It definitely is. But you know what’s worse? Returning a used lawnmower at the end of summer, expecting a refund. Regularly.

Speaking as a guy, not always true. I’ve lost some of the skill, but there was a time when I worked with paints mixing colors, and I was very good at finding the right shades for people who were lost (men and women). I understand that there are subtleties within every color.

My sarcasm would always come out though, when someone would bring in a piece of wood and ask to color match it. I’d ask “which brown”… but then would give them excellent service and figure out what worked for them. Hated and enjoyed that job.

The “they have played us for absolute fools” line always gets me laughing, even when I don’t fully get the setup.

Default? I think the first thing I did once I settled down with my current setup was find a background of my own liking, not something curated. And it’s all mine; no one else has it.

For those that care, all zero of you, it’s a bunch of frames from a cool star field animation, timed to rotate to the next every few seconds or so. Because I could not find anything that would simply play a video as a background, I made something that worked. If that’s not Linux level, I don’t know what is.

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I’ve seen enough bad cop videos of situations escalating out of control for this not to be a surprise. Our military is trained better at de-escalation tactics than our domestic forces.

One of my random Linux boot-up sounds is the WinXP boot theme.

When GIMP’s version 3 came out, it got a lot of great reviews. I can’t tell you what’s different or better, but in using it myself since then, it doesn’t “feel” as daunting. Very subjective, but definitely try it out again; it might work for you this time around.

The original hypertext proposal was even more complex than what we ended up getting, connecting ideas both ways.

The message was not to land there. Clipper is doing a bunch of flybys (to minimize the time in Jupiter’s radiation belt and extend the life of the probe). We’re good.

She went Teddy Roosevelt, and finished her speech.

I’ve used VLC in WIndows forever, but it started giving me glitchy behavior in Ubuntu. Tried to upgrade to see if it was an old version/Snap thing, got frustrated with it not working. So I went through all the lists of Linux players, tried most of them. I like Audacious. It’s not perfect, but it works well, and I can deal with some of the minor things that are more preferences than problems. That’s all I wanted.

That was a great scene in the first Bourne movie.

You know that scene in Iron Man where Tony leaves the one terrorist to the families? “He’s all yours.”

Just saying, that’s a great scene.

See, tariffs do help some people. Just not the ones that need help.

Learned this from a work injury. Even waiting a few hours before you get stitches to pull the gap closer together will leave a scar, albeit a small one. The body doesn’t have time to wait on your slow ass; it’s repairing right away (once the bleeding stops).

With a pilot, apparently.

“But they don’t make it here, everything is offshored.”

“Oh, well, should have thought of that first.”

It’s still a few years away, but so excited for the Europa Clipper to get to Jupiter.

Asking the real questions.