Hmm. I could adopt an American for their safety?

Inductively so, if they’re still alive.

You hate the army training, and that’s fine. It does provide some instruction on dress, deportment, physical exercise and hygiene, that many modern kids lack. It’s like a finishing school, now. Knowing how to work as a team and perform basic first-aid is just a bonus.

No contest. Apt-rpm is superior in every way.

SuSE people can sit down too. I’ve seen inside that mess.

Of course; it uses Systemd.

YSK: now with unsupported opinions we should somehow take as fact

Sure, Mr random Internet person. I trust you.

maxxing

This is how they taught you to spell?

Canada. No idea of the scores thing, despite being inundated by adverts about it most of my life.

However, I can’t fathom people who’ve never had a credit card – are you living the life of a monk, still in high school; what?

It perplexes me because I’ve had a credit card since entering the workforce and, while I’ve used it sparingly, it’s really saved my ass a few times. “Neither a borrower nor a lender be” is just adding challenges to your life you don’t need at a time when you need them least.

Aw, fuck cancer. Here’s hoping it’s not, but I like that you’re positioning yourself better just in case; solid strategy.

I will choose to believe any weight loss was hard work and only a little luck until we learn differently. Please keep us up to date; and keep the chin up through what must be a scary-ass time.

Ohh. Excellent point. I know I haven’t made great Choices this season. ;-)

You’ll find a system that works for you, eventually. You only have to win once.

My relatives called it ONE-derland, because all the weights start with 1.

Congrats to the OP! I hope every new resident of ONE-derland got here through healthy means and is here to stay.

It’s SJVN. That’s all you need to know.

He’s no Cringely.

will let

This implies there was a choice. I’d’ve been glad for a “must let” headline.

This.

We got no presents, this year, but we’ve laughed and drank and we’ve heckled one another and built a puzzle and we’re watching Lampoon right now and quoting it like idiots.

We got some memories, I guess, but that’s it.

Dad worked. One day in the lean years he was on the books for 5 employers at the same time: no overlapping shifts, just a hairy schedule on a paper calendar and more than one job-to-job commute.

We do not castigate dad for devoting his entire life to the household.

Mom, who merely had one full-timer, did the shopping and wrapping on the side. The two of them set up a wonderful Christmas day together with very few gifts and resources, and we were all together on Christmas morn before Dad went to work.

It worked. We didn’t lack for joy.

Fracking methane.

Remember when conectiva gave us apt-rpm (and it worked so well it’s been used ever since) but RH was like “we need more fucking python because it’s fun to go slow and also completely go unusable when someone manages to upgrade their python” ?

Good times. It was the dumbest thing they did before Systemd.

It’s a hobby: it’s driven by your interests alone.

I worked on United Linux.

It was an over-engineered mess with half its guts ripped out before it was kicked over a fence at us – SuSE-style ‘collaboration’.