I jumped off Reddit’s cliff and landed here just like many other Lemmings.
My car is old enough to have kids my age, but at least I’ll never have to take it to a mechanic. No computers means I can do everything from valve timing to gearbox rebuilds myself, and parts are dirt cheap because they’re being thrown out all the time.
Laughs in Australian 576i free-to-air TV
But there’s nothing else out there! It’s a complete void!
You can either bring in a 25 year old one, or rebody a local Chevy SS or Pontiac G8 with a ute shell.
We have the middle-mouse-button clipboard for this.
This is completely untrue in my experience. My X230T has two battlestations: One with an old, square Samsung VGA monitor, and another two hours away with a modern, DisplayPort, high resolution Dell. I regularly hot-swap monitors by unceremoniously pulling it off or slamming it on to either docking station while it’s running, and even transform it into tablet mode and flip the internal display output 180° without upsetting the external display.
All of this on Fedora 38 Cinnamon, firmly running X11. No “jank” in sight.
Especially when they’re in one of those God-ugly American Pickup Trucks with headlights that are right at eye level for anyone in a normal car. Even being followed by a forty year old Mack semi isn’t nearly as bad, because they’ve at least got sealed beam headlights.
Most people filter it, but some drink straight from the tank.
Another Australian - when I was young, my area was in a terrible drought with some of the toughest water restrictions in the country. While you can drink water from the tap, pretty much everyone still drinks rainwater to this day.
Yes, it does. I’ve decided I may have to investigate that, though I’m not yet sure if it will support concurrent connections from multiple PCs to one phone like KDE Connect does.
I’m not about to install Windows on any of my personal machines to find out, however. I’ll have to wait until I get back to work tomorrow.
Yet the most popular new cars sold are V8s that weigh 2.5 tonnes and are the size and shape of a brick shithouse. In this country, you can’t even buy a small, economical hatchback new anymore, even if you had the money.
Fuel costs in the 1970s were never anymore than 40¢/Litre, yet that was the “fuel crisis” and the driving force behind econo-boxes. Now at $2.20/Litre, Ford of Australia only sell two whopping big utes, a van, and three ugly SUVs.