Beware the fury of a patient man.

1. Bullshit, and
2. I’m not hearing how I’m wrong.

Funnily enough my main computer does have a 5 1/4" bay. I wanted a Fractal meshify but there weren’t any in the world when I went to build my computer so I bought a Fractal Pop, and it has an optical bay down in the PSU basement.

Because I fell for the fucking marketing. Duh.

The assignment was “not super controversial, but I still really stand by it.”

My bathroom was carpeted. By my direct ancestors. They built the rest of the world I live in, too.

Maker’s Mark, a mass produced basic bitch bourbon, was initially marketed with the tagline “It tastes expensive because it is.” I say this as a whiskey drinker, it’s pretty much all marketing.

I am convinced beyond contestation that carpeting a bathroom is an exceptionally stupid thing to do.

Show me where I’m wrong.

Oh I’m convinced that the demand for fancy booze is pretty much entirely marketing.

First of all, wine is almost entirely judged by its packaging. Take Franzia, that extremely mid boxed wine, put it in a striking bottle with a real wood cork and a fancy or trendy looking label and people will start discussing bouquet and mouthfeel.

Beer (and I will pause after typing this parenthetical to take a swig from my Red Oak Bavarian Amber Lager) tastes kinda like puke. Like orange juice after brushing your teeth. Fancy schmancy beers will taste like burned oatmeal, and the craft beer industry died and now there’s just IPAs which taste like yesterday’s grass clippings and the occasional “we’re not as big as Budweiser” company making “Amber lager”.

As for spirits, vodka outsells fancy aged whiskies by a WIDE margin, and while flavors can be found in whiskey, a bottle of Pappy or Blantons or whatever ain’t worth thousands of dollars, it’s all just Buffalo Trace.

I’ve seen footage of a restaurant where rich people pay hundreds if not thousands of dollars to have chocolate sauce poured into their bare hands from a gravy boat. I’ve heard this phenomenon explained by the axiom “poor people prioritize quantity, middle class prioritize quality, and the rich prioritize experience.” So the best you’re going to get is a $40 bottle of scotch, because a $40,000 bottle of scotch will be the same booze in a really, really complicated bottle.

Have you ever had Johnny Walker Blue? It taste like ash. Johnny Walker Red is honestly a better experience, because it tastes like whisky. Johnny Walker Blue is more expensive because they tell you it is.

I think you’re both right, but one of you is talking about the internet, and the other is talking about the world wide web. Both technologies were intended to facilitate ease of access of information, which is incompatible with robber baronism.

And we’ll be watching his career with great interest.

So, most metals will work harden when flexed even before reaching the yield point, while steel does not. This hardening of the metal will eventually cause metal fatigue and failure.

This does not rule out aluminum as a structural metal. Look at airplanes, there are 70 year old Cessnas still in service with semi-monocoque aluminum airframes.

As for cars a LOT of cars have aluminum or composite frames. The Mercedes SL, the Audi A8, the BMW i8, manufactured in Europe with aluminum chassis. Several makes from America and the far East have aluminum frames as well; Chevrolet Corvettes have had partial aluminum frames since the 90’s and GM started making all-aluminum frames for the Z06 models circa 2005, the Acura NSX has an aluminum frame.

Most cars are made of steel because it’s cheap, not by requirement.

Oh please, it’s always the bible thumping hellfire preaching black man lynching baptist pastor/senator that is caught with three underage dicks in his mouth in an airport men’s room. ALL nazis are gay.

I’d almost like to see the raw tape rather than the edited version of the episode where he nukes Xorg. I want to do an NTSB air crash investigation on it.

Linus installed Pop!_OS, got a working desktop, tried to install Steam via the Pop!_Shop, got an error message that says “Failed to install steam.” He immediately goes on a rant about how Linux never works, you have to use the terminal.

Why did the Pop!_Shop fail to install Steam? It’s just a front end for APT. Well, it turns out there was a bugged version of steam.deb, and not so much the software itself, but the metadata in the package was written in such a way that it thought it was incompatible with the Cosmic desktop, which was a rather new development at the time. So APT saw the package wanted to remove the entire GUI, and said “No we’re not doing that” and failed with an error.

This was a known bug. And a fixed bug. At the time of recording, a newer version of the package with that bug fixed was available…but the apt cache that the image of Pop!_OS happened to have in the ISO pointed to the bugged version. And the Pop!_Shop doesn’t do an apt-get update when launched, and it’s very Apple-style not obvious in Pop!_OS as to how you do that. In the same episode, Luke installed Linux Mint which guided him through doing a software update. Pop!_OS doesn’t.

Linus didn’t google “popos failed to install steam” and learn to do an apt update and try again. Instead he goes on a rant about how nothing in Linux works and you have to use the terminal. Which he had to look up how to do. Most instructions I’ve seen will tell you to do an apt update before an apt install, but he either skimmed past that or found a source that didn’t say to do that.

He then blitzed right past an allcaps warning that “THIS IS GOING TO BREAK THINGS. TO CONTINUE, TYPE YES DO AS I SAY.” Windows constantly tells you that installing software might break the computer. Linux doesn’t.

He gleefully told it to uninstall the entire GUI to include X11 and it dutifully dumped him to a terminal.

Love doesn’t exist. Only greed and lust.

Or I wonder if the bitterness isn’t just hidden by the overwhelming flavor of motor fuel.

Immediately before, in my case. I’m thinking of welding some armor to a bulldozer.

Can it? They haven’t yet.

Mine is an old XPS box, and it’s kind of cool to have because it’s got a lot of obsolete hardware. A PCI slot, external SATA, it might even have Firewire. So it’s a relatively modern box I can run modern software on with old IO.