Don’t be so sure, did you see the quote fom next UK prime minister.

A total cunt admitted he would allow American chlorine-washed chicken to be sold in the UK as part of a free trade deal with the US.

my penis is the size of a bus

That graph is YTD, not 12M. It’s lower than it was in Jan 2025. But not Nov 2024.

TBH both of these graphs are short term, if this is a very hyped stock it’s hard to say what is overvaluation or undervaluation or overcorrection, or how big or prolonged any “overshooting” might be. See where it is this time next year maybe.

I mostly only go by bus or train for a few days here or there. That still feels like imposing a burden unless I camp, which I normally only do in the summer.

Many of the local places I go to have the same problems though, seasonally overran with tourists, all homes converted to airb+b , crowds out the local economy and drive out the local people (to the benefit of the local landowners). Ideally there’d be limits on what fraction of housing can be used as short term.

But I think generally regulation of land use and property rental prices could be beneficial - another unpopular opinion. “Oh no, we can’t trust the oiks not to appoint despotic regulators, nor can we hold them to account, so it’s much better have a elite landowning upper class instread”.

One of the main level designers for original Doom “Sandy of Cthulu” was a pretty serious mormon christian.

“I have no problems with the demons in the game. They’re just cartoons. And, anyway, they’re the bad guys.”

erm . . no I obviously don’t think there a loads of heart surgoens late for work all over the streets either on cars or bikes.

But in general, yes, people working for emergency services should have superior rights to public space that’s why they get the flashing lights and sirens. If the biker is an emergency services and turns on lights and siren, others should make way.

The local heart sugery unit in the hospital really needs to encourage the surgeons to start turning up in plenty of time before the start of their shift.

It’s crazy how many of them out on the streets are cutting it so fine that they can’t follow along for a little while until it is safe to overtake.

That’s not something that I’d think is any of my business to want or not want.

I can’t really answer the last question, I’d need to know a lot more about all thendifferent things these microsoft users are doing; what’re the alternatives; and, how disruptive might the transition be. On balance, given the uncertainties, I’d have to say probably not.

I mean if i stopped using Microsoft entirely (i.e. at work) I’d have to find a new job, probably one I’m less experienced at. And likely I’d end up working for a bigger bunch of scumbags. Likely no net gain and a load of botheration in the meanwhile.

Also i might miss the regular BSOD inspired tea breaks . . .

Haha market cap, market share , they’re still all about selling stuff so dont really apply./ Market share is normally measured in share of revenue in most industries.

There are lots of webpages, tutorials, youtubes and stuff like that for these people already. I’m sure they can also pay companies like canonical for more dedicated support if that’s what they need.

If you want to welcome people, go ahead and do it, nothing stopping you. Create the webpage or forum or youtube channel, distribution, or write the book whatever is missing. Just make sure to moderate it to remove CLI based answers and block users like me.

“I” exist and I’m sure I’m never going to be part of your “we”. The current situation of linux home user base seems just fine to me without pandering to a load of windows users. I think you should work on your desired subculture and keep me out if it. Leave me out of it - i can stay over here under my bridge in linuxmemes wearing my new programming socks.

For the home market maybe you can look at valve and steamdeck or something as an example of an acessible linux sub-culture. Valve doesn’t maintain and support that for free though. It’d be interesting to know how many full time employees they have on steamdeck OS just for the one device (and maybe a few gaming perpherals) and one GUI. Then expand that to all esoteric hardware and all GUIs . . .
I guess chromeOS and a few forks of that is another similar example - i think that’s still linux kernel based - some limitations on hardware i think.

What I’d actually like to see is B2B growth (for user ) - but I don’t think linux will ever be bought by employers like mine - I know how the procurement department operates - and I can’t see that changing. There are plenty of people who don’t need my support trying business sales, redhat, canonical, suse etc and more power to them - but microsoft didn’t get big in B2B by being usable, nor by nor having “no CLI”, nor by having a supportive community to home users. They just packaged it in a way that ticked all the boxes for the corpo procurement types - though most B2B customers do need their own dedicated user support.

Ongo Gablonion

It’s open source, they can just make their own distro.

Laptops run off batteries a lot of the time - so compromising outright performance - full instruction set - for battery life will be attractive for many laptop users who use it on the go.

I’m no apple fanatic, I’d never get one, but I do see the appeal of those apple laptops.

I’m sure x86 could get closer on the performance to battery tradeoff if they wanted to; but I bet they’d be looking to price up at the apple level for that.

I wish this was c/fuckcars and I could make a comment about the much louder one off that programmme - just his name breaks the verbal abuse rule though. :(

I think I’d say ‘I kept silent’ as more common or ‘I kept quiet’, probably an even more common phrase. ‘Kept’ would be slightly more ‘active’ than remained I think.

But “remain” does some nice extra poetic work here; it foreshadows another usage of [narrator’s] “remains” - the corpse or ashes or whatever lifeless material is left after their death.

And something like a machine can “seize up” too.

I think the trick with English is to just keep seizing any old random words out of a hat until the other person nods convincingly enough.

Had similar last night, two massive fucking Mercs parked in the bike lane. There’s a free car park in the park about 25m away and at 9pm it’d have been empty - and if not the kerb on the road in between there and the car park.

Unfortunately - much as I tried - there was ever so just enough space for me to ride between without scratching either’s paintwork.

I need some spikes that I can flip out for these circumstances.

Maybe change it to “Putain” See if they get it

Judge any service (and most other stuff) by its support, aftercare and how they handle complaints / fix problems.

That’s worth more than flashy front end, marketing bs or even technical performance specs.

No way.

It’s blatant hype. They’ve probably got a quarterly investment report due. Just trying to bump up shareholder confidence or something.

As usual they’ll be flogging the elves until midnight just to rush out a reskinned version of V20.24 with a new batch of bugs and very quickly there’ll be dissapointment all round.

Haha that would be awesome/softwaregoresome. I’d pay money (well not much money) to see it just to troll MS-GUI fanatics with it.

All I can find is some mention of libreoffice doing it. and yes I did try ddging with ‘safe search’ off.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=407404

Oh shit - I turned it on in my LO writer and I can’t find the button to turn it back . . .