Almost 3 years and the only thing that has argued with me is Mint wouldn’t talk to my ancient audio interface. When I feel like recording again I’ll get a compliant one.

Bullet through the battery should be pretty effective. Surely they are lithium batteries. They catch fire if they get a hole in 'em.

Have you seen Cool Hand Luke?

Linux Mint runs my laptop. I do some light 3d modeling and slicing, maybe a little photo editing. I guess that makes me a pretty casual user.

Marx was German.

Shitty orange disaster is what he fucking is

Hey, then we can redundant their positions, what with the having no allies. Think of the money we could save on their salaries and flying them around. No downside at all. This is winning, right?

Is that a Nintendo power glove?

The president is a Powerpuff Girls villain.

Money hungry. It’s all for the resources. They’ll do it relatively bloodless if you let 'em, but they aren’t going to stop till they are made to.

I’m reminded of the phrase vagina dentata

You aren’t wrong but you sound unhinged. That’s coming from someone who lives in the woods and runs Mint.

The CNC machines I run at work run from windows xp. IT disconnected them from the network, so I have to get.dxf files from my engineer on a thumb drive to program machining paths from. Ain’t that progress? No it’s lazy.

So I genuinely don’t know a thing about the subject, but if there’s a surface level answer you can give me…

Why not? Could they not just open a plant to do exactly that?

Greta is great. Her arrest record is surely a thing of legend, and man, does she ever piss off the bastards in charge. But that’s the thing, she’s known, she’s liked and she’s loud. She may be effective.

Hunger strikes are always done by someone you can’t see. They are usually already imprisoned.

Maybe we’re just insulated in the States. We definitely collectively lack empathy. I guess it comes down to who you’re willing to do violence against. It’s not in me to do violence to myself, which choosing to starve certainly is, but I’m willing to punch a Nazi and have more than once in my life.

I guess everyone who will fight will fight their own way.

Yep, heard of him. Don’t know enough about his hunger strike to understand what it accomplished. Power must have had more of a conscience then, or feared the reaction of the people if he managed to die though. That just makes it harder for me to believe it can be an effective tactic now.

I’ve never been able to quite grasp the rationale of a hunger strike. I can’t recall hearing about one that was successful. You are protesting men who have no respect for life by causing yourself to suffer at them? More likely there is some “powerful” man, or group of “powerful” men, somewhere furiously masturbating to your suffering.

I mean no disrespect to the protesters, I just don’t see a possible win for them with that tactic.

My wife was given a new work computer. Windows 11 and not enough RAM. She has been finding a new reason to hate it nearly every day, starting with how every change made to windows has fucked up her workflow in some way.

Me just nodding in acknowledgement as my little Dell Inspiron 15 purs along on Mint with Cinnamon.

I don’t actually use a computer for much anymore. I model in Blender for 3D printing, and have two slicers installed but I think I have just used Prusa mostly. Eventually I’ll get around to wanting to play with a DAW again. I have a couple, but I haven’t messed with them. Fooled with GIMP a little. I’m the most boring Linux user. Everything online is done on my mobile.