Try paying rent on that “damn job” and you’ll know why no one is taking it.

uninstalled Chrome a looooong time ago on my Win 10 machine

Are we talking 10 to the 9th power or the 12th?

I also did some reading up on this. I live in British Columbia and reforestation is a big deal. Apparently a tree planter can plant 2,000 seedlings a day. More if the terrain is good and they’re experienced. So yeah, I can see it now.

Though I still wonder about the survival rate of the plantings, but How question is indeed answered.

That’s still over a billion trees a year. Actually that’s over 1,500,000,000 trees a year. Again…HOW?

And this begs a side question. Out of those 78 Billion trees, how many are alive now?

Wait… 78 Billion trees. As in with a ‘b’ billion? In all seriousness, how?

Yes, yes it was. You just don’t remember when. Morality is learned, for good or ill. And as I said to someone else, it doesn’t absolve them so much as it explains them.

You didn’t read what I wrote, did you? Or if you did, you ignored it.

No worries, have a good rest of your day.

Who said it absolved them? It doesn’t. It explains them. And fyi, I’m not American.

Except for a lot of people it’s never put to them that way. “Join the Navy, See the World.” “Learn a career in the Army” “Want to go to college? Serve your country for 4 years and have you tuition paid by the GI Bill.”

Should people know better? Definitely, but the sad truth is that a very large number of them didn’t know better because it was never put to them the way it was put to you.

If 9/11 taught us anything it is that there is nothing a man cannot do if he no longer fears the consequences.

The Lensman series by E.E. “Doc” Smith. The series as a whole is the defining work of Space Opera.

Something something square Something something tanks

I’ll look into Mint. I need something that will work well with games (I’ve been a gamer my whole life) and OBS for my streams.

And not retired yet. Just old.

Isn’t Linux part of this as well?

And that mon ami, is why I’m even considering going back to Linux. I will admit one reason I’m hesitant is that I’m a senior citizen now (fuck it feels weird to actually say that out loud), and I’m concerned about how well I can learn a new operating system. Mind you, they say mental challenges help keep the brain young :D

My big issue was that every time I wanted to use software that wasn’t native to Linux it could take up to two weeks of forum hunting, Google searches, and just plain hair tearing to find out how to do something.

Getting Eve Online to run wound up requiring a font install and deleting the in-game music folder. Not the things you expect an average or even better than average user to know or expect to do.

And that is just one of the instances that stick in my memory

Absofuckinglutely not.

And I say this as a dedicated Windows user who spent a year on Ubuntu Linux a decade ago and hated it. Windows does this, and sign me up for penguin lessons.