Let's be honest, the teachings of Jesus aren't that great either.

What's crazy is, I'm pretty sure this is just hyperbole, but I also am not 100% sure it's not true.

Install gentoo. Then you'll be building the defaults for the rest of your life.

I got pulled over in Germany with weed from Amsterdam in the car (I'm an American, visiting my friend). I'm leaving the country the next day, I show them my plane ticket, so instead of giving me a ticket, they have us follow them to an ATM instead and give them 200€. They take my weed, my brand new bubbler, and most of my remaining money. All I was left with was this story.

Another time, was camping with friends for a week. We have an ounce with us, at the time a big problem if we got caught. We're on day 1 of 7, sitting on the tailgate of my car, smoking a one hitter and eating PBJs. Cop wheels around the corner, catches us. Started searching my car, I have no fuckin clue where my buddy stashed the bag. I'm sweating bullets. Cop tears the car apart looking for what he knows must be there, but finds nothing. Eventually leaves us with a minor ticket and takes our grinder and our piece. Immediately after he leaves I turn to my friend "where the fuck is the weed!?!" He's laughing hysterically, lifts up the loaf of bread that was sitting right next to us on the tailgate the entire time, it's just chilling there in plain sight.

I don't know what a HD is, but my doctor says I uave 80 of them.

That's how much you will have after buying into this shit.

I only drink the straw yellow stuff, the other flavors are too strong.

You know what, that's exactly how I feel about it. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but that sums up my feelings about that show precisely.

This was what I was talking about. The manufacturer offers two different "approved" lubricants for their hubs. On a budget, you get what you can get. You're right though, if you want really quiet, get the ones made for it.

There's no way that would work, would it? I can't imagine installing linux to an NTFS volume and it actually functioning.

Oh yeah. I've done it just for fun before reimaging a machine. It will mostly complete (some stuff isn't a real file so rm just fails), and your desktop environment will remain up and running while it happen. Then errors start popping up, icons stop working, nothing loads anymore, you can't reboot or shutdown because those were actually commands, and they're missing now...

The key to customization is not going out of bounds. If you customize, do it the way it was intended to be customized, not by finding weird, hacky shit that works like some kind of digital Rube Goldberg machine. If you find yourself writing convoluted bash scripts, and dredging up plugins on GitHub with the last commit from 2012, you're on a crash course with destiny.

That's categorically untrue. As long as you stick with well supported, mainstream distributions, most things just work. Given the vast diversity of window managers, init systems, boot loaders, desktop environments, package managers, graphical interface systems, audio systems, and so on... it's surprising how well things do just generally work in most cases.

As others have mentioned, this is super old. Also, catalyst is not nearly as reckless and dangerous as it should be. It was more like letting a drunk child drive a school bus.

Correction: much more useful info full stop. Windows be like "an error happened, good luck shithead". Linux be like: "error 37: here's the full stack trace, we put it in a file so you can read in and copy/paste if need be, check the man page for details on how to solve"

Funny, that's how ling I've been using Linux too. It turned into a very lucrative career too, so there's that I guess.

My main desktop at work was used back in 2012 when I first had it assigned to me (officially we get laptops, desktops are by special request). It's still kicking to this day and still my preferred system for work. All I've upgraded was adding an SSD and some RAM. Asset management has lost track of it by now, lol. It might just end up at my house. Honestly, this is one of the most compelling reasons to use Linux.

Oof, sorry about your face!

Thanks, I'm working on it. PT starts next week, which I'm really looking forward to. Actively participating in recovery will be good for my mental health.

Is this a personal experience thing? Did you just find out about the third brake?