southsamurai

I’m not sure if you’re mildly irritated at the compilations themselves, or that the “franchises” involved went way too long.

I’m a f an of compilations tbh. It’s a solid way to snag the whole schmear cheap (usually). I can just choose to ignore the ones I don’t like, same as I did when a given series started going to shit.

Spider-Man though, that’s a different kettle of fish. Comics run for decades, lifetimes in some cases. Movies about the same characters are going to be as likely to have extended production, with as many ups and downs as the comics do (and there are some horrible runs of even the best comic titles).

I’m with you on the laziness and risk aversion that makes 9 American pie movies happen. Or most franchises that start in a similar way. The first was a great movie, but it really didn’t need a sequel, much less multiplies that not only abandoned the characters and what little storyline there was, but stopped putting in effort to good writing.

Not that a successful one-off can’t spawn a decent franchise, it’s just that studios don’t put in the investment to make it happen.

Look at the Bond series. While there have been plenty of stinkers, it was approached as a long term thing early on and has also managed to have some great movies even as it aged. No high art or anything, but still some solid escapist action.

Familiar

So, mint with cinnamon

When I bought a laptop after self publishing my first book, I went with a thinkpad specifically because they handle linux so well. t480

That’s been a few years now, and it’s still running smooth, no issues at all, even with mint having been upgraded a few times.

One problem

Batteries.

I’ve used old devices as many things: security cameras, a form of intercom, digital picture frames, etc. The real problem is that the batteries eventually go bad, and become dangerous.

For the few devices that have realistically replaceable batteries, that’s no big deal, but how many of those are left now?

No thanks to the potential fire, I’ll pass. The few devices I have left that I can swap batteries out are becoming harder to find new batteries for as well, so that’s an issue beyond their anemic hardware (I’m talking really old tablets at this point)

No more or less flawless than windows, Android, or the iOS stuff.

It’s different flaws.

Eh, I fucked up, what can I say

He needs commitment lol.

Dude used to go around in character fucking with people. Great guy, just a wee bit bonkers

Holy shit!

Forgive me for going off topic, but I gotta ping my buddy, @Jerusalemspiderman@lemdro.id

He’s a fellow transmetropolitan fan.

My Spider has the tattoo on his head for real. Used to sometimes do a cosplay of the character.

I wish I could say that I didn’t have to learn it. Even with the women in my family being very empowered, and leading us boys to being more aware than most, I did have to unlearn some things, and pick up others.

We all gotta help each other be better when we can.

My dude. That kind of thinking is exactly why women need their own spaces.

You may not realize it, or have ever examined yourself, but you just expressed misogyny in a mild form here, where you have had every chance to pick and choose how you say things to support your opinion that the reason given for the bans was unjustified.

It’s okay for a given group to have their own spaces without intrusion. A gay men’s space should absolutely be able to exclude women and straight men. A straight men’s space should be able to exclude gay men and women.

The only time having dedicated spaces is a problem is when every space is dominated by a single group. And that’s just not the case with a women only space. To the contrary, women struggle to have their voices heard in open spaces where everyone is allowed specifically because men dominate those spaces.

If you, as a man, went and ignored a clearly visible community rule, you absolutely deserve a ban from that community. As well, the fact that you’d blatantly ignore a clearly visible rule in community is a damn good indicator that you think you’re above rules, which means that a mod preemptively banning you from other communities ceases to be an over reaction.

So, I’m going to be harsh as hell in this. You stated that you knew the rule and ignored it. That means you’re either an arrogant asshole, or a petulant child. Neither of which is a good look when trying to claim a mod behaved badly.

I hope to fuck not.

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Ngl, I wouldn’t use the rose scented stuff either, but mainly because my nose would clog up if I tried. Most fake flower smells do it.

I’d just go ham and exfoliate harder. Soap isn’t actually necessary to be clean and not smell. It’s just much easier to achieve those goals with it than without. Hell, depending on where you’re washing on your body, soap can be a bad thing because even the stuff designed to not over strip skin won’t always live up to that promise.

Legit folks, if you run out of soap, you can be just as clean (as in dead skin cells sloughed off, excess oils gone, and any odors from the bacteria on your body gone) with just your hands, short term. You’d need something better at exfoliating than bare hands if it’s going to be over about a week, but it’s still doable. Longer term, soap itself is just faster, not better, than any other product that can reduce skin oils and any clinging dirt.

You’d be amazed how many people have strong sensitivities to most surfactants, or outright allergies to some of the more common ingredients. They can be right beside you in an elevator after years of not using soap, and you won’t know.

Psst, hey. You in there.

Here’s a blanket, a pillow, and a cup of hot chocolate. I’ll leave it outside the door and walk away so you can still pretend nobody knows you’re in there.

If you’re already dual booting, your windows install should still be safe. I’m not saying it will be, just that going to a paid version of Linux shouldn’t change anything about either install.

Afaik, zorin just uses a key to “unlock” things, so you won’t be changing anything at all.

That’s my exact distro/de combo. Never had any issues with trackpad use that weren’t also there with the win10 that came on the thinkpad. Which was just that it’s prone to detecting even the lightest accidental taps and over reacting. Maybe it’s device specific?

Edit: by device specific, I mean that it isn’t every touchpad w/Libreoffice’s issue, rather something that’s wonky with some range of hardware and not others

Really specific here, but font control.

Us folks with dyslexia in its various expressions have trouble with command line. If you can’t read a specific command, good luck ever getting comfortable with it. You can’t error check yourself, so until you build up memory, you’re kinda screwed if you can’t use the fonts that are available.

Wow. Just wow.

Drag comes back and that’s who shows up. Horrible “luck”.

Fwiw, while it’s already been said, the threats are laughable. Who would they sue? A user name? Good luck with that lol. And they didn’t suffer any harm from anything to begin with, so by standards in most of the western world, even if they could manage to file suit, they wouldn’t get anything.

What’s sad is that the person in question doesn’t even understand why they’re like that, but have talked about the indulging underlying issues that make them act like a jerk on a fairly regular basis, depending on one’s threshold for what is and isn’t jerk behavior.

Hope drag have better luck in avoiding the jerks of the world.

Id say it’s the mindset of the experienced linux user that matters.

If you’re willing to tell a person, “if you run into trouble, call me”, and then follow up when they do, half the fight is over.

Most people, they try it and it’s fine, as long as the basics are there. You show them where the browser and email are, set up desktop shortcuts to important stuff, and answer questions, and they’ll eventually not even think about the fact that it isn’t windows.

But the first time they run into trouble, and you can’t give them an answer in a reasonable amount of time, they blame Linux, because they forgot how long it took them to figure out windows originally, and aren’t willing to look things up even if that’s what they did when they ran into a Windows problem.

So, you gotta play tech support for a while if you’re the one introducing them.

You aren’t going to change mindsets inside someone else in any realistic timeframe.

Damn, I can hear the wheezing from here

That’s a lotta fucking Newports