Apparently wiki identifies it as a “pointing stick”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick

…also, I find it amusing that the article does use the term clitmouse.

Yes, both links and lynx are terminal based browsers. I remember using them to browse the Gentoo handbook when trying to do my first install.

Thanks for the nostalgic flashback.

Just to give a shout out to my boss when I worked as a mechanic, I’d like to say “get the fuckin’ torch. She’s hogged up tighter than a nuns cunt” and also a “she shakes like a sick whore shiting blood”. Lastly, I’ll add “fuck you shit whore fucking cunt”

Duane, you made amazing progress in the world of profanity and you were an amazing mentor.

Thank you.

I’m sure there are opinions both ways. I think the reason Fedora is the headline is because it is the more recent addition. Lenovo has had an Ubuntu option on some machines for a few years now. Fedora is a fairly recent addition.

I am certainly not one of the younger folks and had never seen that before. That is awesome, thank you for sharing.

I expect he is a slow reader. He may not have gotten to that part of the book yet.

Yes.

How much do you really think they care about what the constitution says?

I am. 🙂

I think we agree on most of the points here, and now we’re just getting defensive about tone, and details.

I was just trying to point out that nothing has a way it is supposed to be. There is what things are, and there is what we want. Yes you can use many of the features of our language to convince people of your opinion.

I myself don’t like the idea of personifying the planet then imbuing it with opinions so I made the comment I did.

Changing topics. Good strategy.

Not even a little bit. I fully believe humans are causing climate change. It is going to make life as we know it on this planet completely different in the very near future.

I still think the planet itself doesn’t give a shit, and claiming there is a way it is “supposed to be” is pretty narrow minded.

the Earth is not supposed to

I don’t think we get to say what the earth is “supposed to” do.

For most of the earths existence it wouldn’t be possible for humans to exist. I don’t think it really gives a shit about a bridge we built.

There is a shoe store where I used to live named Red’s Shoe Barn. I was always hoping the correct lights would fail to make their sign read “ed’s hoe Bar”. To my knowledge it never happened, but I don’t know.

I respect the concern, but if you already ate the bacon that left you with the fat, hasn’t a fair amount of the damage already been done?

If you are used to driving a manual, you don’t rest your foot on the foot rest area, you keep it just about to push the clutch. Also, saying the brake pedal is the full width of two pedals is wrong, but it is certainly wider. I have gone for the clutch in an automatic once and just barely caught the edge of the brake pedal. The results were very confusing, and without exaggerating it took me 5-10 seconds to figure out what I had done. It was while driving my mom’s car with her in it and she looked at me with the most “what the fuck are you doing?” look she has ever made.

This was all over twenty years ago but yes, it is definitely possible.

I don’t want to kick a gift horse in the mouth, but as someone who loves mixed metaphors, I’m stealing these.

At first I read your last line as “liberally press my ass” and I thought that was an odd way to end a rant.

This isn’t what my understanding of how the system works, but the way you word it, you seem very confident that it is. I’m honestly curious what you read that lead you to this perspective.

I use youtrack. It’s a project management tool. It’s not open source, but does have a self hostable option.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/server/installation-and-upgrade.html

I’m a little sad I had to scroll so long to even find a reference to the old “pogs”. Damn what a weird fad.