Nickelback

in “Russia”

See also: John Oliver’s take from 6 years ago

https://youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc?si=YHabkkb1NZ8aGROS

Fighter pilot reflexes

Agreed. See also: Benghazi, Hunter Biden, etc.

We have a bad habit of gliding down the slippery slope.

We tried that once. It didn’t go so well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

They do. By default the system partition is straight up mounted read-only.

Not that it really matters, but the commercial is for Old El Paso.

Is that… ICQ? Why?

Powell has the power to push exactly one button.

#RED ALARM!!!

They banned flavored pods. That’s why disposables took off. Those are banned now too, but enforcement is basically non-existent at the federal level.

besides memory leaks

Have you tried auto memory reclaim yet?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-subsystem-for-linux-september-2023-update/#:~:text=Automatic memory reclaim&text=When this is set to,you’re not using it!

Do you want to talk about it?

The customary reply is “Thanks! I’ll add it to my list”

That’s a funny way to say “Have you opened a ticket?”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/linux-distros-are-about-to-get-a-killer-windows-feature-the-blue-screen-of-death/#:~:text=The systemd-bsod component is,photo or write it down.

What a great idea! They should automate something like that! Maybe they could call it System Restore?

https://www.silentinstall.org/msiexec

This is one of the issues that systemd purports to solve, and it gets nothing but flack for it.

Granted, systemd does have its flaws. But the religious war around it is unjustified.

Take it up with Tennessee Williams.