Perhaps re-frame the question: is it expected that you should partake of marijuana on the first date?

Really, a date is about getting to know each other, and any assumptions about the suitability of these kinds of social lubricants may indicate a divergence or convergence of cultural norms.

In other words, arranging a to meet at a bar sends a signal well before the “date” actually begins about how you approach life… if such a proposal is accepted then the other party is at least open to you consuming.

There are quite likely a lot of people who will breeze right past this and proceed to get tipsy to provide a cover story for embarrassing mistakes… and every but of this is fodder for judging how well you will get along if there are further dates. Don’t get depressed if the other person decides against future dates… no matter your feelings if they don’t feel likewise then best to drop it early.

The important thing to do is communicate the kind of person you are… forgiving, uptight, loose, teetotaler… and learn what kind of person the other is… preferably without conflict, and with respect. If alcohol fits with your persona, don’t hide it.

if it is a magnum, shouldn’t it be bigger? /s

They are a record of the process of adding to the Linux kernel. Such background can be used to trace the history of contributions if those contributions turn out to have had malicious intent or were derived from code that came from sources that were not compatible with the GNU license that the kernel is released under.

This is th trouble with rule-by-self-interest… eventually different people’s self interests clash. Now what was the solution in the constitution? oh, yeah, rule by laws… but that clearly didn’t work… /s

Can’t really help much there… I haven’t bought a keyboard in years. But once you drop that first qualifier the availability of options just goes bananas!

I suggest that you should spend less effort looking for special hardware and more effort learning how keyboard mappings work in your OS (e.g. [1][2]). “Linux” is a very powerful chameleon because hardware vendors almost never cater directly to that market.

[1] https://linuxconfig.org/reprogram-keyboard-keys-with-xmodmap [2] https://github.com/xremap/xremap

Agree, but this is the ELI10 explanation, not the ELI5 explanation. ChromeOS and Android are both operating systems that look and act very different than an operating system like Debian or Fedora, but all four of these examples use the Linux kernel.

Well, at least they are consistent.

Samsung and Pixel, but various earlier models with micro-USB also. The plugs on my nightstand chargers have also tended to loosen up over time, but since I don’t unplug those as often they don’t seem to be the weak link.

All my old devices become un-chargeable due to USB-C plug wearout. Even with wireless charging I cannot avoid sometimes needing a wired full charge.

Just a note: Windows software for controlling hardware is highly likely to assume a)direct access to the hardware (sometimes mediated thorough ancient APIs and assuming the existence of defunct expansion slots) and b) assume meatspace time can be counted using OS timing ticks (which get stretched out as modern VMs timeshare with other processes underneath the virtulized hardware). It is awfully tough to replace them sometimes.

Bash scripts tend to use transformation programs that accept input through standard input and use the output from standard output. For replacing one character with another, the “tr” program is typically used.

To operate on the command-line arguments to a program like “mv”, bash allows you to use back-tick quotes.

set FNAME="path/bad:file\\name"
mv "$FNAME" `echo "$FNAME" | tr ":\\" "_-"`

Note the use of escaped backslashes… the pair represents a single charcter. Be sure to study the manual for each command (e.g. man tr) before using it at first.

Te experiment building this kind of complicated command, replace the “mv” with “echo” to see what the two constucted arguments will be, and switch back to “mv” when they look right.

One approach to looping is to turn the above into a script that fixes one filename specified as an argument to the script ($1 inside the script) and then interactively pipe all the filenames through xargs to give them one at a time to your script.

find topdir -type f | xargs -d "\n" yourscriptname

You must try this on sample data and also backup your current data before turning your script loose on it… so often there are little things that don’t behave the way you expect when some unexpected input interacts with your script.

Finally, there are scripting languages like Python that have a lot of these capabilities built in… and with more consistent syntax than the many-tools bash approach, but they can have the headache of a lot more specialized setup requirements than just bash to go along with those advantages.

maybe something like https://a.co/d/9eG6erY

Failing to provide the name of the person in the body of the email is incomptetence.

Fox included the disclaimer about contact email… but IMO the person who built the mail merge was incompetent and that will not prevent ICE from coming after Aldo.

Not if cheeto is hiring.

Stick with Windows. Microft will deliver paradigm shifts and you will have no say in the matter. They are already removing options for disabling Copilot, and for all the promised backward compatibility they are letting go of features that lots of old Windows software depended on, as they introduce features similar to ones in Linux. I cannot really fault them for all of these changes, but the difference is actually one of choice and privacy, and not really the one you seem to think it is.

It is not recursive though. A directory is a special kind of inode that enumerates file inode numbers and when that list changes then the contents of that “directory inode” change. But if /home/user/.bashrc is deleted then the timestamp for /home will not be affected because the timestamps are associated with inodes rather than directory entries (assuming no symbolic links are involved).

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/inodes-linux-filesystem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/inode

When the choice is getting on with life or starving to death, you tend to become focused on the basics. Whether this is an improvement may be debatable (sublimation?), but sometimes life is harsh. Grandpa might have faced similar mental problems when he was young, and had no choice but to ignore them and may simply perceive that problem differently.

I, too, am not a spring chicken, so add whatever salt you like to this description. But I do think that there are a lot of hungry people around the world willing to ignore their own troubles and steal your lucky spot regardless of your mental state.

The cheeto thinks he can build walls to keep those hungry people at bay… but rather than letting them migrate to start at the bottom in the land of opportunity I think his approach is just going to end up with all of us doing more dirty work on our respective sides of the walls… possibly much sooner than we would like. Beware you don’t end up out-competed in the rat race while you grapple with your internal demons.

If you convert the chemical energy in a unit of coal to heat (burn it) you can calculate how much energy exists in that coal, measured in appropriate units (e.g. kWh). That is evidently what this author is trying to dumb down as “invested energy”. The amount of energy extracted as electricity is typically 40% of that… the rest ends up as heat which is much less useful than electricity.

I agree that this is not particularly useful in discussing the merits of different energy sources because good design tends to do as well as is practical and the supply of fuel and negative impacts of that process can’t vary dramatically.

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