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I saw this and was like "Is OP trying to get some ragebait? That show was great!"

Agreed, I disable sleep on all laptops other than my MacBook and my work laptop which manages to drain its battery and overheat itself on my bag semi frequently.

The MB has never had negative issues with sleep.

Funny how that is only a thing when they're running a "practically a Republican" 'Democrat' and not when someone who's actually a leftist starts getting some approval.

For anyone in IT who works in multiple tenants or with multiple clients that use the same site(s), it's an absolute gamechanger

It might help to know that Mark Twain was satirically using that word to juxtapose its offensive nature with Jim being the ONLY good adult in the book. It wasn't simply "a product of it's time" or anything like that.

I'm not saying to belt it out loud and proud while reading the book, but at the very least Mark Twain was being deliberate on his usage of it and it wasn't to be malicious and was in fact to highlight the humanity of Jim in the face of his oppression. Some will say that Twain fumbled on his execution by making Jim a characature of stereotypes, but, at least it was just mindless racism, for what that's worth.

ETA: To actually answer your question though "n-word" gives all the context you need, no need to say the word, it's history is strong enough to be fully conveyed by "n-word" in almost all contexts when being spoken by a white person especially.

Agreed & my problem with "least bad candidate" or "blue no matter who" is that someone like Trump is the inevitable outcome when that's the only thing they're running on. Many of us have been voting "the lessor of two evils" for our entire adult lives and all its done is continue allow the right to get even more batshit insane and then the Dems follow right behind, just being less crazy and happily taking advantage of minorities for votes (but, look at how they actually treat Trans people when it matters, all of a sudden it "doesn't poll well" to continue treating them as people).

They just expect to get votes because "we're less shitty than the other candidate!" as if that's the only thing that matters as they continue to give in to Republican whims at the slightest sign that actual work will need to be done to oppose them (can't be too obstinate, ya know, you might offend the fascist voters you're trying to court!)

They had weeks of forewarning for Rowe vs Wade being overturned due to the leak and had NO PLAN at all to oppose them when the news dropped other than "give us some money so we can continue to do absolutely fucking nothing to fix this", no unified message, nothing'. Say what you will about Republicans, but the second women and black people started being treated like people under the law, they started thinking to the future and were determined to make sure they could roll that back no matter how long it took.

ETA: I'm not saying don't vote or both sides are exactly the same. They're not at all the same. One is clearly better than the other, but the one that's 'better' won't actually fight to keep you having rights and will only fight back just the minimum amount to keep donations rolling in from individuals while actively trying to court the rich and corporations for their donations instead and I really hate the lack of good options we have.

Conveniently, you would have already gotten the doctor and the AI's, no need to look any further! /s

VMs can also be live migrated to another server in the cluster with no downtime and backups don't need to take the VM down to do their thing. If in the future you want to move to physical hardware, you can use something like Clonezilla to back it up (not needed often, but still, something to consider).

Both have their places, but those factors are the main ones that come into play of when I want to use a VM or LXC.

No! It has a lot of things I liked in it and overall I liked the story, but for whatever reason, it just felt like a slog whenever I actually read it! No clue why, but something with it was just difficult for me to get through. Since then, I've read a couple dozen other books, I think I'll try giving it another go now that I've read through it and know I do like the story, hopefully I'll find it more enjoyable this time around or maybe I'll try it in a different format and go for an audiobook this time around and see if that helps.

I liked the novella (Livesuit) in the same universe more for some reason (I had a hard time getting into TMoG though, maybe I'll try it again)

I can see that, honestly :-D

I don't know if this will change anything, but, there was apparently a re-release of book 1 where the author re-wrote parts of it to bring it into quality standards with the rest of the books ... not sure which one you read, but, maybe it would make a difference? I got interested in it after the re-record, so, I dunno how big the differences are.

With that said, these books are around the size of The Stand by Stephen King, each, so, if you read half of it, you definitely gave it a fair shot, lol

Audiobook: The Wandering Inn, book 13 by Pirateaba ... Kind of a standard "got sent to another world" litRPG, but it's quite fun with a well developed world and Andrea Parsneau brings life to every character

eBook: The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice by Margaret Killjoy (book 3 of Danielle Caine) ... Not far in yet, but the series has been weird and good so far. A punk, queer, perpetual hitchhiker got introduced to magic by seeing a dead deer stomp a man to death and eat his heart. If that doesn't make you interested, the series probably isn't for you.