It wouldn’t be a one shot mission, of course. SpaceX have proven that they can launch a bunch of those in quick succession. That would still be a fraction of the cost of the idiotic SLS.

Relying on Starship as a moon lander is one of the most hare brained decisions of NASA in recent years. OTOH, it would be perfectly feasible to get a moon mission going using Falcon 9 as the launch vehicle.

That’s why getting to the moon permanently is so important. Once we get in situ resource utilisation going, the rest of the solar system becomes much more accessible.

We reached Mars with probes 50 years ago. I’m not in any way trying to denigrate the amazing achievements of the Mars rovers. But the fact remains that a human crew could have done all that and more (like drill a hole) in a few weeks at best.

Mint. Takes half an hour to install and set up. Doesn’t get in the way after that.

And fifty years later we still mope around in low earth orbit. Progress has slowed down a lot since the billionaires took over.

Probable.

If you don’t compile everything from source, you may as well get a Chromebook!

Typical of these evil, woke scientists to try to make good upstanding citizens gay with their evil sciencing. Good thing President Trump is putting an end to all this.

You guys sure are a thirsty lot.

Took me way too long to figure out this stuff is called B Cache FS and not BCA Chefs.

Obviously. I use Mint, by the way.

We’re working on it.

High time for Heisenberg to get his own cat. Can’t let Schrödinger have all the fun to himself.

But how do you get the chicken back from the stratosphere once you’ve slapped it that fast?

If you have a British or American accent, people will find it cute. If you have an eastern European or middle Eastern accent, not so much.

It took me over a year too. I was using a mini PC with Mint but still kept my old Windows PC under my desk. When I built a new PC, it never got defiled, though.

Step one: back up your data.

Step two: back up your data again.

Ubuntu has been making quite a few missteps lately that have cost it a lot of popularity.

Take it slow. Install a VM with Mint. Play around with it. Get familiar. Move your regular usage over to it gradually. Make the jump when you are ready. It’s perfectly OK to have reservations about a big change like that. But you don’t have to do it all in one go.