Fair; that was mostly a general warning, not necessarily directed at you, because many people do copypaste terminal commands without knowing what they are actually doing.

As long as you understand what a command does, absolutely go for it. No point typing that shit out when somebody else already has

Do not copy and paste into Bash if you don’t understand the commands you’re pasting in

This is the biggest thing. I’m very comfortable in Bash, but that is not the norm; the second my wife needs to run sudo apt get, she’s out, fuck that

It’s probably the standard in both POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification, so I guess ask Ken Thompson?

LxQt is nice, it is barebones like Xfce, but built on the Qt framework like KDE. Xfce uses GTK, like GNOME.

Stop fucking creating terrorists. America can’t though, creating terrorists is their favorite pastime

I specifically like Xfce or LxQt, because I generally run older hardware; I suppose my biggest question is how easily I could use either (not overly picky about which). I’m not sure which desktop environment LMDE defaults to, but both Gnome and KDE are deal-breakers for me, unless it’s easily changeable.

I don’t have that problem on my actual Debian machines, because they’re headless anyways, there is no desktop environment at all

I’ve been curious about LMDE, I use the Xfce version of regular Mint, but am comfortable in Debian (at least, server Debian). How does LMDE compare?

Linux vs. Windows doesn’t generally affect the cost unless you’re building the machine yourself, or buying from a Linux specific vendor like Framework (which are generally more expensive than what you’ll find at Best Buy anyways). The major PC manufacturers are going to have Windows pre-installed whether you want it or not.

If that’s getting me, they can have me

Pascal or Camel are best cases

Dark Cloud 3 Bearnstained me; I swear I have memories of watching reviews of Dark Cloud 3, which talked about the previous two games, when I was a kid. It was a short video game review segment that regularly aired, on YTV.

Gonna need a lot more parity bits than regular old Hamming code

It’s not real, it’s an xkcd joke

Eh. Overseas? Definitely not. If my home is invaded? You bet your ass I’m fighting the invaders.

Dry food in the morning because it’s faster/easier on the way out the door before work, wet and dry mixed in the evening, with some water mixed in for the male cat as well

Always Debian. I’m most comfortable in an environment with apt, and that’s even more important on a server

The real trick is to cryptographically embed important information into cat pictures and disseminate them; if you ever lose all your proper backups, millions of people on the internet will have saved and spread your cat-backups, just need to find the pictures again

They reverse-engineered them

Edit: Huh, apparently I misremembered

Bikes. It’s always bikes