Wow. Must be a fantastic place to visit. I’ve seen the paper rolls, but it still seems like magic!
I noticed a very long time ago that with Ubuntu, everything was my way or the highway. I think Mint was right when they initiated their Debian Edition, “in case Ubuntu’s upstream is no longer available” (read: becomes too difficult to work around).
So, yes, I think you are entirely correct about Canonical (one might snipe that “it’s right there in the name!”), having reached the same conclusion some years back. Another reason why I prefer not to use a distro that depends on Ubuntu as its upstream.
If you want to go, https://www.volocars.com for the museum. Volo, Illinois. Resto-mod automobiles, RV trailers and motorhomes, boats, outboard motors, snowmobiles, bicycles, motorcycles, farm equipment, Hollywood props, a Titanic exhibit, a dinosaur exhibit, and a flea market.
I’ll probably never get there myself, but nice to know to recommend to folks headed that direction! Looks like you could spend a week and still have more to see.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…”
From “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens.
I don’t know how old you are, but I am retired and they didn’t detain me.
However, I have been asked by personnel at several other museums in the area to help out. They seem to believe experience as an over the road trailer navigator makes me more qualified as an interurban or streetcar motorman than most other potential candidates.
The truth is, I don’t want the stress of the potential of some toddler escaping his parents watch and running out in front of a moving vehicle, point-blank, and getting killed. Then getting blamed by the parents for not violating the laws of physics and stopping in 6 inches. It was bad enough with crazy four wheelers running red lights while texting or intentionally pulling out in front point-blank in order to perform insurance fraud. I can talk about it now. A few years ago, forget it.
LOL, also retired, or trying to be. I wouldn’t want the responsibility either, tho I suppose someone has to do it. But there aren’t many kids running wild on a loading dock.
I know how fast my F350 can stop because of some moron who pulled out right in front of me, and it’s a durn good thing truck and stock trailer both have brakes that perform way better than spec, or he’d have been a hood ornament.
I had some jerkwad try the insurance fraud thing in the Bay area… midnight and no traffic but him and me, and me pulling a trailer. Kept getting in front of me and stepping on the brake. I slowed way down and apparently became too annoying as a target, because after several attempts he sped off.
I’m pretty sure there should be a software analogy for that.
Reminds me of my first Ranger. I am stopped at a red light, right turn signal on, but waiting for traffic to clear out before making the turn. A woman in a Nissan Maxima plows into me and lifts the rear bumper onto her hood, where it starts to sink in. The police show up and get her story, then mine. She gets ticketed for inattentive driving and talking on the phone while driving. There was no texting back then, or she would have probably been doing that too. But she did go to court, and it was my fault according to her. I should not have been moving into existing traffic.
The officer asks me to drive my Ranger off of her Maxima. I told the officer that I don’t know if I can as I only have four cylinders and nothing in back. But I would try. The first attempt stalled the engine. Try again, this time giving it all it had, and it worked. One problem. A loud bang. I thought for certain that I ripped off my bumper. I got out and looked. It turned out that I took her front end with me. Everything forward of her engine was still attached to my bumper if it didn’t shatter into thousands of plastic pieces. To add insult to injury, her engine was laying flat on the ground. I think her initial impact broke the mounts.
While I am under there removing her parts from my bumper, here comes Mr. Tow Truck Driver. He starts chewing on me for making more work for him. I told him to go chew on the officer who told me to do it. I think he wanted a one-piece Maxima.
Two days later, her insurance adjuster comes out to where I worked at the time. He can’t find my truck. I told him it was the only red one out there. He can’t find damages. So I tell him to look at the bumper, as the chrome is scuffed and above it, the license plate is dented. I get a check for $800. Every body shop I go to wants the entire check to replace a $250 bumper. I just ran it with a scuffed bumper, figuring it was a warning to the next idiot who refused to stop in time.
The next Ranger did better. Nobody hit me, but over 20 years, quite a few did end up in the ditch trying to avoid it. It could stop faster than most cars, vans, and crossovers. Even with old-school drum brakes in the rear.
The current Ranger is a target, despite the bright red paint. It came with a receiver, so I installed a steel bar in the receiver hitch, which doubles as a step to climb over the tailgate in the up position. Those new Rangers are tall. I am 6’2" and can’t reach as far as I would like when on the ground. For whatever reason, Teslas love to have near misses, even on dry pavement. I live 25 miles from Lake Michigan, so winters become very interesting when I can stop, but everyone else has great difficulty. Not helping my case is the fact that I have three-peak mountain snowflake (3PMSF) rated tires. Just because I can stop, doesn’t mean they can. More ditch filling happens behind me. Now with that steel step bar, they really try hard to avoid hitting me.
