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“the benefits” that’s a good one. I have worked long enough in tech and with the government to know how this will work out. chuckles

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Similar applications don’t have to be programmed from scratch every time.

This sounds exactly like a COBOL programmer turned manager I met early in my career.

Major projects can share expertise and costs.

As opposed to tossing a dead raccoon over each other’s yard until somebody has to clean it up. Because I cannot imagine such office politics in the government.

Applications paid by the public should be available for everyone.

I demand my right to access military supplies management software code. And a nice Makefile to build that thing at home. Yeah, I have the right to that shit too. For recreational purposes.

With transparent processes, others don’t have to reinvent the wheel.

Now this is some fancy gourmet quality Dilbert’s pointy haired boss shit right there, oh yeah.

Dunno folks, I’m not convinced.

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Oooooo I owe a lot to Hans van Doorn… I hated brussel sprouts so much when I was a child, I thought it was because I always had them boiled. So modern ones are yummier than they used to.

I think Chickenstalker probably meant SEA=South East Asia

Don’t they call it the pendulum of history or something like that? This one has a shorter string and goes faster.

Maybe they’re using the tried-and-tested strategy of targeting UN forces to make them leave. It happened in Rwanda too, they killed those Belgian peacekeepers and then Belgium and France pulled out. Shortly after that, the Rwandan start their genocide. At least the Israelis seem to have just wounded the peacekeepers, unlike the Rwandan, who hacked the Belgian with machetes. Nevertheless, it doesn’t look very promising.

The worst part is that you may be right

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This is a masterpiece!

Famous last words

I haven’t heard those names in a long time…

Basically, yes. Or to be more precise, this is how a cat gets you.

Looks to me like a natural choice: the visible head of Hamas, which is the enemy. I don’t think Israel is interested in peace negotiations, so it is also a way to say they don’t care and they will wipe out everyone there. Which is in line with everything else Bibi & company have been saying and doing.

I personally avoid Tim’s like the plague. If no other choice is available, Starbucks it is.

I’m sorry to hear you had a bad experience with Linux.

One of the problems with that family of systems is hardware compatibility. Unfortunately if your hardware is not (proven) to be compatible with Linux, you will have problems. Sometimes those problems are of the “my system won’t start” kind. Often, these will be hard to identify and fix.

Linux is not yet IMO a system for general use. Fixing problems can be long, tedious and require you to read a lot of docs. Yesterday I spent a few hours fixing my package manager, which was recently broken by a system update. Yay.

I have been using dual boots for years for that very same reason. I am a software developer and Linux makes a lot of sense for my work. But for videogames (and other software not supported on Linux), Windows is my platform of choice.

The question I would ask myself if I was you is: do you need Linux? If so, I would next check (before anything else) hardware compatibility with some distro that makes sense for you (one that comes shipped with good graphics drivers for example). There are a few distro that work reasonably well for some of those cases. If you don’t need Linux (and you don’t like tinkering with systems) then I would suggest reconsidering your choice of platform.

Anyway, I wish you all the best settling for a system that works for you and hopefully you can see a quick end to your frustrations.

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She’s using chopsticks but she has no fingers