 PM, and 12:01 PM.

By extension, noon can only be 12PM, not AM, because the the moment we go from 11:59 to 12:00 is the very instant the afternoon starts.

(I use 24h clock myself but that’s another argument)

My biggest peeve with JSON when I’m forced to use it as a configuration format is that it doesn’t have any syntactical support for comments.

So I can’t even add any notes to the file.

The peeps on those retro computing channels are genuinely washing motherboards all the time as part of restorations.

The one pictured here is just some normal gigabyte motherboard from 2008 so it’s probably just a joke, but there’s definitely real reasons to give electronics a bath.

I watched a brilliant analysis a while back about what the first Bourne movie would be like if it was limited to only Bourne’s perspective, progressing through the story following only him, and discovering things about his identity and past only at the times he himself does.

It honestly seemed brilliant, and I’d love them to take some risks and make a movie like that, something different that stands a chance of becoming iconic.

What I think we’ll actually get is yet another generic spy thriller that fails to achieve even half what the original Bourne Identity did. But there we go.

“Wanking” and “Gooning” have vastly different meanings, in their context and nuance.

Gooning is really about the visual stimulation, the content being viewed. You goon at or to something.

Wanking on the other hand (or with the same hand perhaps) is purely about the physical act of grabbing your cock and jerking it.

Besides that, there are more subtle differences. Gooning implies prolonged and leisurely, for example, while wanking does not.

You’d never say you had a “quick goon,” but you could certainly say you had a “quick wank.”

So don’t worry, wanking isn’t dying out any time soon.

EDIT: Added a handy reference table

I interpreted two bodies dragged into the same room from different directions.

The “Turbo” function was a masterstroke of marketing.

The actual function of the turbo is to slow the machine down, so it can be compatible with older games and software that ran too quickly on those newer systems.

Of course calling it a “slow down” button wasn’t very sexy, so just flip the function around and label it turbo instead!

What if I am attracted to trans girls with huge cocks, or beefcake lumberjack guys who are into chastity?

Gender itself isn’t a neat tidy line from Male to Female that people fit on, it’s more complicated. And if gender itself is more complicated than a line, how can we use a line to model attraction to it?

Lol, what a solution. Crazy build. I wouldn’t worry too much about thermals. Even 80-90°C should be still acceptable, with the card only throttling above 90

So you needed SFF, the seller didn’t specify theirs was SFF, and when it came it wasn’t SFF? Am I confused?

trash-rm moves files to the trash bin, as opposed to the usual rm which instantly deletes them.

Yes?

Obviously! What else would you use?

That would be pretty genius/because even if they were positive for something else (not opiates) management would still be like “This whole batch of tests is totally scuffed, we can’t use it.”

That’s great advice, but I find myself amused that even when you give an example of being direct and setting expectations for what you want and need, there still has to be a load of social hedging to make the reason more palletable.

The “tired from work” thing conveniently externalises the cause so that neither you nor the hairdresser needs to be part of the reason.

If we could say exactly what we want to say and mean, it would be “I don’t like small-talk and I don’t want any with you, not today, not next time, and not any future time. I just want you to cut my hair.”

But no, the raw truth could both offend the hairdresser and make them think there’s something wrong with you, so “tired from work” it is.

For some people the only things that brings them joy are 1) winning 2) making other people suffer

Exactly. The black sheep is simply someone that doesn’t fit in, for whatever reason.

Sometimes they are the one nice person in an asshole family, like OP implied, but equally they could be the one asshole in a nice family.

“Black Sheep” says nothing about the individual identified as the sheep. The only constants in the situation are that the large group, the family, will always think they are in the right and there is something wrong with the sheep, while the sheep will always think he or she is in the right and there is something wrong with the family.

Who is really in the right will vary.

Good for you on leaving, and good luck with the search!