Words are fun. A related word would be lieutenant. There was some scifi detective series about a time traveler who came from the Revolutionary period into modern times and helped a woman cop. Mid 2000s? Anyway, they tried to be somewhat accurate and used the word as it’s pronounced for centuries before being Americanized, “leftenent”. And in looking it up, the history and arguments over when and why are themselves interesting.

So, canon.

Realistic C-64 users: “It’s a misspelling in an early Commodore document that just carried over.”

Rabid C-64 users: “It’s not a word, it’s an ACRONYM!”

Me: I didn’t even realize it was wrong or knew it was a thing, then or now. TIL I think I saw “kernel” in my mind.

So this should be posted on a subLemmy? Reddit has a large history of terminology. People have adjusted to saying communities fine.

I was using the “room” concept on Q-Link (Quantum Link) 40 years ago. You know, when we had to connect on slow lines. Uphill, both ways.

Thanks for the feedback. I wish Amazon made it easier to provide different selections. I basically have to resubmit the whole thing every time. But I did create a “basic” cover for the small/cheap one.

Never looked into it. Wonder if it was an intentional play on the idea by Lucas or just an accident of the script. But the subtle “we’re ALL hypocrites” is great.

There was nothing mild about Usenet discussions, but I agree that how one might have conversations about such things can be very broad.

Sith, absolutes, etc. It depends on the pizza.

It would be “argue about semantics”.

The “they have played us for absolute fools” line always gets me laughing, even when I don’t fully get the setup.

Default? I think the first thing I did once I settled down with my current setup was find a background of my own liking, not something curated. And it’s all mine; no one else has it.

For those that care, all zero of you, it’s a bunch of frames from a cool star field animation, timed to rotate to the next every few seconds or so. Because I could not find anything that would simply play a video as a background, I made something that worked. If that’s not Linux level, I don’t know what is.

What cat?

“But your Honor, there was ice in the snowman!”

Judge: “…”

Really. Just a small chunk of ice off a passing car or truck can do some serious damage. A whole ice/snowman? Might as well hit a tree.

Oh no…

Obviously working the system as mentioned by someone else, but I will say as someone in shipping, if we find an empty package, we still at least get it to the area station if not the actual customer so a claim can be made by them. It does no good to not send it through at all, as then no one has any idea where it is.

Also, a good place for a reminder, make sure your stuff is packaged well. While this seems to be a fake thing to bump ratings, cheap packages and tape fail A LOT in going from here to there, and even in the case of theft (which does happen), a securely closed package is a lot less enticing than one that’s partially open. I just saw one last week that looked a lot like this, but was certainly a legit shipping. Hoping it wasn’t medication, but it simply was a badly sealed envelope that came open and lost its contents somewhere. Probably under a belt somewhere, with no markings to trace it back to be recovered (which is also a good idea, have a phone number or address in a few places inside, not just on the outside).

“I’ll remember THAT, it’s such a trivial thing.”

All history does, not just the US.

WIndows will install it. Running it correctly… different story.

The message was not to land there. Clipper is doing a bunch of flybys (to minimize the time in Jupiter’s radiation belt and extend the life of the probe). We’re good.