I've been running Linux as my only computer OS for probably ten years, and have been very happy overall with the tech and how to use it. Dealing with the community is sometimes a litttle challenging; many people find there are many gatekeepers, many opinions and yes, still many holy wars. One is the title reference, that "it's not 'Linux', it's GNU-Linux!" Frankly I see this as off-putting to many, potentially a barrier to adoption; yes, there can be some toxicity within the communities.

Okay, we all get the point. Without gcc and the GNU toolchain, there might not ever have been a Linux kernel. But to be complete, if you're talking about Linux on the desktop then in his day and age you're almost certainly also using systemd for managing daemons and services, and either X window or Wayland for controlling the graphics. So to be complete, are we to call "Linux" by the full name "GNU systemd X Linux"?

If I'm in a conversation about computing and someone

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science fiction film with an AI theme.

"I wonder if it's mere coincidence that the title is a Spoonerism of 'semen Deed""
—wertperch

This is the first AI-related film I can recall seeing, ad it deals with both the human hopes for and fear of, artificial intelligence. Hope because soon after being witched on, it develops a cure for leukemia, and fear, because it realises that humanity is failing and

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I am home from the hospital! I had a heart attack on 31 October, so I spent my Halloween early evening in the ER in Davis before getting moved to Sacramento for observation and treatment. By the sixth they had confirmed evidence of a significant heart attack and determined that I had an almost complete blockage of one of the arteries that feeds the heart muscle. One scan later and they'd confirmed that a stent was not possible, but that they must graft on a new piece of vascular tissue to

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