Never have I heard someone quite as well capture the appropriate sound to make when you’ve achieved “yeah sex is great but have ya…” for gushing over all the specs that make something you’re showing off so awesome.
It works for cars, it works for stereo systems, it works for a new smoothie blender, it even works for the wildly unhealthy recipe you invented that’s dripping the most decadent yet delicious shit you could cram into it before serving it to your friends like you make Gordon Ramsey look like a Killer Cook.
Maybe, but have you ever heard anyone else do it? Would YOU do it? If you heard a friend excitedly Tim Allen grunt, would you ever really look at them the same?
Ah, but people often make manual art on a prompt (usually called a brief). It might even be why the text you give an LLM to make an image is called a prompt. I didn’t even get the joke at first because of this.
Blue used to be for girls as it was seen as more “dainty,” while pink used to be associated with boys as it was seen as the stronger color. It didn’t change until the 1950s when some big advertising campaigns pushed pink as a feminine color exclusively for girls.
Pink isn’t sort of actually a colour. Well, it is, but there’s no wavelength of light that corresponds to pink. We perceive pink when we see a certain combination of wavelengths together (red and purple.)
Red was the manly color, it was seen as regal. So light red (pink) was the color of the boys. Blue was the color of the virgin Mary and light blue used for femal children.
Purple has long been associated with royalty, originally because Tyrian purple dye—made from the secretions of sea snails—was extremely expensive in antiquity.
Basic reds, not as much, but yes. The brighter, the more royal.
But giving advice with Linux is hard. There are so many options.
Like
do I recommend Linux mint, where the packages are rock solid and tested, and upgrades work pretty well, but it is also very outdated, limited and relies on XOrg?
or Fedora Atomic Desktops, where there are some presets I would always need to change, and where I would always need to layer packages to have a base OS that I can live with? Which is rock solid and great, but the packages are still often too new, online tutorials will often be useless, and you may have some missing package support (okay Distrobox)
or traditional Fedora, which also has often unstable packages, dnf is often unusable, but it is more versatile and supports dual-booting (with Windows)
or Ubuntu, which is very opinionated and I would run unsnap and more, deviate from the defaults, but have more tested packages, I hope? But there will be no chance for a no-snap atomic/image-based variant?
The distro part is actually kinda easy. In my mind there’s only a few distros that should ever be considered by a new user. Fedora, or Ubuntu/Mint/Pop!_OS. The last three are effectively the same thing under the hood and all of them will do the job.
The real hard question is which desktop environment. Plasma is generally my go to suggestion. I feel it follows a tried and true paradigm for UI and UX. It’s incredibly polished, fast, and very full featured. The one that really sticks out as odd to me is gnome and is the one that I would never recommend. I wouldn’t discourage, just not recommend.
I’ve posted on a similar group, but it was abandoned, and since it was on another instance, I’ve decided to try one myself. I’ve also asked for other opinions here:
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