Profile pic is from Jason Box, depicting a projection of Arctic warming to the year 2100 based on current trends.
I think that’s where the evidence led. Yes, it was weird, even creepy, but MJ was broken thanks to his asshole father and never had a proper childhood. This was his way of dealing with the pain, trying to recapture it. Maybe some things happened beyond that, but I don’t think it’s been proven, and him being a child inside still would make sense based on his behavior everywhere.
Unlike all the current ones in the news, who obviously were doing horrible things to children.
“I’m all for trying new things and experimentation. But I also know to count on techniques that work.” ;)
One of my random Linux boot-up sounds is the WinXP boot theme.
When GIMP’s version 3 came out, it got a lot of great reviews. I can’t tell you what’s different or better, but in using it myself since then, it doesn’t “feel” as daunting. Very subjective, but definitely try it out again; it might work for you this time around.
“I’ll remember THAT, it’s such a trivial thing.”
The original hypertext proposal was even more complex than what we ended up getting, connecting ideas both ways.
I am indeed using Gnome. I had uninstalled the Snap LO and found the more current version because of some issues, and I want to say maybe the older one did have a floppy and that’s why it stood out. Or it could be theme-related. So many apps now don’t even have an icon, so I can’t say I’ve seen many that have a different icon than the old save version.
I’m (un)fortunately old enough to remember the green screen terminals, mainly in the university library to look up books, new tech that would replace the still-existing card catalogs. Good breakdown of the wording. A bit parallel with the save icon, although some software has migrated from that, I noticed LibreOffice has a generic down arrow implying it is being downloaded to something, I guess.
I immediately thought, no, terminal. But apparently, console is correct depending on what it’s displaying/being used for?
And occasionally the curtains.
Some might say thumbs up works for that, but there’s also an up or down arrow, which suggests a vote either way.
WIndows will install it. Running it correctly… different story.
It works, but it’s a lot slower and clunkier. And looks worse. Probably could improve with some tweaking, but I don’t use its special features and addons that much, and gedit works quite well for me.
See, tariffs do help some people. Just not the ones that need help.
I barely remember WinMe…
As I installed over it with 98SE on a laptop. Didn’t even hear the screaming.
“I’ve seen things.”
“I have no mouth and I must scream.”
That goes back to my point, that there’s choices out there with Linux, from the OS distro on up to the applications. That’s not being different just to be different, it’s trying to fill niches where there are needs. And things change, even the tried and true sometimes go obsolete for newer approaches. Stagnation is a killer. But if it works for the needed purpose, then great.
I just don’t get the internal arguing within Linux. Embrace even the “crazy kids”, after all that’s where Linux came from.
Sam Harris had a video on free will, and in it, he asked the audience to think of something (a color, or something simple but spontaneous). Then he asked them to try and think when in their thought process did that choice make itself known and get picked? I don’t think it’s as simple as there being free will or not, but I think what we experience is a bit of both coming together to give a sense of choice and self, when actually some things are deterministic by who we are or have become through life and experience. The wiring in the brain and its software. We’re not so hard wired that we can be perfectly predicted every time, but we do have preferred pathways created over time that influence any actual choice that’s made at the core.
So in answer to the title, it’s yes and no. There are some things that are far more fixed in our personalities that we understand at least partially why we do what we do. Then there are others that we don’t or can’t, or take years of therapy to figure out. But it’s a mix.