The only major issue I ever had with mint running relatively old packages was when I got my current laptop. Nvidia 4060 required a really new nvidia driver, which in turn required a really new kernel. I sorted it out by adding a few unofficial repos, and it worked like a charm afterwards.

Whenever old versions are giving you grief, they can usually be sorted out in a similar manner.

Serve after breaking your dependencies to taste

Pretty easy. It’s not so much using intuition as it is reading step-by-step instructions. If you can use a cook book, you can install arch.

Source: I use once installed arch, btw

Work takes me to Houston from time to time, and I wholeheartedly agree. I would never want to live there.

It seems that whenever you find something likeable about the place, it turns out to be a product of a predatory system.

I seriously hope the workers at T.J. Birria Y Mas down in Missouri City are well paid and cared for (I doubt it), because they’re doing an awesome job and it’s hard not to love that place.

Well, I’m officially an unemployed bum this weekend. Today was the last day at the job I’ve had for the last 5 years.

That’s because a competitor gave me a better offer, and I’m starting there on Monday. I was going to get a haircut, but I realized that the lack of one, combined with not having shaved in a while, makes me look the part for Saturday and Sunday.

So… I’ll be clearing out my phone and laptop of anything pertaining to the old job, I guess.

I loved having a Note 2 ages ago. But since then, the styluses that are paired with phones seem so awfully plastic and cheap. I use a pretty standard phone nowadays, but I’m keeping my eyes open for a phone with a good high quality stylus that has its resting place in a niche in the phone itself. Any suggestions?

I’m a European who was actually pleasantly surprised by the little of Alabama I’ve seen. Probably because I avoid discussing politics in my travels. Spent a week or thereabouts in Mobile. I’m not sure how representative that is for the rest of the state.

Oh, and I drove west for a while to this tiny place called Gulfport. I think that was in the next state over, though.

Awesome to hear. Where to, roughly?

Everything from 2300 to 0300

At least it was (mostly) dealt with. Cars generally don’t need it anymore, and the few that do can reduce engine knock through additives. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a pump offering leaded fuel.

One big exception to all of this is small general aviation aircraft. They mostly run on AVGAS100LL, but it’s not because of the planes anymore. Just like cars, the few planes that need it can use additives. But regulation for fuel standards change slowly, and ICAO moves at the pace of glacial drift.

Same as before mostly. Maybe a little bit more home office. I expect maybe 80% supporting the operations from home, and 20% in a port somewhere on the other side of the world. I like it that way: Either I’m seeing the world, or I’m chilling at home.

Visiting the head office, something I don’t do very often. Mostly to give people a proper farewell and go through the offloading regarding my work laptop et al. Tomorrow is my last day here.

“It’s visible that you’re field crew. It’s not often that people hand in their laptop, and the dirt is in the outside instead of covering the keyboard. On that note, once it’s off the domain you can keep it, we don’t need it”.

So I guess I’ll be using the same laptop in my new job, starting Monday.

Let’s just say that swans didn’t enjoy the human use for their necks.

Did it once after some cats pissed on them, and they started smelling 1% worse than they did from my feet alone. They ended up bent and unusable.

Note: This was probably my own fault. It was before I learned how to properly use a washing machine, so it wouldn’t surprise me if I selected too high of a temperature. I also dumble dried them, and I have no idea if that was good for them either.

This is not an answer to your question, simply because I do not have one. I just want to recommend checking out the works of Vasilij Grossman. I’m not sure how much of a true communist he was at heart, if at all, but he has a few books on the war from the Russian perspective. Considering the state of censorship in that era in USSR, I would believe his works align fairly well with official communist standpoints.

He has one book about Stalingrad (For a Just Cause), but I think that’s fiction set in a historical context. Don’t quote me on that, though, I haven’t read it myself.

I’m not 100% sure about the English title of the book by him that I have read, but I think it was “A Writer at War”. He produced it a few years after the war, compiling his notes and experiences into a proper book. It’s a really interesting read, and I highly recommend it.

Can confirm with a very condensed anecdote: I once applied for a job that required engineering degree in electronics or mechanics. I’m a hischool dropout. Interview went well, and I got a job offer a month later. I got the impression that they were more interested in the right type of person with relevant hands-on experience, and in my case that experience meant IT/Linux (I was always a hobbyist geek)and being used to operating heavy machinery (Grew up on a farm).

I’m still in the same industry, and I earn more than my friends with masters degrees.

No. Only one, but I’m sure I’d have to deal with the same in other distros: New laptop last year with Nvidia 4060 -> Needs a relatively new driver -> needs a relatively new kernel, newer than what the OS provides as default.

I had to experiment for a while to find a combination of nvidia driver and kernel version that worked well. Took me at least a few hours to sort everything out.

Yes. But that’s highly subjective, as I fucking hate Ubuntu and the direction it has taken. I don’t mind distros that are based on Ubuntu, though, so based on that I’d go for Pop rather than stock Ubuntu.

For the record, I run LMDE as my daily driver.

Maybe I should start one exclusively for selling crude stick figure drawings. Occasionally posting a hairy pussy pic to draw attention, as I have no talent for drawing. I am of course talking about my cats, as I am a middle aged dude.

I disagree with you, but I’m upvoting anyway, because it’s refreshing to see preference for something else than the seasons “everyone” likes.