Honestly, for a grandma distro, I’d use Fedora Silverblue nowadays. Very up to date, and you might as well uninstall the terminal for how useless it is.

My cat’s favorite key combo

…and promptly disappeared to heaven, but he’ll be back soon, promise! (according to the people who wrote down the story to popularize his teachings and gather followers about 100 years later)

When I was around 20 and looking for purpose in life, I actually really tried to get into Christianity.
I mean, they seemed to have a light guiding them through life, something that takes away the feeling of senselessness and chaos in the world. I especially loved the idea that “you can never fall deeper than into god’s hand”.
So I prayed to god to show me the way to him, went to the local church every Sunday, and started reading the bible.
All of it. Cause I obviously wanted to know what I was supposed to believe in. And it completely killed my desire to become a Christian.

The only way to make sense of it, for me, was to interprete the old testament as a collection of the stories that goat herders told each other to make sense of world history, followed by a heavily propagandized history of the Israelite people, legitimizing their claim to Israel after displacing and genociding the people who had lived there before.
The new testament is the story of a wandering preacher who tried to establish an early version of peaceful communism.
But when that became too popular, the Roman state embraced and co-opted the message and turned it into the basis of a hierarchical state church, which later turned into Christianity as we know it today.

Since I read God’s book while praying to God and that was the interpretation I was left with, I have to assume, it’s the one God agrees with ;)

That sounds like actual hell.

Career levels at Amazon (basically pay grades)
Total Compensation

For someone with ADHD, StumbleUpon was like a button that injects dopamine into your brain.
Really fucking addictive

Return question: If you do have a plan to live forever, do you have a plan B how to end it, when (not if) it becomes unbearable?
Or when (not if) you’ve lost the last shard of your sanity?

Life in Rome under Appius Claudius Caecus

I upvote every post and comment I reply to, and every reply to one of my posts or comments, cause I think the fact that we’re communicating here is pretty neat.
Unless the reply really isn’t neat at all, then I don’t vote.
I downvote obvious trolls, ragebait, bad faith arguing and rule breaking.

Never. My dad still sees me as his child. But he also sees me as an adult man who he can talk to at eye level, and he’s started asking me for advice on subjects I know more about than him. I really love the relationship we’ve developed.
Man, I’ll call him right now and tell HIM that.

strong incel vibes

This is how Microsoft develops Azure, except they don’t have the option of starting from scratch.

If OP installs Linux on the machine she uses, something she needs doesn’t work, and OP doesn’t fix it, she really has no other options.

Mint has a GUI menu where you can select a newer kernel.

YouTube voice auto-translation is completely worthless, but they still shove it down your throat.

Busch?

There is no inherent value in it. A translation only makes sense if enough people will buy and read it to make it worth the effort and cost.
But I do think (actually fear), we’ll soon get AI-translated e-books where you can select the language at checkout.

Plot twist: It’s Alaska.
After declaring independence, a free and fair referendum showed overwhelming support for joining the Russian Federation.

It’s a wolf and a flock of sheep all inside a fenced-off meadow, thinking that everyone can do whatever they want and it will all work out to everyone’s favor.

Awesome, let everyone freely enter into any contract they’ll agree to, instead of a government enforcing rules at gunpoint!
Except the contract is written by a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate, and the one “agreeing” to it is a single mom who will lose her income, apartment and access to child care if she “freely” refuses.