Until people can buy a computer CHEAPLY and easily at Walmart with a distro preinstalled, Linux isn't going to make a lot of headway very fast. They are too lazy to be bothered to download a distro, make a bootable iso, wipe and do a fresh install.

And yes, they are that lazy unless really pushed to do it.

Us old people are often adverse to learning new things. It's not a surprising thing. You are getting the same way yourself about some knowledge.

That's a good tool! Crimp long and well with it!

Sage is a cool color. But lighter colors like pink just aren't my taste.

He has four of them? And they sing?

James Bond is cooler than all of them for sheer fun. But Peter Gunn books is the detective I grew up on. He even came with the coolest of theme song of all time, thanks to Mancini.

Court is time consuming and expensive. You lose a day's wages, you get probably get fined anyway, and you may also need to pay a lawyer and court costs. So you assume everyone can afford that? White or Black?

It must be nice to have that extra money.

His attitude about teaching me the language was strange. He refused to teach even my mother. He was all "Your 'Murican, so you speak 'Murican." And not Norwegian.

It wasn't until I was in my early 20's that I discovered that the Norge my grandfather spoke was essentially a dead language from the early 1800s. Soon after my family showed up here, the Norwegian language changed. It changed a couple of times. Not that he knew that.

But on the German side, my Great Grandmother was all about teaching me German as a little kid. She always kept a bowl of the cheap cheap pressed pastel sugar mints that little old ladies are fond of. It was a decorative milk glass hen and nest covered bowl. I could have a candy anytime I wanted as long as I asked in German. And it had better be in Low German! Or I got a light whack with a little bamboo cane every time I mispronounced a word. I learned quickly!

Oh, they are at least dimly aware they could do something else. But they choose not to because they resist learning.

Just think of all the money we save because we don't need shampoo/conditioner (plus all the extra room in the shower) or haircuts! We will be filthy rich in no time!

Perhaps they grew tired of the Brits starving and killing them?

I love geese. Roasted, smoked, grilled.......

My ancestors were criminals. One was a horse thief in Norway and the other was a counterfeiter in Germany in the early 1800s. Both skipping their homelands around the 1850s, just ahead of the law. At least that's what the family histories say that we can actually trace with reasonable accuracy.

I suppose we brought the lutefisk and lefsa from the Norwegian side and beer and sausages on the German side.

It's completely possible to automate grass cutting over nearly every terrain. It's called grazing. A few sheep or goats are happy to do all the work. And they don't AI or even need to be programmed or need an internet connection.

It's not a permanent fix. Water, the universal solvent.

Not simpler, just a lot more concerned about family dirty laundry. There were a general attitude about the "old country" that they didn't talk about. It was strong enough that my one Grandfather refused to teach me to speak Norwegian even though he and all the older community spoke it everyday. And you would go to church on Christmas or Easter day and the service was done all in Norwegian and you sang Norwegian hymns.

My family immigrants went farther west. The western prairies and northern forests of Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Canada. We bounced around a lot before the 1900s.

This is why I drink gin and tonic. A proven prophylactic against malaria. The worst killer disease the world has ever known. So I can't be an alcoholic.

One can't be too careful you know.

As someone who has spent far more time than I want to think about removing screws and bolts that other people fucked, Robertson is the second most popular fastener to get brought to me with Torx in hot pursuit.

Philips head screws that are messed up come in two types. Soft cheese metal versions and the insidious Japanese style that are just ever sooo slightly different and require their own special driver. And most of you can't tell the difference or even care.

Plus, Y'all buy cheap ass "turn screws" as the British used to call them. When you buy dollar store quality tools you deserve what you get and I don't feel sorry for you.

Those at least are easier to ID and a bit more difficult to screw up. Still, I've had to dig out may share of those too. All fasteners can be messed up if you try. And there are so many people more than willing to go to the effort.

Nah, this feels right. Don't hold it back.