It can look professional when you aren’t posting a gmail address and the domain isn’t poopypants.net

Pick something neutral that isn’t your name. Try a band name generator. JupiterEvolition.net or IdealMachine.XYZ,.which sound better than herpderp common gutter trash Gmail.com

Having a custom domain means you get things like [email protected] and also chosen.one@… And bestcandidate@… Etc. So you can make something for professional stuff, and then [email protected] to be funny.

According to my research, and a random comment from someone else, we need to clone Harambe.

And then shoot him.

Again.

For the children.

Ah, yes, Republika Srbska. The most dangerous game.

Wait…

It’s beautiful.

It’s horrible.

It’s all of us, and we are ate.

The Linux version of “I went to college ^outside of^ Boston”

No worries, and to be fair, I didn’t know the UN had its own standalone definition that ended at 24 until you mentioned it. So maybe we both learned about the grey area that caught us both up.

Oh, no thank you. I’m good as is.

No, really.

No.

NO!

NOoooooo! Stahp it!

The claim was based on me attending “national youth day” activities with a bunch of guys that seemed way too old, and wondering why, then the same day the radio told me included people to to age 35, “according to the UN.” So the data point stuck like that.

Which makes sense as this was a southern African nation that likely took their definition from South Africa. Which uses the age of 35.

https://1library.net/article/definitions-of-ys-of-youth-the-concept-of-youth.qop452mz

And the UN does recognize variance in the definition of “youth” in local contexts.

So either we’re both wrong, or both right. You pick.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The hardest part of life is the problems you can’t just decapitate with a sword.

I think the UN also counts anyone under 35 as “youth” as well. So there’s a lot of statistics-related terminology to deal with here.

I recently tried using the Google Translate image translator. Totally locked up now, requiring Play Store and Google App. Still didn’t work, but is was seriously just “if you don’t give us everything now, we won’t do basic shit for you.”

It’s not really incorrect, it’s just that it’s only the START of the “Millennial” generation, not the whole thing.

Most people generally consider 1980 as the start (so most 1980 babies are 19 years old on Jan 1, 2000) of the Millennial generation. I’ve seen it as early as 79, and as late as 83 as the start year. No idea why sources vary on this, or why they pick those years instead of 1980. Anyone born in that range might also be called a Xennial, so it’s sort of like if one thing considers you a Millennial, but you have strong Gen X energy, then you can be a Xennial if you feel like it. But No Xennial would want that because we don’t fuck with Gen X like that.

I prefer calling the Xennials the “Oregon Trail” generation, as it implies we all risked having dysentery to survive.

Slight sarcasm - I’m also a Mint user, and it was like a recursive reference to this meme from forever ago. Maybe it was too specific and dated, but the point is that since Macs were so easy to use, the Windows people back in the 8.1 days treated Mac users like kindergartners as they paid for their $1,000 facebook machines (also a meme from that time).

All the “Yeah, I use Arch, BTW” people that love the struggle and the hobbyist tweaks of their distros seem to look down on Mint users because it doesn’t require a struggle to use Mint. I used to see it all the time when I first jumped over to Linux.

For the most part, it works well without needing too much tinkering by the user. It’s the Fisher Price My First Distro.

I tried it out with a 21.3 dualboot with Windows 11 and within 2 or 3 months I hadn’t gone back to Windows other than to push files over. Sure, there were a few “learning opportunities” with tweaks or weird driver issues that were because of the particular hardware I’m using, but they were manageable. At this point I’m running 22.1 only on this machine.

The nice part is that being Ubuntu-based, if I run into a problem, I can search for both the more widely-documented Ubuntu version of the issue, or look for a Mint-related version. Claude does a great job with small-to-medium troubleshooting rather than me dig through forums. It’s low-risk, low-work, high-reward.

This is not new, and not because WhatsApp is somehow “untrustworthy.” It’s been banned from most govt desktops for years.

It’s end-to-end encrypted, so it bypasses malware filters. A House staffer can easily be sent a malicious file and spread it around to others before anyone learns the file is malicious.

I also truly hate “family groups” where phones and accounts commonly associated with you get just pings on a topic to make you more malleable to the idea when you finally get the ads.

The mitochondria.

Domains cost like $1 if you’re flexible. Email hosting is what costs money.

Most people have absolutely zero idea how much data they put out there, what’s done with it, and why any rational person would be horrified if they knew the extent to which individuals were tracked. Simply put, short of showing them how their lives are made worse, they don’t care, and can’t be made to care.

For friends and family, you can do things like give them books or send articles explaining it slowly in parts. For everyone else, just ask them if they know how Google tracks what they do in Incognito windows and see what they say. If they say that Google can’t or doesn’t, they might as well say the Earth is flat. You can’t argue with that, even though it’s provably false.

The main advantage of despecialized ROTJ is not having that cringe musical number in Jabba’s Palace.