I haven’t watched much of Linus’s stuff, but his behavior in the three Linux challenge videos reminded me of the way Conan O’Brien would act with his staff. It struck me as an off-putting blend of arrogance, entitlement, and impatient senility.

I just watched that Linus tech tips video where the guy uninstalls critical system components by accident while trying to install steam.

First the GUI for the package manager refuses to do it, then apt gives him a warning that he’s going to break his system. It even makes him type “Yes, do what I say!” but he’s too much of a clown to read the warning messages all over his screen. He even smirks at the camera about how silly it is that he would need to type such a thing before he proceeds to mess everything up.

People were trying to defend him, saying that the system shouldn’t have allowed him to do it or that the warnings should have been flashing and shooting rainbows out of the monitor or that a robot arm should have come out and started honking his clown nose to let him know he was doing something stupid.

I get by pretty well just using my bank’s website. If you need the bank’s app for something like occasionally depositing checks, maybe you could keep your old phone in a drawer with your checkbook.

You’re right, maybe there’s nothing to see here. I forgot that people start setting cars on fire as a goof.

Haha, I mean, we’re definitely arguing over semantics but you’re saying something equivalent to, “No, don’t eat ice cream. Put some in your mouth and then swallow it, but don’t eat. We never eat.”

Haha. Would you please also tell the Republican party that you’d appreciate it if they could find prettier ways of destroying our government and constitution.

Think whatever you like but jury nullification is when a juror votes “not guilty” when they actually think someone is guilty of a law that they disagree with.

What you’re describing has a name, and that name is nullification.

Are you mentioning this because of gun ownership in the U.S.? Not many people carry guns every day. Even if they do, they’re not likely to draw their five-shot .38 special against a group of ICE agents in body armor.

Its terrifying that rather than having to admit that they were wrong, people will usually double down on their positions.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” - Carl Sagan

In order for them to understand who the “right” people are, they’d need to be able to see the bigger picture. If they could see the bigger picture, they’d realize that they have better options than murder.

Some pickle brine seems like it would be particularly effective in creating a lovely rust patina.

Now you and the other Jr high kids can communicate your super secret plans

Do you have a home traction/decompression setup?

He and his wealthy friends could be potentially stealing billions from our retirement funds.

My brother in law was still using windows 7 and it had never occurred to him that this might be a security risk. Normal people don’t care.

I’m sure this will draw some criticism but I’ve found duck.ai to be extremely helpful in troubleshooting minor issues with my Linux mint installation and recently with accessing and understanding SMART hard drive diagnostic data. It’s very helpful in figuring out which commands could be useful in the terminal and in understanding exactly what each terminal command is doing. Of course finding answers in forums and manuals is still relevant and important but as a beginner, this has been a fast and easy way to get advice.

Cool form factor, if it can run Linux.

Seems like my package has been delayed in transit!

Awesome!