That really does seem to be a US thing. From a distance your country does seem to have a very weird corn fetish.

It’s only a model.

Preemption.

Not just when they’re walking, but waiting until they’re at the front of the queue to decide what to order, or being surprised when the light turns green, or getting home to find nothing to eat in the fridge… The number of people I know who just refuse to think a couple of steps ahead.

What’s “this”? I can’t see what you’re holding.

/s

“There’s nothing more we can do. I’m calling it. He’s gone. Time of death, 03:39. Cause of death: planet exploding.”

I just did a simulation with representative bodies that included spheroid objects of varying densities to approximate the makeup of the major solar bodies and all the fruit bounced everywhere and the lady behind the counter is really upset now.

Especially if you’re dating a coprophiliac.

You’re projecting. It says a lot about you.

Modern birds are dinosaurs as far as I’m concerned.

My counter is always, “and there are people better off than you, so stop being happy.”

No. I went cold turkey in mid-June. I logged back in last week to use Power Delete Suite to automatically edit every post and comment I ever made to this and then deleted my account.

I’ll still use Reddit read-only and with cookies blocked if I stumble upon (ahahaha) it through a search or something.

Banana you glad I actually live a life of crippling loneliness?

Having a successful marriage and eating an orange.

If you live in the UK, Lidl’s in-house cola brand, Freeway, is better than Pepsi or Coca-Cola, IMHO.

Plus you’ve got WSL2 if you need Linux. Much more convenient than dual-booting.

I feel like I’m commenting about WSL2 a lot in this thread. I’ma stop now.

I spend most of my time in Linux but IMHO I don’t think any desktop experience comes close to Windows. WSL2 is a lovely way of bringing the two together.

If you’re interested in the virtualization angle, I can’t recommend ProxMox highly enough. It’s insanely slick and powerful, and totally open source. It doesn’t handle file sharing well natively, but you can easily spin up a file server VM. It can also do GPU passthrough, though it does require a little bit of fanangling in the terminal.

Windows 11 Pro with WSL2 Ubuntu

PowerShell is my preferred terminal shell on any OS and I’ve never found a Linux desktop I get along with (don’t get me started on the bloated Fisher Price playcenter that is MacOS), so Windows 11 with Ubuntu in WSL is perfect for me.

This is one of two feature I really want in Lemmy. The other is the ability to migrate accounts (and, potentially, communities) between instances seamlessly like you can with Mastodon.

Uncle Tacitus, that you?