Systemd used to boot very fast, under 5 seconds initially, but now is a lot slower on my desktop & laptop (before I switched the lap to FreeBSD). At any rate boot speed is of very little interest to me.

@vanden and distilled water, rain water, and pure grain alcohol.

As I said before, I imagine a room full of operators. You call in, and one of them reads the book to you. :)

Haha

Delights on this nth reading of Brideshead Revisited: Charles & Julia drink gin martinis, Waugh’s teasing of his friend Nancy Mitford.

@mcnalu I used to enjoy rabbit until I had a pet rabbit (housetrained) named Chauncey (Gardner… obscure reference, bonus points if you can get it).

In this, the Age of the Selfie:
“And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.” Moby-Dick, Or the Whale by Herman Melville

To life!

@question #copout

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin

@question I prefer Goethe on color.

FreeBSD is still using HAL :)

@lnxw48 @lohang they are reliable in their unreliability.

@lohang #sigh

#^Poet, translator, soldier, spy? Remembering the man who brought Proust to the English world http://vox.a2c3.co/url/637

http://vox.a2c3.co/url/638



If you’ve ever struggled through Marcel Proust’s seven-volume epic, “Remembrance of Things Past,” you have C.K. Scott Moncrieff to thank. Moncrieff introduced the French novelist to the world with his translation, while also living lives as a poet, soldier and spy in his own right.

Something fowl is going on here…

Excelsior!

Cheers to that!

substitute apples for the crackers and you are in business.

And you can’t beat an install that takes 5 minutes to go from the USB boot to reboot into the installed system.