I still have a laptop with a tiny shrunken Windows partition on it in case I need it for some reason, but I’ve not actually booted it since installing debian. I can’t be bothered to figure out how to clean up the bloat, disarm the telemetry, avoid the online MS services, block the ads, dodge the bugs, wait for the updates, get used to all the various stupid ways the UI has changed since the win XP I was familiar with, et cetera.

Using Windows these days is just way too much work, I don’t know how anyone even does it.

The Boomers in New Vegas? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9IAY7XBRd0&t=120s

I habitually throw random spelling and grammatical mistakes into my posts and comments all the time, to make it less likely that anyone can fingerprint my writing style and thereby dox me. That is the only reason for any such errors.

Personally I enjoy seeing the numbers go up. Looking at the current top ten by ratio according to my torrent client most of them are obscure things that I’m probably the only one seeding — but the number one spot, at a ratio of 565, goes to “Shrek (2001) [1080p]”.

Rice and beans curry: Pinto beans, basmati rice, diced tomatoes, chopped spinach, garlic, cumin, coriander, butter, habanero sauce

Cook the beans for however many hours. Add the rest of the stuff plus a little less water than you’d normally need for the amount of rice since there’s some in the tomatoes. Bring it to a boil, let it simmer for however long it takes your rice to cook.

Just guessing, but I suppose it could be cloudflare “verifying” the web browser by subjecting it to all manner of abuse to confirm that it is worthy. Disabling your ad-blockers and such, thus leaving yourself open to all its probes and getting its fingerprints all over your browser’s insides might be what’s expected of the user here.

Oh, I didn’t know nix was a package manager that’s available in debian. I might try it some day. Fortunately it’s not necessary to install it with sh < (curl) as recommended there.

https://i.imgflip.com/601zqc.jpg

foreign piracy in the United States

For a moment there I thought they were talking about actual pirate ships sailing across from Liberia to raid the east coast.

Public transportation.

Whatever doesn’t kill me makes me contemplate my meaningless place in the irrational universe.

“After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player’s real-time movements.”

All the lines look blurry when you’re squinting at things from a position of complete ignorance.

Do people actually type out :split? I didn’t even know that existed, just it’s just ^Ws to me.

You can have a cup of tea, I’ll put on a Beethoven record, and then you can untangle and sort all the stuff in my big box full of old cables, chargers, components, and adapters. If you find a micro usb cable you can have a cookie.

A strong warning against distrohopping.

Pikers

I believe the conventional way to phrase it is “show me the face you had before you were born.”

https://joinmastodon.org/

Using exclusively Linux on the desktop has been possible since 1997, when I switched to being mostly a linux user — what people mean by “getting closer” is that it’s much closer than it used to be to being completely automatic, requiring no effort or thought whatsoever. Obviously it will never quite get there; that is not a destination that exists in the real world.

I am paranoid to think of such things occasionally, which is why I can tell you that my password is long enough that it includes more than half the alphabet.