Well, I think Einstein was a genius but much of his work was built on Minkowski spacetime, so the conclusions about relativity could have been reached at some point when physicists were starting to work with it. I am in no expert position to judge this, but new developments in science do genuinely build on new insights, and Minkowski built the mathematical and theoretical platform that was evidently available to physicists like Einstein.

Fantastic, I thereby absolve chairs of their duty like most of the people here.

My external drive is NTFS. It might randomly cock up occasionally but there are guides online on how to fix drive errors, usually just using the native disk management tool. Or just plug in to a windows computer to fix errors. Never an issue, and you might want to keep it NTFS should you need to plug into a windows computer.

And it doesn’t work on water.

Making coffee like a barista is infinitely more satisfying. A combined coffee machine: grinder and pressured hot water is bound to be cheaper than a fully automated one. You can push the grains down yourself, and make the coffee as strong or weak as you like.

Doesn’t it have an eMMC drive. A card like that might be slow as hell, but it would load up a live iso eventually.

You could still distrohop a bit if you want. Debian (as well as mint) is stable, loads of deb packages out there. I really like Fedora (less packages for my use case but COPR is similar to AUR in that there are thousands of packages outside of the main repositories). Ultimately like they said, Arch is really out there with the rolling releases, but sometimes you’ll need to reconfigure. Recently firmware packages got split up and that required manual intervention. Haven’t had any breaks so far, so EndeavourOS is a good choice imo.

If you’re new to arch, I think maybe go endeavouros. A new install has update scripts and whatnot, and EndeavourOS has good documentation. Going straight into arch involves a lot of reading the docs just to even get a desktop environment running. You probably want to start with the full package.

I’m using endeavoursOS gnome.

Kubuntu will get you familiar with package management, though it could well be managed through a desktop app so you may well barely touch the terminal. But you will discover that there’s a fair bit of bloat - not in the windows sense - but apps that you may not necessarily need.

I’m a freefall sleeper so even no pillow works, otherwise a pilloe has to be flat and manoeuvred under my chest to stop my neck bending.

Freefall sleepers may have a slightly lower life expectancy but I’m like ‘meh’. Sleeping is nearly half my life.

I see it as ‘This is our house but lovemaking needs to happen elsewhere. The child moves out at 18 and does whatever they want.’ Of course, the child prior to 18 needs to understand consent and the use of contraception.

It’s a pretty good movie, might watch it again.

To be honest this doesn’t sound like a good workplace. As a teacher at my school, we just get on with the job and the last 50 minutes you can join in conversation or just get on with something else. When a teacher is busy with something (even if they’re reading) we don’t interrupt them except if someone has a school related question they can answer.

If a coworker runs in and says WTH?! and it’s no news, I don’t think they’d be popular either.

To me, the lady is not really looking at anything, but yes, her eyes are directed behind my shoulder.

The eye contact ‘language’ is complicated. Sometimes I’m facing someone directly. I’m probably looking towards their eyes 90% of the time with an occasional look in another direction as I process the conversation. Other times I’m faced away in a posture that shows I’m listening (I’m hard of hearing so sometimes I need to have an ear facing towards them); then I’ll be looking towards their eyes 20%-ish of the time.

I think it depends on the context. In a formal setting facing each other, looking away could be misinterpreted, and eye contact is a skill to be cultivated. Call it ‘cultivating charisma’. I’m a teacher and had to develop quite a lot of experience in it, and popularity tends to scale with its effectiveness.

You sound like someone who believes in being authentic. Don’t throw that away.

This question is separating one and the other - both are bad - but I think religious extremism is powered by extreme greed causing extreme poverty and vulnerability.

So actually, maybe I do have the answer. Get rid of extreme greed, and religion does not go extreme.

Even the crackpots calling for genocide won’t get a voice.

Correct me if I’m wrong but even Hitler employed the tactic of blaming the Jews for the poverty (and other things) in Germany. But in reality it was the Great Depression. Germany was one of three nations that had the highest unemployment in the (western) world.

Yes, Nazism wasn’t a religion but a cult. But religions can involve a god, many gods, or idolise an object or a person. Hitler was it. He was like a war god.

I’m sceptical because a lot of companies (and Microsoft) rely on Linux particularly for servers. Also, there are a few companies out there (not Google though) that must surely have some sanity, and even some respect for people who speak their voice in the workplace. Might not be as well paid but you say jobs.

This is the best pickup line to get punched in the face /s 😂

😂 Excellent analogy, totally in line with the teachings 🙏

Congratulations, but you’ll be hard pushed to get windows apps (especially enterprise ones) working. Will probably need to virtualise windows.