How else would you heat up a huge pile of bricks? This is for industrial applications or grid scale heating systems. They basically all use hot air.

Also if it’s a brown one.

The main advantage of using what is basically dirt is that it’s dirt cheap. You need a metric fuckton of this stuff so the cheaper the material, the better. Also, molten metal is difficult to handle.

Play stupid games …

Sure, Igor, have another shot of Krokodil.

Chances are she won’t even notice if you put Linux on her machine. My wife certainly didn’t. I tried to explain the concept of different OSs to her but she didn’t care. The Firefox icon looks a bit different, but that was the only thing she noticed.

My coworkers recounting the oh so cute exploits of their oh so cute grandchildren in excruciating detail is very productive, I’m sure. Definitely makes the extra long commute worthwhile for me.

I’m a big fan of Mint. It’s great for beginners but also for anyone who just wants to run their PC with minimal hassle. Considering those are pretty low power machines, I’d go for the Xfce editions too. Personally, I think Xfce is a bit sparse but it runs well on older hardware.

There are also a few distros specifically for older hardware, but I don’t have experience with those. I’d suggest starting with Mint and seeing how that goes.

I would always start all conversations with my friends with “Hey Windows peasants!” If I had any friends. These two things have nothing whatsoever to do with each other.

Agnostic atheist. That’s a pretty standard position for atheists. It means you don’t believe in gods but you’re not claiming that they don’t exist. Proving that something doesn’t exist is logically impossible so there’s no point even bothering to try. So we’re willing to believe in gods, if someone presents convincing evidence for their existence. Until then we don’t.

That’s not what I was talking about at all. The point is that the media constantly focus on Biden’s slip-ups whereas they try to normalize Trump’s obvious madness. It is of course perfectly legitimate to question Biden’s suitability as a candidate and I do believe he made the right decision to step down. But anyone who thinks Biden is unsuitable but Trump isn’t is either a liar or a moron. Or both. It’s usually both. And the media that promote this false equivalence are enemies of US democracy.

That cat was obviously an impostor planted there by the deep state.

“Let’s remember, he is 78 years old. With so much attention on [President Joe] Biden’s age when he was still in the race, it was overlooked that Trump is just a couple years younger and just as prone, maybe more so, to these verbal slips and confusion.”

What a load of bullshit. Biden had some slip-ups. But he was never full on delusional the way Trump is.

Whatever is the cause of this, the Republicans are going to try to ban it.

From what I’ve heard that also applies to some South American countries. But in any developed country it’s basically unthinkable to do something like this without getting caught.

Or she just used Facebook marketplace.

OK, beat me to it.

I’m sure John Stewart’s team is working on the supercut already.

And Trump rally goers are all wonderful people, right? So just give them all AR-15s. With so many “good guys with guns” nothing bad can ever happen, can it?

Cool. Thanks for the info.