GFGJewbacca

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[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I had a much better experience with Manjaro over EndeavourOS because it supported more of my hardware, but to be fair I'm using an Asus gaming laptop. When I build my next desktop, I'm gonna try a straight Arch install.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Sounds like some sleep training is in order. She's gotta learn that she's on her own at night. Hard, I know, but necessary.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Huckleberry is a great app. I've been using it all the time with our daughter

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're making me want to reread all of the books. GNU, Terry Pratchett.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just want to clarify, as an Jewish American clergyman, the Israeli government is not our government. To say otherwise is to play into the Israeli propaganda which states "To be Jewish is to be Israeli, and to be Israeli is to be Jewish." The fact that the Israeli government has twisted religion to serve its fascist goals is nauseating.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"Shortly before the Patrician came to power there was a terrible plague of rats. The city council countered it by offering twenty pence for every rat tail. This did, for a week or two, reduce the number of rats—and then people were suddenly queueing up with tails, the city treasury was being drained, and no one seemed to be doing much work. And there still seemed to be a lot of rats around. Lord Vetinari had listened carefully while the problem was explained, and had solved the thing with one memorable phrase which said a lot about him, about the folly of bounty offers, and about the natural instinct of Ankh-Morporkians in any situation involving money: “Tax the rat farms.”

-from "Soul Music" by Terry Pratchett

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can hear both of these quotes so clearly. I'm sad about what Blizzard has become.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Oh my sweet summer child. Ringtones were in a different audio format than mp3s. Plus, getting the ringtone onto the phone required additional fuckery.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

To be fair, the plague in Hebrew (Egyptian?) is צפרדע /tz'fardei'ah, which looks like a singular and not a plural. I totally see where he's coming from. But also, I thought it was in Midrash Tanchuma.

חג פסח שמח!

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

What the hell, calculators with color screens? Back in my day our graphing calculators were black and gray and we were told to be happy, damn it.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

EndeavorOS might also be a good option, from what I've heard. It's Arch based, but easier to install and use. I recently switched to Garuda, also Arch based, but focused more on the gaming community.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I did select a number of programs to install during setup so I had everything I needed. Spot on!

 

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