as a kludge to hold you over until you make a decision – you can isolate what you need to keep dry in a dry-bag or trash-compactor-bag (budget option) stuffed inside your existing backpack

• for most people, use whatever your distro ships with and installs for you
• choosing desktop environments still starts heated discussions – high end, it’s a choice between Gnome and KDE – mid-tier has Xfce, LXQt, Mate, Cinnamon, and more – limited hardware go for IceWM, JWM, FLWM, or similar – want to get your hands dirty? go for a tiling window manager
• X11 is (effectively) abandonware at this point – it’s still getting security patches, but the devs left and started Wayland 17-ish years ago
• XLibre is more political than technical – and I’ll leave it at that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardate

“This makes it impossible to convert all stardates into equivalent calendar dates, especially since stardates were originally intended to avoid specifying exactly when Star Trek takes place.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DydIK14AvXI(I think qualifies more as brown noise than white noise)

(raunchy humor)

• Q: How do elephants hide in the jungle?
• A: They paint their balls red and climb into cherry trees.
• Q: What’s the loudest sound in the jungle?
• A: Giraffes eating cherries.

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was explicitly disclosed

Kinda the same story with only giving the price before taxes in the US, why would you not just tell your customer up front what they actually need to pay?

you can thank corporations for this one – in several states it is actually illegal to show the full price

I’ve had a couple systems that started with nothing more than vi, but rather more that started with nano (don’t think I’ve come across any that started with vim) – that being said, I’ll tolerate vi long enough to get micro installed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rkn-xqhSDc

Jungfrau Railway – traverse a long tunnel to reach new heights