I hope the locals were like “I didn’t know which car to boo for, so I booed to all of them”

If they are demanding displays of contempt, they should make it mandatory for all articles.

“This article concerns birds. Disgusting. I still cannot believe how low the once mighty dinosaurs have fallen.”

Or:

“This article concerns snakes. I’m sorry, but I refuse to take legless creatures seriously.”

I recommend you try Affinity. Absolutely loved Affinity Publisher 2, haven’t tried yet how well Affinity 3 works for print work but I assume it’s more or less same as before.

Scribus is a noteworthy open source alternative.

If I want to maintain my Windows computer, do I need a new computer?

You can install Linux alongside Windows if you have the disk space to spare (a whole separate ssd/hard drive, a free disk partition on your existing drive, or you can split an existing Windows partition).

For experimenting, you can also use a virtual machine (like VirtualBox). Note that you might not get the best possible performance this way. Most Linux distros also have live systems, which means you can boot them from USB stick and use them before you actually install them.

If I was already looking for a laptop, do I just buy the cheapest one and reformat?

Don’t waste money on the cheap junk - just get a used laptop!

Does Distro utilize Touch Screen?

Haven’t tried. Probably!

Roosh V is not a chill guy, all I’m saying

Oh thank goodness, I saw the link in the photo is to Roosh V forum, and I was like, hell no, I’m not going there

I’ve said this before, but “AI vegan” is a pretty odd term. It’d imply that using AI is somehow a default, entrenched, normalised thing. That not using AI is going against the status quo.

This makes as much sense as calling Linux users “Windows vegans”. Go on. Go say that to some Linux user’s face, I’m waiting.

And for us Gen-X/Gen-Y folks, all the Fediverse needed to do was to say “it’ll be just like the Internet in the 1990s” and we were like “HELL YEAH SIGN ME UP”

Gives me BBS era / Usenet vibes, yesss

Well to be fair, there’s not just neurodivergent people in the Fediverse.

There’s also a bunch of queer people. And furries.

Also neurodivergent queer people, neurodivergent furries, queer furries, and neurodivergent queer furries. Duh.

JK Rowling has an extremely murky supply chain. By choice.

A good example I heard a while back: Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh was one of the worst industrial accidents ever. Death toll in the thousands. One of the companies involved was Primark, which makes the official Harry Potter apparel. Was HP apparel actually made in this particular death trap? We don’t know. JK won’t discuss it. But you know what she says, she just takes one look at her bank statement and all of the worries go away. We know that much.

Epstein invitation thing was just more of the same. Was JK personally involved? We don’t know. Did JK care? Evidently not.

I’m just trying to learn Godot and explore its potential for the multimedia stuff I previously did in Processing.

Yeah, for a lot of stuff like that Godot is probably overkill, but on the other hand, Godot stuff can be built into self-contained packages while Processing, well, needs JRE and all that, so not optimal in all cases.

Oh wow. I re-checked and there’s no way to make the Clock app to show the seconds, so it’s as useless as I imagined. But yes, there is apparently a setting in time and date settings to show the seconds on the clock in the task bar. …And the setting is buried under a fold. With the caveat that it will increase power usage. How does displaying seconds increas power usage fssgsgfffsshhhgg

This question is often asked, but I ask it again: why is Windows?

There’s like a boatload of really classic Xbox 360/One era games that I’d love to play on PC.

Problem is they were made by Ubisoft or EA. Repurchasing them is already dubious from the get-go, but chances are the versions in Steam, if they’re still there at all, are old neglected buggy builds. And things are not much rosier on the Uplay or Origin! They may have gotten a patch or two, but old shit’s janky. These need the GOG treatment.

I did get the Mass Effect trilogy rerelease for a pittance. Also found out I somehow had Dragon Age Origins already. These should keep me occupied for a while, as (to paraphrase a certain video game villain) at this very moment, EA burns.

“From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the radness of the rave…”

Long ago, in Finland, the election night live coverage was on YLE TV1 and there was some other show on TV2. Since they both had the same Teletext pages and the same subtitle pages, someone posted online some choice screenshots.

(Don’t remember much, besides one with the main reporter guy, with the subtitles going like “goddamn it”.)

Windows Clock doesn’t have analog mode any more. Nor does it show seconds. And sometimes it just doesn’t show time because it needs to update some garbage, or the app needs to be updated, or…

Long story short, I had to make a clock of my own.

75 million dollars. 75. Million. Dollars.

How much of it went to the crew and other people who actually made the damn thing?

Or even used for their benefit in other way, for that matter - I’m asking because apparently the crew did overtime hours with no food while the director lorded over the underlings and stuffed his face. (Don’t do overtime if your boss isn’t personally ordering you a ton of pizza, guys.)

As pointed out, Goodreads has been owned by Amazon for a good while. And they also own slices of some other similar book sites (LibraryThing, for example, and some other site that was merged into Goodreads).

Also, to avoid doing unpaid labour for Jeff Bezos, go from Goodreads to Bookwyrm!

“Not the sharpest bulb in the tree”