I hate warriors, too narrow-minded. I’ll tell you what I do like though: a killer, a dyed-in-the-wool killer. Cold blooded, clean, methodical and thorough. Now a real killer, when he picked up the ZF-1, would’ve immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom of the gun.

A rule that asks users to post before they leave seems arbitrary, that’s why it’s confusing to me. If people only post because it’s a rule, I thought a logical consequence would be tons of posts of low quality.

Please excuse my ignorance, but what does “leave” mean in this context? Before I leave what?

I got banned on Lefty Memes for asking for evidence. :)

I’m here for over a year and I still don’t get much of what’s going on here.

For example, why posts are titled “rule”.

But only bad music.

I always cringe when I see native speakers confuse “it’s” and “its”, “their”, “they’re” and “there” and all the other subtleties of their language. But then again, I’m a pedantic German and maybe Americans are so anti-education already that they’re cool with that.

You’re right, but I did manage to make the device show up as a compliant Linux laptop in their Intune UI, and that was all that mattered to them.

They don’t care that you have to make Intune think the distro is Ubuntu when it’s in fact EndeavourOS. Some necktie people were satisfied with the result and devs can now use Linux. Après moi, le déluge.

Boss told me I couldn’t use EndeavourOS because “it doesn’t work with M$ InTune”.

So I said if I could make an old unused laptop work with that setup, maybe the company could turn that into a pilot system and we could be more sexy to new developers we want to hire.

Boss said why not. IT said sure, here’s your laptop, have fun.

A few months later, a couple of devs have switched to Linux. Some have kept Windows. Some didn’t care because they have Macs. Everyone’s happy, we have more options, and everyone can choose what they subjectively feel is the best tool for the job - which is what professionals do instead of fighting.

And we actually hired a new dev who uses Linux.

• Wing flexing → causes microcracks in paint
• UV exposure → leads to fading and degradation
• Temperature changes → cause thermal stress
• Chemicals (de-icing fluids, fuel) → damage coating
• Maintenance wear → walking, tools cause abrasion

I constantly tell people the remedy of the dangers of dual booting, using a separate drive for Linux. They sometimes listen and then have a dual boot system that doesn’t break.

Bronze peddler. “Hello, have you heard of bronze? Just attach it to your axe instead of stone. No more annoying stone chopping! And look, it’s shiny!”