(It’s funny because we can’t stop them from passing straight through the pool.)

Utahraptor is the size of the ones in the movie and was discovered the same year the movie came out. I like to think that’s what they are, but Crichton and/or Spielberg just thought “velociraptor” was a cooler name.

Please cite sources for your meme.

(No seriously, I want to read them!)

There’s also Ubuntu (which is even less cool than Mint, i guess, but nevertheless exists).

x3 for backups.

The kernel is copyleft (100% of it).

Technically, sort of, but GPLv2 isn’t good enough. Stuff has to be GPLv3 (or AGPLv3) to fulfill the intent of protecting the end user’s right to control their machine. That’s the essential thing people are looking for when they choose “Linux” — if it’s a tyrant device like a smart TV that’s subverted to work against the user by showing ads or whatever, nobody gives a shit if it’s running a Linux kernel because that fact doesn’t actually help them usurp the manufacturer’s control.

Usurpation of control is what “GNU/Linux” implies. The fine details of which software has what license isn’t the point; whether the system as a whole delivers on the promise of user freedom is.

See, this shit is why insisting on “GNU/Linux” is actually important. It’s the copyleft and the end user freedom it provides that matters, not the kernel.

Sabotaged Linuxes like Android just don’t cut it and shouldn’t count.

And more to the point, your work computer should be provided by your employer. If you’re buying that shit yourself, you’re a chump who’s being taken advantage of.

I’m not surprised. It seems like only the unethical companies have growth and turnover these days.

whereupon they cold-called me to ask why i was so frustrated despite apparently being in the 95th percentile of all applicants

LOL, “despite.” You were frustrated because you were in the 95th percentile of applicants! Only the shittiest of the incompetents would put up with that nonsense.

a very low-paid job because the work is not for an unethical purpose

Are you hiring?

Ah, TIL. I just figured it was the KDE-est general-purpose distro.

But still, shouldn’t it at least have a development version of Plasma Login Manager sooner than any others?

Fedora will be the first distro? Adopting it even faster than KDE Neon, a distro made by KDE itself?

I would genuinely love to find a job coding FORTRAN, mainly because it means I’d almost certainly be doing some kind of scientific computing. Way better than most tech jobs that involve boring CRUD work you don’t care about at best, or actively making the world worse implementing the whims of some billionaire sociopath at worst.

The main difference I had in mind is that Google devices let you root and erase them to run stuff like Lineage OS or Graphene OS, and Samsung devices don’t.

(Samsung also puts ads on their TVs and deliberately and blatantly designes their appliances to fail just outside warranty. I will never buy anything from that company again, with the possible exception of components like RAM ICs that get incorporated into some other brand’s product. But even then I’ll try to check for and avoid it because that’s the level of petty revenge Samsung deserves!)

The ironic thing is that Samsung is even worse than Google for users’ rights, and has been for a long time.

That’s what makes them the exception that shouldn’t be reported.

I mean, it’s sufficiently descriptive to imply that randos shouldn’t (ordinarily) be messing with the plants on it. As a native English speaker, it makes sense just fine.

It could mean anything from private land with an easement to prohibit building on it to a National Park, depending on context and jurisdiction. It’s just a non-specific term for “land that is conserved in some way.”

Yes. Python is a multi-paradigm language, but IMO proper “pythonic” python looks a lot more functional than OO, with liberal use of duck-typed list comprehensions and such.