It’s no longer a dependency of Mint’s Software Manager, so it’s not “needed” in the way it used to be, but if you need to use it for its own features (which it sounds like you do), you can just install it again anyway.

Either use the Software Manager or

Sudo apt install synaptic

I think it’s missing on the original, and not mentioned anywhere - but a very interesting diagram and article nonetheless, thank you :)

There’s more secrets hidden there.

It also says “JD Pee on me”

That bit is fine, but the “Common amongst high masking autistic individuals” bit has an asterisk (*), as a footnote to some other part of the diagram, but no other part of the diagram appears to contain a corresponding asterisk.

If you can’t get that poster of the female tennis player with a bare bottom, it doesn’t count.

“I call my creation ‘Prickachu’”

Yeah, but I feel that once you’ve got a “Lord Michael Gove”, the title has essentially become meaningless :)

Yes. Unless you have any problems, stick with it. It’s easy to use, it’s stable, it’s pretty well supported, it’s common enough that there’s a lot of advice available. You already know it and don’t appear to have any issues or complaints with it.

There’s no harm in trying some other distros on a live USB if you’re feeling curious, but there’s no reason to change for the sake of it. In case you weren’t aware, a live USB runs completely off the USB stick - so you can test it on an existing machine, and it won’t alter any installed files.

There’s a chance that with a very new machine with very new components that Mint may have a compatibility problem (by default it uses slightly older, more tested kernels or software versions) - you can normally fix this by manually installing newer versions, or using the “Linux Mint Edge” version (which uses newer kernels by default) - or by trying a different distro which uses newer kernels/packages by default.

Sometimes people get this funny thing in their head that Mint/Ubuntu/PopOS etc are “beginner distros” and after you’ve used them for a few years, you need to “upgrade” to a more complicated one - but no, for the majority of purposes, you can carry on using the one you like, until they stop making it, or you stop liking it.

I guess you wanted to Enjoy the Silence? :)

It was a great mystery at the time what was actually being sung there.

Along with yours, we also had:

I’m blue, I believe I’m a dog,
I believe I’m a dog,
I believe I’m a dog.

And

I’m blue, I believe I will die
I believe I will die
I believe I will die.

I’ll buy them all in a few weeks when they’re 20p each in the “discount frozen food” shop :)

Though I have no direct personal experience myself, from others I know, I was given the impression it takes a lot of complicated legal paperwork, medical proof, over half a year and about £1000. That’s in England though - I’m not sure if the process is streamlined in Scotland in any way.

For reasons I can’t remember, tins of beans is also a Lemmy unit :)

For international readers, that’s:
1 handed = ~1.3kg
2 handed = ~2.7kg
Zweihander = ~4.5kg

Other measurements:
Thinkpad P14 laptop (approx 1.6kg / 3.5lbs)
1 handed = 0.8 Thinkpads
2 handed = 1.7 Thinkpads
Zweihander = 2.8 Thinkpads

Average cat (~4kg / 8.8lbs)
1 handed = 0.3 cats
2 handed = 0.7 cats
Zweihander = 1.1 cats

Tin of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce (420g / 0.42kg /0.93lbs)
1 handed = 3.1 tins of beans
2 handed = 6.4 tins of beans
Zweihander = 10.7 tins of beans

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Oddly it looks like the article is only referring to people coming back from holiday, bringing a bit of meat or cheese with them. It doesn’t seem to cover the cargo ships full of the stuff.

Obviously this makes sense, as whenever I go on holiday and bring back some delicious foreign cheese or meat, the first thing I always do is go down to my local farm and share it out with all the animals :)

There’s a lot of fragile egos to work with, too - for example, did you know that Elon Musk is such a loser coward, he’s not even visited the bottom of the Mariana Trench in a vehicle he designed himself, like a real man would? Lame.

…and that you’d have to live in Portsmouth :)

“We were totally fine with seventeen months of continual atrocities, but I think eighteen months is taking things a bit far”

I would love to talk to her about that :)