Why would you make jalepeños even worse?

Israel has a similar population and GDP to Michigan (and a similar land area to New Hampshire).

Despite being a swing state, Michigan has nowhere near as much influence over US national policy.

Condescension was such a weird way to respond to my comment in the first place, and I’m sorry I fell for it and responded in the same vein. I should instead have taken the opportunity to point out that in addition to Kipling mentioning pawpaw in the novel, it’s quite possible that Terry Gilkyson had never heard of the American pawpaw either and that the fruit shown in the cartoon movie more closely resembles a papaya than an American pawpaw.

I’m well aware. Are you aware that the Kipling novel specifically mentions pawpaw too?

The pawpaw in the Jungle Book is what’s known in the US as papaya. It’s been cultivated in India since at least the 18th century. Likewise prickly pears have been brought all over the world. By the time Kipling wrote The Jungle Book, both fruits were well established in India, just as many old world fruits have made it to the Americas.

Yeah, it was an issue of Gun Lovers Monthly

The moment I can get a laptop-style RISC-V device with virtualisation support I’m doing it. Double bonus if I can actually use it as my daily driver.

I would guess that they’ll be sourcing a next-gen RISC-V processor ASAP, since those will enable virtualisation. If they stick one in a laptop shell I’d probably buy it pretty quickly. Doubly so if it has EFI.

Oh I think we all know why…

Art isn’t open source, right?

I’m sure I’ll get shouted down for this suggestion by the haters, but I’m going to make it anyway because it’s actually really good:

Use an Ubuntu LTS flavour like Kubuntu. Then, add flatpak and for apps you want to keep up to date, install either the flatpak or the snap, depending on the particular app. In my personal experience, sometimes the flatpak is better and sometimes the snap is better. (I would add Nix to the mix, but I wouldn’t call it particularly easy for beginners.)

This gets you:

1. A reliable Debian-like base that you only have to upgrade to new releases every 2 years
2. Up-to-date apps, including confinement for those apps
3. New kernels every 6 months (if you choose - you don’t have to, though)

Can confirm that it can do this fairly well.

Source: the time I grabbed a machine we were about to toss and made it a secondary domain controller for our site so we could nuke and pave our misbehaving Server 2012 DC.

(That other one was also a secondary DC - we just needed one on-site so we could prevent our T1 connection to another site from being the bottleneck.)

Just to put that in perspective: that’s less than a dollar per American for NASA and over a thousand dollars for the military.

I am a certified Linux user with over 20 years of experience.

Please run the following command in a terminal:

sudo dnf install apt

And then try the instructions above. Let me know if this fixes your issue

• certified Linux expert

If you’re a time traveller you could build up credibility with other things too. Start contacting a journalist with predictions of future headlines. Go back to October 2000 and say what’s going to happen with Bush v. Gore. Then in like July 2001 meet up with them, explain that you’re a time traveller which is how you know this, and show them the video.

Agreed. The great defaults in Plasma definitely are a major draw for me.

Significant improvement there.

Hooked on a feeling in my ass

That tracks, I think Vüdü Linux is a dead project.