H’okay, so. Several years ago, some weird shit happened on Youtube.

Youtube is not designed for children under 13, nevertheless it became pretty popular for parents to just hand their children an iPad. There were creators that made a genuine effort to make healthy and wholesome children’s programming, but they were quickly outpaced by lazy jackasses who were just trying to make a buck.

The Youtube algorithm is designed to push content to achieve maximum engagement. It’s designed with adults in mind. The viewers are toddlers, who cannot read and who respond strongly to repetitive sounds and motions, faces and bright colors. So these lazy jackasses started churning out videos with as many popular keywords in the titles as possible, so you’d get “finger family pregnant frozen elsa kills hitler spiderman” Finger family being the name of a severely ear wormy nursery rhyme thing. The videos were designed to be baby crack, there were stories of kids screaming when their iPads were taken away.

This happened before the AI boom, but they’ve got a similar broken surreal uncanny idea cancer feel to them despite all of the videos being intentionally made by people.

Amateur radio operators are indeed allowed to transmit analog NTSC television in the UHF band. It’s most commonly done on the 70cm (440MHz) band, and a normal everyday 90’s television is all you need to receive the signals. You’d tune to what would have been cable channels 57 through 61. The use cases for this have decreased in recent years; for example you used to see hams using amateur television to send video signals from RC aircraft or model rockets, now that’s done with compressed digital video over something like Wi-Fi and doesn’t require a license. But, it’s still legal for hams to do.

I’m changing my vote in the Agora from “yes defederate” to "Hell fucking yes defederate.’

Excel?

I’ve got DTIMO. Disappoimtment That I Missed Out. I had a boring grey one when it could have looked like a sports car. it would even go vroom too. faaaaahck.

Statistically, yes.

I’ve seen a cable lift that worked basically like that. It transferred ore down the mountain, so heavy buckets going down lifted the empty buckets back up.

Wait. They made ones that looked like cars? Dammit.

I do know that Linus is on record with low opinion of C++. I have heard of him compare the cult-like following Rust has with the whole Vim/Emacs tribalism thing.

nah just publish a really racist book or something.“Flick Flickerson, author of the controversial title Every Slur I Know…”

you want to really bend your brain about airplanes, go looknhow the air conditioning on a big jet works. the phrase “air pack” will help in your search. I don’t know which is more impressive, that it actually works or that someone thought of it.

Difficult to concisely explain what Wayland is.

Software in the Linux ecosystem tends to be built on earlier projects. You may be aware of the various Desktop Environments like Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon, xfce, etc. Something they all have, or had, in common was they all used a truly ancient piece of software called X11. This is the Windowing server. Most of the look and feel of a desktop environment comes from a configuration file that sets up X11 to work a certain way.

X11 has been a standard for longer than Linux has existed, it dates to the early 80’s. It is quite old and isn’t capable of keeping up with some newer technologies like multiple monitors at different framerates, HDR, there are problems with things like Freesync, etc.

Wayland is a project for replacing X11 with a newer system designed with modern display technology in mind. It works a little differently, and it breaks compatibility with a lot of long-standing systems, but it’s now in use by several DEs by default. At the moment there are technical reasons to use Wayland and technical reasons to use X11.

Yes, I’m aware. Basically I don’t see life on the Arch family tree as preferable to what I have enough to redo my settings menu preferences.

There are basically 2 things that can tempt me away from Fedora KDE right now:

1. I’ll return to Mint Cinnamon if Wayland support and the GPU features it enables are robustly added to Cinnamon.

2. Equal or better support for my hardware with better and easier package management. The main gripe I have about Fedora compared to Mint is the repository is a lot emptier. The long if now gone era of Ubuntu being THE distro for desktops means a LOT of stuff is packaged as .debs or when you do have to go to Github there’s almost always “Debian/Ubuntu” instructions. Arch’s AUR has a reputation of having literally everything in it, but my understanding is being bleeding edge it’s liable to break, and it’s yet another source of software in addition to the standard repos and Flatpak. Yes I think I would install things from Flathub rather than the AUR if available in both because I see Flatpak and Flathub as either the de facto place for the publishers of software especially commercial software to officially release for Linux, and if it isn’t yet I’d like to encourage it to be. The AUR being Arch-specific is as much of a non-starter for me as Snap is.

No direct experience with it, I’m kinda meh on Arch in general, largely earned by Manjaro.

When discussing American furniture, I like to refer to the Shakers as a “sect” and not a “cult” because as far as I can tell they didn’t commit any atrocities.

Over the last ten years, the number of distributions I would recommend to beginners has narrowed to basically Linux Mint Cinnamon and Fedora KDE. Mint if you want good UX and easier time managing packages, Fedora KDE if you want Wayland to actually work.

Here’s my rule: Anything in my Chevy S10 that you control by turning a knob, moving a lever, or momentarily push a button? That needs to be a physical control in a car. Anything where you push and hold a button, or mash a button multiple times (like setting the clock or turning off the DRLs respectively) can be moved to a settings menu in a touch screen. These things shouldn’t be done while moving.

And no, touch sensitive single-function panels like the climate controls in my father’s Avalon are not good enough, it needs to be a mechanical control that you can feel for without activating.

Free market economy != Capitalism.

Typically they’ll do a major revamp or a clean sheet design of a model, so the 2005 Hoyota Civrolla is a completely new car. The 2006 Civrolla will be available in a few different paint colors and 2 different wheel options. The 2007 model has a different grille so it looks even more like it’s smiling while wearing a retainer. The 2008 model has a different washer bottle assembly and the battery tray is now molded plastic instead of stamped steel. The 2008 model is available with a 2.7 liter engine in addition to the 3.6. 2009 they eliminate the base model trim so now they all have power mirrors and cruise control. The 2010 models with CD players can now play mp3s off the CD. 2011 they only sell the 6-speed manual with the 2.7 liter engine, the V6 is only available with an automatic. 2012 they do a major style update, same chassis and running gear, different bodywork and the interior shares more components with the Elamry.