deadcatbounce

[grin] I get that!

I'm sure that there are others I used to like - I'm an old fart - but this is the only one that occurs to me now.

For some reason, my long term memory stopped in the late nineties. I'm convinced that there are series I've watched that I loved that it's going to take a replay to remember that I loved the incoming theme.

There were several cult shows on BBC2 and ITV back then: Thirty-Something, a few about UK barristers, Moving Story. Damned if I can remember any of the theme tunes.

Cars younger than last century have two modes of indicator available.

[ BMW, Merc and Audi drivers: nothing to see here. Not in this whole post and comments. ]

A soft push in either direction gives a brief - I don't know what the definition/legal requirement is - period where the indicator flashes before cancelling itself.

A harder push has the indicator stay in that position until the steering wheel or the driver cancels it and it stops.

Maybe you're complaining about people using the soft mode.

In my country, there is no requirement to indicate when moving back to your lane after moving into the/a overtaking lane. I think that's a little weird tbh. I've always indicated, wherever I'm going, on the basis that when I don't, someone will sideswipe me through my own negligence.

Of course, these days the sodding lane-change Nazi in my car won't let me pass any line, but happily forcefully steers me into the hedgerow/ditches on country lanes where there are no road markings. You can turn it off every time but not generally.

Hell, I remember a time people just said "um", "er" quietly and paused between words when they hadn't thought the thought through.

Instead now they use 'like' as a space between words whilst the processing is still taking place.

It gets real confusing when what they're explaining is the concept of similes.

Given the electronic searching of your electronic gadgets (phone etc) that they can/will do before you get in, I think I've made my lifetime's visits to the US already.

I really wanted to see the Midwest. There was a good person who piqued my interest further talking to me about it here recently.

That's some orgy. You'd need a decent multi storey car park with them all going round and round that exit spiral thing.

Maybe they were Teslas and you could hope for a particular mild electrical design fault. At least it would be filmed.

Well said.

The man fundamentally opposed to privacy, but no idea what he is for, will allow Scotland to be independent and out of his absolute micro-managing control?

You're having a giraffe, but can we have the oil?

At this point, I just see it as a Microsoft/Meta style move: buy, absorb, destroy. Use as tax loss.

Maybe Elon doesn't like football.

You should go see Gentoo or something if ArchLinux causes you problems.

It's my go-to rescue cum doing-backups cum new-install distribution because it's clean (meaning low cruft), minimalist, and most importantly, rolling. I run it as a console OS. I adore it.

Have I run it as my Workstation OS? Yes. Would I again? No. It was too fragile then.

Pacman is too strange to use with the options reduced to letters and having to include the double dash every time you remember the long form. Gimme dnf, Aptitude or flatpak.

My daily driver is Fedora. Is my heart in my mouth every six months when 4,000 packages all need reinstalling? Yes.

Have I tried Debian Testing&Sid as semi-rolling? Yes, fantastic, until they did something weird with systemd instead of just doing the conf locations as intended like everyone else. And the weak-dependencies lists were unfunny. Did I mention I loved aptitude?!

Have I tried, source distros (exherbo, Gentoo, funtoo)? Yes, never got any work done. I was always compiling something for that 1% corner-case performance gain.

Don't think I'll try anything else save maybe openSUSE or that NixOS. The first seriously, the second for fun - NixOS smells a tiny bit like Gentoo or ArchLinux to me (sorry, not sorry).

Personally, I think bro needs an immutable Linux OS. Fedora SilverBlue, openSUSE MicroOS, the ArchLinux one.

Then someone needs to write a timer such that when he's really concentrating hard at 2am, it stops and puts some graphical meme on the screen for three hours. Then he'll feel at home.