I learned this on cracked.com! I don’t remember how long ago it was, but I wonder if they had a similar source.

For the immediate future, I will assume that “Chihuahua Taco” is a grammatically correct Spanish sentence.

Talk to that guy who recently posted about being exposed to Taco Bell for the first time.

Just because I’ve owned two Chihuahuas in my life doesn’t mean I approve of the franchise!

edit: Also, I don’t actually speak (or read or write) Spanish, so this is the only comment to which I can usefully respond. I have no actual ire toward you.

Everyone should have responded in Spanish.

You must wait to find out.

When my toddler was much younger, they would take a bath in warm water, then get out in my well air conditioned house, shivering violently and happily declining any attempt to warm them up. We would always end up warming them up in the end, of course.

Nowadays they’re a bit older and will seek out the biggest pile of blankets they can find at any opportunity.

What about flying a kite in the dark?

And depending on the size of your lot, maybe you could use a reel mower. They’re nearly silent!

You could also use a scythe, but that sounds like a lot more work.

It sounds like you already have this problem solved, but just in case:

Back when I still used Windows, the workaround was just to make sure you didn’t have a network connection when installing the OS. This could be done by unplugging the NIC during install on a physical system or by deleting the NIC in a VM (or other ways, obviously, but these were the simplest). It still took some convincing, but then you could make your username whatever you wanted.

I don’t know if that still works - it’s been years - but if you still use Windows and still have that problem, this might be worth a try.

edit: program -> problem

Two things coming together finalized my choice to leave Windows:

• the ability to play almost every game on Linux thanks to Valve
• the fact that you couldn’t create a local account during a Windows install (back when I discovered this you still technically could with some workarounds; I don’t know if you still can but you shouldn’t have to put in any effort IMHO)

It’s entirely plausible that this is the case for your wife’s family and others, but it’s hard for me to imagine a household without at least one non mobile computer. However, I can.

Without non mobile internet, though? Again, I can imagine it … But it seems wrong.

It shouldn’t be so hard; I was around before the internet was prevalent. My life now involves constant internet access, though, so I guess it’s weird to me that some people have lives that don’t - and especially that that might be the average.

One must always remember the words of George Carlin, I suppose.

Is that really the average user? Especially not having internet service at home? I can reluctantly but relatively easily believe the “no computer” bit but, average or not, I don’t think I know anyone without some kind of non-mobile Internet.

My 2014 Ford Flex was the same way, except that they didn’t contact me.

The car with which I replaced the Flex doesn’t have onboard navigation, instead relying on Android Auto. I was pleased about this, thinking at least it wouldn’t track where I was going … Until I opened the app and saw it could still report its location independently. At that point it seems like there might as well at least be an option for onboard navigation.

Is that a machine that scrubs robots or a robot that scrubs?

Well… Good to know, I suppose. Thanks for the information!

I was under the impression that they were the same thing. (It might surprise you that I have never done any illegal drugs.)

All of these, so far as I know, either are or evolved from Unix tools.

zsh is short for “z shell.” A shell is a way to interact with a system via text - a command line interface. There are many including sh (shell), bash (Bourne again shell), fish (no idea what it stands for if anything) and others. I pronounce “zsh” as “zee shell.”

ssh is short for “secure shell,” a way to access systems remotely that replaced unencrypted remote access methods (hence “secure”). I pronounce this as “ess ess aitch.” The last symbol you used looks like a calculus symbol to me.

sudo, depending on whom you ask, could stand for one of a few things; it was preceded by a command called “su” which stood for “super user” or “switch user” because it allowed you to imitate a user other than your own (super user being a user who has few or no permissions restrictions on a system). “sudo” is generally considered to be short for “su do” (whatever you consider “su” to mean) (ie, switch user and do or become super user and do)… I pronounce this one as “pseudo” but I didn’t know what it meant when I first learned it. If I had, it’s not impossible that I would pronounce it differently.

Caveat: I’m an experienced Linux user, but not an expert. All of the above is generally accurate but I suspect there are many lemmy users who would contest the details.

Hope this information helps!

edit: forgot that it was “fish,” not “Phish.”

Sober is not a way to play this, IMHO.

Part of the reason I got hired at my current job was because I solved their coding challenge in bash (which was my strongest scripting language at the time, many years ago).

My solution was definitely not 26,000 lines, though.

edit: closing -> coding

Believe that’s the point.

The problem is that testers are competent, often intelligent individuals. Users, not so much.