I’m a little curious if this helps or hurts. Collins tries to pass herself off as the most moderate of Republicans, so it could chill her usual base… but, she also is disliked by MAGA folk, so this might give them marching orders.

My guess is it’s a net negative because she’s already done her homework and knows she needs to position herself a moderate to win Maine… especially if Platner struggles with them as I think he might.

I’ve noticed some installers have at least a voting system (e.g. Octopi) which helps… slightly. At least in knowing what the right package name probably is. Crowd source reviewing is probably the only option for such a vast and open system, even if it can be gamed sometimes.

I was thinking that too, like downloading random .exes and complaining your Windows got a virus. At least now a days, Windows .exes have a signing process that warn you, but that’s just like using non-AUR sources; they’re verified.

But we like Linux because it doesn’t give you a big scary full screen warning every time you try to open something… so IDK. If that’s what you need to keep you from installing malware, get off Arch.

We’ve known that for decades… that was the whole point of pushing to get rid of spanking in the 90s; kids model that behavior.

Oh that’s fucking shady. It opens with retirement but you read more and it’s basically saying you can’t tax anyone who owns anything, including things like business or stocks.

Ugh I bet it passes, props are a mistake when the population is so ill informed.

We can also get into the social and political commentary, as that is protected speech too. What does Shrek represent? Let’s get a film buff, historian and a political analyst on board to discuss.

Man, the juiciness of the mayoral race almost makes up for how the governor’s race was and went. Almost.

It’s already fun pissing off electoral deniers, as we do every election since mail in became the norm.

Yes, same; the real solution is Linux podium with an adapter in every room by default. But that’s not happening anytime soon, lol.

Technically it’s not the projector with the issue either, the podium is more or less a very fancy hub with a monitor built in. I feel like the adapter could just be built in if necessary, lol.

Yes but it’s generally easier and less prone to issues to just open their PowerPoint (or really, Google sheets) on the podium since I’m already using it. I’m sure the admin uses adapters as their excuse not to update the hardware though… (even if they are still using Win 11 on decades old computers).

Farm rupees? I swear I couldn’t get rid of rupees fast enough, the RA achievements for the Wii version of the game required every chest opened and that version wouldn’t let you open a chest if you had too many rupees. Donating it all was top priority; I didn’t even do bug turn ins until way later.

I just want to share that last semester, the Windows podium computer we used decided randomly to update during a student presentation. It did not help their nerves, but I did turn it into a chance to evangelize Linux.

And no, they can’t use their own laptop, the connections to the podium computer, and thus the projector, use VGA…

I vaguely remember connecting a chain of those… I want to say, spiral ramps? The kind you see in parking structures sometimes? Or something like that… It was a long time ago.

First game I ever made custom tracks on… as like, a 5 year old. I was more into making tracks than racing them, which is something that hasn’t changed in the past few decades.

Moka pots are a little stronger than drip so it’s enough to keep me going. If something important is up, I might get a latte or something out… but I try to save that rush for important things so it still hits as intended.

Oh I should also mention I haven’t worked in an office for a couple years now. Now that I teach, I go full espresso before lecture and that’s it. Lol

It’s weird to me simply because I bring my own brew. Office coffee just isn’t as good as my moka pot and if you’ve got a zojirushi or similar high quality thermos, you can have hot coffee for a majority of the day.

I mean, they develop and maintain Proton yet they don’t even prohibit you from using it on other things. If literally any company did that, their shareholders would riot…

…so I don’t think it technically qualifies as a monopoly, but they probably could have had a legal monopoly using an exclusivity patent on the tech (although they technically can’t patent the whole thing because it’s based on Wine, but they could have done this in a way that they could have).

Any Chinese people? Because I’ve got several Chinese friends and coworkers I could name but probably wouldn’t on live TV, lol.

I’ve got the same setup but I found the issue wasn’t the hardware but a driver conflict with my Nintendo Gameboy Printer. I was able to rollback and get it working fine.

Me and my mean voice just direct that anger at y’all. It gives me great things to say that I don’t say out loud. Usually. Except in traffic.