Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

@garyackerman In high school, I was once assigned a book report on a book so boring that it put me to sleep within a page or two. "Essays on the American Frontier" or something like that.

I gave up, wrote a bullshit report, and flipped through the book to cherry-pick some quotes I could use to support my made-up points.

I got an A.

Sometimes the students can tell when the teachers haven't done the reading either.

@pseudonym The original joke about them liking music was the two of them playing "dueling mozart" on pianos, so even then it was old people music.
I got the point of the Alice Cooper joke... it just seemed very weak.

Now, granted, part of this may be that it's the pilot, and pilots are always a little weird and awkward.

Also, it should be noted that Williams' physical comedy is truly timeless. It's just the writing around that is... not great. To the point where it's super obvious any time Robin improvs a line, because those are actually funny, and even the other actors can't help but laugh.

@garyackerman A lot of times, if you call them (and wait half a dozen hours on hold), they will actually issue a credit for downtime.

It's just not worth the trouble to most people.

It's weird how comedy evolves.

I love Robin Williams, so I'm trying to watch Mork & Mindy.

But the humor is... I guess "old" is a nice way to say it.

In the pilot, one of the "jokes" that had the "audience" in stitches was the idea that two old people could enjoy playing music. That's it. A moment later the audience was dying because the old lady was able to name-check Alice Cooper.

I just don't get it.

@trendoid Okay, fine, they just get demoted to QA intern for a year.

@argv_minus_one@mstdn.party Hm. I hear that a lot, but it seems strange to me that NVIDIA has the third largest market cap in the world, largely driven by selling cards for use in crypto mining and AI, which predominantly use Linux, and square that with the claim that they're trying to screw Linux with their drivers. That's just bad business. There's got to be more to the story.

@argv_minus_one@mstdn.party Yep. Has to be, too, because of requirements for certain peripherals.

@JasonPerseus You should experience a forward slip sometime

@argv_minus_one@mstdn.party I mean, maybe, but I literally can't remember the last time something broke in the OS layer of Windows for me. Sure, a program hangs sometimes, but it almost never affects the OS, which still dutifully responds to interrupts.

Linux has a lot of positives over Windows, but stability definitely isn't one of them.

Whenever a website gets so much #Javascript that they have to start pulling in new Javascript files named things like "WebOptimizer" and "Optimizely", a CTO should be taken out back and shot.

@noflcl Huh. Maybe booting into Linux Mint reset some settings or something. Because Fedora lost my system config for mouse sensitivity... Weird.

@noflcl After three reboots of the same problem, I switched to Windows and tried opening LinuxMint.

When I went back to Fedora, the problem had mysteriously solved itself.

Still very concerning, though... Just wasted two hours on this, and I have no idea what the issue was or how it was fixed.

@DWTSquawk7600 And for those who don't know, do it from the inside-out! Otherwise you're just embedding the dirt further in.

Great, so after just one week, #Fedora seems to have bricked itself. The OS won't respond to me clicking its GUI. It won't respond to the windows key. It won't show me my apps. It just loads up and sits there.

Conclusion: #Linux is great for the 10% of the time it's not totally fucking up your day.

I don't think I've ever heard the original song about Wendy having stormy eyes and wings to fly, but damn if I don't know every single note from sitcoms in the 90s.