"Why, back in the old days," the priest said, "we could just drown them by hand, but during covid we had to resort to guns. Good times."

'Tis why I have a 6-fan laptop pad between the laptop and my legs. Keeps my legs from burning, allows heat evac too.

Before CD distros? Ma Bell loved us lots ... or at least our wallets.

Send in the Orcas!

I'd been a Fidonet BBS sysop for years when I read Torvald's post on comp.os.minux and I was interested, as MS-DOS was too limited. So I downloaded my first "not distro" on a midnight call (300 baud!) to Finland. It wasn't even a distro back then, just a bare kernel and a few programs. Then SLS came out in late '92 and I was off and running.

I've hopped all the major distros just out of curiosity and torture/fun, many times, too many to count. Each has it's own quirks and usability, but they all have the kernel. So it doesn't matter which you run as long as you like it, you're having fun exploring, and it does what you want it to do.

Oh, for the days of constant distro-hopping ...

I use signal on my phone and laptop but a while back they stopped supporting tablet versions. Wish they would bring that back.

I am, but I also want to find out if the three black-and-white people in the group shot of the movie poster is significant, like an Easter egg, callback or reference forward, or just a production error. Or did they run out of modern actors and had to dip back into the '50s to hire some monotone help.

We kept our mom out of a nursing home specifically for the food and staffing and overpriced everything reasons. When we looked them all over, even the $5000 a month place had residents calling out for help endlessly, with just two nurses aides working over 100 residents. So sad. Profit over care, from insurance to nursing home.

Ha ha ha! Spez is really pushing it.