But nobody pulls out in front of me to try for insurance fraud. The very obvious front facing camera that I added does help. Plus, I painted the steel tow hooks a bright red to contrast with the gray painted steel bumper. Nothing says “I am going through you” like red tow hooks. Ford made it a pain to remove and install them without removing the bumper first, but I did it. Gray tow hooks? Really? Unlike most traffic, I tend to do the speed limit. Old retired guys have no place special to be in a hurry.
Tony’s Garage (old-school mechanic) says it’s not the drum brakes, it’s the aging swelled-up brake lines. Replace those and drum do as well as disc.
My first truck was a '78 F100, back when they called it the Ranger (remember Ford Puke Green?) It was a late off the assembly line model and had an F150 rear end with seals integrated on the axle, apparently whatever was left over in the parts pile. When they had it apart all the mechanics had to come and look, then all the mechanics from across the road had to come and look. They’d never seen this before. – It had the heavy bumper and when someone rear-ended me, my first clue was the panicked face at my window. Your story is a lot more exciting.
Next truck is the '91 F350, and it came with stories. I go to look at a different truck, but it was sold. Try this one instead. Not what I was looking for. Some hemming and hawing later I took it out on the back roads, stepped on the gas, and had to pick myself out of the back seat. It thinks it is a race truck. 0 to 60 in six seconds flat. Anyway a few years later I was getting gas in Wide Spot, Montana, and the guy at the next pump is looking my way. After a bit he says, “I’ll bet you bought that truck in California.” I allowed as how that was so, and he says, “I built that rack.” Then explains that it’s a movie studio rack, that’s why it’s got the extra height. I’m its 7th owner, and it still has the original rack (studios don’t buy used trucks). – If I ran over one of those skateboards, I wouldn’t notice.
Ha, last year I bought me a 2000 Little Red Ranger. At least I can find this one in any parking lot. That’s a good idea with the receiver, tho mine has a topper and I’d be banging my head on it. Guy had it listed for Outrageous Price, noticed it but… meh. Year later I see the same truck listed at half the price. Seems someone stopped short and he bumpered all over them. For four grand discount I’ll take the bent bumper, thank you very much.
See? All the drama isn’t in XOrg. Tho I heard today that’s become even more dramatic. Will be interesting to see what becomes of it.
With the whitewashed (salt) winter roads around here, replacing brake lines every few years is mandatory. They start to leak.
Oh yes, I remember those. Larsen’s had one in red with a V8 and automatic transmission. They used it out in the fields to shuttle tractor drivers during the vegetable harvesting season. I worked for them for one summer, harvesting green sweet peas. Quickly learned how to drive an automatic when I went for the clutch and got the brake instead.
The field foreman was not amused.
Later, it went back to the dealer, as it was leased. I am certain some contractor bought it.
That bumper sounds like the DMI bumper my dad had on the 1971 F100. Hook farm wagons or the cattle trailer to the bumper. No need for a receiver hitch. At the stockyards, a cattle truck drove into it while backing into a dock. No damages other than scuffed paint where there was no surface rust. We were there to unload calves going to some beef rancher. It was common for dairy farmers to get rid of bull calves this way.
Lucky that you live in a place where they haven’t rusted out. My 2003 Ranger got road cancer. The steel spring clip that holds the seal in place where the driveshaft comes out the rear rusted away. The seal popped out while I was sleeping. The next morning, transmission fluid all over the driveway. Two years ago and not worth swapping in a rebuilt. Around here, anything that makes it ten years without road cancer is doing excellent. It made twenty. I suspect someone bought it cheap for the tires, engine, and whatever could be salvaged. The tires were almost new.
Big Tech vs the little guy who got an idea and is willing to solve some problems. While Big Tech wants to force everyone to comply with an agenda. I wonder if Big Tech will ever learn that they can’t control everyone?
Probably not. Microsoft didn’t learn. Same for Apple and Google. May as well toss into the mix Amazon with their Kindle and Fire TV.
LOL, you must be my opposite number. I have no physical memory and a stick shift is an Adventure.
Heavy diamond plate. Had a frame hitch anyway, but I used the bumper to break up cast-iron snowdrifts.
Yeah, we don’t have the salt or road cancer here. In Minnesota, first thing you did with a new car was get it undercoated so it would last more than one winter.
I was giving that some thought and really, I don’t think it’s big tech. The open source world became vulnerable to agendas and takeovers when the well-heeled foundations and more critical the CoC came along – that wasn’t about good behavior, it was about neutering opinions that might object to a shift in how the money flows. Before that, independents could thumb a nose at big tech and no one could do a thing about it. Now, the CoC-infested foundations have set themselves up for failure and naturally, big tech grabs the corpse.
