They are slurs if people intend them as slurs. This is how language works. Many current slurs were introduced as terms used in scientific and medical contexts. 🤷

Thanks, John!

Suddenly the Hilton Burger in Reykjavík seems like a bargain

GO GET NORIEGA WHILE YOU'RE AT IT.

The mnemonic used to be HOMES. Now it can be SHAME.

Thematic.

The mnemonic used to be HOMES. Now it will be SHAME. This shit writes itself.

Yes, but is that really what you intended at the time? 😉

*poor

They didn't try to claim. They claimed.

Do you still want to criticize a 2L speaker's English grammar?

So that's what they look like inside!

Oh yes, I tried testing my Clonezilla restore on an older laptop, but after logging in, the keyboard and trackpad stopped working. I wondered if that was a hardware incompatibility problem, since the keyboard and trackpad worked fine at the greeter screen. 🤷

Indeed, I have a lot of redundancy for critical documents, including a restic backup to Blackblaze and many many git repositories. What I don't have is the "Get back to work quickly when the internal drive dies" that SuperDuper gave me on my Mac. That's the missing piece I'd like.

And, as you noticed, since I was struggling with testing the Clonezilla backup, I couldn't possibly trust it. Now, at least, I have a plan.

And yes, I have onsite backups, offsite backups, and a succession plan.

That depends on whom you ask. 🤷 And how eager are you to live in a remote community?