I don't accept your answer. I know deep in my heart that it's 4.

20 years ago our cat fell out of our workshop's ceiling and we decided to keep it. True story.

That example sentence would function exactly the same if it was separated by a period; nothing is gained by using a semicolon. No new information is added; you are just going to make people wonder why there is a semicolon there making the sentence less comprehensible.

FTFY. You aren't supposed to separate two independent clauses with a comma.

It's not necessarily a threat of violence. A lot of people would just feel ashamed to criticise other people in person would feel fine to do it on the Internet. Being a dick is a lot harder when you can see the effects of your words on the other person.

Wow! Ticketmaster pretending to care about scalpers consists of ... blocking Firefox? No wonder ticket sales are such a shitshow.

Carl Sagan - A Demon-Haunted World. Explains the key difference between a scientific vs religious mindset.

Some people add the rind to broths.

Right. 'Lasagna' in particular is spelt exactly like it's pronounced in Italian.

Having to relogin every two weeks with two-factor authentication. Everything is a MS Office document, in particular ridiculous spreadsheets. Everyone writes in acronyms that they assume everyone else knows. Even though there is always a lot of new staff, every email assumes everyone has been working there forever. ("It's that time of the year again! You need to complete your GRD before week 5 of the COG and send it to the OSYN. Probably you are already an expert in completing these forms after so many years, but if you need instructions, please go to our IDRN and enter your ICRJ.")

Even distros like Mint are buggy and requires multiple restart every day.

There is something wrong with your installation. Other people just restart to update the kernel often once a week/month. So you might as well tell us what's making you restart Mint so often.

That's true for all bases.

Raw cashews are poisonous though, at least to humans. Maybe those crows were far smarter than you think.

I can't believe no one mentioned this yet. I hope OP reads this comment. The first step is to make sure this new computer you want to buy is compatible with Linux. Otherwise your experience will be very frustrating, no matter what distro you choose. That is, if you can install any distros at all. Ask the vendor if this machine is compatible with Linux.

You would imagine this to be obvious, but people who are used to Photoshop or Reddit complain all the time that Gimp or Lemmy are not as intuitive, as the other comments fully demonstrate.

TahtyUHny FYI. It's a weird spelling of a common Brazilian/Portuguese name. The usual spelling is Tatiane.

All Linux distros give you the choice of installing and uninstalling whatever you want.

It just keeps a copy.

According to what I have heard, other elite hacker skills that are at risk of getting lost in the younger generations include searching on Google and using e-mail.

I can sudo. Last time I looked into this, Memtest86+ version 6 was required to work with UEFI but it wasn't available for Ubuntu 22.04. Now it seems that 24.04 has it, so I might update and see if I can get the test running. Thanks for the suggestion!

That's a very good point, and sorry about the American spelling!