Naw, we just buy ones where the lattice is diagonal.

In other words, we install X Windows.

It has one. It’s called evil-mode.

Bah, I was mostly just tired from the long day.

It’s just one letter away from “wang”…

Funny choice as marijuana was never Alice’s drug of choice (and he’s been sober nearly 40 years now).

I don’t believe so - the docs mention several ways to boot a pi but most only work for newer models.

An option might be to boot an SD card read-only and run everything over NFS. It’s trivial to do that sort of thing with some UNIX clones (OpenBSD, for instance), but I don’t know about a modern Linux.

Yeah, everyone tells me that, but I just can’t bring myself to care. Then again I watch maybe one movie a year, so I’m sure part of my disinterest in Episode 3 is my general disinterest in movies.

It was episode 2 for me. Everything was just horrible about that movie. Acting, plot, everything. I never watched 3.

It’s not a thing.

Granted, there are things in this world that aren’t chemicals. Muons, stuff at the LHC, plasma… But everything that a normal person interacts with is a chemical.

Or make your own, like the tankie mod is doing.

It might be too outdated to do major services, but it’s still fine for its original use - interfacing with electronic components.

You could build a weather station, monitor temperature and humidity in your attic and crawlspace, automatically water plants, etc. You don’t need much electronics knowledge for that sort of thing.

Guess I’ll keep pouring lead additive into my '65 Galaxie, then. Woo! 10 miles per gallon!

Requisite xkcd

Ah, that’s right. Damn, that’s half the social scene there.

We work on the fuel farm. It’s up for a major overhaul in a couple years.

Back when I was a kid you would fight over the vice-grips you used to turn the shaft where the missing channel knob was supposed to be. The vice grips doubling as a makeshift cosh was integral to the conflict.

Yeah. Grandfathers aren’t supposed to hug their grandkids, after all.

Oh, holy shit. They normally leave the foundation vents open on the buildings in the winter and close them in the spring to make sure the permafrost stays frozen.

One of my coworkers (who loves going to Thule) is a major climate change denier. Wonder how he’ll spin that when we go back in a couple years.

“The tow” isn’t ringing bells - what’s that again?

Maybe at the south pole. There’s little to no snow around where I was in northern Greenland. It gets above freezing up there during the summer and it almost never snows, so what accumulation you do get is actually from snow being blown off the ice cap rather than down from the sky. So it takes a while to build back up in the winter.

What do you mean? The Trump fans tell me all the time that he’s banging his granddaughter.

(/s for the oblivious)

Yep.