“I’m sure they were just good friends”

And of course that’s just the base temp, the Midwest was blasted with windchills around -40 give or take 10 degrees depending on the latitude

Legitimately weather where you’re risking frostbite within minutes if you aren’t properly dressed (and properly dressed means 3+ layers on your upper and lower body, multiple layers of gloves, full face coverings, multiple layers of socks, etc.) and even when properly dressed frostbite can sneak in if you stay outside too long

I thought maybe it would be the bit from Young Frankenstein where women sing in reaction to the monster’s ehem banana

He does have “an enormous schwanzstucker” y’know

Most of a continent is about to see much colder than usual weather. Forecasts where I am are predicting windchills down to -40, and I have a friend north of me who’s looking at windchills down to -60F. I have a coworker in Texas who’s looking at snow and ice in the next few days as well. Tips like this are useful for folks who live in places that don’t get snow and ice

That’s kinda the limitation with Cinnamon, it’s not as customizable as it could be.

I wonder if maybe it’s a governor problem. Laptops are often super power limited, sometimes even more so thermally limited, so they rely on increasingly bonkers power profiles to try to balance it, but pegging the laptop at 100% utilization such as while transcoding can still cause it to fall over. Have you played with adjusting the power profile at all?

My other thought is screen tearing and similar. I think Mint still ships with X rather than Wayland and screen tearing is a pretty infamous limitation with Xserver

Vorta only supports SSH and local backup repositories while pika allows SFTP through some kind of compatibility layer with gvfs.

That’s kinda wild given SFTP is just SSH.

If you’re flinging files across the network, rsync is usually a really good option. It’ll typically be run over SSH/SFTP and is capable of resuming if interrupted, verifying the copied files match the original, etc. and rsync can be super fast compared straight SFTP in some cases. In a pinch you can always cobble together a pretty robust backup script purely based off rsync

To be fair, I had more trouble with wake from sleep on Windows than I have had since shifting to Linux.

Also at work I get 1-2 tickets a week for what end up being wake from sleep issues on Windows

Most popular games still don’t work.

I’ve been running Bazzite on my main PC since October (I have a bad habit of tinkering with my Linux installs to death so I opted for immutable so I’m less likely to break it) and of all of the weird and obscure windows software I’ve installed, all has worked flawlessly including funky model railroad track planning software and some somewhat obscure simulator games. I also have some games from the 90s that haven’t worked on modern Windows in years run flawlessly. Heck even Sims via EA’s launcher runs flawlessly (if not better because I can minimize it from fullscreen, something it can’t do on Windows since the DX11 update)

Literally the only thing I’ve found that I can’t run is anything requiring Ubisoft’s launcher. The furthest I got is to about 30% through downloading Anno 1800 before it crashed and refused to run the launcher again. I can’t help but suspect they intentionally broke compatibility because that would be very on-brand for them, but you never know. Kinda sad because I wanted to play an Anno game that’s new enough to not have gotten a disc release but whatever I have plenty of other games I can play

I did not mention the value of vaccination

That’s literally the whole point of trials for vaccines, to determine if they work and what the side effects there are if any. Public health officials then use that data to determine if, how and when to distribute the vaccines based on of those risks of the vaccine outweigh the public health risks of the continued diseas spread

In a global pandemic when millions of people are dying, a 1/10000 risk of reduced quality of life that helps 10/10000 people not die of the pandemic disease and another 100/10000 not experience reduced quality of life from the pandemic disease is pretty easy numbers to say “yes roll it out” because the benefits far outweigh the risks

My local video rental store (family video) hung on by a thread until the pandemic and finally went out of business. The property now holds an adult video store

Hell I have a basketball hoop in my driveway that came with my house! Have I ever used it? Nope! Not my thing, but if I had someone over who wanted to play basketball or my kids decided they really wanted to play it, I’ve already got a full size hoop just gotta pop over to the store and get a basketball

To be fair around 15 years ago that Windows vs Mac division would’ve been fairly accurate. Hip young people use Mac while fiscally-focused business people run Windows

Strikes me almost like someone on the spectrum trying to solution when the other just wants acknowledgement and an apology. But being hangry is absolutely a thing, especially with kids so it is possible the “calming banana” might work

I was spanked as a kid. I don’t think it did any good. I don’t want to spank my kids.

As a parent of two very different and spectrum-y kids, it is incredible just how effective gentle parenting is. You have to be mindful of your kids’ needs, make sure they aren’t tired or hangry or just in an environment/situation that lends itself to poor decisions (and if they are, guide them towards resolving that) and dole out timeouts and losing privileges as appropriate for the individual child and situation. The other thing to remember is kids will test limits all the time, so you need to be ready to make those limits clear and make it clear when they try something new which is not okay. Mostly it comes down to consistent expectations and being clear and consistent with your and communication and punishments

This is always the part that blows my mind, they can’t just crack open an image editor to move the project over the finishline? Seriously if you’re already 90% of the way there with an AI generated image, just pop open GIMP or paint.net or whatever and make those couple of tweaks. Or, y’know hire an artist and say “here I like this logo I generated with AI, can you do something like this but better?”

As someone who once was that 9 year old, and has my own child I’ll probably go through the same thing with, hugs and there is a light at the end of the tunnel

Speaking of clones there’s a super-good clone movie everyone needs to check out called Moon. A miner arrives for his 3 year contract to work alone on a moon base, waking up from cryosleep upon arrival. He goes out and while mining finds a crashed mining machine just like the one he’s driving, and searching the wreckage finds an exact clone of him just barely alive. He brings the clone back to base, just for the clone to reveal he’s been there for almost three years already so the other must be the clone! Anyways highly recommend, and your comment made it pop into my head

Its directly backed by American oil companies, so no surprise there