warning: some non-linux included below

• minix
• slackware
• early Debian
• FreeBSD (ftp installs instead of 20 floppies! OMG!)
• Debian
• Crunchbang <-- loved that original project
• Solaris (friend gave me a Sparc 5)
• DSL, Puppy linux (had a tiny netbook)
• **Debian on workstations and servers since ~2014 **
• various debian-based distros on RPI

I do spin up other distros in a VM from time to time to see what's what. Most recently NixOS since people won't STFU about it. :-)

"You're not the boss of me" :-)

Agreed. I haven't read the article yet, but my first thought was "how am I going to turn that off"

Main advantage I've found in unmixed workgroups is less (no) fighting over the thermostat

Like any other automated tool, I'd want them to master the manual skills first.

With math and calculators first we show we can do it longhand then get the calc. Show you can search and assess sources first then incorporate AI.

Sebastian

capybara

Do you prefer digital or physical books?

Digital. I live in 76ft² and can no longer store thousands of physical books like I did in a "sticks and bricks" house. But there are ~13,000 easily stored between the e-ink kindle and waiting in the wings in calibre.

Reading is a big part of my retirement plan.

I emerged from a blackout drunk sitting in a classroom; it was the last hour of the GRE (graduate record exam). I was reeking of alcohol and I remember feeling sorry for the poor bastards seated next to me. I finished and walked directly across the hallway to the bathroom and vomited a while.

I'd gone to a bar the night before for one dollar draft beer; I had $2, so 1 beer + tip. I don't know exactly what happened but later heard people thought it would be funny to buy me drinks before the exam and I was too young/dumb not to accept.

The most bizarre part of the story is I scored a dead-average score on the exam.

anything with the word but in it

anything related to dinosaurs or Egypt

Wiki link goes elsewhere. But when I read the summary above it sounded a lot like Hotel Coolgardie. So I looked up the RH wiki article; yup, inspired by that doc.

In the US today, nationalism and religion have become fused and intertwined to the point that some religious leaders are bemoaning their communities following Trump and conservatism and thinking Jesus was a wimp.

Cf. Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

What kind of people frequent on forums?

people interested in the forum topic

"physics"

Install quickly and without license hoopjumping.

As Eisenhower said,

beware the engagement-wedding-genderreveal-kids-mortgage-divorce-childsupport-legal-industrial complex.

I may be mis-remembering exactly what he said. but I think that was the gist.

In 8th (?) grade our larval computing lab was a row of Commodore 64 but there was only one 5.25" floppy drive between them. When you wanted to save or load your proglet you had to

• walk over to insert your floppy
• return to your seat to do your load/save
• walk back over to retrieve your floppy to free up the drive for someone else

At some point I realized that while the owner was walking back and forth you could load their code to see how they approached the assignment. And doing so did not affect their workflow or anyone else at all. It felt like the earth shifted a bit at that moment.

Do you think bad weather is a good reason for moving?

I'm probably not your target demographic (I live in a campervan) but I move regularly to follow mild weather.

Busiest one I read is probably uk.media.radio.archers about the BBC radio show

One of the posts on there today was about this article: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/

which seems optimistic but a man can hope