And right so! Indecence is the root of all evil. The world wouldn’t be the rot it is if only people were wearing decent bathing suits. Not even parliamentarians, judges, priest, military and police are wearing decent bathing suits. Look at the outrageous rags they actually are wearing. Have you ever seen cops in bathing suits beat up innocents? Military in decent beachwear commit atrocities? Judges in half-legged nylon sentencing people to death? No, no and no! I demand decent bathings suits for everyone!

Yes. Deleting partitions without editing /etc/fstab is a nice way to render your system unbootable.

Did you delete it or comment it out in /etc/fstab? Adding

noresume

to your boot arguments should also help. You can try that out in “extended options” during boot and add it to /boot/grub/grub.cfg later. Don’t forget to run

update-grub

after editing.

Temperature is just as tricky. Let the pasta and the rest of the water cool down about a minute. Some obviously bored physicists have experimentally found the “perfect” way (egg not denaturalizing, sauce homogenous) a couple of months ago and published a paper about it. The search engine of your choice might find it.

I don’t see how this contradicts my statement. You can’t make a general comparison between specimina of anything if one of your samples is broken.

The trick is to keep the right¹ volume of noodle-water before mixing pasta and sauce in the noodle pot. The starch in the water gives the sauce the right consistence.

¹tricky

…supposed you’re using a distro that isn’t broken, of course. You can’t drive a car that doesn’t start, either. You’re using an exception to prove the general case. That’s not a valid argument.

Faraday cages don’t protect against specific malware. They block electromagnetic radiation or communication in general. The idea is to keep your phone inside as long as you are in a potentionally compromised net.

They’ll definitely protect against real time attacks and fake cell towers as long as your phone stays in the bag while you’re in potentially hostile territory. Silent SMS or SMS from outside that might be spiked with malware by the local government won’t work if you’re outside.

How would you fuck up your machine by installing packages? Hell, get a reasonable package manager and package installation frontend (and a reasonable brain between your ears if that’s the problem). I can’t see how anyone might get their machines into an useless or unbootable state considering that any useful package manager (even minimalist ones like aptitude or blank apt-get) will inform you what it’s going to install and unistall. If I see, that my choice is going to remove the complete DIE I am using plus X, or even GRUB, I lknow there’s something wrong with my selection and abort.

If you can’t play, let your gear speak for you. Don’t replicate the boring pissing contests of r/guitar or r/synthesizer where 90% of the posts were “collectors” showing off gear they can’t play. Consumerism and enthusiasm are different things.

Banks’s first SF novel - pretty good though I didn’t find the main character especially likable.

LOL. I don’t think the main character was meant to be likeable at all. Killing your sandbox friends and… uh, the rest of the story is as complicated as it is perverse… whatever, it’s certainly not a “likeable” or even remotely reproducable thing. It’s at best a hint of the main character being batshit crazy. Consider Phlebas, BTW, is widely considered Bank’s weakest SF novel which doesn’t mean it’s bad but that the rest of his work was a lot better. Anyway, I think if you liked Gibson you’ll hardly dislike Banks.

No way. He’d miss his own head and blame the liberals.

Right. Feeding Trump’s kingdom of madness is so much better. What might possibly go wrong…

Yes, EU politicians are grateful and honest, they’d never betray someone who has paid them so many bribes over so many years.

Free access to information should be a human right. Wait… according to the European convention of human rights it is. Something is stinking here…

China is already socialist. At least they claim to be.

My all time #1. Best song from the classic line up,

Socialism is internationalist. The world needs you to get some education.

No. Debian updates tend to be interruption free. Apt/dpkg is a lot more consistent than RPM and deals very nicely with dependencies in both directions.