It still happens more than it should. It took me 4 tries to get the nVidia driver to take on my “gaming” laptop with Fedora 40, (it wouldn’t accept the public keys for some reason). And I had to wait for some updates that took 2 weeks to show up. But, the onboard Intel chipset ran Nouveau just fine with no waiting and tinkering. I think people are still having some issues with nVidea and Wayland yet. I know I still have some minor ghosting issues with a couple of AppImages I really need to use that would prefer straight X11 over X-Wayland.

Now that didn’t bother me because I’ve been using various distros since buying my first boxed set CDs with RedHat 5 from Walmart of all places for $25US. (I still suffer from PTSD thanks to rpm hell). But I can see how a stumbling block like that can turn newcomers to Linux distros off.

Aww man, I don’t get any Aniston panty shots…Just pictures of cute puppies. I like puppies.

FB does have one thing that keeps me checking in once or twice a week and that’s the group that is run by our small town, (Pop. 107), and little area community. It helps to keep us all up to date on community meetings and events as diverse as the County Fair and school closings for blizzards in the winter time. Sometimes people will post historical photos they have and tell the story of the photos for everyone to read.

Oh my bad! Of course it needs sliced had boiled eggs! I’m prepared to be shunned for the next year…

So, we cull the herd in large cities and thereby reduce the CO₂ and cool the local area?

The problem is the the concrete and asphalt act as a heat sink. And it holds the heat rather than letting it dissipate in a reasonable manor, thus encouraging those springy balls to play rubby rubby for longer than they should in any one particular localized area. Let alone have some of them soaked up by the pretty green scenery.

That was from a fear of food poisoning from it being left out in the sun to warm. But it was more of an issue if real mayo, (with raw egg yolk), was used. If you used some type of industrial grade Miracle Whip untainted by anything real you could ID as an ingredient, it was far less of an issue.

Besides, what’s a little e.coli gonna do? Besides make you all shiny clean on the inside.

As a Midwesterner, potato salad is made with a mixture of real mayonnaise and yellow mustard. Finely diced onion and celery with a dash of old and flavorless paprika for color to round it all out. Salt and pepper to taste. You wouldn’t want it to be too spicy you know.

Some heretics will add diced dill pickle on occaision - my one Grandmother would sometimes do this after drinking too much. This is generally considered a social faux pas, though us Mid-westerners are too polite and kind to actually say something about it. But we will look askance at you. And your children will never play with our kids ever again.

Perhaps if there was a lot less asphalt and concrete and more shade trees and grass, it might be a bit cooler and more comfortable?

When the heat death of the universe arrives, the Sackcloth and Ashes that is Slack will be there to mark it’s passing.

Not even Debian will survive, but Slack will go on. Tar Balls Yum!

Perhaps it is a tragedy that we seem to have lost the GNU part. But in the end, the great unwashed masses get to decide what something is called.

Personally, I blame the Brits for this, (and NOT the French this time), because of their penchant for trying to chop every multi-syllable word down into as few as possible. See: Football vs Soccer silliness.

Or turned into cosmetics. Shit ain’t wasted, everything but the squeal gets used.

Been there done that too when I was a toolmaker. Old buildings with no air flow, (except in the winter on sub-zero F days). But hey, sometimes on the really bad days we would get an extra 5 minutes at break. And maybe on very rare occasions, a Popsicle.

Good times…

Personally, outside of some niche applications, I don’t think fuel cells are going to replace EVs. The losses in efficiency are just to great in the conversion from water to hydrogen/oxygen gasses to electricity - unless someone figures out how to harness the energy released in a hydrogen bomb. But I wouldn’t hold my breath for that. I do think that Tesla isn’t as long for this world as Musk would have hoped for though. I personally hope he ends up broke and mocked as soon as possible. The world will be just a tiny bit better place IMO.

But you will burn the hydrogen to release the energy in some form. That would seem to indicate some form of combustion would it not?

As a retired toolmaker - yes, yes I do. And a whole lot better than you. And I actually posses the tools, skills, knowledge required to manufacture a firearm completely from scratch - a lathe, mill, drill press and even a 3D printer. I suppose technically, I’ve built several “ghost guns” myself over the years. I sourced all the parts individually, including a stock blank, fitted them all together and built a fully functional firearm. They were all muzzle loading rifles, but they were real firearms. There is a vibrant, though niche industry, that caters to us “mountain folk” and our desire to touch the history. It was a truly fun and educational process that gave some real pride of craftsmanship in the end product.

The point still stands - full auto weapons are very uncommon, legal or otherwise, in public hands and you for sure won’t ever see such a thing as a full auto ghost gun on a public target range. Even cops don’t get to own full auto weapons in the US. At least not without jumping through some very, very, very difficult and expensive hoops that pretty much make it impossible.

Some highly regulated, very expensive to buy, and rare, weapons you mean. Full automatic weapons are far from the norm on any target range.

An interesting article about the Muskmelon, Tesla, and fuel cells. []https://energynews.biz/will-tesla-release-hydrogen-car/ (take the article with a spoonful of salt I think) It’s perhaps another attempt at a pump and dump stock fraud as he does need money for twitter. But, I’ve seen a couple of these blurbs lately and I can’t find where they originate from.

Even the ketamine wonder wants to sound like he thinks Tesla is going to abandon pure EVs and build and sell something with a hydrogen fuel cell evidently. If so,and you can’t rule out it out completely yet, the ICE engine might not be done yet - just swapping a fuel source.

And they can make you pee blood too on a good day…( Don’t ask)

Yep. A traditional forum ages and grows old. And as they get older and older, it becomes harder to draw new members because of the clique of the core membership. I’ve seen a few traditional forums die that death over the years.

And some forums, and I belong to several, the members are literally dying from old age. We are all mostly old and retired. And we lose members every year due to death. Several times a year there is an obituary post for some long time member.

Only if you want enterprise solutions. RedHat does the same. So does Suse. A business should pay for enterprise level supports and solutions don’t you think?

It’s also called ‘the old free stuff’. If free matters that much, you could run Slack or better yet LFS.