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That's how I used to say it decades ago when it was one of those "I have only ever read it" words.

It's probably because I knew the name Linus from Peanuts / Charlie Brown, and in that they pronounce it "Lie-nuss." So back then I said "Lie-nux." When I first heard it as "Linn-nix" it sounded not just wrong but less cool.

But between having watched videos of Torvalds speak, and knowing a handful of Finland's neighbors (Swedes) the correct pronunciation of "Linn-nix" is the only way I even think of it in my head now.

oh hell yeah!

This is so perfect.

I'm from a conservative white american family, and some of the odd-sounding ones are still perfect for illustrating the issue in that culture where different people are not just different, they are bad and scary until proven otherwise.

Obviously things like hate, bigotry, and other-ing are a problem for the entire human race. I'm just thinking of the particular flavor that you get with dumb trumpers.

Ah thanks. That was a good one in retrospect, so apologies for the ignorance, lol.

I wasn't even trying to figure out the initialism. It wouldn't have been a difficult one. My brain was stuck on "is this a misreply?"

Just item #731 on the long list of things that we in the US do objectively worse than the rest of the world, but not badly enough to get into the news or make people want to do anything about it.

Plus, you know, ignorance. If we polled the American public with the question "The US electrical plug design is the best in the world" I think the results would make us all have the same reaction as everything else coming out of the US: Not surprised, but still shocked and disappointed to have the ugly truth confirmed.

I don't get what you mean with the trains. Just a europe reference?

Dimetrodon represeeeent!

I had to consciously do this as well. It's one of those journeys that makes me want to annoy people by talking in circular little one-liners like a monk or Yoda. It also revealed to me just how much my more conservative family members obsess over the money or the stuff that other people have.

It also turns out, similar to what you said, is that the way to get enough "stuff" in your life is not to acquire all the stuff. That will never work. The way to get enough stuff in your life is to simply stop caring about getting more stuff.

And make no mistake, I DO like my stuff! I have actually spent a considerable amount of money on material possessions in the past month. I have also been daydreaming about what kind of car I'll get next. (disclaimer for my c/fuckcars friends, I live in low density suburban USA bordering rural areas; I'm gonna have a car forever)

But, they aren't mindless consumption. The purchases are to support my hobbies that make my life/brain/health better. I have been building my collection of high quality tools because one major hobby of mine that required some construction has inspired an offshoot hobby of woodworking. The dopamine hit from buying something new and shiny is still there, but with my learning and planning coupled with the positive effect of having something to look forward to, not to mention it gets me outside and moving heavy stuff around, I have had no regrets and am getting the desired benefit.

I mentioned the car because, like the tools, it is a catalyst to enhance something I enjoy. It is not a status symbol or collectible. In my case, I have always enjoyed the dynamics of driving and I had manual transmissions in my first three cars which I do not have now. And my drive to work is a couple miles of twisty semi-rural road. I think I want a roadster.

I think it's a mix of convenience for business travelers and a way to sate one's anxiety for control freaks.

ICE wants to know your location

I am one of the people that never uses them, and I think I finally realized why: ADHD.

I usually turn them off, and if there's a part of the GUI dedicated to them, I disable that too. I thought it was to save screen space, but honestly I think it's more so that I won't lose windows to virtual desktops I forgot existed.

I think the tendency to forget things and to occasionally space out and forget what I'm doing has led me to value persistent visual artifacts of whatever I'm doing. That means a visible taskbar with the clock, system tray icons, and application icons, plus terminal windows even if they are idle. Somehow, scanning back and forth across 4 monitors -- even if virtual desktop people reading this can do it much faster their way -- just works better for me.

This touches on something that's actually much deeper that I have been doing for myself:

Sometimes if you do things in a way that plays nicely with your personal neurospice cocktail rather than the more efficient way you "know" that you "should" be doing them, it just makes your life better and that is the whole damn point for why we are working on the computer in the first place.

I can absolutely see myself buzzing around virtual desktops with keyboard commands. I have experimented with desktop setups in the past. I remember for a while in college I was running some kind of 3D desktop program where I had a virtual space where I could move windows and icons around. You could hang images floating in the air like paintings. And this is on 25 year old hardware! I think my GPU was a Geforce 2 GTS. Giga-texel shader baby!

For those of you in countries that care about people and push pedestrian safety in vehicle design: take a close look at that front bumper if you haven't.