As true as that may be, what’s the deal with all the times I’ve read stories of people setting up and configuring everything the way they want, and then after installing whatever particular updates manually, then MS reverts a bunch of settings back the way they want?

I dunno, but when I got my HP laptop that shipped with Windows 10, I got to an initial setup screen that asked me something like what’s my mother’s middle name or maiden name or something like that, for sake of password recovery I believe.

Even though I’m sure I could have entered in any random nonsense that I’d remember, I was like what effing business is it of the OS to ask such private details?

I didn’t even finish the setup and first boot, I shut it down right then and formatted and installer Linux Mint MATE 20, and I couldn’t be happier.

Isn’t it just wonderful how M$ can just screw you without your consent? To hell with Windows!

Welcome fellow penguin 🐧

I do not have an answer for you, but if I may ask…

Why?

Léon URL Cleaner

It’s a simple app that strips extra unnecessary details like tracking tags from copied URL links. Highly recommended for sake of privacy, plus the cleaned links are shorter and tidier.

Yes, that’s exactly my point. I counted 46.

You can’t expect clear skies every day/week of the year can you?

Neat. I naturally assume the very few apparent gaps are due to bad/cloudy weather on those particular days…

Interesting. I’m not quite sure what the laws were back in 1996, but yeah with school and all, plus the travel distance of over 30 miles, even if it was legal for me to work a few hours a day after school, it wouldn’t have been practical at all.

Still nice that he offered the job, I was trying to brainstorm and troubleshoot why my first sound card didn’t work. Turned out he got a defective batch, like 3 other customers had the same issues.

He knew I did all the proper troubleshooting already. Honestly I forget what model sound card it was, but once I proved it didn’t work, he gave me a different card that cost twice as much, for no extra money.

I was offered a job at a computer repair shop at age 14. Dude had to retract his offer when I told him my age, he assumed I was 17 or older.

Mississippi.

As a former BMX flatland rider, I’m almost ambidextrous. Almost.

But if you ask me to write my name with my left hand, you’ll get jibberish.

Whether factual or not, that’s still the direction Canonical is heading.

Here mofo, go purchase Ubuntu Pro…

https://slrpnk.net/post/13269933

Canonical can suck my balls.

Have you not caught the recent news that Ubuntu is now plastering adverts on the desktop if you haven’t paid for it?

Please kindly fuck off.

Wanna hear a scary command I’ve used before?

sudo aptitude reinstall '~i'

Not for the faint of heart, nor meant for a fresh install, but that literally reinstalls every single registered package in Debian based distro.

Edit: If you ever dare use that command, you better make 2 pots of coffee and roll 3 joints, cuz it’ll take a good while…

I sorta had a feeling that wasn’t necessarily the best link after I posted it. Check this for more info (I’m on my phone right now…)

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41273/how-to-create-a-list-of-installed-packages-for-easy-automatic-reinstall-after-di

I feel your pain from a distance, I really do. ☹️

The best advice I have in the meantime is to prepare for a full backup of all packages and consider switching to a different Debian based distro…

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=138166

Your problem is that you’re still using Ubuntu, after Canonical started injecting advertising and wants you to pay for it now.

Try a different distro, like anything besides Ubuntu…

I only came across a spare pair like 2 weeks ago, so I totally understand the confusion.

Mildly interesting update…

I wish the glasses case was neon yellow instead, because apparently blue is impossible to find in the dark. 🤷‍♂️

What’s the opposite of congress?

Progress

I do have a bright blue case, but that’s where I keep my emergency backup glasses. That stays at home though, every time I lose my glasses seems to be when I’m staying the night at a friend’s place…