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  • BassTurd@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldWhat you rather?
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    29 days ago

    Ubuntu is absolutely a beginner friendly OS. If I give a computer to somebody that knows nothing more than how to turn it on, Ubuntu will be no more difficult for that person to surf the internet than it would be in Windows. I’ve been teaching people how to use their computers for more than half my life and the vast majority of problems are ignorant people on Windows. Linux isn’t inherently more difficult to use, it’s just different. For adept Windows users, switching and expecting to be just as familiar is where it gets more tricky.


  • Same thing here. There was a big update earlier this year that made it so I can use Wayland, where before that, it was impossible. At this point, I can’t tell you the last time I’ve had any GPU related issues. Further, I believe that Nvidia is now working with Linux for driver support, so it should get even better going forward.


  • You should have told him to pull over to let you out, not paid him, and reported him. Bonus points to have recorded evidence first.

    Assholes like this, regardless of their current situation, hard times or not, should not be allowed to continue doing this. If I go into work, and push code into production without reviews and approvals, I lose my job or at least get reprimanded. Nothing excuses the behavior you’ve described.




  • As an American, I don’t know that I really see this too much. For Halloween, it’s not uncommon for some houses to give those little shooters to parents. Obviously it’s not good to get sloshed at a kid’s birthday party, but I don’t think too many people put too much weight on a drink or too. Either that, or I don’t put much weight on it, because I’ll have a social beer at noon on a weekday if it feels right.



  • Found this on Reddit years ago, and it’s been my go to since.

    Ingredients:

    2 lb 80/20 ground chuck

    1 lb 90/10 ground sirloin

    1 lb smoked sausage

    ½ lb thick cut bacon (optional)

    1 Tbsp butter (optional)

    1 large yellow onion, finely chopped

    2 jalapeno peppers, diced (w/seeds)

    4 serrano peppers, diced (w/seeds if you want it hot)

    2 red bell pepper, diced (remove center and seeds)

    6 cloves of garlic, minced

    3 Ancho chilies

    1 Pasilla chile

    1 Costeña chile

    1 guajillo chile

    1 New Mexico chile

    Small can of chipotles in adobo sauce

    Small can of sun dried tomatoes

    29 oz can crushed tomatoes

    2 Tbsp cumin

    2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce

    1 Tbsp of apple cider vinegar

    ½ Tbsp red pepper

    ~12 oz Young’s chocolate stout beer

    Kosher salt and black pepper to taste

    Directions:

    1. Seed and stem the dried chilies (anchos, pasilla, costena, guajillo, and NM). Heat them in enough water (or chicken stock) to cover the chilies and let them soak for 15 minutes.
    2. If including bacon, slice the bacon into squares, and fry in a large pot. When finished, remove the bacon leaving the rendered fat.
    3. Over medium high heat, (melt butter if not using bacon) add onion (let onions caramelize for a bit), jalapenos, serranos, and red bells peppers (they should sizzle when you add them) to the bacon fat (or butter) and cook for about 5 minutes, until the onions start to turn translucent. Add the garlic about halfway through this step.
    4. Add the meat and sausage and cook until fully browned.
    5. At this point the chilies should be soft. Remove them from the water (discard water, it will be bitter), and place them in a blender along with the chipotles in adobo sauce and sun dried tomatoes (tomatoes added toward the end).
    6. Maybe add some beer to help move everything around.
    7. Puree until nice and smooth and then add to chili pot along with crushed tomatoes, spices and everything else. Stir well. Cook at a low simmer for 2-4 hours.





  • If I have a mixed bucket of LEGO bricks and dump it in a pile, do I have a pile of LEGO or LEGOs? The fact that LEGO is plural was revealed to me within the last week, but I don’t know if it’s the same when talking about the individual parts vs ten packs of LEGO. It doesn’t feel right to say that the pile is a pile of 100 LEGO.






  • I get around $120 a week to sell my plasma in the middle of the US at a BioLife center. Payment varies a little depending on the center you go to and various promotions, but it’s usually pretty close. It’s about 2-3 hours a week commitment.

    In college, the money was necessary, but now I do it for extra side cash. My wife and I own a home, two vehicles, and are doing well, so I don’t need the money. I do it to supplement non budgeted items for fun, like weed, one or more snowboarding trips to actual elevation, and bass guitars and bass guitar accessories to name a few. Could it pay more? Probably, but I don’t feel like I’m getting ripped off for the time I’m giving.

    I used to double dip, and do my hourly job while donating, which got me out of the office earlier, and got extra money. Now I’m salary and have meetings and shit.


  • Over the last 4 days, I went from not thinking about this song for a long time, to learning it on guitar and bass, to finding out the bassist is leaving Kansas, then crossing this meme. The universe oddly aligns in the weirdest ways sometimes.

    I also learned that it’s actually named, “Carry on Wayward Son”. There’s no my in the title, just the lyrics. Never knew that one.