Yeah, that sounds like you’re worried about paradoxes. You might want to check out the Many-Worlds Interpretation to fix that. In the MWI, every decision and event branches into its own timeline. Instead of running into your past self, you would be visiting an alternate you.

If you don’t remember being visited by a time traveler, then your timeline didn’t have that event. That’s ok though, because there are infinitely many timelines. However, you can’t visit all of them. You’ll only have access to the ones where a future you visited an alternate past you. Instead of changing your own past, you’re creating a new timeline where an alternate you got visited by a time traveler.

It became increasingly clear in the years after 2001. USA got involved in all sorts of wars in various countries. Like, that attack in Libya. People don’t even remember it any more, because there are so many cases like that.

Who needs a fence when you have land mines.

See also: Finland and the Ottawa Convention

The patient can’t wear a shoe on that foot, but I guess that’s the least of their worries at that point.

Here’s a random idea: parody ASMR videos.
Focus exclusively on very loud sounds like a wood chipper, angle grinder, chainsaw, jackhammer, shooting range, etc.

Did you read the rules?

The “unless you know what you’re doing” part tells me it’s totally worth it in some highly exceptional situations. You just need to be able to justify spending a few hours to figure out exactly how to do it safely.

Best thing about Linux is that you can do literally anything you want. If it works, it’s awesome. If you break your system, you get to keep the pieces and learn something new along the way.

I’m utilizing this liberty by being a lazy admin who updates things like eventually™ or soon™. Haven’t learned any hard lessons yet, so I guess it’s ok. Or maybe I just know what I’m doing…

True, but I still think there are some significant ethical questions here.

I will watch her career with great interest.

If Australia joins the EU…

I can’t be bothered to update every day, or even every week. LOL. More like once a month or so, which means that it’s usually 100 MB or more and there’s at least one package that is more or less critical. When I start updating, and before hitting Y, I pause for a second and realise I should totally check the news first. Usually, it’s fine, but over the years, there have been a few times when intervention was necessary.

Remember this one from 2022?

Yeah, that one ended up being a learning experience… After recovering from that dumb misadventure, I finally learned to take those announcements more seriously.

In Debian, that’s opt-in, whereas in Ubuntu it’s opt-out. Tells you something about the core values, doesn’t it?

In my experience, Debian has been very low maintenance. Occasionally, you may run into an issue that would be solved by having newer packages. If that happens, consider switching to Fedora.

My Fedora installations have been pretty smooth. The only thing that always breaks randomly is the software update GUI. I just got fed up with that and ended up using the terminal for installing all updates. Apparently this distro requires a bit more maintenance.

I think this is one of the big steps that make Linux gaming more accessible to the general public. Proton was clearly the first major step and Bazzite might be the second one.

Many apps just abuse notifications. When I install a new app, I will allow it to send notifications. As soon as I see something I consider useless, that permission gets permanently revoked. It’s the only way to make notifications meaningful. Otherwise, it will become an endless barrage of junk, just like email. If you’re not very strict with these things, they become completely useless.

Yeah. So much for that automatic channel. Sounds better than it actually is

Scanning WiFi signal strength and channel.
Can’t do this on iPhone, because Apple. You need an Android phone for doing something as “technical” as this. I guess “pro” here refers to people who never touch their WiFi settings.

Who needs this?
Anyone who thinks their WiFi sucks and is willing to put a little bit of effort into picking a better channel.

I didn’t know he cared about Nigerians. What’s the real reason behind this?

1. I spent most of the day troubleshooting computer issues. Installed Ubuntu, Nvidia drivers, CUDA stuff, long list of obvious basic dependencies etc. Almost managed to follow the instructions for installing a local LLM. Turns out, this is not a two hour project. Yes, I know Nvidia is my problem. This is a self inflicted wound and I’m intentionally playing this game in the hard mode.
2. Got a haircut. Fortunately my favorite barber shop is run by Iraqi Kurds, so they don’t give a rats ass about Christmas schedules. 👍
3. I also wanted to have the wrist band of my watch adjusted, but all the relevant shops were closed today. 🙁
   Overall, not a bad way to spend my time.