bluewing

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bluewing,

Let me know when you can train a cat to herd sheep or train one to hunt and retrieve game on command. I’ve got 3 cats and 4 dogs here. The cats make nice and often amusing lap warmers. But beyond catching the odd mouse, they can’t do work.

bluewing,

Yeah, but not for countertop appliances. Those are all 110/120VAC. Even things as large as a consumer level refrigerator or freezer are almost always 110/120VAC too.

While I have a kettle for water, there are two issues with them for tea.

  1. The water gets stale and the reheating drives off the all the excess air that fresh water has. This loss of dissolved oxygen kills the flavor of your tea and makes it taste bad. You should always use fresh water to make your or even coffee.
  2. A cheap kettle is, well cheap. You can’t make a good cup of green or oolong tea if you pour boiling water on it. Those need to be brewed at a lower temperature. And guessing doesn’t work. And a temperature adjustable kettle will set you back anywhere from $50US to $100US.
bluewing,

So will most things.

bluewing,

It’s here Sunshine. And it’s been the law, for what 50 years now?

So go to the store and buy a 2 liter of your favorite soda pop, 454g of butter, 2 1/4kilos of potatoes, a half kilo of tomatoes, and a 750ml bottle of whisk(e)y. Then get out your wrenches and use the 10mm to tighten that wobbly leg on that chair. Oh, your 10mm wrench is missing too? Well, do you have a 160mm adjustable wrench? No? I have one here in my tool box use that one.

Oh, you want it in your car? You either just need to read the other scale printed on the speedometer or just push a button. Instant metric system.

The metric system is here. You use it and your too blind to see it…Most 'Muricans are either trying too hard to be edgy or they are just dumb I guess.

bluewing,

He IS a felon. But while he went through the impeachment process several times, he was never convicted. And there is no rule or law that says a felon can’t be president.

While voting for Trump, or even entertaining his views, is a red flag warning. Like it or not, he is legally entitled to run. Perhaps the rules and laws should be changed. But to do that would require either a unified congress or a super majority of a party willing to do so. And I suspect, that as it currently stands, neither side wants to limit themselves from gaining the power and status of national or state office brings to them for any reason.

bluewing,

Oh, I whole heartily agree. There is a lot tit for tat in politics. And rules are meant to be bent and twisted to one’s own end. It could end up being a slippery slope as easily as not.

bluewing,

Garlic is life.

I think a lot of the issue for a goodly number of people adding more garlic than is called for has to do with the garlic you get to buy these days. It tends to be of large size to catch your eye and is high yielding. Not mention you have no idea how old the garlic you buy is either. This leads to a watered down flavor that isn’t as strong. So we end up tossing in that extra clove or twelve more than called for.

Best is to grow your own garlic and get the flavor!

bluewing,

Let me check article - Yep, the East Coast where puppy mills run rampant.

bluewing,

If you want to search for AI solutions to problems because forums are either too slow to answer or you get no answer at all. I’ve been using Phind for my Linux issues with Fedora, (a recent switch and I’m not all that familiar with it yet), and it’s an AI that is supposed to be aimed at programmers and Devs.

So far, for my meager needs, it’s worked VERY well. So between Phind and RTFM, I haven’t found an issue I can’t work through.

bluewing,

Few people accomplish so much in ne lifetime. A life well lived evidently.

bluewing,

Yep. Look at it this way, those $100,000+ machining centers that make nearly everything you use and own, are running on basically 486 chips. And they only transitioned from the 386’s because the dies wore out and the chip manufacturers said they weren’t going to remake them. It caused a noticeable amount of angst in manufacturing when the news got out.

bluewing,

Best advise I can give after 20+ years of distro hopping is to be ready to try a few different ones to see which one might resonate the best with you. Because not all of them will feel right. But you will find one that fits you best. It might be Debian or Ubuntu or Fedora or Suse or Mint or even Arch. (I don’t run Arch BTW)

In the long run, it don’t matter which distro you use - they are all Linux under their petticoats anyway. Just choose the one that works for you and makes YOU happy. And if you decide to change your distro of choice at any point for something different, that’s all good too.

bluewing,

Pretty much. It’s what makes all those Linux Experts so Expert! Besides, ain’t no one got time to memorize and understand what all that stuff does…

bluewing,

At this point with Wayland, none of them…

bluewing,

I have Fedora KDE Plasma 40 on a laptop with a nVidia chipset, (I need to have it defaulted to Nouveau and the base Intel chipset). Maybe by the middle of next month they MIGHT have something cobbled together to get a decently working experience for the majority of users. Otherwise, don’t be surprised if your screen flickers, has missing parts of your display, or just a black and blank screen.

Wayland and nVidia - two piles of stupid that are meant for each other.

bluewing,

There is a lot of merit in reading man pages - as long as you understand what they are talking about. Something most newcomers lack. I’ve read more than one man page that was so poorly written that unless you were a top developer, I was worse off than before I started.

Technical writing is an art form and very few in the FOSS world, (and even the rest of the world), are really good at it. It always pays to be mindful of just how unskilled your audience is.

bluewing,

I would suggest you get hired by the IRS and start rewriting all their ancient code to build in and allow every deduction rule and that it’s applied correctly every time so everyone can use it.

The tax laws are so large and so complex and the code running all this stuff is so old and now locked in because they didn’t keep up with updating their software as they went along. I’m amazed they got this far. Oh, and like you, I can’t use it either. But that’s why I have an accountant.

bluewing,

Me either. It’s 300 miles to the nearest decent one, let alone great one.

bluewing,

Oh, the French did try to “metric” time for awhile when the metric system was just being developed and introduced. And even they decided that was a very bad idea. Turns out Mother Nature does not care about base10 all that much when it suits her.

On the other hand, it did lead to the saying that “The French follow no one and no one follows the French”

bluewing,

So you use SI units?

bluewing,

Ask your doctor homeopath doctor

bluewing,

And makes it so only the wealthy can afford them. Increasing the class divide. Which would give the wealthy even more power over the average citizen than they already have. On the other hand, it should increase money for the politicians to dole out to their best buddies. It also might reduce the population a bit as this might be the last straw for some. Not that criminals care. They ain’t buying them in a store.

How about if we make it totally illegal for people who live in cites over 40,000 populations to own any type of weapon. That would seem to solve most issues with city violence. Or is there a problem there also?

Just food for thought. What is seen a good idea at first glance almost always have some kind of unexpected effects that need to be taken into account. Some of which might not be seen until much, much later.

bluewing,

If you intend to “Eat the Rich” and prevent wage theft, you will need more than a cardboard sign. Even Tankies understand that to defeat the rich you need more than slogans.

bluewing,

Don’t talk like a fool. Make a better argument than trying to be flip and condescending.

bluewing,

I don’t know. But you do you.

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