toynbee

What's Molly in this context?

I misread it as "a garage on every street" and didn't get it at all. On a reread it makes much more sense.

You should probably give your kids at least one room rather than rolling them up in a box.

Not about this problem in particular, but when faced with dangerous and/or aggressive drivers, my mother always said "get out of their way and let them have their accident somewhere else."

Awesome answer. Thank you for taking the time. I've enjoyed getting to know this part of your story.

You sound like someone with whom I'd get along well. My Linux origin story isn't terribly dissimilar to your BSD one; I hosted a file server on a Windows server when I went to college. I met another, somewhat older as I went to college early, nerd there and he recommended replacing my Windows server with Linux. I don't recall if he gave me the install disk. I think my first Linux system was Red Hat before they became Enterprise and my friend was right - it worked better than a Windows server. I tried to convert all of my systems to Linux at that point, but I still lived with my parents and they paid for AOL for Internet, which (so far as I could tell at the time) had no Linux compatibility. Also, I gamed a lot and back then there was nothing like proton or even (so far as I knew) WINE.

I had to look up what Tumbleweed was after reading your post. I haven't used any form of SUSE for years and years. I use mostly Fedora for my workstations or CentOS/Alma/Rocky for my servers because I was an RHCE for a while (now expired, I think) and was most comfortable in that ecosystem.

My kid has never touched Windows AFAIK; the only Windows system in my network is my wife's work computer (and one VM I setup while experimenting with something, but that's gone now). The kid has two tablets and a laptop I put Linux on, but they're too young to really care about anything but YouTube on those systems. I'll get 'em yet, though!

What got you on SUSE?

It's an interesting question.

After thinking over it briefly, I believe I'd like to die when I'm ready to die. I can't declare in advance when that would be age- or time-wise and I can't even necessarily define the conditions that would make me feel ready, as I've never yet felt ready to die.

Right now, I have a little kid and a decent quality of life. I don't want to die until my kid can be on their own and I don't think I'd want to live after my quality of life declined past a certain point though, again, I can't say yet what that point would be.

I'm sorry, I know this is an unsatisfactory answer, but it's the best I have at the moment. I'll try to pontificate on the matter and get back to you if I come up with anything better.

such as broken or even lost limbs

When I broke my ankle, I thoroughly shattered it then tried to set it myself and stand - twice - before realizing it was broken. Point being, it was in bad shape. After realizing what had happened, I called my wife who came out to help me while waiting for the EMT's.

I remember her at one point, in a very comforting manner, saying "It's hard to believe you can even recover from this kind of injury."

(To be fair, I guess she was the best kind of correct. It still plagues me to this day.)

I disagree with this statement. My kid, age five, has not asked this about money; but they have asked about, for example, characters on a screen. If you're asserting that they wouldn't ask because it's something they've physically touched, I see your point, but my kid has (when much younger) asked similar things about, for example, figurines they've held.

I will say, for my kid in particular, that it's more likely they would ask questions like "what does a dollar mean" or "does someone make decisions about the money" or even "what is money," but the "real or pretend" question is plausible IMHO.

I was a sysadmin, now I'm nominally devops. I haven't done real development for probably 21 years, so I didn't interact with SO's or DLL's much. (I actually did know what DLL means, but I have no clue why. Thanks though!)

I didn't use pure BSD until I was eighteen - I think I used Macs a time or two before then. In fact, I'm pretty sure the first time I used BSD was installing it on an iMac I bought off of Craigslist and I did so to experiment with its firewall functionality. What did you do with it as a kid?

I've been using Linux for longer than I've been an adult, I've worked in the field for around fifteen years, and TIL what .so means. Thanks!

I don't want to die, but living forever sounds exhausting.