“Okay, cool. Family knows when to drop a subject. Good luck!”

Nice. I’ll have to remember that retort!

They’re just sniffing that spice melange.

Reindeer’s are golden in summer but turn deep blue in winter

Gold and blue?
My dude, those eyes are black and white. 😏

Sh’yeah-ron. The way Wayne from Wayne’s World would have said it. 😏

You mean like this?

Or like this?

They were under a lot of pressure.

It was sink or swim.

“maybe it’ll work, maybe it won’t, but it’ll be FUN”

Flashback to that Tom Cruise Scientology interview 🤣:

It really is … Fun.

Is it improper to do “Disengage” too early in a discussion?

I’m just another Internet random but, FWIW, I don’t think it’s improper.

I read something recently that I think is relevant. It was just someone else’s hearsay, not a quote from a philosopher or someone famous or something, but worth paraphrasing here.

It went something like, “nice people are nice because they don’t have patience for bullshit.”

The context was an explanation that having boundless patience for, e.g., unproductive arguments, isn’t being nice—that’s just letting people walk all over you.

Being nice comes from the mental tranquility of knowing that you will not hesitate to walk away from unproductive pursuits.

snow crash, which talks about the decentralization of the internet from a fictional and futuristic story

I don’t remember it prominently featuring a plotline like that. That was the one with\

Well if that counts, then Neuromancer by William Gibson fits in that it’s about\

There’s something very appropriate about you using all those (system) tools during an anthropology lecture.

why does the logo look like a noose

Logo looks like if Apple redesigned the Millennium Falcon.

Yeah it’s not a one-to-one conversion of course. An update few months back allowed meta to open Overview on its own though, fwiw.

I’d still like the dock in the Overview too, like yourself, but for now I just have a launcher on the bottom like dash-to-dock.

I might get eviscerated for saying this, but you can replicate the GNOME workflow fairly well on KDE—KNOME if you will.

There’s an overview similar to that in GNOME, you can set up shortcuts to mimic the keyboard+one-app-one-workspace workflow, etc.

Good luck trying to recreate Plasma with GNOME though.

Uh, just trying non-modal vim for the first time and… how do I quit it? I can’t :q.

My dad would always laugh to the point of wheezing at the bee sting bit…

Are you a brother I didn’t know about?!
My Dad does the same thing!

He doesn’t even need to be watching the movie. I can just say, ‘Hey remember Martin Short getting stung in that movie?’ And he’ll start guffawing.

Show this to yer Pa!

Entropy Man!

Like Martin Short’s character in Pure Luck?

I love the Linux world’s tradition of less serious names, in general.

Kinda like the Minds in Iain Banks’s Culture universe.

alongside Windows 11 23H2

Wasn’t there news of a Windows update breaking dual booting recently? Could be that?