…why do they need a two seater.

Perfect to lay about and watch TV.

You upgrade?

Was Elvira, Mistress of the Dark the first “make fun of b-movies” TV show? I’m 53 and I remember watching her show and the hilariously awful horror films as a tweener.

I am pretty sure I started with either Halloween or Mother’s Day because Red Hat Linux for Dummies came with Red Hat 2.1 which I am pretty sure came out in 96 or 97. I know Red Hat 6 was released in 1999, because I was neck deep in Y2K work at the time I installed it on my Compaq laptop.

That is strange.

I have been on this Linux jam since 1996 with a CD copy of Red Hat that came with a magazine (Byte, maybe?). In 2018 I made the jump to Debian based distros specifically because I got tired of the surprises. Now my lab runs LMDE. The only thing more stable and boring is Debian Stable itself.

Like you said, I want to focus on my projects, not have the OS be my project.

Without the Farmer says See N Say we’d never have this great Soundgarden intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhESD3cU4GU

What a dumb move. All this does is discourage me from getting another BMW when my lease is up.

2025 model year

What models? I have an i4 and I have never been hit with this or those subscription services everyone kept talking about. I wonder if it is happening only in certain models.

I cannot comment on that but anecdotally I can say that I normally do not see a lot hiring during the holidays and a lot of firings in March and Q2. I have no explanation for the March thing.

C^^um^ ++

Do note that December is the tail of the budget year. First and second quarter is when many companies execute the year’s strategy and burn budget. Third quarter is a bit late but still active.

For us, our clients came out hot and heavy the first two quarters, more than doubling the order totals for 2025. Hiring was hectic for most of Q1 and all of Q2. Q4 is pretty dead most of the time.

He’s always there. Lurking in the comments.

Fully endorsed. That said, if you have to use Windows, try the IOT versions.

I was setting up some template VMs on a fresh Proxmox VE (VM server) yesterday. Total install and troubleshooting times for each template were as follows;

• Linux Mint Debian Edition - 20 minutes
• Windows 10 IOT LTSC - 3 hours
• Windows 11 IOT LTSV - 6 hours, with the benefit of lessons learned from the Win 10 install.

The amount of obscure configs I had to dig up just to get them going was disgusting. Also, why the fuck are so many drivers not in Win10/11 by default, yet Linux has no issue including them all at a fraction of the ISO size?

If he is alive and unable to serve, that would also trigger the special election, which is why they keep him (or his corpse) hidden.

And they are providing the OCR’d text free of charge to the masses, right? Right?

I believe thatbis the point of GOG Galaxy, otherwise you can just use the native installers.

Hopefully they add Wine/Proton integration like Steam and Heroic have.