This is just for him to get a basic feel for the various distros, before choosing one to permanently install; setting up a VM properly is probably going to be too technical

Well I use key-based login for security; obscurity just keeps the network congestion down

You can use any port for ssh. When I switched from 22 to 1337, brute force attempts at logging in stopped

It’s a portmanteau of brotherhood and friendship, with the joke being that they are on a boat

Usually beef jerky

The scientific consensus may also have just changed since then, I’m not sure how recent most of the studies are

Wikipedia says it’s the opposite, with paracetamol being less well studied for antipyretic effects, but what studies there are showing little effectiveness

“Fewer people in poverty” seems unlikely.

Now, a lower percentage of people seems like a given

Paracetamol also isn’t particularly good at reducing fever, even though it is often used with that intent. Ibuprofen is generally more effective

maybe we as a society could standardize fridge sizes so we could build fridges that open on the inside but radiate on the outside

That would be more useful for places where houses are generally air conditioned

devices with an x86_64 architecture

Sounds like the opposite of what you want; you would want x86_64 code on devices with an ARM architecture.

But I didn’t actually read the article, so maybe that line is poorly worded

That’s “graphical oowey”, right? /s

I generally just say the letters; the amount of shit I get for saying gee en you…is not actually that much because I usually don’t interact with coding nerds via voice, only text, but if I did they would be livid

Edit: For some reason I try to pronounce Xfce as a word instead of an initialism though, ‘ecks-fiss’. Maybe I’m just broken.

Low/no fat milk, which is not healthier but is marketed as being so, is quintessentially American

Nice

X forwarding is too much work

How come it doesn’t just know whether you tend to speed or not? Doesn’t Google know everything about everyone?

My pick too. The docking scene is fantastic, and the slingshot around Gargantua always gets me.

“We agreed Amelia; nighty percent.”

I use NTFS with Linux a lot, and have for years. The only issue I’ve ever had was Linux not being able to recover it properly after unsafely disconnecting it, but Windows fixed it just fine

Uhhh…sudo su

Don’t be like me

That happened with Windows 8 and Vista as well. There was a running joke that every other Windows release was garbage when I was growing up.

And the joke works with 8 and 10 both being shitty, because they skipped 9, which would have been the good one.

They really should have gone with Windows Nine, to bring the naming scheme in line with Xbox One while also avoiding the startswith.('Windows 9') issue