I see no problem here. (I would be equally horrible to men or women who wear a batman shirt and can’t even name 3 of his songs)

You’ll get there one day!

Unimportant nitpick: Linux Mint 22.3 was released this week. There is no Mint 23 yet.

(it was OP’s mistake but they at least added “(?)” to indicate they weren’t sure)

You’re kidding, right? The time travel fantasy is to kill him as a baby.

I don’t know the technical details, all I know is that if I click Shut Down while I have unsaved work open, it tells me about it and doesn’t just kill everything.

I’m glad we’re in agreement.

It all comes down to how complete and good the tool is, both for CLI and for GUI. I’ve seen GUI tools that give more information than the equivalent CLI, and of course I’ve also seen the opposite as you have.

What grinds my gears the most though is when there’s no tool at all, you need to edit some config file, and the instructions given are nano /path/file.conf (or, god forbid, vim). It’s a text editor, why not use a normal one?! There are no guardrails either way to ensure the format is correct!

Obviously in that scenario someone should make an interface to edit the config safely, be it GUI or CLI, but that’s another matter.

Speaking of which, the latest Mint released ~yesterday added a GUI to make common edits to the grub bootloader. See: https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_zena_whatsnew.php “System Administration”. I am not aware of any CLI that can do this, I think before this you had to edit a text file and hope you got it right. At least as far as common recommendations go.

“mainstream PC memory and storage costs rose by 40 percent to 70 percent, resulting in cost increases being passed through to customers.”

40 to 70 percent? Isn’t it more like 300 to 400 percent?

Stop spreading this lie. Linux has a more graceful shutdown process than Windows ever did. It doesn’t abruptly kill everything.

I’m a big fan of Mint specifically because they spent so much effort making just about everything accessible from a user friendly GUI. I totally agree with you, every time I see this kind of thing online I die a little.

Most people don’t want to become an expert in the task they want to do. They just want to do it once. CLI tools demand expertise.

It means this song https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped_Up_Kicks

Actually I was saying that whoever wrote that was being silly for thinking the cat didn’t like them. I can’t even imagine a scenario where text over an image of a cat isn’t accurate. That just doesn’t happen.

“Yesterday”. Most cats take more time than that to adjust to a big change like that!

I lucked out building a PC mid-2025. 64 GB of RAM cost me something like 370 USD.

The exact same RAM from the same shop now costs over 1,410 USD. I feel damn lucky.

(Prices converted from my local currency; electronics in this country are already way more expensive than they should be)

For a more permanent solution:

Just jam it in there hard enough, it’ll do the job.

Other than being pretty (which I fully admit is already a benefit), is this actually doing any good for the environment? Isn’t that just grass?

You mean to tell me you don’t have a CNC machine at home? Even the most barebones of homes must have arc welding gear stashed somewhere, right?

Now you’ve ended up in the Lego builds part of YouTube.

Is it really though? That is not acceptable behavior on personal machines either.

Just yesterday I was required to use a Windows 11 PC for a university thing. I double-clicked a PDF and it opened in Edge by default… Which then REFUSED to close until I go through the whole onboarding process. Accept the privacy policy (literally no way to refuse). Log in to MS account (skip). Import data (skip). Import data from another browser (skip). Pretty sure there was another step or two. Then, and only then, I was able to see my PDF or close the window.

Each step took more time than it should because the option to skip is always hidden with some dark pattern. This whole thing cost me valuable time, and guess what, Edge wasn’t the only MS bullshit I had to waste time on in that time-limited lab class.

Edge is a FUCKING TERRIBLE browser, and if you don’t think so you haven’t used it, or you have Stockholm syndrome. Chrome/ium sucks too but it’s nothing compared to Edge. (And Firefox sucks as well, there are no good browsers, but Firefox appears to be the lesser evil IMHO. I’m also partial to Vivaldi, but I haven’t used it in some years)

I’d say I’ll boycott GTA6, but that doesn’t mean much, I wasn’t going to get it anyway.

This is obviously illegal…