Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast
So you’re a normie who charge thay phone, eat hot chip and lie.
It becomes an issue when you’re in the habit of such poweruser tasks as plugging an external display or external graphics card into a laptop or dealing with bulk file transfers.
Stirrup jeans are a thing.
I don’t think we even need to go that far. They were almost constantly making those direct to VHS movies and such they churned out in huge numbers, and I don’t think it was easy on them. I’m convinced they were overworked as children.
It narrows it down to a delivery truck at least.
On a human, we have shoulders, upper back, middle back, lower back and ass. On a cow, these are called Chuck, Rib, Top Loin, Loin and Round.
Both critters have muscles that run parallel to the spine. Ribeyes come from the rib primal, and are more tender and have a richer more buttery flavor. Go assward past the top loin primal where T-bones come from and you arrive at the Loin primal where we get among other things sirloin steaks, which compared to ribeyes are chewier but bring a more meaty, beefy flavor.
So yeah if “not a car guy” you might bounce off of the first couple of seasons. Here’s a sample from the shenanigan era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf7q8lWEd-o
Is it worth it? I think so, I enjoyed it. Does it hold up? Complicated question.
The Clarkson-Hammond-May show ran for a couple decades and went through three major phases: journalism, shenanigan and adventure.
In earlier seasons they were more of a typical car show, they did more journalism relevant to the average driver…in early 2000s Britain. Top Gear isn’t looked back on fondly for Richard Hammond reporting on viewer polls for new car reliability in 2002. They still made an entertaining show, the cool wall and things like that are entertaining, but I would start you out with later episodes and let you watch these later if you like it. Series staples like taking sports cars for a fast lap around their track to compare their times, and doing celebrity interviews complete with a racing lap around the same track in a compact car, the “Star In A Reasonably Priced Car” segment, begin here.
5 or 6 years in they started the shenanigan era, which is probably what peopel mean when they say “This reminds me of Top Gear.” They’d buy three used cars and go do ridiculous things, like turn them into camper vans, or outfit them for racing, or make sports cars into ambulances. In the words of Richard Hammond, “What this was, was fun. And I think we’re quite good at fun.” If I can point to an episode to introduce new viewers to the series, it’d be the British Leyland challenge episode. The show really starts to shine in this era; the three hosts have great chemistry together and the shenanigans give them more opportunity to play off one another.
That gradually transitioned into the adventure era, as “three guys drive some old cars to the other side of London” becomes racing Veyron against a Cessna 182 across the length of Europe, or driving three old four-by-fours across South America or three ordinary RWD cars across Botswana. The show gradually abandoned the studio segments and became just, the three guys go somewhere in the world and drive some cars in interesting or spectacular locations. There’s great stuff here, their Botswana trip is amazing, their Korea trip is amazing, their Nile trip is wonderful, their North Pole trip is NUTS. But I’d watch earlier cheap car challenge episodes first.
After about a decade on Mint I ended up on Fedora.
Tonoight:
James trips over a phone cord, “Oh cock!”
Hammond says the word ‘egalitarian’ “Egalitarian.”
and I hit a man with a shovel. PANG “oof!” “Sorry.”
“Somehow” he owns the only PC video game store that matters.
Reminds me of a joke, A Texan and a Carolinian rancher meet in a bar. The Texan says “Yessir, it takes me two days to drive my pickup truck across my ranch.” The Carolinian says “Yeah I had a truck like that, but I got it fixed.”
I live in Suburban North Carolina, I haven’t locked my house in years.
No, in a world full of legitimate evil this is merely bullshit.
Which is why I said “or endorsed by”. Fedora’s Discover points to their own .rpm repo, their own flatpak repo, and Flathub. Including Flathub out of the box says “We the distro maintainers trust Flathub.”
I look at it this way: The repository is hosted by, or endorsed by, the developers of the distro. If you don’t trust their software repository, why would you trust the distro itself?
(I was referencing the stalkerish lyrics of I’ll Be Watching You by The Police)
I live in the American Southeast. We generally turn on the air conditioning.