Old machine learning joke I used to enjoy cracking at work:

When an algorithm randomly changes things over and over and hopes it works better it's "machine learning" but when I do it it's "horribly inefficient"

Nah, they stated,

FYI: vasectomies don’t “go great” as a “simple procedure”

with no further qualifications. That's misinformation. Many people have smooth and complication-free vasectomies; it's been a routine procedure for decades. Of course there are those who have unpleasant and complicated results, but that's not what they said. They just made the blanket statement that the procedures "don't go great". Perhaps they meant the procedures "can go poorly", but that isn't what they said.

Probably "The Core" (2003). I saw it in science class in 8th grade and immediately thought it was the coolest movie ever. Years later, I saw people online ripping it to shreds over its inaccuracies, but I still enjoyed it for being a fun disaster film with an enjoyable ensemble cast of characters.

I took one typing class in 8th grade and became faster than 99% of typists. Can sustain about 145wpm for a typical paragraph of text, but can burst up to 200wpm for shorter, simple bits of text.

Not a particularly marketable superpower in this day and age, but is a fun flex once in a while at the office.

I cannot, in good conscience, begrudge any family who illegally enters a country when they are fleeing violence or poverty in their own country (e.g.: they are from a country that is effectively run by drug cartels, or is in the midst of civil war).

"You need to fill out the appropriate paperwork before your family can be safe" is not an argument that will ever sway me. The bureaucracy takes too long in the vast majority of cases. People are scared and want a better life.

Some people illegally immigrate for less serious reasons, in which case sure, get 'em to fill out the proper forms. But I cannot support deporting people whose entire reason to illegally immigrate was for their safety and/or livelihood.

And please note that this position is wholly a moral one, not a legal one. I am a person with a moral compass, not a lawyer.

Adding on to this, I'll say the term is likely used less now because, for the reasons you mentioned, the common person actually aspires to get famous for the specific purpose of selling out and making a big payday to escape the hellscape of everyday wage-slavery.

But then there are also "sell outs" that are totally situational. For example, a content creator (who I won't name because that's not the point) who's an OG that's been around for over 20 years now, constantly putting out content, never had sponsors until a few years ago. Initially I was annoyed at suddenly seeing "Sponsored by NordVPN!" and "Sponsored by RAID Shadow Legends!" in every video, but then I learned he'd had a child with his wife. And his child had a bad birth defect that required a lot of expensive surgeries.

After that, I was like, "Get that paycheck, my guy." It's hard out there.

Had me in the first half lmao

I found almond milk to be a great substitute a couple of years ago when I was dieting. Particularly the 'unsweetened, vanilla' variety from Almond Breeze.

As an added bonus, it also has a much longer shelf life than regular milk.

In terms of design, I find Lemmy to be basically a 1:1 replacement for Reddit. It's a link aggregator with communities, comments, and voting.

I like it a lot, even though the communities are smaller and there's less content. It's just a nicer communal experience for me compared to Reddit. I feel more pressure to actually comment since the communities are smaller and every little bit helps, lol.

Relevant to this idea, I use these apps to let me know when things like the International Space Station, meteor showers, aurorae, etc are visible overhead:

https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/

Would be neat if there were one unified app to track them all and send notifications

how can Linux be a moderated product to sell for desktop

It kinda depends on each individuals' use case; there's lots of different Linux distributions that are better (or worse) for specific workloads.

Any given laptop I'm staring at in a store will probably work perfectly fine as a general-use machine with Linux Mint installed. This is my go-to distro when repurposing a machine because it works great out of the box. If I were running a computer store and wanted to sell consumer laptops with Linux on them, I'd default to Mint.

If someone is looking to turn their PC into something more specialized for gaming, they can look at something like Bazzite or Batocera. These will generally require some tinkering.

If an individual or company is looking to build an office with many workstations and user accounts, they might consider Red Hat Enterprise Linux so they can benefit from official support channels if something needs troubleshooting. Many computer labs at NCSU used RHEL when I attended many years ago.

Want a stable server environment? Debian is a standard pick.

Want a barebones system with no bells and whistles (but great battery life)? Alpine oughta work.

So Linux has many options for end users to pick from, which can be seen as a good thing (more options is generally good), but also a bad thing (many end users might consider the plethora of options to be overwhelming if they've never used Linux before).

Linux (or is called unix?)

Linux (Or GNU/Linux) operating systems are a modern implementation of an old research OS that was called "Unix". Spiritual successors to Unix like Linux and BSD try to bring a lot of the design philosophies of Unix into modern OSes (I believe this is generally called the "POSIX" standard. e.g.: macOS is a POSIX compliant OS, iirc).

If I've gotten any of this information incorrect, please don't tell Richard Stallman.

I'm all for taking precautions, but it seems a bit odd for them to conclude that the weather was "too dangerous" for performers, but not "too dangerous" for hundreds of fans to congregate to see the show. Seems like they would've cancelled the show entirely if the weather seemed hazardous enough. But I'm no expert. (I have no issues with lipsyncing or pre-recording vocals either; that's just showbiz)

I saw Weird Al live about 8 years ago and a huge storm rolled in about halfway through the show. They told everyone to head home and that the show was over, and they were right to do so; the drive back home was perilous with zero visibility for long stretches due to the heavy rain.