Thank you, now that I hear it, yeah. I forgot it was a translation that I was remembering, and thus more easily misremembering.

Edit: Though I think the first version I read was “stem” rather than “barrel”. That was probably just the translator being…flowery…though.

If he does it again I hope he uses a loudener

“Power comes from the end of a rifle” is the version that I’ve heard that comes to mind. But the point stands, it’s a metaphor, and the metaphor is about when the use of violence is acceptable, not what type of violence is used.

And I suppose pistols are rifled.

Goddammit, how do I give you Lemmy Gold?

That’s how it works.

Usually the quote is about all political power coming from the end of a rifle, but I guess this time it was a pistol.

I would guess a heavy UI, and a couple heavy apps that they don’t close.

I admittedly use xfce, which is much lighter than most, I wouldn’t want to run Gnome or KDE on this machine.

Or I suppose I think I wouldn’t; I’ve been using lightweight desktop environments for a decade or so. I just assume the like Ubuntu or whatever default is going to be slower and RAM-heavy.

Besides, they all got to where they are through hard work and perseverance, right? Surely they could just do it again

Email and GPG is always an option

The 8 gigs in my Thinkpad seem fine with Mint

We’re raking in money, why spend on R&D?

Ah, so it’s not a matter of “that’s where the gallium is”, it’s “might as well buy it from China if they’re sellin’ it”, same as the dollar store

Edit: I wouldn’t be surprised if the places in the US producing high-quality gallium are using poor-quality Chinese gallium as feedstock though.

undercover twinks

Lol

late-factorio stuff

That’s how we’re saying ‘high-tech’ now?

…fine, I dig it

Yeah, no shit. They were asking if the reason it’s a photo of the screen might be that you can’t take a screenshot of the login screen (which I have no idea the answer to)

Given the circumstances, I’d have vastly restructured the entire government using some Official Acts

Apparently you have time to have stupid arguments where you’re wrong, though.

Most of Christianity is alien to most Americans who claim they are Christian

Probably applied morphine, adrenaline, and a clotting bandage off screen. He would of course have all of those on him…because he’s Batman

Edit: Morphine, clotting bandage, adrenaline, in that order though. In case you decide to be Batman.

Welcome to the euphemism treadmill

A quick peek at dude’s posting history makes it pretty clear they’re a leftist, so.