GNU does have a kernel though

I think that only happens if you manage to acquire a monopoly and are forced to break up your company - I’m not entirely sure you have to sell parts of it publicly even then

Unless the someone happens to be the owner.

It’s still legal in Australia, at least, we never got the anti-circumvention rule the US media companies got into the US trade agreements

Or rather we did, but they have exceptions that cover just about every otherwise legal use case. I can legally decrypt media to play on my Linux machine, for example. I think the only thing we can’t legally do is circumvent controls to do copyright violation

ye classic times

The letter you’re using y to stand in for is available on computers and phones: þ (thorn). It makes the same sound as “th” in “that”. The other letter “th” replaced was ð (eth) which makes the sound “th” in “something”

I thought the Celts walked to the British Isles while they were connected to Europe. Guess I need to improve my British prehistory

D20srd.org has an automatic random dungeon creator. It’s rarely sensible but even a rogue needs exceptional luck and several levels to make the detect and disarm checks that it comes up with. The monsters it populates the dungeon with are appropriate to the level you set

It creates a player’s map and a GM version

There’s already a glut of tech workers. The IT job market already sucks

I don’t imagine AI is going to make it much worse

[not op] I’m in it for the social, neither online (without open mics and video) nor solo is appealing

Me and my group started a game, we played on Monday evenings so I created a mailing list and called it [Mondays] (it was the early 2000s, email was the best option). About 3 minutes after that one person becomes unavailable for all future Mondays, so the Mondays group met for years on Tuesdays

About half the people are different and the group went from five to ten to four over the years. Right now we meet on Fridays. I have a different group that meets on Mondays

I don’t think there’s even room for constructive criticism any time close to the event. You want to encourage anyone who wants to GM, not do anything that might dissuade them

Emacs

I wonder if the numbers would be higher if there wasn’t so much crossover between Linux users and unwillingness to pay for stuff that can be gotten for free

It was probably sports that made VHS the winner. Porn was on both technologies (and available at local video rental places in Australia at least).

VHS could handle a full gridiron game (but not a cricket match) but Betamax couldn’t.

One could alternatively run GNU hurd, then you also get Debian but also cachè

You can get a good approximation, multiply the pie graph percentages by a plausible population of PornHub users, get plausible numbers for each group, use those numbers to work out plausible numbers for the second graph

Tbf the blue mountains are blue from the right distance in the right weather, like most temperate Australian mountains

The city of Townsville, yes (it is in fact a city)

We did indeed. The Harold Holt memorial pool

Some Celts drowned when doggerland became dogger island then dogger bank as the glaciers retreated. The sea flooding all the land must have been a surprise for them, no high land was high enough

Thinkpads are more expensive and far far less user serviceable