Meanwhile a Bethesda game like Fallout 3 had its fair share of flaws, but gave you plenty of opportunity to decide if you wanted to be the good guy or not. Blow up a town? Kill off all residents of Tenpenny Tower, or whack all the ghouls that want to take up residence? Why not all of them? You decide!

It also wasn’t afraid of locking players out of quests if they behaved like an asshole. I liked that, why would somebody try to work with you after you just gave them the proverbial finger?

Far better than ‘oh golly, you just told me that I’m not a nice person. Well, that’s not very neighbourly of you, but I’ll pay you my life-long savings if you hop over the next hub and return my package that I conveniently know is collecting dust over there, but can’t be bothered to fetch myself’.

Are you telling me we are filled with an industrial-strength solvent? 😱

Onscreen instructions unclear, pressed Shift+6+X. Still stuck in Nano.

Breaking MacOS is easy, if the fork bomb doesn’t work just create a function which recursively writes files until the disk is full. Unless they fixed it in the past 5 years, at that point even when the OS is set to delete files directly, it will still fail to delete anything. I couldn’t even remove anything with sudo rm -f, that just triggered a ‘not enough space to remove file’ error message.

Found that out the hard way when a program borked itself and filled the entire drive with log files until there was not even a single byte left. Fortunately I had a very small file in the bin, clearing that still worked and those few bytes were enough to be able to perform file deletes again. Never bothered to find out why MacOS behaved that way as I was able to ditch that OS entirely not long after, but perhaps somebody else knows.

A bit outdated, in the Netherlands small plastic drink bottles and aluminum cans are now also part of the deposit system.

The current implementation is terrible though, the collection machines are often a smelly sticky mess due to aluminum cans leaking their contents all over. 🤢

There are at least three rapists in Morrowind, although technically it isn’t really rape when somebody only wants to gently rape your corpse. So let’s keep it at two.

Anyway, it seems they were already toning it down quite a bit in Oblivion if there was only one to be found.

… but that woodwork needs to be done. 😞

But I… am not sure how circumcision would prevent anyone from touching himself, so I am highly sceptical of that claim.

The idea was, if I’m not mistaken, that without foreskin sensitivity & pleasure decreases. So that way there is less ‘risk’ of boys engaging in sexual activities, other than for reproductive purposes.

From what I understand it’s also still the standard in the US. Originally popularised because it would keep boys from fondling themselves which, of course, would make Sky Daddy angry.

But if that’s not the case, I’d happily stand corrected by someone more knowledgeable on this topic.

I know, and the ‘fuck Microsoft’ is completely warranted for that. But shouting that and then coming up with a story where somebody enabled it themselves and subsequently lost their key, that doesn’t make a lot of sense. Unless it was to illustrate the dangers of FDE, but in that case the point could have been made a bit clearer.

But how is that relevant to your ‘Fuck Microsoft’ if he knowingly encrypted his device, which is how you make it sound?

I’ve enabled FDE on one of my Linux devices, I’ve already had to mount the filesystem in a rescue environment once because a failed update caused the system to be unable to boot. I would also have been hosed if I had lost the encryption key. Ok not really, because that’s what backups are for, but you hopefully get the point.

Good point, although admittedly I’ve had my fair share of Wayland-related issues with KDE. Unless you want those few extra FPS in a game or HDR, is there really a noticeable difference from an average user’s perspective?

Yeah, that’s how it usually goes when I go to the GP. Can’t express myself, mind goes blank or gets tangled in what I want to say. For my ‘I think I might have ADHD’ talk I also wrote down everything on notes, condensed them to a checklist and just worked through that. Really helped in getting a coherent story across.

Alternatively you could use a bodkin to puncture the sidewalls of the tire. A bodkin is a little tool used to make fishing flies.

For a moment I thought you wanted to suggest to go medieval on their asses tires.

That’s rough, sorry to hear that. I only got diagnosed in my late 30’s, ever since high school I felt like something about me was off.

Daydreaming? “Well, you’ve got an IQ of 135, so you are just bored.”

Incapable of starting homework? “Completely normal, you are just bored, try harder.”

At some point I convinced myself I was just lazy, it was only when I hit a roadblock professionally I was finally able to convince a doctor that this could not go on any longer.

It sucks knowing something is wrong, but having to fight to get taken seriously. I hope you are able to find the help you need soon.

It is Ubuntu, not my favourite distribution, but easy enough that they are able to work with it. Most software is also either available through the included repositories or has a dedicated Ubuntu executable.

It also has LTS versions, which are supported for quite some time. That way you can set up a system which they can use for years without having to deal with major changes during that period.

I think it requires a bit of both.The average user only wants their computer to work and doesn’t care if Linux is OSS or exposes the inner workings of the system more. For them there is simply no reason to install a different OS, pre-installed Windows might be a bit annoying at times, but generally it does its job just fine.

For us choosing a distribution, downloading an ISO image, creating a boot disk and going through an installer which asks ‘scary stuff’ like “do you want to accept our partition suggestion, or do you want to create your own? Oh PS this action may RESULT IN DATA LOSS” is all easy-peasy.

We are able to find alternatives for programs we need, or are able to track down a Linux version. Either in the distro’s package repo, Flatpak (or Snap, for the more masochistic minded) or by compiling from source (with all the complications and parameter setting that sometimes requires). Or we run the Windows EXE in Wine.

Most users simply aren’t tech savvy and/or don’t care enough to go through these kinds of ‘hoops’. Acquiring this knowledge requires investment, without motivation (which usually needs to be intrinsic) that simply won’t happen.

We hate stuff like Windows being a black box and Microsoft trying to push their MS accounts down our throats enough to not blindly put up with it. Most people I know just create the account, go through with the installation and go along with their days.

It’s the painful truth that yes, it requires a certain attitude to want to switch to a different OS.

What also doesn’t help is the attitude I sometimes see in the Linux community. For example, I recently posted my experience with gaming on Linux. In short: it sucked, badly. Some responses I got were helpful, but there were also a lot of ‘meh, that game publisher sucks anyway, you shouldn’t play their games’ responses. Fortunately I’m not a novice when it comes to Linux, but I can image a beginner would just say ‘screw it’, install Windows again and advise everybody they know to stay the fuck away from that elitist cesspool. If we hate that MS dictates what we do with our devices we sure as hell shouldn’t start dictating what our (potential) fellow Linux users do with theirs.

Made me (diagnosed with ADHD-I) chuckle, that could definitely be me. Usually one of these:

• Forget the appointment altogether.
• Remember appointment, be unable to do anything beforehand, find something to distract me of that impending appointment dread, forget the appointment that initially took up my entire attention span.

Linux users are inherently more tech savvy because there are no limits.

You clearly have not met my parents. I installed Linux on their PC because they are not tech savvy. Doesn’t matter if Windows or Linux breaks down, they can’t fix it anyway, so might as well reduce the chance they manage to infect their device with all kinds of malware.

KDE is allegedly better because it gives the user more options, but anyone who’s actually used it will tell you that it suffers from the same kind of bloat and braindead design decisions as gnome.

I’ve used KDE on and off for the past 20 years or so. These days I use KDE on my work laptop and Cinnamon on my personal one. Personally I think they both do their job just fine, but apparently I’m in the wrong.