Wilson from House M.D., who, after surviving cancer, decided to retire from oncology and live as a recluse on a desert island.

There are a fair few examples in the book itself. https://qntm.org/clean

Shells. Because I’m less likely to get eaten.

Seriously though. Fuck shell pasta where they all stick together

Not sure whether timeshift supports multiple systems per partition, but I’d be very surprised if you couldn’t create separate partitions for each PC

If you’re moving away from text formats, might as well use a proper serialisation tool like protobuf…

“They were always green”. I wish

https://youtu.be/22vbhTi1ieI?si=pS1mcII10zdelEan

They provide .deb files. I didn’t hunt any further than that

You will be fine. I game on mint with an Nvidia card. Steam has a setting to fall back to proton for all games without native Linux, and for everything off steam use Lutris (install it from the website, since the package manager version is too old to be useful)

Which one?

WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE

First time I’ve come across the Chinese Room, but it’s pretty obviously flawed. It’s not hard to see that collectively the contents of the room may understand Chinese in both scenarios. The argument boils down to “it’s not true understanding unless some component part understands it on its own” which is rubbish - you can’t expect to still understand a language after removing part of your brain

For all Spotify’s failings, this is something it actually does a great job at. I get a playlist of new recommendations each week, 6+ daily playlists in different styles, playlists based on artists/genres/moods etc.

Yes, thank fuck for that. Material design fatigue is real

Plus the cost of your own ram, storage, etc.

So you’re the guy who organises the computer literacy programmes in schools?

The comma and ampersand are plain English, not one big command

This has to be a shitpost

Out of curiosity, why? If it’s a knee-jerk reaction to change that’s completely understandable, but I can’t see anything to dislike about the feature itself

But it would hit a different place every time… Most developers wouldn’t even consider checking for this, and the chance of getting a repro in a debugger is slim to none