Sometimes people forget what’s possible by laying in their comforting bubble.

I am car free and was looking for a place in the Carribean to go cycling a bit during my vacation. I looked online for a place that had public transit and ended up with Guadeloupe and the island of Marie-Galante for cycling.

Just to be sure I double checked online and every forum and comment I found was saying that visiting Guadeloupe without a car was impossible; that a car was a necessity. Yet, I knew there was public transit, I had the map and schedules in front of me. So I mentally prepared to have to use a taxi to go everywhere (like in St-Martin, ugh).

But I arrived at the airport, went outside, saw the panels and arrows to public transit, waited for a bus, and got to the hotel. The next day I took another bus to the ferry terminal then went to Marie-Galante. I rented a bike, cycled around the island, spent a few days there, then came back in reverse using public transit too.

Apparently what was impossible to visit without a car, can be visited without a car, when we just try a bit.

I get the same thing when cycling or walking more than a few km. People are like “you walked here?” Why yes, you put one foot in front of another and next thing you know, you’re in a different place.

Depends how old. I have a Phenom system with an iGPU and an audio chip that went unsupported fow a few years. Then after a few cycles of updates, it became supported again.

Same with the GPU of an old laptop with an Optimus system. At some point nothing would be working correctly but then new nouveau (huh) modules got out and this old hardware could suddenly work much better than before.

Apparently I have a lot of hardware that goes through a phase of being unsupported in Linux for a while, to working better than ever before.

To be even more efficient while being lazy, try oh-my-bash. You can start typing the beginning of a command and use arrow up to cycle through only those, instead of the whole history. So if you had a very long mount command and don’t want to type it again, type mount and up arrow until it can be found. Not very useful for ls -al but very appreciated on longer commands.

As someone that doesn’t have a car and uses coaches, public transit, or bicycles to get around, I’ve always found it ironic that people are willing to be stacked and piled into planes for hours but refuse to take a public bus ride for an hour. Planes are the only place where people can’t just take their car to go somewhere and really have to put up with all the BS of traveling with other people.

When I go visit my family and friends using public transit and it takes multiple hours, I sometimes fantasize that I could have gone to the airport and use the same amount of time to fly to a Caribbean island. People complain about planes but I’ve used public transit all my life so to me they’re just a tad worse than a packed public bus. At least planes have power and bathrooms, even if you have to climb over other people to use them.

I also love bike touring so sometimes instead of taking 2.5 hours to go visit my family using public transit, I use the greenways to cycle there, spend the night camping in a small provincial park, and finish the rest of the ride the next day. It usually takes about 7 hours of continuous cycling, without the pauses for rest/food and the overnight. I could rent a car and drive there in about 1.5 hour but then I wouldn’t spend a night there. It’s not always easy, but it’s usually much more rewarding.

So yeah, it’s relative.

Just use Slackware then.

EDIT: Just pointing out this is distro specific and not Linux specific.

Quite possible but if you look on the web, I’m not the only one that can smell cigarettes in coffee. Apparently they share some similar compounds.

I didn’t really check if those links are AI but just look for yourself if they are not satisfactory.

https://brewmelikethat.com/why-does-coffee-smell-like-cigarettes/

https://coffeeplusthree.com/why-does-coffee-taste-like-cigarettes/

I can smell my neighbours coffee through the walls in the morning and I hate it. It smells like someone is smoking cigarette.

Especially when I’m on a bicycle.

Like, they pass me dangerously then they get stopped at the next traffic light and I end up by their window anyway, looking at them with disappointment. Bravo, champ.

After having my bike stolen while locked on the side of a Walmart, I am more protective of the new one. I’m a bit more aware of where I lock it, but I also bought a decent U-lock instead of just a cable.

But I also stopped using my own bike if it isn’t an absolute necessity. Sometimes I need the bike for the panniers or the trailer, so I take a risk. But if possible, I’ll use a bike sharing system when I go to some sketchy places.

I even got a bike stolen in the garage of my apartment complex, so now it lives with me, in my studio.

Ahem. Konformists.

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Ugh. That reminds me of the Microsoft admin fanboys where I worked, dissing Linux because its all command lines, while saying that MS inventing PowerShell was a stroke of genius making their lives easier.

I made the “reverse” deal with myself. I’m very curious so I thought I would stay alive and see how the world fucks itself up throughout the years. So far I’m not disappointed. I always think extreme capitalism can’t get worse, but yet, it does. During the pandemic I thought that surely this would at least “wake some people up”, in part. But no. People sleeping and dying in the cold streets. People that can’t eat. Poverty being criminalized. People cheering authoritarianism and genocide. We kill and let people die for the imaginary value of a currency stored in computers. It’s quite a show if you’re a cynical bastard waiting for the bubble to pop, even if it probably never will.

Seeing a metalhead in the snow reminds me of this gem: The Mighty Gates Of The Couloir Bonaventure

It can’t hurt to know this but to me PS is not intuitive, looks like SomeLongString-ActingLikeA-Command, and I avoid it as much as using Windows in the first place, unless absolutely necessary.

For a moment I thought that ‘commandName -’ was some PowerShell stuff.

Also when someone you know uses Windows 11.

It’s kind of complicated. I’ve used Linux since Slackware 7 and I still have issues with some drivers.

Sometimes you just already have the hardware. Sometimes the vendor says it’s compatible but it’s not, or you have to compile drivers from a CD. Sometimes it depends on the version of the kernel used. Sometimes it depends on the architecture. Sometimes conditions change and what’s supposed to be working doesn’t.

I don’t think the meme is blaming Linux, it’s just how it is for some people. Some are gonna distro hop, some are gonna compile their own kernel.

Just in case you don’t know, unless it changed last time I checked, some organizations like Comptia didn’t allow computers with dual boot to be used to pass a cert exam.

I’ve seen another “joke” like this when I was on reddit and I had to save it to remind me how most people think it’s funny to drive a multi ton lethal vehicle when they can’t see shit around them.