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A Literal Cabbage. What do you want from me?

  • How can we prepare for ASI

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  • The ideal scenario is that we get good old Gay Space Communism™ but until then it's probably going to be mutual aid and community organisation that keep the rest of us semi-functioning.

  • Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?

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  • In the UK we don't pay any vat on "essential" goods. And we have a raft of tax relief for lower earners.

    Not that it helps much, but it's better than a poke in the eye.

  • Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them?

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  • The used to be - I had a flat that used an old style fused breaker. Fun times trying to replace a fuse when it had blown...

  • Are you a fan of podcasts? If so, which ones would you recommend?

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  • I feel this way about most love recordings of podcasts (or anything for that matter, with the exception of standup comedy) - if I wanted live episodes I'd go see them live.

  • Have you ever won something? A sweepstake, competition, or other? What was it? Tell us your story.

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  • My phone service provider used to do daily roulette type giveaways.

    I won a free return flight to basically anywhere in Europe.

    I actually never did anything with it, because at the time I couldn't afford to pay for someone else to go with me (I would have gone with my partner).

    I regret not just flying on my own, but them's the rubs - I was, and am, a bit of an idiot.

    I also once won a game key by making a funny YouTube comment on a Unit Lost video once too - but I never used that either; it wasn't a game I was interested in, I just liked to watch the vids for a bit of a laugh.

    I don't win much, but when I do I squander my wins.

  • A Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: 'I hate you'

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  • Justice!

  • What's your "weird flex"?

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  • Me too! But only on one arm.

    Thanks, mild localised hypermobility.

  • Should one give money directly to homeless people?

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  • The right answer is "yes". Some cash in the moment is a nice thing to do, and will alleviate an immediate want or need potentially.

    Donation to an organisation that will help the problem long term is a worthwhile thing to fund.

    Why not give a man a fish to eat while you're teaching them to fish for themselves, if you're in a position to do so?

  • Should one give money directly to homeless people?

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  • You could have asked him what he wanted first, if anything at all?

  • How to set up laptop for corporate usage, so contents can be erased.

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  • It smacks of elitism, that's all.

    The OS is simply a means to an end. If Linux offers a way to do what they want in a way that is less hassle, and it meets their needs, then that's a good thing.

  • How to set up laptop for corporate usage, so contents can be erased.

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  • customizable and configurable

    Whatever you think of OPs proposed use case is definitely falls under the above.

    It's this kind of 1337 h@xor approach to the OS that makes people feel like it's unapproachable when that's so far from the reality these days.

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  • My great uncle left a load of masonic stuff but my dad returned it to his lodge before I could have a rummage through it.

    My parents are religious and took a dim view of it.

    Some of that stuff was pretty cool - it was a part of my great uncles life I would have loved to asked him about and I didn't find out about it until he passed. Sad stuff.

  • Small Distro Concerns

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  • Not really - there's plenty of use cases where running memory intensive stuff like that isn't an issue and running a small footprint distro makes more sense than, say, a maximalist, fully featured desktop distro.

    I'm not trying to run a media centre or play games on my 11 year old MacBook!

  • Small Distro Concerns

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  • Point taken!

    I don't think the lite distros are to blame for performance drops in that case, are they? Unless it's down to a lack of system optimisation.

  • Small Distro Concerns

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  • Fair enough!

    I've done some blindingly stupid things with my installs in the past, and I'm not angling to try any in the near future - I guess I'll just embrace the reinstallation game!

  • What's the most obscure distro you can think of

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  • That's a blast from the past! I used to run #! On my 701...

  • Small Distro Concerns

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  • So if there's additional repositories does that mean that there is likely to be core functionality which would be broken if it stops being maintained?