Amazon did more for killing off small businesses – the big box store chains did more for killing off shopping malls (their preference is the strip mall where they can showcase their entire frontage (and do an end-run around building codes))

and yes, everyone is too broke on top of everything else

no “Last Train to Cis Central” either

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the products and services sponsoring today’s show? they definitely won’t sell your kidneys, you have our word on that!

Deja Vu (but Worse)

forget Martha Stewart – but Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson as heads of the DEA and FDA

“… because this cannot be real life! It just can’t!”

Robert Evans – writer, comedian, conflict journalist, podcaster – Cracked, Bellingcat, Behind the Bastards, did a podcast from Rojava, and reported live from Portland’s George Floyd protests

no love for RISC-V?

hobnibble ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

so many bowl cuts

it was clearly a feature

“If I had to suffer, then so should you.”

Banana republic – “Chiquita, formerly known as United Fruit”

• repeat the “Don’t sweat it.”
• Ubuntu is a perfectly fine starting point (the other “beginner distro” that’s commonly recommended is LinuxMint)
• »AFTER« you become comfortable with what you have:
  • try familiarizing yourself with the command line
    • far more competent than Windows cmd.exe or PowerShell
    • [email protected]
  • get overwhelmed with all the distro choices available
    • get bitten by the distro-hopping bug (“Gotta try them all!”)
      • and then try Distrobox (“ALL the distros at once!”)
• »THEN« take a look at immutable distros
  • “immutable distro” is a catch-all term that embraces several concepts
    • immutable – the root filesystem is set to read-only – makes it harder to mess up your system
    • declarative – your hardware and packages and configs are declared in a master configuration file
    • atomic / transactional – updates are checked as they’re applied, if it fails, it gets rolled back to a previous “safe state”
    • container / sandbox – ex. Flatpak or Docker or OCI – apps are isolated in their own sandbox and not allowed to mess up anything else

but I don’t have a PhD in Hegelian philosophy

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• Minimum: Windows 10
• Recommended: Windows 10
• High Spec: Windows 10
• Performance: Windows 10