quid_pro_joe

For me it was Backtrack Linux on a bootable CD-RW. Set the Windows wallpaper as my background and nobody ever noticed. Man those were the days!

Some people take every word spoken literally - do not "slur yourself" in front of them. When you're with friends and family who "get" you, drop all the f-bomblettes you want 🗣️🪵

I hate needing them. I live in an area with virtually no mass transportation, no cycling lanes, and everything is so spread out you could easily perish from dehydration just walking to the market. Previously I lived in L.A. for 20 years and never owned a car there, I biked and bussed everywhere. No matter where in L.A. you are, it only took 3 busses or less to get to a trailhead in the Angeles National Forest. Man I miss those days!

Here's a reddit thread with some possible leads. Basically the Deception logo is commonly found along Trump and Qanon enthusiasts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/uhmo2m/whats_the_deal_with_decepticon_logos_on/

But even before all the recent political correlations, the Deception logo stood for oppression, enslavement, extreme violence and cruelty. Not exactly the most desirable qualities one would look for in law enforcement officers.

I may be a bit biased though. Both my cars have Autobot emblems 🤖

I'm a vendor who works at a local jail, and I can almost park my Japanese import under the officer's stupidly oversized maga trucks. But that doesn't blow my mind. You know what does? A sworn officer whose civic duty is to serve and protect the public, badging his car on all sides with giant Decepticon emblems...so yeah, before you call the popo about big bad trucks parking illegally, find out what they drive!

Most industrial embedded PCs I've serviced ran on Windows XP Pro but you'd never see it (under the machine control software that autoruns on boot) unless things had gone pear-shaped. It was kinda trippy how at the time you could find that OS running on everything from grandpa's old Gateway 2000 all the way up to $100K+ industrial CNC machines and million-dollar medical imaging equipment.

Same happened to the relationshipsadvice and aita subreddits, the number of posts suddenly skyrocketed with incredibly long, overly-detailed stories that smacked of LLM-generated content.

I'm new to Linux too and testing both X11 and Wayland at home. so far I like Wayland in theory (it's the future!) but prefer X11 in practice (no weird graphical issues).

It is indeed exhausting! Warm regards, Joe(s)

God here (taking temporary control of a random human as I don't have a mobile device, or thumbs for that matter): I gave y'all free choice - and I'm not talkin' 'bout the vote. Turn off the telly and go start a revolution! (or join an existing rebellion, if you prefer) All my love, God(s)

You're correct! And its done such a good job that it's allowed me to forget (unintentionally) that issue even exists!

I used newpipe for a long time, currently using a fork called pipepipe. I forgot why I switched lol

https://pipepipe.dev/