I think I’m gonna grab an old external USB drive and live boot from there and test things out

Just keep in mind, in such a case, that your performance will be quite reduced due to limits on I/O. When you have Linux on a real drive - especially a striped RAID, the system is blazing fast. It’s a substantial difference you should keep in mind when evaluating.

I’m not Linux-savvy enough to understand everything you said lol. But I’m glad at least that I don’t have to rely on CUPS I just have two printers with static IPs so it’s easy-breezy George and 'Weezy.

I have been fine with both Canon and Lexmark and also a Brother unit that someone in my family owns that their new Win11 machine refused to talk to; I opened up my ASUS t-pad with Ubuntu and printed in five seconds.

But yeah CUPS has actually caused many a headache to the point that I’ve disabled it on some units.

This has been a real issue yeah.

As someone who started with nothing but command line - Timex Sinclair, Apple IIe, DOS, I can’t even relate to the concept of being scared of command line.

Ohhh. I C. Also I realized it’s not functional on recent versions.

Karma firewall?

One or two of my computers have been on for about five years. The laptop I use mostly has been on for several months. But I’m a very teched-up person. I’ve got computers in various forms all over the place. Actually less nowadays compared to many years ago. I don’t shut anything down because I’ve got various services in operation 24/7.

In addition to the explanations already posited, I’d also think there most likely are some people who want to lie, argue disingenuously, and a fact-checker tends to get in the way of their rhetoric.

It was once upon a time, called Personnel. It was Personnel since its inception, but then one day, some monsters decided that title had the word “person” in it, and, heh, well… ah, we can’t have employees thinking they are people; they need to know that they are no different from a table, a copy machine or a forklift. So some genius of corporate sadism came up with the term Human Resources, to perfectly articulate the fact that to the corporation, you are simply a resource that is classified as human. That should put an end to all this distracting and unproductive “dignity.”

Nice!

It’s fine I think I have what I need.

I have no fear the way it was stated seemed to imply that’s where the root had to point. Glad it’s not the case. Seemed odd to say the least but it was referenced absolutely so that’s what I thought. Not a problem.

If that’s the case then I probably don’t need gui but I would prefer to be able to put files wherever I want. Like if I want the web root to be somewhere other than /var/www/ that’s actually not really gonna work for me.

Awesome songs! So many great ones.

Upon repeated viewings I’m enjoying the Archer coma seasons more and more!

Bob’s Burgers’ biggest appeal is it’s a family that all love each other and don’t treat one-another badly. I know it sounds corny but it really does have a much bigger appeal than on animated shows where they do the opposite.

My favorite shows are the shows I can binge over and over and over and they’re still tons of fun, with enough complexity and depth to still reveal something new after dozens of viewings.

In no particular order:

The Orville
Psych
Community
Bob’s Burgers
Archer
Eureka
Rick & Morty
Home Movies
Warehouse 13
Joe Pera Talks With You
Also, my wife and I watch Friends together a lot.

Honorable mention:
Continuum
Gravity Falls
Roswell (yeah it was from my time)

Heh. Well, yeah you have to be in the mood to watch a very long film but I think it’s worth the experience. It’s not a movie you just sort of watch while folding laundry; it’s immersive and it is legendary and deserves your undivided attention.

Ultimate or Director’s. I don’t mind the extra Black Ship comics scenes but I also recognize they really don’t add much of value. But I enjoy them.

Nobody’s favorite bad movie should be anything other than The Room. :-)