Where do you get once every 2 years? Do you never reboot your machine?

I’m hearing you like to reboot your machine unusually often.

The reason I can think of where clicking would be a huge pain in the ass is an automatic task. I have some of those, but I put them on machines that I treat as servers, and the time between reboots is genuinely counted in years, for those machines.

At this point you must be missing the point on purpose.

I wasn’t before, but now I am.

I find your argument distasteful. If you want a server, use a server. But there’s no need to shout to the world that servers require command line use. That’s normal in 2025.

If you treat your laptop like a server, that’s okay. No one is judging. But my grandma isn’t doing that, and it rings hollow to complain so loudly about it in a thread about average users enjoying Linux Mint.

An average user will never even notice the issue you have been complaining about, while enjoying the product for free.

I don’t normally tell people to go open a pull request, but you should do so, if only to get a better understanding of what the community has already given you for free.

Yes. I guess that’s fair though. Most people don’t like change.

So you’re complaining that you have to click on it - once every two years - when you reboot…

That’s rough, buddy.

I joke. But also, I guess if you feel that strongly about wasting my a click, Linux is definitely the OS for you.

In contrast, I set my nephew up with Linux Mint, and he is now slowly converting the rest of his family to open source solutions.

My understanding is that they keep having conversations about privacy news, and he keeps knowing a solution, which sometimes is Android or Linux based. So now his parents will ask me “Is it true the XY protects against YZ and is free?”

It’s been a pretty cool thing to watch.

I find Garyjay helps with this, by mingling videos from other services.

Sometimes by the time I’ve tried one of the first videos to load from other services, the PeerTube results have loaded for me.

Yes.

At this rate, we will be having a “local files are hard for the average user” debate, here, in another decade.

Which, maybe it will be, at that point.

It’s often the ones we most suspected.

Ensign is a perfectly cromulent rank to achieve during a Starfleet career.

Asking the real critical question.

Pre-beard, I only give them one episode.

We’ve nearly outlined the plot to a season of Picard at this point.

Now we just need a motive - say Beverly Crusher is asking nicely from a deep space in distress…

Oof. Hopefully a security professional will slap some sense into someone before it gets out of beta.

What if my pain made me a worse version of myself?

Then we would restore from backup, right?

This is such a perfect use of this meme format.

O’Brien won’t be sharing that secret with anyone. Not even Keiko.

That is pretty sad, but I think she and he were both right to respect the impact she had by staying in the role.

The most iconic science fiction crew of all time will forever include a prominent impressive black woman. Nichelle made that happen, through her performances.

If Avenue 5 gets Red Dwarf revived, I will buy two or three box set collections to celebrate. Canceling Avenue 5 was a crime.

Spike was what Neelix shoulda been and it’s hilarious.

Yes! All the resourcefulness, without the childishness.

I was going to say, the ending kind of reads two ways, if you know Wil’s average D20 roll. Haha.

Hey, thanks! You too!

We need infinite more seasons of Lower Decks, so that episodes like your idea here can become reality. This would be a delight.