laurelraven

Don’t know how accurate this is, but I’ve always thought they were hard left authoritarians

Same, I learned on a brand new car, on my own, and taught a couple other people with it, and it still had the original clutch when the transmission linkage broke at 187k (basically totaled at that point, just pulling out enough to get to the transmission would have cost more than the car was worth at that point… Low end Chevy’s don’t hold much value as it turns out)

The clutch is meant to slip, that’s literally how they work. As long as you aren’t riding it partially engaged for hundreds or thousands of miles, you probably won’t burn it out. If they were as delicate as people treated them, they wouldn’t have been the choice for racing for as long as they were after automatics hit the scene.

I personally don’t find anything I like about the win11 start menu, it feels like such a huge step backwards to me

I almost switched around the 2007 to 2010 timeframe but they got a lot better with 7 and PowerShell closed the deal for me.

I’m now working more Linux into my daily usage to get a feel for what I’d need to do if I switch, and start solving those problems now, because if they do go this way, I’m probably going to jump ship. And they’ve made it even easier since I can still have PowerShell and C# and .NET on Linux now!

For people upset about the 10-is-the-last-version thing, even though where they said it was not an official communication and was probably either misstated or misunderstood, the tech media picked up on it and Microsoft knew that’s what people thought they said and they did nothing to dispel that notion, at all.

So on that one, there was a good reason to think that’s what they said, and since they let that very common misconception that was actively reported in the tech news media continue without any attempt to correct, the anger is every bit as justified as if Microsoft did actually say it.

Do they give a reason, or just “lawl no, sux 2 b u”?

One does not simply emerge world

Welp. When my current Kindle Fire dies, I will not be replacing it if I can’t get Play Books and Nook Books on it as well.

That and the Gentoo handbook are two of the best resources for learning things about how Linux works

The main downside to a rolling release distro, with that much drift there’s a good chance something will install that conflicts with something else, and nobody can really help because the only real way to replicate your install is to go back in time and do the same thing