Definitely no hate for Arch, just me being a smart arse ;)

It could become as normal as talking about dancing:

"I went to dance class last night, only my second week so I still get nervous but it’s good fun and great exercise!

They taught the newer students a new dance and we had to partner up with someone we hadn’t danced with before. I got a lovely older lady and OMG - she was so agile she almost broke MY hip! I’m soo sore but going back tomorrow!"

See the much faster leak really messing with the valve stem provides? This would be even faster if snipped rather than just removing the stem core

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbpz-JHFtO0

If you snip the stem off, the tyres will be flat very quickly, they will immediately notice this when pulling away unless they’re completely clueless and ignore the car handling like shit

Yes, yes it is. The tyre is at a higher pressure than the atmosphere so any hole will allow the air to equalize but the difference is how that air comes out:

Stab the sidewall (big hole, rapidly) air rushes out with a big bang.

Snip the stem, smaller hole, air rushes out slower but still very quick. Likely flat in under a minute. Different structure/strength that sidewall which is why it doesn’t pop/explode.

If you get a puncture, the reason it doesn’t leak as fast as snipping the stem (nor pop) - usually the nail/screw is still in the tyre, keeping it plugged somewhat, the distortion of the tyre under weight means this hole can open and close as the car rolls letting out a little at a time.

Source: have had punctures that take hrs to run flat, have watched tyre techs clip stems on an old tyres, seen videos of tyres being stabbed.

The air is like a flock of sheep - as soon as one finds a way out, they all immediately rush out too.

Even a tiny nick on the stem, the tyre would be flat before they’ve fastened their seatbelts.

MS know who butters their bread. Businesses get given the tools to control windows properly. Even without needing to resort to LTSC versions, domain joined with group policy, you can manage all the shitty parts of windows to make it behave as you wish - even down to control over when you receive the updates

Good point - my thought is to go through that pain now while I’m still learning to use Linux properly. I’m not tied into anything yet so I can always swap something out if it doesn’t play with Wayland and gets too troublesome.

Began moving all my hardware to Linux this year since none of them will run win11 without fk-about-ing - and I just don’t want to. So my server, media box and laptop are all cut over, only my main desktop left on windows a bit longer but it’s goose is cooked too.

I’ve tried dozens of distros over the years but I’ve settled on Fedora KDE.

The why:

• Skipping x11 and head straight into Wayland so I don’t have to worry about that in the future.
• I wanted something more up to date than debian-based and less cutting edge then Arch-based.
• Stability and support of being in the RHEL family
• Flatpaks
• Tried to get on with gnome to get away from the ‘start menu’ paradigm but ended up getting on with kde better.

And a formatting-stripping tool

Lord of War: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/

Too little, too late!

Little red hatchback: Elmo Blue SUV with a big, ugly nose: Gonzo

Fatal Racing

Yes! There is a website somewhere that has a tonne of fake os screens - updating/upgrading windows, bsod loop etc.

Run a scary looking one of those, disconnect mouse/keyboard so it can’t be interrupted and let the boss discover it