Look, we've all been there

That sounds like a really bad idea to me. Over here the voting machines are completely offline and don't have a hard drive. It prints out a small receipt with your vote in human readable form and as a QR code, which you drop in an electronic ballot box. As a software engineer, this feels like the only safe voting machine.

Yeah, I think it's a good idea to try ffplay if VLC (or mpv) fail.

but I’m impressed with how nice IDM and metal plays on them

Industrial Doom Metal?

Ire-inducing Depeche Mode?

Irish Derpy Music?

Instructional Defense Material?

The cool thing with Gentoo is that you can just decide one day to switch to systemd and it's about as easy as changing your profile and updating your system (and maybe recompiling your kernel)

Every systemd-based distro should look like that indeed

Our software is officially supported on Windows and Linux. For some reason our chief product uses a Mac, so we support that unofficially. It can be quite a hassle to keep our code compatible on those platforms and Build Bot often gets angry when I open a pull request, but boy is it nice to be able to use whatever OS I like for development!

While Brexit definitely didn't help, the UK entry was objectively really bad that year.

O, I see. I guess that makes it even more important to support your local baker/butcher/..., if you've still got one. But yeah, that's a shitty situation.

Electromagnetism and gravity are both mediated by massless bosons; photons and gravitons respectively. This is why both forces follow the inverse square law.

NoScript makes it fairly easy to pick and choose what scripts to run, although it'd probably not be granular enough for YouTube's adblockblock.

Hey, but I managed to write software to calibrate µCT-scanners! That is clearly way more inspiring than all this fictional stuff. Right! Right. Right?