Having races where the dogs pull you up and down the hallway on pizza boxes.

Linux. Seems like Windows comes with a lot of baggage these days.

Electrical conductivity. It’s gotta be high, but not too high.

I agree with the reporter - he needs to port Doom to that mofo.

You’re not wrong, but your response doesn’t contribute much to answering the question.

Aw, I wanted Jack Black.

Guess I’ll have to go with my second choice, Danny DeVito.

It wouldn’t be weird, but talk to your neighbour first.

I think FTL or even a substantial percentage of it is pure fantasy.

I used to think FTL was nonsense, but it turns out the universe has a built-in mechanism for time travel at the Planck scale. Particles smaller than the atom swing both ways when it comes to causality and retrocausality.

Now I think that either FTL is completely impossible at the macro scale or it’ll be so easy we’ll be embarrassed we didn’t have it sooner.

My single-player Minecraft skyblock world. Nothing exists there except what I permit.

Sometimes I wish it was available at work.

I built my current PC using one of those PCPartPicker guides, and I’m very happy with it.

The only issue I had was the video driver. I use the Linux Mint Long Term Support version, and the kernel didn’t have a recent enough driver for my card. I just needed to switch to the latest kernel and it was good to go. I actually had no idea how to troubleshoot it, and went to the LM forum to ask for help. I was reading through the guide on what info to supply with help requests and realised that the example fault and solution were the exact ones I was facing!

However, since I almost know nothing , I’m afraid to do things wrong and get a malware, spyware or break security measures of OS.

That right there is the traditional way to learn linux.

My advice is to make a disk image of Mint installed and configured the way you like it, then just reimage the laptop every time you break it.

I don’t know if this helps, but this morning I read an article which says that as long as we keep pushing we now have a chance of reversing global warming.

I’m not ready to believe just yet, but I’m hopeful.

On the day we were set to move, we discovered the house we’d been renting had a roach problem when we moved the fridge and hundreds of them scurried away. The movers told us they couldn’t legally shift our stuff in that condition, but if we took care of it they’d come back on the weekend for us. (That was a long weekend, so we gave them a five-star rating and would have made it six if we could.)

After fumigating and slashing the fabric on the base of every piece of furniture to check with bugs, we were ready. There was torrential rain that day, and even though I put matting down to help our feet grip on the steps, my wife slipped and bruised her hip so badly the marks were still there six weeks later. I wanted to postpone the move and take to the emergency room, but she refused. We were moving that day, even if it killed her!

Oh, and we had no internet because the ISP accidentally sent our router to another city and wouldn’t give us a replacement until they found the first one.

That’s interesting. What makes cyanobacteria distinct from plants?

I often play an old DOS game in DOSBox, and when I exit it doesn’t reset the screen resolution. So I reset it manually by typing

xrandr -output e-DP1 -auto

Ever worry that you might be reading things into a text that just aren’t there?

I’m afraid of drinking through a straw. I’m convinced (against all logic) that I’m going to inhale it and choke.

However, I recently started drinking through a straw again at my dentist’s recommendation, to protect my teeth from carbonation. I have a set of reusable metal ones. They don’t trigger my phobia at all. Maybe the texture makes all the difference.

Oh god, Net Send.

At one point it was my job to track down and upgrade old PCs that had been moved by users. To my delight, I found that Net Send was enabled on all the org’s devices. I had the bright idea to use it to pop up a message on the affected PCs asking them to call me and provide a location. I copied a script from an old website and modified it to work with a list of hostnames. It, uh, worked - but while I was testing my script I ran it without commenting out the line that sent the message to all devices on the subdomain.

I turned my phone off for the rest of the day.

No, but it wouldn’t bother me if people I know IRL see them and recognise me. It’s happened a couple of times before (on Reddit).

That’s great! What’s Cosmic Alpha 2?