How about a quick. “Hey. Just so you know, we live in sewers and eat gruel. Now make your choice.”

Morpheus didn’t give him all the facts and rushed him into a decision before giving him the chance to process what little information he was given.

That’s not a choice. That’s a con-job.

Is this satire?

Seriously, if I was new to Linux, coming from Windows, asking for a cheat sheet or Linux for dummies manual, everything you wrote would sound like absolute gibberish to me.

If this was someone’s response to me when asking for advice I’d immediately reinstall windows where at least (from the perspective of a typical end user) they speak words that make sense.

I don’t really keep up, but is that Dr. Disrespect guy still considered a pedo pariah?

I prefer Mormons. They have better porn

Five little mormons jumping on a bed?

Animal for sure. But also really the entire band.

Although a large part of that comes from the best Robot Chicken Sketch in their entire series…

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=8jTtgGQKs9w

I’d be dead. A serial killer would use it as an excuse to come inside and I’d immediately be an idiot and say “absolutely come on in. I love Venus.”

As I was writing the above sentence, I suddenly had an idea for a story about a Vampire who tries to use religion as a way of being invited over the threshold of strangers homes, and get increasingly frustrated when people tell him to fuck off.

I see no legitimate reason to let ANY AI have full access to my computer. It’s just unnecessary.

If I need to ask an AI to proofread something, or I need help sorting through a programming error. I’ll go to its website and ask it.

There is no reason (for me) to let it sit there chilling on my computer 24-7 doing good knows what.

The final “Gate” so to speak, will end up being your motherboard.

At a certain point, your motherboard just won’t support a newer part and you’ll have upgraded all the existing parts as far as they can go.

My current rig that I’m still perfectly content with is just under ten years old. I’ve upgraded the Ram to as much as the motherboard will allow. I’ve upgraded the Video Card two or three times in that span, where it’s now running a 3060. While I still see a huge improvement with that, there’s no doubt that the video card is being throttled somewhat by the motherboard throughput limitations, but for I don’t mind. I’ve added extra cooling fans, replaced the drives with SSD and use the old metal spinners for extra storage.

It still runs plenty fast enough to do Blender (nothing complex, just airplane modelling and animation for xplane), video editing with DaVinci Resolve (as long as I use proxy clips and take it a little easy on the motion graphics), and most newer games (though of course not at ultra settings).

The last bottleneck that I’ll simply never be able to pass is the fact that the CPU socket will never support an octocore processor or higher. I can upgrade as much as I want, but it will never not be a quad-core.

For now that’s fine. But that’s the hard limit that I’ve given myself. Your mileage may vary.

I don’t really believe in Guilty Pleasures. I think if you like something, let your freak flag fly. If you’re embarassed to say that you like something, you don’t actually like it honestly.

With that being said, I get strange looks when I tell my friends about random terrible B-Movies I enjoy, the more obscure the better.

The world is kind of a shitty place right now. And to be honest, I’d be surprised if it wasn’t, at least to some degree, affecting everyone’s calm.

I’m in the same boat as you. The GUI thing doesn’t interest me. And I end up knowing “basic to intermediate” knowledge of a few different languages because, when you get right down to it, once your somewhat familiar with one object oriented language, the others fall in line pretty quickly.

I find that for learning, I have to have a project to be working on. I can’t just sit and do exercises about classes, tuplets, and all that crap. I need to be able to say "okay…I want to make x do x on this project I’m working on…and then troll around the internet to figure out how to do it.

A sadly underappreciated show:

Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles

The fall of which Rome?

I still contend that this isn’t equivalent to the fall of the Empire. It’s equivalent to the fall of the republic and the rise of the empire.

The US isn’t dealing with Astragoths and Huns pillaging their cites. They’re dealing with an exceptionally stupid version of Caesar trying to usurp power and proclaim an empire.

Buckle up, America. If you don’t take care of this now, your in for about 437 more years of this shit.

Bitwarden. Second place isn’t even close.

Honestly never asked. I presumed she just boiled off the flesh and then left the bones out in the sun to dry.

For a bit of maybe context, she was a paleontologist…but

Friend of mine from university was always ready to scoop up roadkill into her trunk when she passed it by so that she could render it down to the bones so she would have a skeleton to study/draw.

Me putting water in my keurig machine every morning…

I like how Stellaris does hyperdrive; certain systems are connected by hyperplanes. Presumably something “man-made” in those systems generates the field and “throws” the ship to the next system.

Similar to Mass Effect except that whereas in Mass Effect, one generator can connect to any other, in Stellaris each one only goes between two points, like a subway.

SGU was a good show. But a terrible Stargate show.