These three are brothers from the same litter, and they’re best mates 90% of the time, thankfully :)

That’s very impressive. My personal best was 3:

You can only use Apple Branded iSocks™.

If you want to use normal socks you need an adapter.

If I could hear myself, or be aware of the physical position of my limbs, that would be too much audience.

I can personally prove both of these are incorrect.

I’m fine at the “I get on with something quietly on my own and nobody bothers me or looks at me, but you can see it when it’s finished” arts, but never the performative ones.

Sorry I wasn’t clear about that - my replaced ones have never come off again - it’s the original ones on the shirt which tend to.

[Edit] Note that I am always wearing a shirt, and much of my work is manual/technical, so mine perhaps get knocked off a bit more frequently than others might.

Yeah, it totally makes sense for some uses.

That is significantly more complicated than how I was taught to sew in a button. Is this just for big metal buttons on jeans or something? It seems massively over the top for normal shirt buttons, which come off fairly regularly.

Roughly what I was taught (for a 4 hole button, in a “cross” shape):

1. Shove threaded needle through material into hole in button
2. Go across diagonally and go down through the opposite hole and through the material
3. Under the material, go across sideways a bit and come up in a different hole
4. Repeat 1-3 a bunch of times until it feels strong enough.
5. Tie off the thread and cut off the excess.

This diagram is wrong. You can’t end-mount RAM in that type of potato.

In case anyone has forgotten, the specific character assassination was: “Elon Musk calls British diver in Thai cave rescue ‘pedo’ in baseless attack” (Guardian Website).

“I don’t live in the 1930s - 1940s Nazi Germany region, so I’m just a sparkling fascist”

That “Mar-a-Lago” sounds strangely familiar. I wonder where I’ve heard that before?

We kind of go “brur”.

Yes. Unless you have any problems, stick with it. It’s easy to use, it’s stable, it’s pretty well supported, it’s common enough that there’s a lot of advice available. You already know it and don’t appear to have any issues or complaints with it.

There’s no harm in trying some other distros on a live USB if you’re feeling curious, but there’s no reason to change for the sake of it. In case you weren’t aware, a live USB runs completely off the USB stick - so you can test it on an existing machine, and it won’t alter any installed files.

There’s a chance that with a very new machine with very new components that Mint may have a compatibility problem (by default it uses slightly older, more tested kernels or software versions) - you can normally fix this by manually installing newer versions, or using the “Linux Mint Edge” version (which uses newer kernels by default) - or by trying a different distro which uses newer kernels/packages by default.

Sometimes people get this funny thing in their head that Mint/Ubuntu/PopOS etc are “beginner distros” and after you’ve used them for a few years, you need to “upgrade” to a more complicated one - but no, for the majority of purposes, you can carry on using the one you like, until they stop making it, or you stop liking it.

I guess you wanted to Enjoy the Silence? :)

Wait… dbzer0 is “divide by zero”?

I’ve been reading it as “dibzer nought”

“What’s that you say? Donald Trump has Aides?”

“Rapist Russell Brand charged with attempted comedy”

About 20 years ago, there was an art/tech project for distributing Linux Source code by radio. Probably not very practical in reality, but a lovely concept.

Yeah, I’m invested in the answer now. Also what model of train was it? :D

The problem is, who’s going to register with twitter to find out?