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You ticket. You wait two weeks. When it isn’t paid, you find the car, impound and immobilise it.

Actually, since all cars of a certain type run the same software, they’re all effectively the same “person” doing the driving, so you’d have grounds to lock them all up at the first infraction. And I bet you could get a judge to agree with that.

I seem to remember hearing about a town that installed cameras to spy on citizens monitor for crime and took them all down again when a judge enforced freedom of information legislation. That is, the public requested access to what the cameras recorded and were found to be entitled to it.

It’s not true that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, but the converse is true. And dirty cops reeeally don’t like it.

I think you’re mixing up who the holster is.

There’s a bit at the end of the article that might be counter to the RDP that it talks about, even if it is deliberately vague.

I dunno. There are some of us who run Mint not because we don’t know what we’re doing but because we do* and we don’t want to have to deal with any more nonsense than we absolutely have to.

From that small cohort, there are those of us who’ll frown when all we have open is a few browser tabs and the system’s using 8GB of RAM, twice the “recommended” spec. On startup with nothing running it’s over 1GB.

It’s hard not to see it as wasteful when you’re old enough to remember perfectly good machines running on single-digit megabytes. **

* Or at least, think we do.

** Yes, things are much more complex these days. But are they really a thousand times more complex?

There’s at least a couple of puns going on here. You may already know some of the following.

First of all, Perl is a programming language that has been around since the late '80s. It was designed as a system administrating, text processing glue language with aspects of shell scripting, awk, sed, the greps and a whole host of other things.

This is the first part of one of the puns. Perl was, and may still be, used as a filter in command line pipelines.

The other pun comes from the fact that perhaps the most important Perl book, Programming Perl was published by O’Reilly who generally put some sort of apparently unrelated animal on the cover of their titles. For Perl this was a camel.

Camel is, or was, a brand of cigarettes. Therefore this is the second pun. The pack of cigarettes has “Perl” where it should read “Camel” but still has the picture of a Camel, like both the book and the cigarettes.

Cigarattes, of course, often have filters on the mouth end of them, which completes the first pun. I do not know if any Camel cigarettes have these, but that’s not strictly important. Some cigarettes do. Perl-branded Camels almost certainly would do.

The third (fourth?) pun, which may or may not be intended, is that some people think that programming in Perl is damaging to one’s health.

Linux Mint may be for you. It’s literally Ubuntu stripped of Canonical’s crap, and I expect they’ll make the AI stuff something you have to explicitly install if you want it. They already did that with Snaps, for example.

Listen, I’m convinced the next kernel will finally fix the bug that in rare circumstances causes my potato to spontaneously mash itself and start whistling dixie.

… or maybe I’m confusing my potato with my brain again.

… aaas long your potato has a processor better than a 486 anyway.

When your neighbour is a bear, it is wise to be wary of it.

Round coins are less likely to damage coin purses and pockets. No more complicated than that.

Then as technology has moved on, it has proven advantageous for coins to have constant radius so that coin-accepting machines don’t jam on an unfortunate rotation of points.

This is why even when coins aren’t round - thinking specifically of the British 50 pence and 20 pence coins, but there are others - they still have curved sides.

I guess that explains why he and Minnie never had kids.

Pipewire is newer and emulates PulseAudio so that it can be used as a drop-in replacement. There’s literally a command called pipewire-pulse related to this.

It makes me wonder if they really have both installed or are mistaking Pipewire’s emulation for an active PulseAudio installation, and so it’s just Pipewire that’s acting up.

I’d say reboot, but being in space might be one of those times where that’s a non-starter. In which case, they’re going to have to get their hands dirty unpicking system hooks and trying to reattach them all again as and when Pipewire’s working again, assuming it doesn’t do that automatically.

I never had a problem with either Pipewire or real PulseAudio back when that was current. I had motherboard sound physically pop, requiring the purchase of a separate sound card, but never a driver issue, so I can’t even imagine what might be going on.