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here in the midwest, i see random packages of frozen game meat from the food pantry every now and then. usually venison, sometimes bear… elk once, even. and not always packaged by a commercial meat locker, either.

i know this is a link to that other site, but this old post has a link to the full essay as published in 1980.

https://old.reddit.com/r/asimov/comments/6616rh/a_cult_of_ignorance_by_isaac_asimov_1980_via_pdf/

i pieced together a comparable 2tb on pcpartpicker, using the cheapest reputable choices and vendors. it was about $200-250 less for the pc (without an os) in a standard matx tower form factor.

an image viewer with the feature set and workflow of irfanview on windows.

‘hybrid sleep’ does write the hibernate file before going into ‘sleep mode’. if you have an older system or one that doesn’t use ‘modern standby’ and you have an ssd, you might want to double-check that setting in your power scheme advanced settings.

the culprit is actually probably “fast startup” which writes a hibernate file every shutdown. every “normal” ‘shutdown’… close programs, logoff, hibernate, power off. this feature is unnecessary on systems with ssd but it continues to be enabled by default. it was created in the days of old to make hdd systems appear to boot up faster by not actually starting up windows on every power on.

hibernate isn’t enabled by default.

the other writer of hibernate data, hybrid sleep, doesn’t even exist on a newer system that uses ‘modern standby’… but is enabled by default on desktops that do not.

you’re on the right track, i think, but not bazzite–that carries a lot of extra stuff that isn’t necessary here. just ordinary fedora silverblue. clean up the app grid or put dash-to-dock on it and put the few launchers they need down on that. gnome is actually a good desktop for basic users that just need to run one or a few applications. updates are somewhat frequent but should be almost entirely automatic.

i have a few users like your parents on endless os, which is similar to silverblue, just based on an in-house immutable debian instead of silverblue’s fedora base. i rarely ever hear from them, it ‘just works’. i also have it at home, it’s currently my only linux desktop there (i do most my ‘work’ at the office, home is just doom-scrolling and media for the most part these days). updates are less frequent but endless is switching to a gnome os base with the next major version. that will probably increase the frequency of updates a bit compared to their older debian base. that upgrade to v7 should be mostly invisible to the user, they’ve done a good job in the past with upgrades.

many were there first, long before microsoft bought the site. but now? yea. why tf are people still using it.

how long until they fill it in with concrete and paint that blue?

(then wonder why tf it ain’t “reflecting”?)

like we’re seeing with Android’s “Desktop mode”.

apple is already in on this game, as well.

every day i use windows less than the day before. i still ‘need’ it for some things, including work, but on a personal level it’s almost entirely linux lately… but it’s been a three decade journey.

the ‘tower’ is only eight stories… it’s not a ‘skyscraper’, and is only one element of a near-20 acre campus that also has an athletic center, a branch of cpl, gardens, and a lot of open space.

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/a-first-look-inside-the-new-obama-presidential-center

i’m waiting for them to try dropping blue paint, or food coloring, or fabric dye into it…

well, they fired anyone that would have given a damn, or would know the chemistry and calculations. so what they gonna do? it’s not like this administration knows how to choose or hire knowledgeable, experienced, competent, and qualified persons. why didn’t they just hire another ‘pool boy’ to ‘fix’ it at a cost of $50 million for the ‘rush’ job? (less, of course, whatever gets kicked back under the potty chair).

caffeine has actual proven medical uses. it is also an active ingredient of numerous medications, including the otc anacin and the rx-only cafergot.

not that quickly… not enough time for them to set up the insider trading first.

…kratom hasn’t been shown to be safe or to treat any medical conditions. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned people not to use kratom because of possible harm it can cause. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration calls kratom a drug of concern.
…

excerpt from:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/prescription-drug-abuse/in-depth/kratom/art-20402171
- june 18, 2024.

addressing exploiting

he deserves it.

we pay the price.

just another day in america

the “unity” they want is just for themselves to ‘unite’ against everyone else. if they splinter, they would lose.

double-down and do something even more stupid. it’s what they do.

good thing the planet spins around and goes around on its own, because they’d find a way to fuck that up, too.