Had a color wheel in a DLP TV explode on me. Fairly easy to replace but it was a pain to clean out all the glass.

Healthcare was my initial thought too. Especially in the US it’s used way too much as a bargaining chip/greed center. Yeah I’ll just stop living.

Don’t know if that would work as the payment is your life. You wouldn’t be around to receive it. Interesting thought experiment

Only later do you find out your uncle is actually your father because of a bizarre incident where your dad got his nuts punched by an unknown person never seen again

You know longer tweet out your tweets. You “X-creet” your “X-crement”

This was most likely posted by a kid who just thinks Unix is “old” Linux and doesn’t understand the roots of what it actually means in terms of computing.

As long as it’s not still in the sheep.

Thank you! That’s what I was looking for.

You know I’ve known for decades that -9 is basically “nuke it from orbit”, but does anyone know what the “9” actually means or where it came from?

Guys out here sending BMPs…

Ah my bad. Sadly I don’t have any experience there. Good luck though. Sounds like a fun project!

Besides the other reasons here the biggest reason IM took off is the “I” part of the name. Email measures its SLAs in days. A lot of the retry intervals are set 4 hours with timeouts of 72 hours. It wasn’t designed to be “Instant”. Granted probably 90%+ of email gets delivered in under 5 minutes, but imagine having a chat and your responses are delayed 4 hours. Just send an email at that point.

Don’t have a risc tablet but the consideration is the same as any other type of chip: what distro are you using and do the apps you want to use offer packages or source code for it? Before ARM took off this was the same problem. I was able to run an ARM version of Debian that had most packages I wanted and for others I could find precompiled ARM deb packages, but for a non-zero number I couldn’t find any and would have to compile from source code if available.

You’re gonna run into the same issue here, unless you find a lot of precompiled packages for what you want. Expect to do a lot of your own compiling.