Just so you know, The Sun is a truly shitty horrible, lying rag of a paper - if you’re not from the UK, you wouldn’t know of course, so no criticism, just FYI 🙂

Great tune!

Good shout - OP, this is probably the one.

https://youtu.be/bbqVg_23otg

And that’s the doves. The hawks are more like…

This is a stunningly beautiful extended metaphor.

+1 on Ask Dad videos - this is a good channel: https://youtube.com/@dadhowdoi

Also +1 on everything else you said, especially the never stop learning point.

OP, it’s totally ok not to know things - you can seek them out in advance, or you can discover them along the way, as and when necessary.

You’ll be ok, pretty much everyone muddles through life one way or another. Best of luck 👍

Naggers, right?

🙂

Yugoslavia. Mainly because it’s not there anymore. Would love to go to Croatia again for the first time though.

Funny, I was going to say the referee - a great refereeing performance will rarely be noticeable.

I’d love to see more of the classic BBC 80s adaptation - same cast, same production style, just continuing on through the books (with, as you say, the usual changes and mutations as most of Adams’ work). Obviously impossible, but I like to dream.

Some elements of this sound like the plot of Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, starring Raul Julia, and made famous by its appearance on Mystery Science Theatre 3000: https://youtu.be/2hBEh1JJ1E0

Thanks! Even all that sounds hideously complicated or danger-strewn, but I’ll try and have a look.

One thing I think I’d like to try is getting a dedicated external hard drive or SSD and running Linux entirely from that, so as not to mess with any of the main drives I already have. Or, better, get a separate machine altogether and keep an air gap between Windows and Linux, at least until I understand it a bit!

Main reasons are:

• Work - I use my PC every day, all day, for work, so making OS level changes is something I’m not keen to do for fear of breaking something. I had meant to get a cheap laptop to practice Linux on, but time/money got in the way of that.
• Lack of knowledge - I’m far from a novice with computers, and am frequently the person people turn to for help, but I’ve never really used anything but Windows (Mac for a year, once, but only intermittently) and I know nothing about drive partitioning, etc.
• Software - I use Adobe products frequently, especially Photoshop and Première and while I know people say that there are alternatives, I don’t feel like I have the energy to start learning again with new programs.
• Time - I just don’t have the time to spend on all of the above.

All that said, I’m going to have to do something about it! Ugh.

I saw the end of Windows 10 coming up and decided to install linux in a dual boot

This is something I need to learn how to do - I’ve no idea how dual booting works, but I could do with learning. Did you have any good resources to help you, or did you already know how to do it?

I think any comedian who takes part loses all rights to ever complain about freedom of speech, or cancel culture, or whatever. Since they likely won’t have been kidnapped and murdered by bone saw.

Flushlights.

Yes, toilet illuminators, what of it?

Nothing wrong with red hair. Mine’s brown now, but was red when I was a kid, and I got bullied for it all the time. Fuck that noise, and fuck the way it’s just accepted as being socially ok to mock people for their hair colour.

Yes.

Daaaaaaammmmnnnn. That’s a lot of vinyl. Lovely 😍