In the days of old when knights were bold and toilet paper wasn’t invented, they’d wipe their ass with a piece of grass and walk away contented.

This basically happened in an early (possibly the first?) episode of Community. Likely that was inspired by something that happened in real life, but it would not be surprising if the story in the image was inspired by Community.

Plus it puts on a Santa hat around Christmas.

Username checks out.

“I’ve heard your name.” “Most people have; it’s also a noun.”

I’ve dislocated my shoulder fourteen times; as a result, when I broke my ankle, I just thought it was dislocated as well. I twisted it back into place and tried to stand up on it … Twice … Before my neighbor heard me and gave me the sage advice to stop doing that.

I mean, possibly.

Never before have I considered the idea of “licking their own brains” and I thank you for bringing that thought into my life.

With self hosted email and at least Proton Mail (and probably other paid solutions), you can set up a “catch all” address. With that, any non existing email gets redirected to one; for me, I have spam@domain.com so, while myname@domain.com goes to my inbox, thisaddressisinvalid@domain.com and, I don’t know, walmart@domain.com both go to spam@domain.com. I don’t need an individual entry for every alias and I can specifically block any address that’s particularly spammy or compromised.

I hear that you can have a similar setup with something called SimpleLogin, but I’ve never tried that.

Alongside many of the useful comments here, I’d like to add one great thing about installing Linux on a new computer: you can’t accidentally anything on the new computer! There’s presumably no data to be lost, you can even install Linux without ever booting into the Windows environment. If you don’t have it connected to your network, there’s nearly no risk; even if you do, that risk is minimal. I always feel a distinct comfort imaging a system that’s never been used.

As for the how, others have covered it, but just identify your distribution of choice (Fedora and Linux Mint are great starters), download the ISO from their website, plug a thumb drive into any running system, and download a USB imaging tool. Balena Etcher is a popular one and the one I use, but many others are available and popular as well if you have a preference.

This is a wonderful post.

I feel like I haven’t literally laughed out loud for some time, but this did it for me. Thank you.

https://stopdisablingselinux.com

If all you need is to restore read permissions, you could use symbolic rather than octal:

chmod -R a+r $DIR

If you don’t want to grant read permissions to everyone you can replace the a with whichever applies of ugo for user, group or other.

I never saw the episode myself, but I suspect that is not what happened in the episode.

Generally speaking, I would say that Doctor Who is more about whimsy than fact.

Supposedly, in a classic episode of Doctor Who, the Doctor calculated that there was a non-zero chance for all of the molecules in a rubber ball to align with all of the molecules in a wall in such a way as to allow the ball to pass through the wall. He then spent some time bouncing the ball off of said wall to test the theory. Perhaps something similar could be a backup plan for the guy in this comic.

Admittedly it’s been a long time since this was relevant to me, so this may have changed, but where and when I grew up in the US you could get a learner’s permit (unlimited driving with another qualified driver in the car) at 15 yrs and 9 mos, then a full license (able to drive by yourself and transport anyone over 18) at, I think, 16 and 6 mos. At 18 the restrictions on whom you could transport disappeared, but I’ve never heard of anyone paying attention to or enforcing those rules anyway.

There may also have been a restriction about driving after midnight, but I don’t recall for sure.

I’ve also only been to one once. Leonard Nimoy was there. It was cool.

Only, I was around the age of five when that happened. Reflecting on the event as an adult, I think it might have been a guy who put on Spock ears, then talked about Leonard Nimoy. I’d never even seen Star Trek at that point; I wouldn’t have known the difference.

I actually have a second memory of visiting one, but I think that was just an episode of Friends. I guess I was pretty gullible as a kid. (And totally not now.)

If by “electric candle lighter” you mean one of those “plasma” or arcing ones, they’re awesome, but cannot light anything that won’t fit between the two ends of the arc. I love mine for candles, but have yet to successfully start my charcoal grill with them. I imagine a campfire would suffer similar issues.

Hopefully you have better luck!