I sure wouldn’t want to be in the rope business.

• Margaret “Peg” M. Harder
• Joy S. Cummings
• Mona Little

I think Odyssey is a pretty cool guy. Eh trojans hores and doesnt afraid of anything.

It’s from a political cartoon depicting a corrupt districting plan as a salamander.

Yeah, spoken “lol” in place of saying “that’s funny” or, y’know, actually laughing.

“Lol”

Excel is a single-assignment dynamically-typed functional programming language with a really obtuse editor.

What does a network engineer bring on a hiking trip in the woods? Water, snacks, extra sunscreen, a first aid kit, bug repellent, bear spray … and a folding shovel and a piece of fiber-optic cable.

(What’s the fiber for?)

Well, if you get lost in the woods or need to be rescued, you take the shovel, dig a trench, put the fiber in it, bury it … and within an hour, someone with a backhoe will show up to tear it up. Then you can just follow the backhoe tracks back to civilization.

I suspect some cats know that if they eat only some of the mice, there will be more mouse babies before too long.

It’s not only what you can do, but what it won’t do to you.

Using your computer is not wrong. You shouldn’t be punished for it.

Using your computer is not an imposition on someone else. You don’t owe anyone for the privilege of using it. You have already paid for it. The OS vendor doesn’t have a lien on it; they aren’t paying you to rent ad space on your desktop.

You bought it, you own it, you can break it if you like but it’s not anyone else’s place to tell you what you’re allowed to do with it.

Your computer is yours – just yours – and it shouldn’t be spamming you with ads, filling itself up with junk, or telling you “you’re not allowed to do that because of the OS vendor’s deals with Hollywood”.

I’m not anti-commerce or anti-corporate. My preferred browser is plain old Google Chrome (with uBlock Origin). I buy games on Steam. The game I spend the most hours playing on my Linux system is Magic Arena, hardly an anti-commercial choice. But that’s my choice. I buy computers from Linux-focused vendors (currently System76) and I expect my computer to be mine, not the vendor’s to do with what they like.