I’d like to believe that this means that these three pieces of software actually work and that someone in high office has decided that that is unacceptable.

Paranoid authoritarians really do not like ordinary people having access to secure communications and personal privacy. That might be an avenue they can use to organise and elect someone who isn’t a paranoid authoritarian, and that won’t do.

On the other hand, these pieces of software might already be compromised and this is all an elaborate double-bluff.

In which case it’s time for a few well placed communications over purportedly secure channels that would be guaranteed to generate an authoritarian response. Which they’ll then have to pretend they didn’t read until it’s too late.

I’m talking organising - horrors - peaceful protests. They really don’t like those. They have to use their brains, or someone else’s, in order to find a good excuse to stick the boot in.

I can’t imagine I’m the first to ever say this: Those who say they do not poop are full of it.

Supersymmetry is probably the next big thing.

Such particles might have ridiculously high energies that the LHC has not yet been able to reach, and if there actually is a higher-level particle zoo like the Standard Model, it might be that things like Dark Matter are part of, if not all of it.

That’s the thing. Your memory only works one way. You’re incapable of perceiving time running in the opposite direction.

Every time you’ve pooped both in the past and the future*, it’s both going in and coming out, entirely dependent on the frame of reference.

*Yes, I did just refer to the future in the past tense. Because if time’s running backwards to how we perceive it, that’s actually the past.

The only way to win this game is not to poop. And good luck with that.

This may be a fleeting fancy, but at time of writing: «Merde»

Hello. As a former consumer of cheese, yes.

If it helps, think of it as a very unique form of cocoa-free chocolate, or better, a solid form of yoghurt.

(I developed a dairy intolerance a decade ago. I miss cheese.)

Neat. Don’t give them the ability to self-replicate and we’re golden.

nobody is fucking outside their species

Is this canon? They’re probably not having kids outside their species because that (probably) wouldn’t work (given the apparent lack of weird hybrids), but just plain copulation? Heck, we see that in the real world occasionally.

As for what the carnivores are eating, two possibilities present themselves: 1) The Disney Goofy / Pluto paradox is resolved by realising that one is more evolved than the other, and while they’re related species, they’re not the same species. The Zootopia world may have less evolved equivalents of the multiple sapient species, and they may be OK with eating them. 2) You don’t see any humans in their world. Does that mean they’re not there? Longpig is said to be delicious…

Pipewire is newer and emulates PulseAudio so that it can be used as a drop-in replacement. There’s literally a command called pipewire-pulse related to this.

It makes me wonder if they really have both installed or are mistaking Pipewire’s emulation for an active PulseAudio installation, and so it’s just Pipewire that’s acting up.

I’d say reboot, but being in space might be one of those times where that’s a non-starter. In which case, they’re going to have to get their hands dirty unpicking system hooks and trying to reattach them all again as and when Pipewire’s working again, assuming it doesn’t do that automatically.

I never had a problem with either Pipewire or real PulseAudio back when that was current. I had motherboard sound physically pop, requiring the purchase of a separate sound card, but never a driver issue, so I can’t even imagine what might be going on.

There’s something about the mouth on this character that reminds me of this ancient GIF: https://tenor.com/view/cereal-funny-laugh-explode-milk-gif-7566949

Might be nothing there. A skeleton held together by hopes and dreams (or ill will and nightmares) is already pretty creepy as it is.

If Death’s got a prosthesis or a baculum in there, it goes from creepy to, frankly, curious.

At a guess, the counter goes up by fractions of a day internally, but it’s reset by subtracting the integer part, rounded.

The original version wouldn’t have had the rounding but they “fixed” that after the first time they did a reset and it went to 1 not 0.

As to why they wouldn’t just set it to zero, well here we have the joke under a microscope and it’s struggling to stay alive. Put the scalpel down.

NPC.

Oh. I have do the quiz?

It gave me “Multiclass”.

There’s a joke about inheritance in there somewhere. And the fact that no-one will want whatever I leave behind.

Can I choose NPC now?

About 20 years ago, there were two or three comics wherein, for the first one at least, Wally and Carmen were a visual-only punchline after a newborn vanishes mysteriously from the delivery room at a hospital. The other two follow the child. With variable success.

Fans were shipping them before that one comic and have done so since. I base this on the fact there are a couple of lines about the ship on TV Tropes which don’t otherwise mention the comics.

So if TMZ covered it, which is somewhat doubtful(!), it would have been one of their earlier stories.

Finding the aforementioned comics is left as a - deeply fitting - exercise.

TV Tropes is a well-known black hole time sink, so I won’t link that either.

Unless he split from Carmen Sandiego, he’s spoken for.

Easy: House cat.

One of the well-looked-after, non-abused ones, naturally.

I already know about the monkey’s paw curses for that.

You have the constant recurrent belief that your owners are not pampering you at all times on purpose. And that they’re basically stupid big kittens who meow all the time and are terrible hunters. And that they control the rain but won’t turn it off for you. And also I don’t like this brand of food any more.

And hairballs.

I suppose it’s time I had another nap.

… but I think I can live with all that.

Man called Cissé cracks down on homosexuals.

If I didn’t know any better, I’d say he was compensating for something.

I never had screen tearing with NVIDIA under Mint, but for AMD I found that something needs to be added to the Xorg configuration to turn screen tearing off.

I suspect the default is so as not to limit the graphics in any way, but I can’t imagine the majority of users want it that way around, so I’m a little confused by that choice.

This website has instructions on how to fix it for Ubuntu, but I can confirm it works in LMDE too, so I assume it works across the Debian family if not elsewhere: https://davejansen.com/quick-how-to-fix-screen-tearing-in-ubuntu-with-amd-gpus/

Maybe it’s because of recent viewing habits, but I seem to recall a few Doctor Who episodes that get uncomfortably close to this.

Sub in Doctor and Master, Doctor and (other incarnation of) Doctor and Master (other incarnation of) Master as necessary.

Considering there’s rarely anyone around for me to say anything to, I’d probably let fly a few choice words and then start trying to work out where the next one was going to land and try to be under it.

That’s assuming you mean nuclear mushroom cloud anyway.

Other, sufficiently large ordnance also generates mushroom clouds and we’ve recovered from a handful of those before.

So any research would be trying to find out whether it was nuclear or not.

I’ve seen Threads. And a whole heap of post-apocalypse stories. I do not want to live in those worlds.