It’s not 4. Wiki has a table and more info

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial

Nearly identical story here, and I agree.

Habits and hardware are definitely the big ones to overcome. I still remember how absolutely lost I felt the first couple times I tried installing slackware in the 90s. I could install/set up windows in my sleep. But then slackware dropped to an unfamiliar command prompt, I can’t dir, there isn’t even a C drive, and now I’m expected to configure something called xfree86. Luckily I wasn’t told to use vi or I’d be stuck there to this day.

New users aren’t thrown into the deep end quite like that anymore, but it’s still a big change for a windows power user. So much of what you learned is not applicable or just the wrong way to do things. Mac users and Windows non-power-users seem to have a much easier time accepting the changes.

It’s definitely not for everyone (is any OS?) but it’s been ‘ready’ as a desktop OS for me since Mandrake 8 in ~2001. That’s about when I ditched windows 2000 and haven’t looked back.

For what it’s worth, I’ve found that windows and mac forums have similar issues if you approach them as an outsider.

I feel similar frustration when faced with trying to accomplish things on those OSes. Mac forums in particular are terrible about “you shouldn’t want to do that”.

It doesn’t solve your problem, just wanted to share that I’ve experienced it from the other side.

As a gentoo user, I’m always confused when people think gentoo is about multi-day compiles. Rebuilding the whole system takes a few hours (not that I ever need to do that), and binary packages are available for the big stuff if you want it. It’s basically just arch with more configuration options.

Not insisting you or anyone should run it, but it’s not as ridiculous as people seem to think.

You can if you add to playlist from the search screen.

I keep expecting them to break that workaround, but it keeps working for me

There are a lot of uses of trucks beyond transporting construction materials. I wouldn’t want to tow a trailer loaded with round bales with a car, or try to put a big block chevy in the trunk.

There’s clearly some demand for small trucks, too. I’ve been seeing an increasing number of imported kei trucks around me.

I had a 1986 Mazda B2000 for a while. Very useful, tough little thing, even though it only had like 75hp.

That’s not universally true. My thinkpad has the most colour accurate screen in my house. Much better then my apple laptops or pretty decent dell screens.

The issue is Lenovo will also sell absolute garbage screens, so you need to pay attention when ordering. Iirc mine was a $500 upgrade or something equally shocking.

Exactly what my name promises, no story.

Complete opposite here. Typing this on an iPhone 8, and I’ve never retired a phone sooner than 4 years. Usually I give up around 6 due to lack of updates becoming a problem.

A longer support cycle would definitely sway my purchase decision.

Edit: though I am the type to replace batteries, buttons and screens myself as necessary

I have it posted for free on the classifieds in hopes it will disappear.

I bet it will. I managed to sell a few for $40 a piece a couple years back.

I had extras because the kits that included a hub were cheaper than the bare bulbs.

The news was going to leak, so he decided to get ahead of it. He very much would have preferred to finish the investigation first

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/harjit-sajjan-hardeep-singh-nijjar-1.6971605

Related interview clips

https://youtu.be/W_tqQYmgMQg

The cheaper option would be to set up an ad-hoc tv-to-tv network. You might not let your TV talk to the internet, but I bet your neighbour does, or if not, then their neighbour will.

Monitors are effectively always in ‘filmmaker mode’, as they don’t do frame interpolation and colour grading and over-scanning and all the stuff that filmmaker mode disables.

Have you tried in the past few years? They basically don’t exist anymore in the consumer space.

lol yeah, I remember installing Beryl on my laptop to show off the wild desktop effects at university.

got a lot of attention, but not many people interested in linux in the long ron

If you let them out unsupervised, I’m calling the cops!

the idea is to show that X land use consumes an area equivalent to an easily recognizable state-area

I think you’re arguing points that weren’t made.

Individually owned automobiles and the systems required to support them are wasteful and polluting no matter how you power them.

Electric cars are better, yes. But their popularity is in a large part because they allow us to mostly maintain the status quo.

Do you think they are a sustainable long-term solution? Should we be planning our future around paved roads made almost exclusively for personally owned mostly single-occupant vehicles?