MBAs are mortal enemies of software engineers. Couple that with what one former CEO of mine said: “engineers have very well tuned bullshit detectors” and you arrive at the problem…

Gotta love the passive language of the headline. “Missiles just so happened to explode near the airliner” instead of “Russia shot down airliner”

In America, we can only seem to relate to each other by buying stuff. The monetary value of a thing is close enough

It’s just a bottle of whiskey

Similar story to a lot of others here

Around a year ago I got fed up with Microsoft forcefully pushing unwanted and privacy-invading “features” on their users. It scared me to continue using it. I wanted more control and more protection for my privacy. So I decided to install Mint.

I’ve dabbled with Linux in the past and use it extensively in my job, but hadn’t switched significantly to it in the past. One of the biggest blockers being games. I bought a Steam Deck a couple of years ago so I was needing increasingly confident that Linux would work for gaming to some extent. It ended up working very smoothly and I haven’t looked back.

I still have my dual boot, partially because I haven’t bothered to remove windows fully. At this point there’s very little reason for me to not into windows. I’ve only encountered one game I’ve wanted to play that didn’t work in Linux and that was an old game with mods. I might be able to get it working if I really troubleshooted it, but it’s not that important.

Dafuq does “historically accurate” mean? Oh right, cherry picking history to fit your narrative

I don’t think pissing off the entire military leadership with something that didn’t need to be said (or could have been an email) is going to make them particularly keen to support you…

“is this still happening” may suggest that he said yes and that Epstein wasn’t sure if he’ll still come, maybe did you a scheduling conflict or something. The word “still” in that sentence is potentially saying a lot. We also have lots of other evidence showing that Musk is a creep so there’s an established pattern.

I highly doubt that Russia is just standing on the sidelines not stoking the fires via bots on social media

The ATF dude who showed off the haul didn’t know how to insert a magazine into those “rifles”

I’m far from an expert but from what I understand, it’s hard to really define the generic similarities since it’s not a contiguous chunk of DNA that’s the same. It’s piecemeal and fragmented. So it makes sense that even the experts in the field would have arguments about it. Nonetheless it does seem like the three of us are closest, but the specifics are still being researched.

https://www.science.org/content/article/bonobos-join-chimps-closest-human-relatives

Article from 2012:

Chimpanzees now have to share the distinction of being our closest living relative in the animal kingdom. An international team of researchers has sequenced the genome of the bonobo for the first time, confirming that it shares the same percentage of its DNA with us as chimps do. The team also found some small but tantalizing differences in the genomes of the three species—differences that may explain how bonobos and chimpanzees don’t look or act like us even though we share about 99% of our DNA.

Armenia is part of Russia?

It seems to vary. I had few issues with my 2080Ti but my friend had nothing but issues with his 3070. He switched to an AMD card and it worked without issue. Nvidia doesn’t put nearly as much emphasis on their Linux support as AMD does, but that doesn’t mean that Nvidia cards aren’t usable.

Mint. I’ve been happy with it. I’m more familiar with debs/apt/Ubuntu so I wanted to stick with something familiar but didn’t want to use Ubuntu. It’s worked very well for me for gaming. I just upgraded my GPU from an Nvidia card to an AMD card which, aside from having to manually install the drivers from the terminal, has worked very well.

Super zero brain? PB&J sandwich. Or a deli meat sandwich.

AFAIK, cremains are inorganic and don’t nourish anything

You mean Stephen Hawking?

I switched full time to Linux last year and primarily use my computer for gaming. It’s been great. I play games through steam so YMMV with other systems. I haven’t had any issues playing a variety of games such as Factorio (built for Linux), GTFO, Horizon: Forbidden West, PEAK, Ready or Not, Plate Up… It’s been rare for me to have an issue. I remember an issue trying to play Plate Up via steam remote play.

It’s sort of like when you’re at work and see the “quick workaround” effectively become the standard process.

Nothing is more permanent than a temporary fix