I thought for a long time that there should be 4 sites for the Olympics, two for summer and two for winter. The Olympic committee maintains them with help from the host county and donations or dues from the participants counties.

Pick 4 suitable sites in as stable countries as you can find, and build world class facilities there. This whole building all new facilities every time is fucking stupid and wasteful. Besides it’s been shown that the “revenue generated” doesn’t make up for the costs to build, run, and clean up after all of it.

Well we have always been at war with Eastasia you know.

I feel happy!

ZorinOS is a decent stepping stone for those coming from windows. It was my first Linux daily driver when I made the switch. It got me comfortable enough with Linux to dive in and start learning before I started distro hopping. I ended up on Mint and now just recommend that, but Zorin got me over the hump to become a full time Linux user.

Might be fun to make a live USB and see how much it’s changed in the last ten years. I’ve got a 4 day weekend coming up… might have to try that.

One white legal pad next to my desk, one pocket notebook and travel pen in my pocket. Have a thought or idea, write it down. Every Saturday I type all those notes into a running Google doc for the year and then put a check mark next to it on the paper.

I have a doc for every year. I regularly go back and read though them starting with the most current year and working back. If something is completed or used in a project I use the mark through function on that entry so it can still be read in case it could be helpful again but to signify that I’ve used it.

It’s not a perfect system but it’s helped me a ton.

But… but…but…AI took our jerbs!

When someone is switching from windows to Linux the first distro I recommend is Linux Mint. Mint feels similar enough to Win7 that any windows user can drop in and learn it in no time, my, tech illiterate, 76 year old mother has been trying a Mint live USB and has needed very little help.

I say start with Mint and get to know Linux, then if you want to try other distros you can, but at least you’ll have a solid foundation to jump off from.

What ever you choose, welcome to Linux!

Great, now I have to research how banana peels are used in water purification…

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Nuwave Precision Induction Cooktop Gold, 12”

When our range died it took three weeks to get the new one with induction heating (could have gotten it sooner but agreeing to wait saved $1000, long story) so in the meantime I bought a plug in single pan induction unit and it had a timer on it. Best part is when the timer goes off the heat goes away and you only have to worry about residual heat from the pan.

The range doesn’t have a timer so I still break out the plug in unit when I’m going to let something sit and cook while I do something else.

I work 3rd shift and have the house to myself when I get up on my days off. I’ll grab a cup of tea (I can’t stand coffee) go get on my computer, turn on YouTube or something and every 3 to 4 hours get up and get a new cup of tea since the one I have I’ve only taken a few sips of and has gone cold (I still down it before making a new one). Then in the morning I’ll feel sick and will be asked “what did you eat that could have caused that?” And that’s when I remember I should have eaten once or twice since waking up.

As someone with a strong Irish heritage, this got my ire-a.

And then there’s the issue of forgetting to make contact and loosing touch with your friends. Then you feel bad for not making the effort and then put off reaching out out of embarrassment.

I have a playlist on Tidal of metal songs that help me focus called “Work”. When it hits the fan at work and I have to really focus i put it on and let it play song after song until one really clicks and then I hit repeat and will listen to that song over and over.

Yep, I ran Mint on a system 76 laptop for 8 years. Just retired it because the hardware is starting to give out, the OS is still running strong.

1. Nice username, lol.

2. Agreed, I wasn’t even looking for the Win 7 experience, I was just still getting the hang of Linux and Mint was repeatedly recommended everywhere I looked. At this point I’m just comfortable with Mint and so I stick with it, and since I value reliability of cutting edge, it gives me what I need in a computer.

And this is why I invested in a pocket notebook and travel pen. I also keep a legal pad just for random thoughts at my desk.

Coming up on 10 years since I switched from windows to Linux. I tried Ubuntu and absolutely hated it, so much so that I switched back to windows at first. But I kept reading and tried ZorinOS, and that got me comfortable with Linux, it was a little buggy but I could understand it.

After a few months with ZorinOS I switched to Linux Mint and have been running Mint for 9 years. Recently my 76 year old mother who has trouble with some basic computer stuff said she’d like to try Linux and asked me to help her, I made a live USB of Mint for her to try and she told me “I can understand this, it’s like windows 7!”. If she can get Mint, I feel totally confident recommending it to new users.

A two state solution will not work, correct. That is why the world must come together and kick the genocidal Israelis out of the Palestinians land.

Hey you were closer than me, I would have guessed closer to Roman times since it hits me as a Latin origin.