I generally recommend linux mint for beginners, mostly because it’s pretty great at working out of the box, and it pretty general purpose.

Also, it’s reasonably user friendly and easy to use.

The original UDP

“Aren’t you happy about the half-full roll of toilet paper secret Santa gave you? It was definitely very deliberate and though out…”

Well, I am doing pretty well for myself in a combination of IT, geophysics, and offshore/ship stuff… but when things aren’t going my way at work I still conclude that it’s t8me to get the necessary licenses to finally become a crane driver.

I’ve driven a lot of cranes (ships cranes, mostly), but I’m talking about those huge tower cranes - chilling alone at the top, and once in a while someone calls you on the radio, needing something lifted from A to B. Seems chill as fuck, and no searoll to worry about either.

Imagine if the richest person in the country dies, and it’s time to figure out the inheritance for the spouses, and it turns out the entire country is in effect married in a loooong chain.

Tea: No sugar, no milk, no water, and no tea. Cup optional. (I don’t drink tea)
Coffee: Regular black is fine. Sometimes I’ll order a cappuccino with two sugars, but it’s rare.

Communities are similar to subreddits, with the main difference that there are many servers (instances) instead of just over main website. I find it helpful to think of it as IRC servers on the larger networks: your user is associated with one instance, but you can access users and Communities associated with different ones more or less seamlessly.

Yup, pretty much. I’ll lazypaste the response an instance admin made after I asked a similar question recently:

Probably the community follower bot which several instances subscribe to. It’s a way of automating new communities discovery. There are about 40 of them.

Shout out to the librarians in Gulfport, MS. They were really helpful and friendly when some haggard dork with a weird foreign accent showed up out of the blue in desperate need for a printer to deal with some DHS forms.

Agreed. I am in the process of creating a lemmy instance (mostly for testing), with the core tenets being free speech and freedom of information. I just need to find a way of rewording it so that people don’t think it means endorsement of assholery.

I think invite-only and “Don’t make me ban you!” as the only rule could work.

It’s all mysterious and important, I assume?

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Yeah, that’s why I stopped watching: It became apparent that there was no interesting story other than the soap opera playing out in rich people circles.

The first season at least had the hint of something interesting; that estranged stoner being promoted from theme park furry to inner circle. But they barely did anything with it.

Destiny Potato

Kind of, yeah. We vote for parties, and the parties (yes, plural) with the most votes build a coalition that have enough of the votes between them to form a government. And the head honchos like prime minister and similar, are usually the party leaders. If they were to die or quit or whatever, the government agrees on a replacement.

“You’re the pope?? I didn’t vote for you…”

• Benjamin Franklin, probably. Or whoever it was that said “Not everything quoted on the internet is real”

Honestly I don’t care (well, beyond making this pope post), as I am not catholic. I am technically a protestant by heritage, but the truth is that I find even the term “agnostic” to be too religiously loaded to the point where I usually refer to myself as areligious instead.

As for the pope. Well, he’s… there… well, not right now. But he will be soon-ish. I’ll just accept whoevers named announced while venting smoke from the cardinal thunderdome as being the new pope. And then he’ll be there again.

Beyond that, he doesn’t affect my life in any way. Nor do I affect his life in any way. Unless he accepts my challenge to an offroad and uphill car race. Yes, he’s gonna have to drive the popemobile himself for this. I’ll be driving my new AWD Lolvo. I’m sure it’ll be fun for anyone involved, no matter who wins.

But having said all of that: I think Robbie Coltrane would do well as a pope.

Norway here. Election campaigns are usually around a month, and they’re almost fully focused on parties and their platforms, as opposed to the representatives themselves.

Succession. I stopped watching somewhere in the 2nd season.

When I visit the US I find that I usually set it in the mid to high 60s for optimal comfort.

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