How about a button that votes to disable nigger drivers? A social credit system I can get behind.

Also, take that lane management shit that's already installed and do this: If a car is in the left lane and the right side blind spot sensor doesn't see anything for two minutes, sound a police siren inside the car. Bitches, the left lane is for passing. If I have to pass you on the right, you are a fucking nigger.

Some of the "safety" features aren't very safe, but are still mandatory.

Every modern milling machine uses a proprietary OS and software stack. Multi-million dollar Haas machines run Windows and Haas's own software. I'd love to be all open source, but that's not realistic with a lot of vertical applications. The reason for Arch on the gaming rig is because that's what Proton ships on. Fewer compatibility concerns.

Depends on how mission critical your systems are. I have one system that runs my milling machine. It requires Windows. Come October, it will be on Windows 11. My gaming rig, I'm going to convert to Arch and Proton. Because I can.

You can install it with Rufus and skip the TPM and UEFI checks. And also the "mandatory" Microsoft account creation.

Of course they are. They just won't advertise it.

My wife is the network engineer. Most of this crap is way more complicated. I'm a Unix/Linux sysadmin, so I can configure networking on a small scale, server and local switches. And some routing. But then you get into leaf-and-spine and Software Defined Wide Area Networking and all kinds of complicated crap. I'm happy if my home systems always get the same IPs.

And then it gets more complicated than that. In your DHCP server (probably your router) you can carve out a pool of addresses, a static pool. Then you build a table in the DHCP server that has MAC address and IP address, and the same box will always get that IP.

Between the Gulf Wars, Kay and Ass. had a significant presence in Kuwait. They had a briefing on what to do if Saddam got sporty and came south. Run. And try very hard not to be caught. The Company would try to get you out, but no promises. They did have a very nice life insurance package though.

Sounds fair.

You underestimated how much Kiki could fuck something up?

All you had to do was poast moobs and the girls would have gone to the goon cave and we'd have been spared all this.

This entire thread should be painted on the ceiling of the Sixteen Chapel.

Is that when she walks to the liquor cabinet 12 times?

This is what obsession looks like.

And the media and education complexes to this day will use euphemisms like "integration" and "civil rights" to describe it. Rather than, "White children death marched at bayonet point."

My primary problem with running on Debian comes down to this: Stable: How old do you like your software? Testing: It usually works Unstable: You like down time, don't you? I used to run Redhat, back before it was Redhat Enterprise. I installed RedHat back when one of the language choices in the install was "redneck." I ran Wordperfect for Linux on Redhat 5.1. And then I suffered three back-to-back rpm database corruptions in about six weeks. So I moved to Debian Testing. And ran that for some time. Eventually I wanted to run a non-open-source backup program from Veritas and it really, really didn't like running on Debian (even had issues running on Sid), but ran fine on Ubuntu. So I switched to Ubuntu for a desktop. And then I bailed on Ubuntu because of Gnome3. And ended up on Mint.

Debian's weakness, if you can call it that, is their rigid adherence to being totally open source. Generally that's a good thing but when I need to play an MP3 I don't want to have to jump through a bunch of hoops to do it. That's where Ubuntu and Mint and some of the other derivatives came in. They took the stability of Debian as a base and put desktop functionality into it. And in Ubuntu's case added support for proprietary, yet ubiquitous, server-side hardware.

Pretty much. I've had the occasional problem with oddball hardware, like a flatbed scanner. Now I just have a networked multi-function printer and run the HP software to connect to it. It just works. Mint has run on a number of laptops for me. Dell, HP, Acer and I even have it running on an antique Panasonic Toughbook. It's kinda boring but when I need to do work that's what I want.