not a good look

I was on it before then, must have been hallucinating when I was using gopher and email.

One obnoxious way to get the older version is to install an older LTS of Mint into a virtual machine and then go manually get all the bits that are Thunderbird and copy them to your new system. The hard part is making sure you have all the bits, but I don't remember how I did that.

Unfortunately, the Mint installation essentially copies a complete installation to your system, so there are no .debs of the installed packages. But I've wondered if some other distribution might install all the applications from .deb or .rpm files.

Most A.I. junk videos are easy to spot handily.. and if you don't manage to notice, just go to the comments. There'll be someone calling it out for being fake.

A lot of companies in the world are actually European, but few people are aware. You mention SAP, which is actually German. Important pharmaceutic
al companies are officially US, but most of the work is done in Europe (remember the Covid vaccines?). Belgium has a huge chemical industry, which is all owned by US companies. Etc etc.

I'd rather live and work in the countries that make stuff and innovate than in the ones that have the stock market bling bling. Us Europeans will just survive and thrive, do our own thing and prosper. The US can have all the homeless people it wants.

Bullshit. You can ask for a $100 (or whatever) bond that you lose if you send spam. It's just another way to force people to go to your (even more crap) enshittified platform so you can show the market your "business model" is the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel.

I've been in a movie theatre maybe twice in the past decade. Spending (god knows how much now) on tickets, only to have to watch thirty minutes of adverts before the actual movie starts, and not having any control of what rude people show up to the theatre fiddling with their cell phones the whole time is no longer fun. After 9/11 and the endless wars and corruption that came from it, both movies and TV became a lot darker. I miss the days when the only actual presidential scandal was a blow job. Things were much lighter then. Hollywood should not get all the blame for it. Society changed. America is the only place where a show like "Breaking Bad" could make sense. Nowhere else are people losing their life savings over medical debt. No wonder we lost our sense of humor.

Only if the tampering has any relationship to the accident IIRC. Like if you ignored right-of-way at normal speeds.

> you now have to upgrade$$ your membership to 'gold star' or 'executive'

you're historically backwards.

the business membership is the base membership. they added the less expensive membership, but held back some hours for the business folks to partially placate them.

the business members' purchases are what keep the place going; the cheap membership is just a bit of gravy.

>if you ignore that number of animals they have that want to kill you.

so you're saying that the solution is to import hostile wildlife from Australia? :_)

hawks

That doesn't stop me for Pining for them, though.

We've long been accustomed to France surrendering to Germans, spear throwing tribesmen, and the occasional Boy Scout troupe.

But, really, come on now. Surrendering to jellyfish is a new low . . .

hawk

>But what if I want to drive from New York to Las Vegas all in one
>go on a Coke fueled journey of self-discovery and action?

If you're going straight to the tables from that, we'll happily comp the room for when you crash, along with more drinks and meal! :)

>It's been on my desktop since 1997.

which is the year I took it *off* my primary desktop, iirc!

At that point, FreeBSD supported my hardware.

Linux still ended up on some laptops when I was in a hurry.

I couldn't tell you whether either FreeBSD or Linux can play nicely with the other's filesystem, though--back then they both did enough intermittent damages to the other's filesystem that I had do uses a DOS partition to share between them.

This led to my having to ask for a replacement windows CD from the university. It's not like I used it more than a time or two ago. year, being on FreeBSD, but sometimes it was needed for some screwball stuff.

I'd looked high and low before giving up and asking. It isn't a big deal, as the university had a master licensee, but still.

And then, a few months later, I found it.

My fire had put it into coaster duty!

Err, why?

"well you said . . ."

[eyeroll]

the tech guy and I got a good laugh out of it, though.