You’re welcome. I just really like adding context to things :)

Hurrian Hymn

Found it. It’s Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination

What book is that?

I can speak to a few of your questions. I’ve been fully on Linux, both my laptop and gaming PC for two years now.

1. Gaming - I use Steam for all of my games, and have had few issues. Steam uses Proton to allow non-native games to run, and it happens all within the Steam client. New Proton versions update within Steam just like your games. I’ve run across a few games that wouldn’t launch or would CTD, but those are few and far between and similar to my experience in Windows.

Sample of games I’ve played without issue:

• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
• Horizon: Forbidden West
• Helldivers 2
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Dwarf Fortress
• Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Deep Rock Galactic
• Sea of Stars
• Factorio

I have an Nvidia 3080Ti and use the proprietary Nvidia drivers. From what I recall, the install was painless and I haven’t had driver issues.

2. OpenOffice - I use LibreOffice, because to my understanding it is actively maintained unlike OpenOffice, and I haven’t had any issues casually using it to view documents.

3. I use Thunderbird for my mail client and haven’t had any issues setting it up or using basic functionality. It works just as well as it did under Windows.

4. I installed VS Code or one of the foss alternatives, can’t remember which, and haven’t had issues with it.

TL;DR that’s really my experience with everything in Linux. Some things are a learning curve, but most stuff just works. I’m also not a tinkerer. I just wanted an OS that works and stays out of my way and Linux has been great for that.

Bug spray, sunscreen and staying hydrated. Dealing with those issues on top of family is a lot.

The braids look great!..btw love the Sandy updates, please keep posting them!

So, how did he envision his ideal free market in which participants could choose not to participate? How was that supposed to work?

nice

It is, but I believe it’s performing double duty as both an apostrophe and ending the single quotation mark. I’m not an expert though. Just a guess :)

The single quotation marks around Brokeback Mountain and Crash are to indicate they’re titles of a movie.

It’s a joke. He’s implying that Elon is a violent drug addict with severe mental illness. Which is, of course, true.

Thanks for being the pedantic hero we need spankmonkey :)

Thank you! I couldn’t make out the Five Guys!

Highly agree. The stress and anxiety is there for a reason. I actually hated it the whole time I was watching, but it was very much worth it. That being said, I don’t think I’d watch it again.

A shallow hole? We can do at least 12 inches! That ought to be good enough for 20 years.

But why?

You can do that with GrapheneOS.

Fascinating! Thanks for including the reference. It’s almost unbelievable that marking food goes back so far. I assumed that was a relatively recent development.

Does the bread in the bottom middle have that stamp on top? It’s hard to make out but looks like a man-made marking.