“force” in this case means “extort information” or just straight up applied violence, I assume.

Would you accept lies and obfuscation instead?

About 300 years after the invention of the bow, which is crazy.

It meant that the value of archers was really low from a military point of view. Those nerds were useless.

They may have been mentioned/featured in things that last longer than the bows. Statues, pottery, writing on stone tablets.

Also I think they find skeletons with flint arrowheads in them sometimes too.

So it can be pieced together from lots of small, even partial data points.

But we find new stuff all the time that changes what we thought.

They found a 4000 year old bagless vacuum cleaner the other day.

That last one was a joke.

Well, these days who the hell isn’t?

My.local library has been getting refurbished for a couple of months.

It’s really thrown off my ability to do paperwork, as they were the only people around with a working printer.

I actually had to fix the printer at work. Horrible stuff.

I’m hoping they make a desktop version but I’ve been testing Linux mint on all the games I can download and I’m pretty sure it’s running better than my win10 boot.

So the fact that the other distros are an option that’s relatively accessible makes me think there’s less value to valve releasing the desktop version any time soon.

Luckily it only took like 15 mins total.

Thanks though!

Came to Lemmy while my disk manager is processing my new partition.

If it goes well, I’m switching today.

So, probably some time early tomorrow morning. Because I’m not great with reading instructions.

Edit: it’s still processing. It feels like it shouldn’t take this long to partition…

When the voice assistant came out I remember one of my coworkers showing it off to another.

To which the other coworker just said “hey Google, text Mom saying ‘you’re fat’”.

Because of that I’ve never had any voice tools connected to anything I own.

When I dual booted Ubuntu about a decade ago it took an afternoon and needed a lot of extra command line stuff to do anything.

Last night I installed Linux mint and it took about two hours. Most of the time was me rebooting my ancient laptop though.

On a newer (less worn out) machine I could probably do it notably faster.

Looking at the comments, it occurs to me that we’re not a representative section of the online community.

Were literally people who went out of their way to not use a conventional/commercial tech product.

I wonder what the % of people on here is who have built a pc, used a raspberry pi or installed Linux compared to the outside world.

Oh no!

I’m still on Lemmy!

/s

I like the look of the stencil/shape left behind by a removed logo.

Feels rebellious.

“Shagger Mike’s Stag-do '14” above a penis with a top hat.

HR: “This guy’s exec material”

He doesn’t post on twitter any more I think. Just his own site.

I think it’s going to be only accurate on specific types of behaviour, and will fall away exponentially as the kids age.

I’m not saying it always goes to zero but seeing my parents with their parents makes me think it’s possible to actually go negative.

Haha the reaction guy does need a Winterfell style fur cloak around his shoulders though.

But like, of LARP quality though.

$retVal and $item are my personal favourite.

And decent variable names if you can, as well.

No magic numbers!