I’ve got an old desktop with a Core I7 with a 3 digit model number and 12GB of DDR3 RAM, it’s running Mint Cinnamon. I’ve got a Lenovo x86 tablet thing with 8GB of RAM and a Pentium processor, it’s currently running Fedora GNOME. I’ve run Ubuntu MATE on a Pi 4 as a desktop PC for about a year.

Most distros of Linux will run very well on a machine that ever ran Windows 7 acceptably. Prior to that, you start running into the “we’re discontinuing 32-bit support” problem.

I’ve read so many tutorials like this. func Func Myfunc()

If you write textbooks like this you and your family should be boiled in sewage.

I’ve got machines that are obsolete for even Windows 10 that run Linux just fine. The best time to start is now.

With my mod hat on, I’m going to allow most if not all JustinTheTrees videos because he does at least some woodworking in each. Two popular series of his include making a map of the US out of each state’s offical tree, and making ice cream from a chosen tree, including making a bowl and spoon from its wood.

He talks about the trees themselves a lot, their habitat and range, their niche and life cycle, and their properties as building and cooking material. And that I think is also of interest to a woodworking community.

Creative Commons doesn’t even seem appropriate for hardware. Like, that’s trying to apply copyright law in patent’s realm.

The 24 hour clock that zeros at midnight is entirely artificial. How can numbers we made up be bad for your health?

We’re talking about offsetting human activity with sunrise and sunset, right? And we do this by changing the clocks everywhere in a time zone twice a year such that the rule “The business opens at 9 AM and closes at 5 PM” remains the same, but how far those events are from local solar noon sloshes back and forth a bit.

So, hold the clocks still, pick what times it is healthy for school to start and end, and then start and end school at those times. 8 to 3? 7 to 2? 9 to 4? Who gives a shit what the numbers actually are?

Moving the clocks back and forth gives everyone everywhere jet lag twice a year, which isn’t good for anyone’s health.

Nope. Gonna fight it out here.

Python has essentially usurped BASIC.

I mean in all seriousness I don’t know how you’d eat a plane without consuming 3.2 baby boomer brain’s worth of TEL.

People don’t buy them because they don’t fucking work.

You get that at Bed Bath & Beyond in the Beyond section, right?

We’re talking construction boards here; these boards are going to be cut to within 1/16th and then butt jointed with two 16d nails.

With precision end trimmed studs, you’re probably not going to even touch them with a cutting tool, you’ll pull it off the pallet and nail it in place.

Only when exposed to moisture.

Honestly, the one I want to see seppukus over is that very, very few sheets of plywood are their advertised thickness.

I’ll believe there’s ant-infused cheese with less evidence than I’ll believe there’s intentionally ant-infused cheese.

And more for walnut.

The sawyer wants to be paid for how much tree it took to make that board. The woodworker wants to pay for how much wood is in that board. What does the lumber yard charge?

In the Carolinas it’s a tew-bah-fower. It’s made of yella pahn, bout ate feet lawng, they got a whole mess of em down at the Lowe’s, most of em are sigogglin these days.

The thing that gets me is you’ll buy a 2x4 and it’ll have pith and bark in the same gorram board!

Plus for actual accuracy I’d want to score it.