Captain Aggravated

That’s the winning hypothesis, dumpster diving gooners.

I personally don’t, no. I have it installed on a PC though.

Surely there are people who bought Chromebooks for college? Or boomers who bought the $245 Chromebook instead of the $285 Win10S manufactured ewaste laptop?

Name me a feature SteamOS has that Bazzite doesn’t.

I had a yak bakwards. Which at least had some kind of toy function, in that you could play the 3 or 4 second recording forwards or backwards. That was minutes of entertainment.

I learned a lot from Raspberry Pi tutorials; that’s where I got my start.

Bazzite might be a bit of a tough one to get your hands dirty in; it’s an immutable distro, it locks down the guts of the OS kind of like Android does. Useful for gaming appliances, not so much for learning to sysadmin.

The terminal automatically saves the commands you’ve typed in. Type “history” into your terminal.

I can’t put my finger on why, it might just have been the default theme, but when I tried KDE several years ago, it felt dead. The way an abandoned website feels dead. Like how Team Fortress Classic servers feel dead. That has dissipated somehow.

We’re around the teetering point where X11 still works pretty well especially on older hardware. Like if you’re rocking a GTX-1000 series graphics card I’d go Mint Cinnamon with X11, that’s probably going to be a better experience than Wayland. There’s certain things that X11 permitted that Wayland’s security model outlaws, which is a deal breaker for some, but Wayland is the future.

I mean, yeah. 99/100ths of the human race couldn’t lift a fork to their mouth by themselves. it’s why they’re all so fat.

But no you go to the Themes dialog in the settings and change it.

The default silver and green themes didn’t, but it was fairly trivial to make something out of Cinnamon that someone watching you google something would go…wait, that’s not 7, 8 or 10…

Same could be said about Mint; I was asked several times what version of WIndows I had on my laptop. Some people are convinced to this day they met a guy running Windows 9.

I said that’s the reason Manjaro exists, not that it’s any good at it.

Nobody has answered me what Zorin is for.

Why does Zorin exist?

Linux Mint exists to be defuckulated Ubuntu, and to show off the Cinnamon desktop which is defuckulated Gnome.

Neon is KDE’s in-house distro, because I guess they get to have one even if it is functionally identical to Kubuntu.

Manjaro is Arch that’s ready to go out of the box.

What is Zorin for? Do they develop any software, or do they charge money for re-themed Ubuntu Gnome?

“I’m too stupid.”

People want to be ignorant about computers, they try really hard.

The way you phrased that, it’s like the queen wouldn’t fuck so dicks went out of style.

Which is all of them; the Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest pyramid ever built by man, and I’m pretty sure it was the single heaviest structure built by humans until certain hydroelectric dams built in the 20th century.

The second largest pyramid is only a couple hundred feet away, Khafre’s pyramid. Khafre’s pyramid is the middle of the three Giza pyramids, it’s the one that has some of its casing stones left on the top. It is somewhat smaller, the base isn’t as wide and it’s at a slightly shallower angle, so it isn’t as high. To partially compensate for this, it was built uphill from Khufu’s pyramid to hide the size difference somewhat, and since antiquity several courses of stones have been removed from the peak of Khufu’s pyramid, slightly shortening it, but Khufu’s pyramid still stands higher above sea level than Khafre’s pyramid.

The third Giza pyramid, Menkaure’s pyramid, is much smaller, though about a third of its height was cased in granite rather than limestone. Something incredibly stupid happened to Menkaure’s sarcophagus. You’ve probably seen a picture of what’s left of Khufu’s sarcophagus, a plain, partially ruined granite box with the lid entirely missing. Khafre’s sarcophagus is intact, almost mysteriously so, it was set into the floor and the lid had a locking mechanism that apparently wasn’t defeated, yet the lid stands open. Menkaure’s pyramid used to contain a beautifully carved basalt sarcophagus, but in the 1800s the British decided to take it back to England, and then the ship wrecked and it was lost to sea.

Your mind-blowing scale of history fact is a tribute to Elvis was written in the 1980’s?

You need steel for the industrial revolution. You can’t make a steam locomotive out of bronze, first of all it’s too expensive, second of all the boiler will burst before you get up enough steam to pull a train, third the crown sheet would melt. You outright need the Bessemer process to make steam engines.

Incorrect.

Cleopatra lived from ~70BCE to ~30BCE.

The iPhone was released in September of 2007, slightly over 2037 years after her death.

The Great Pyramid of Giza, tomb of Khufu, was built ~2600BCE, making it some 2530 years old when Cleopatra was born. So the statement “Cleopatra was closer in time to the iPhone than the construction of the Great Pyramid” is correct. But, the Great Pyramid is the largest and heaviest, but not the oldest, of the ancient Egyptian pyramids. So, the same can be said for the dozen or so pyramids built before, to include the Bent and Red pyramids of Dahshur, the Meidum pyramid, and Djoser’s stepped pyramid.

You’ve also got 500 years after the Great Pyramid as well, which covers the rest of the Giza necropolis (with the possible exception of the Sphinx), right on up to Pepi II with room to spare. There are some pyramids newer than ~2000BCE but they’re smaller, not as well built, most are ruined.

What’s wild is how short the pyramid construction craze was. Both pyramids ad Dahshur and the pyramid of Meidum, and their complexes, were built during the reign of Sneferu, partially simulteneously. Djedefre and Khafre were brothers, so they’re pyramids were constructed either simultaneously or in very quick succession. The entire Giza necropolis including the two largest pyramids ever built was done start to finish in approximately 85 years. One human could have lived to watch the whole thing. The Great Pyramid itself was built in 20 years. And they did it with human muscle and copper chisels.

If we go to something like the discovery of electricity or the founding of the United States, we can say without qualifications that event was closer to Cleopatra’s life than the construction of anything we would call an “Ancient Egyptian Pyramid.”