Any laptop is a good laptop for linux

The workers at the water and electric companies are maintaining their systems so that you don’t have to poop outside in the cold… I guess?

Author can’t even capitalize their own name. The first paragraph sounds like it was written by a 13 year old. I tried to keep reading but I couldn’t.

No, you’re not supposed to like degrowth. Medicine doesn’t usually taste good.

Oh, and your family is entirely unaffected by the size of the family jewels that are passed down? Well, la-di-da!

Tell that to my mother.

I hope they didn’t tell the kid sitting in his lap what the video was about.

Cheerwine Zero exists. It is a black cherry flavored soda. Idk if it is available outside of the SE USA, where I live. Wikipedia says “It has been produced since 1917, claiming to be ‘the oldest continuing soft drink company still operated by the same family.’” So, maybe less evil? I do know it tastes quite good.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Knowledge_in_the_World

I’m gonna make a book recommendation. If you’re enjoying this community, I bet you’d enjoy this book. There is a whole chapter on Wikipedia. (It’s chapter W.)

I find it both informative and funny.

What? That’s not how a lottery ticket machine works. Part of the front has to be scratched off to determine if it is a winner, even with the machine. I know, because I remember having to scratch this part off myself for customers redeeming tickets back when I sold them. (The part the machine needed was along the edge, and many didn’t scratch there.) (This is specific to Tennessee, but I doubt any state used a system where you can tell if it’s a winner without anything being scratched.)

SHHH! Don’t tell Gnome that there are options other than 100% and 200%.

Gnome and KDE (The current version is also called Plasma.) are generally touted as being the most touchscreen friendly desktop environments, so go for a distro that has one of them as an official flavor. You’ll wanna keep your physical keyboard around through the install process until you get the onscreen keyboard set up the way you want. (The touchscreen is not going to work during the UEFI/bootloader stage, so the physical keyboard is not just a suggestion but a requirement.)

Right-click through touchscreen being set up out-of-the-box, I have only seen in Gnome. Gnome also has the onscreen keyboard pre-installed. The whole Gnome layout works well with touchscreens. It is a bit different from Windows, though.

One downside to Gnome is that for some reason, the screen scaling is limited to 100% or 200%. This can be annoying, since 1x scaling frequently makes the buttons too small for a touchscreen, but 2x is way too huge. You can install “gnome tweaks” to get 150%, if it even works properly on your distro. If you want 120% or some other number, then you’re outta luck. Increasing the text size can help, but then the app labels in the app drawer get cut off. This all seems like a huge oversight to me, personally. Even Windows allows custom scaling percentages.

I have a touchscreen device myself (1st Gen Surface Go), and I’ve found Gnome to be the best suited to touchscreens. However, I personally can’t stand it. I previously tried KDE but left due to lack of right-click support. I’m planning on going back and just living without it.

I’m sorry, why am I just hearing about “Voice of America” for the first time? If it is publicly funded, why isn’t it also broadcast within the USA?

I understand that’s not its purpose, but if it’s being created to broadcast/distributed to the world, then why can’t we do that at home too? I’m so confused.

Dayum, god bless America!

Dude, I’m in phase 3 and I didn’t even know you could build buildings around your factory. Good job!

You can buy single pages of old books/manuscripts on auction sites for that or even much less sometimes. Maybe not the oldest available, but it’s the oldest thing I’ve ever bought. I have mine framed in the hall.

Not a single word on that list would even ping on my radar if you said it near me, except for “Masseur.” If you said “Masseur” near me, I would think “oh, fancy.” -Native English speaker from SE USA

Huh, I do remember her. I guess I didn’t realize she was sensing the chi with firebending. I just kinda thought her fire was for show, like candles at a spa. Neat.

Wow, really? I do not remember that at all. Thanks.

That’s kinda what I was thinking. “All the bendings make noise.”

Are there examples of sound, glass, plasma, and shaman chi healing in the official lore?