Envy versioning is how a lot of smartphones are named. But most of them settled on current year (YY).

They don’t need to. But they know what an engine is, don’t they? Even if they know nothing else about it? It’s the part of the car that goes vroom and makes everything else possible.

Your sacrifice is greatly appreciated! Also, what the hell, since when can tweets be novels?

I want to see the rest of that quoted tweet. There aren’t a lot of ways to finish that sentence that would make sense.

Oh, I do that too, of course. But then after a month I give up and use the brush. Then a day later a new stain appears and the cycle continues.

I just wanted to comment that factoid about the toilet brush. Hoping someone would chime in and admit they’ve never owned one!

Oh, of course!

It turns out that in some parts of the world, people have not heard of toilet brushes.

Where does that put Judaism? Just a bare Linux kernel without the rest of the OS?

This is fantastic. Thanks for posting the reddit link, which has now been edited further:

EDIT 2: Apparently I also owe an apology to the small (but vocal) contingent who really wanted this to be minotaur smut. I’m doing my part. Now get typing.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

And the linked thread is basically a writing competition that the author is hosting with a $100 prize. The title is “Announcing the 2026 Beefhammer Prize For Excellence in Minotaur Erotica”. Lovely!

I highly doubt they were talking about gaming.

Maybe the necessary codecs just aren’t installed in Debian by default? Mint and Ubuntu are targeted at laptops for general use, so it makes sense they’d bundle all Bluetooth codecs in a default installation to be ready for most users. But Debian makes fewer assumptions like that, and is often used for servers, so perhaps they didn’t want to bloat it with codecs that many installations will never need.

I’m just guessing here, but that makes sense to me.

You’ve got some courage standing in the middle of the street with no visibility like that. A car can just appear out of the blue and run you over. Glad it didn’t!

Though, if it was as quiet as it looks then you could reasonably expect to hear a fast car long before it got near, so perhaps it’s not as dangerous as it looks.

I never actually had to deal with Bluetooth issues on Linux so take this with a grain of salt.

BT audio devices generally support multiple different encodings, for example aptX, but they can always fall back to the most basic and most horrible codec that is universally supported on any BT host device. Sounds like that’s what’s happening. So you might want to look into why your PC isn’t using the better options.

Out of curiosity, what do you recommend instead?

I meant in the preferred pronouns “it/it”. A man’s pronouns are “he/him”, a woman’s pronouns are “she/her”, so an object’s pronouns would be “it/it” as opposed to “it/its”.

*its (not it’s)

Edit: actually the whole thing should be:

its pronouns are it/it

(first “it” corresponds to “he”, “she”,

second “it” corresponds to “him”, “her”)

I’m glad we’re in agreement.

It all comes down to how complete and good the tool is, both for CLI and for GUI. I’ve seen GUI tools that give more information than the equivalent CLI, and of course I’ve also seen the opposite as you have.

What grinds my gears the most though is when there’s no tool at all, you need to edit some config file, and the instructions given are nano /path/file.conf (or, god forbid, vim). It’s a text editor, why not use a normal one?! There are no guardrails either way to ensure the format is correct!

Obviously in that scenario someone should make an interface to edit the config safely, be it GUI or CLI, but that’s another matter.

Speaking of which, the latest Mint released ~yesterday added a GUI to make common edits to the grub bootloader. See: https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_zena_whatsnew.php “System Administration”. I am not aware of any CLI that can do this, I think before this you had to edit a text file and hope you got it right. At least as far as common recommendations go.

I’m a big fan of Mint specifically because they spent so much effort making just about everything accessible from a user friendly GUI. I totally agree with you, every time I see this kind of thing online I die a little.

Most people don’t want to become an expert in the task they want to do. They just want to do it once. CLI tools demand expertise.

I lucked out building a PC mid-2025. 64 GB of RAM cost me something like 370 USD.

The exact same RAM from the same shop now costs over 1,410 USD. I feel damn lucky.

(Prices converted from my local currency; electronics in this country are already way more expensive than they should be)

Is it really though? That is not acceptable behavior on personal machines either.