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.
I learned on assorted farm tractors. 1941 Farmall H (5 speed). 1954 McCormick-Deering Super W6-TA (10 speed partial power shift). Ford 8N (4 speed). Massey Ferguson 35 Deluxe, 135 Standard, 255, 285, 175 (all 12 speed Multi-power). White (Oliver) 2-85, 2-105, 2-135 (24 speed over-under). A 1971 Ford F100 with the small inline 6 and three on the tree. Then on to assorted cars and pickup trucks with 3, 4, and 5 speed manual transmissions. When I started driving 48 states plus Canada hauling freight in dry vans, 10 speed manuals until the automated manual transmissions were perfected just before I retired. Those automated manual transmissions would still screw up on railroad grade crossings if the driver didn’t select manual mode in advance. When I see a video of a truck stalled out on a grade crossing for no obvious reason, I wonder if the driver had bothered to put the automated transmission into manual mode before the crossing?
I always found automatics to be convenient when driving on dry pavement in good conditions. But when in snow and ice, they were a pain until Ford put a locking second on the Ranger’s automatic. Until then, I stuck with manual transmissions. Trying to get going with an automatic in winter is difficult unless the driver can force the transmission to start out in second gear. My current Ranger is the first I owned with 4-wheel drive, rendering this need null and void. Before that, rear-wheel drive.
I wasn’t much of a fan of front-wheel drive after observing too many going into the ditch. With front-wheel drive, if you let off the throttle, it starts to slide on ice and will spin the vehicle around. With rear-wheel drive, the rear will start to slide, but generally stays in the rear. But with a manual transmission, the driver can “drop the clutch” and let the wheels “freewheel” preventing losing control. Most “driver’s education” classes don’t cover these finer details of driving in slippery conditions. I suspect it is because the “teacher” never learned these methods.
That is what the neighbor’s Oshkosh was for. He plowed the local roads that the county wouldn’t touch. For the farm driveway, either the Massey Ferguson 35 Deluxe with the loader or the 135 Standard with the rear blade. When you are a teenager, cold doesn’t matter, and you think it is fun to charge into drifts in reverse with a 7-foot blade. When you get older, not so much.
I find it very strange how those who scream about how they are all about “free speech” always need to hide behind their own set of rules and regulations designed to silence anyone who they disagree with. It is as if they don’t know what free speech really is because odds are, it was never taught to them.
Last Saturday I encountered three of those types. They were not in tech in any way. Very political. Clearly university indoctrinated. Two were old enough to know better. Screaming in public about how a certain person in DC needs to be silenced and executed because “he is silencing free speech!” When I challenged them with the First Amendment to the Constitution, they just doubled down and proclaimed that I was opposed to free speech because I was not in compliance and must get talking points from a very popular talk show host who has been dead for several years. So I asked them if they believed it was possible to get messages from dead people. At that point, they screamed about having me arrested for violating the law and ran away. I assume to locate a police officer who probably blew them off.
I clearly violated their Code of Conduct. But I never violated the First Amendment. The fact that they are incapable of reading it changes nothing.
I’m literally hoping to see Xlibre in next stable as an option to install or default.
Not because I’m a rebel but because, Xlibre is the xorg with true improvements or should be one, and wayland is simply not production ready.
Does xorg full ow bugs?
Yes.
Is it steel more stable than Wayland?
Yes.
Is it more flexible than wayland?
Yes.
Is more secure than wayland?
To be honest it deppends.
Yet all the negative hype around xorg flaws is mostly artificial.
You do not need xorg to highjack someone linux pc for F* sake.
And that is a way it is presented to the public.
Xorg bad because with it is made possible to gain unauthorized access to someone pc.
Do not forget that the developer who make x libre do not know how to code, “is an idiot, antivaxer and nazi” and what not.
So he is a literally Adolf H (Even if he is? What that all have in common with a code itself)
I guess we all are idiots and nazis here, then.
Why? Because he invites everyone to contribute to the project regardless: age, skin color and broadly understood self identification.
The very fcact that people who calling him names and slurs are exact same people who prizes him in a past for keeping xorg alive … i guess it’s totally irrelevant now.
Yet it speaks volumes
I use this very distro because I like Linux, and I like to talk with other people about a linux without waving around my broadly understood self identities [ politycal included(real or imagined)] like badges of honor.
The people at Xorg seem to have succumbed to the woke mind virus.
Lots of it going around, but a few FOSS projects have innoculated themselves against this virus by having based people in charge, and those projects are gaining steam.
