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Nope, haha. OpenSuse is old.

This is an amazing graph. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

OpenSuse comes from Suse which comes from Jurix and Slackware. There's a dotted line from Redhat, because of the use of the RPM format, but that is as far as their interbred. Many people consider it one of the OG distros.

Arch sprang from the aether later, but one could argue it owes Gentoo for its concept (also a dotted line there).

Debian is an OG. It, Redhat, and Suse are approximately the same age.

Slackware on the other hand just keeps going.

Yeah, accuracy is hugely improved. However the POV shots feel like biplane gun footage. Like this stuff: https://youtu.be/dwrIf_5gEEM?t=354

gramie already mostly answered in line with what I'd say: there is an alt-right political shift there, where the lunatics are running the asylum and we keep expecting for sanity to re-emerge. Every country has a pocket like this somewhere. Most people in Calgary are perfectly nice, in the same way that most people in Omaha are perfectly nice, until a trans person is on TV.

Strategy favourite: EU4, before mission trees were added (too railroaded now). Yes computer game. It's asymmetric, meaning you can choose to start in stronger or weaker positions.

Honourable mention: Go, chess, or other games with one page rules and emergent complexity.

Strategy bleh: any of the modern points based board games that take longer to read the manual than play the game. Catan is the only one I tolerate here, as it has enough people that know the rules that you don't need to reread it for everyone's benefit every time. If the game needs a GM to handle the rules, you cannot know enough about the rules to form a strategy while only playing it rarely.

Chance: Cribbage, in two player version. Well, admittedly you can still outplay the other player. But to outplay them, you need a fast and intuitive grasp of statistics. Selecting the cards for the crib is the biggest strategic advantage here, and it's more of a weighted odds thing.

Chance bleh: Blackjack. You have no way to affect the outcome. There is a right way to play (over a large enough number of hands), and that is it.

Hybrid: soft spot for Texas Hold 'em. It's a good hybrid of chance, strategy, and straight up social skills. No other game seems to rely as much on reading people, and you can do this right or wrong in dramatic fashion.

Lastly: D&D is the best of everything. The rules are long, but the DM looks after details (or you can wing it and no is grabbing the book to check). It has the reach of Catan, meaning you aren't learning new rules at every table. There are social elements, chance elements, tactical elements.

There are a lot of people who are bad at business.

A $40 paper flower, and a $2000/mo lease. Assuming you are sole proprietor and have zero employees, and need an additional $2000/mo to live a meagre existence (food, apartment, etc.) and it takes you 15 minutes to fold each flower.

Minimum revenue to stay afloat, 800 flowers per month. You'd need to fold for 200 hours, or approximately a 40 hour week of folding. That leaves zero time to do any marketing. So you're relying entirely on foot traffic, or you're marketing as overtime.

To reach 800 sales per month with something so trivial, you'd property require a reach of at least 20,000 customer touch points per month, each who has the time to chat about paper flowers, because your conversion rate is going to be shit. If it's passive reach, you might need to get an ad in front of half a million per month. You'd need to be a tiktok celeb or something to get this reach without adding expensive ads. And that's a fucking gamble and a half.

There's no way this model works. And the fact that someone tried it isn't something to celebrate. They possibly poured their life savings into the drain, went bankrupt, and hopefully concluded they were bad at business.

If you want to sell paper flowers, do it as a side gig from you home. Or make them so luxurious that you can sell them at $1000 each, and rich people buy them as wedding presents -- then you only need to sell four per month and can spend the rest of the time marketing.

Sometimes this war feels to WW1

The first mistake was shopping hungry. Those groceries are: a box of ice cream sandwiches, 24 cans of root beer, and a bag of beef jerky -- teriyaki style.

My party artificer, making a sheering kit...

Nice kitties

Aha, "just south of me", I say from a thousand miles away.

If you're a mountains person, yeah BC is the place to be. But it's also same-same as what you can see in a lot of places in the US in the mountains. Like, you won't tell the difference between much of BC and much of Washington.

If you've got the time, go straight north from your location. Way way north. Go to Yellowknife, and do it in March -- it's about three days driving. You'll get there and they'll have northern lights galore, ice castles on the lake, people driving their trucks on the ice to their houseboats that have just frozen into the ice for the season...

Or go in summer and go fishing there. The lake is 600m (1900ft) deep... Trout like tuna.

Unsolicited advice ends ;)

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