High WAF with my MythTV solution yielded carte blanche on my computer purchases. She actually told me to "go get a Mac" to replace my original cobbled together frontend box.

We were a Tivo household before that. So it's not like there were low expectations.

However, the main challenge with OTA is the ANTENNA. That is the trickiest part by far and the one that frustrates so many people into using cable or Aereo.

What kind of crack are you on?

Unix and Linux have no malware to speak of and they are completley open platforms.

On the other hand, Android has problems with "signed code". Yes. That's right. Android has problems with it's "app store". This isn't your grandfather's Windows style malware.

This is the end user installing stuff that's compromised.

All trojans all the time.

Entirely different problem.

We have made permanent adjustments for the entire household. We ALL avoid certain practices and triggers. We do this because a member of the household has this Atkins dietary type. We do this so that shared meals don't become an act of active sabotage for this person.

The idea of a diet is a strange thing. You take up some good habits for awhle and then flush them. Ultimately you should be seeking permanent lifestyle changes.

Chasing any fad on a temporary basis is likely to yield temporary results.

Why are you going to eat 20,000 calories?

What is it about your habits that cause things to go horribly wrong?

For some people, it's eating carbs. For other people, it's eating cheap American bread in particular. If you know what your triggers are then you can avoid them.

The idea isn't to follow any particular brand of orthodoxy but to find something that works for you personally and is something you can stand.

> Riiight. Because the 150-175 calories from the bun is the tipping point on having a burger not the 300+ calories from just the fat from the beef (assuming 1/2lb. Of 85/15 beef).

You're assuming a 1/2 lb patty. That's your problem right there.

Cutting the bun from a more reasonable size burger would be more like a 33% reduction. That's hardly "penny" territory.

> Pretentious? When? Where? You're the one posturing and resorting to ad hominem.

Your entire original response was nothing but smug pretensious drivel. You just take it on faith that your choices are superior despite the fact that "appeals to authority" in these matters SHIFT on a frequent basis.

Being thin may not be healthy.

However, being so fat that you no longer have a human shape certainly is unhealthy. The carb-centric mentality is a problem for many people and has done them nothing but harm.

On the other hand, the previous model more or less advocated moderation and balance. It was not broken and didn't need fixed.

We need to avoid the bogus political propaganda from vegan busybodies.

What health problems? My health is probably better than yours.

An omnivorous diet doesn't have to be an unhealthy one. Being opportunitistic scavengers by nature just means that we take the most advantage of what we have available.

Despite what someone might have told you, you aren't a bovine.

Although being pretentious about what you eat only solves one subset of the overall problem.

This sounds suspiciously like the USDA food pyramid. That would be the thing that we have already tried with disasterous results.

You can if it's out of place given the screed in question.

Being a "spelling Nazi" probably wasn't the original point.

You're kind of going out of your way to avoid the point.

I've never felt compelled to bother with such a setup. I have a rather large monitor. Dunno if I have room for another one like it. On the other hand, the whole "virtual workspace" thing seems to already accomplish a lot of what other people use multiple monitors for.

Perhaps someday when I am REALLY bored I will buy a couple of cards high end enough for this to matter and horse race both operating systems.

This isn't about rules used by the population at large but habits of a particular sub-culture.

> jedidiah = unemployed lamer who trolls all day long

Yes. I spend all day "watching TV" on ION kit that according to Google shouldn't work nearly as well as it does.

Idiot or liar? I like your thinking.

Now the way I approach things is to actually try and figure out what works best for a task. I might even ASK the kinds of people that already do something for their advice. I might even FOLLOW that advice.

There IS a Linux happy path. There's also a Linux un-happy path.

Avoiding the un-happy path is really not that hard if you're not just a troll.

> Every linux distro has a different driver with a different level of support for the specific revision of the specific card a user has.

You mean like anyone with a Windows box?

Linux distributions are just collections of upstream projects. That includes the kernel, the user land, and anything else.

Someone comparable to myself either has some version of the kernel or the Nvidia blob drivers. That's the official driver from the hardware vendor. I might have a different version than someone else, but that has nothing to do with whether I'm running Gentoo or Arch or Slackware.

EVERY ONE can have a different version of the official driver.

It's no different from Windows in this regard.

Every PC is going to be a random collection of software components that some 3rd party has no control over. Every user is free to do things that will scramble the mix.