I’m able to fall asleep during an MRI scan.

Let’s not be hasty.

Surely free-range, organic, gluten-free sand would be the bestest source material ever.

You just reminded me. My dad used to say “Don’t take any wooden nickels!” Had to get him to explain this, the first time he said it to me.

Just waiting for a mate

Wild. I wouldn’t have made it there without the help from helpful folks like yourself.

When I searched DDG in “saloon” just now, the extracted summary was this:

A place where alcoholic drinks are sold and drunk; a tavern. A large room or hall for receptions, public entertainment, or exhibitions. The officers’ dining and social room on a cargo ship.

When I searched on “regular saloon” I get this as the first hit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_(automobile)

I wouldn’t have thought to search on “saloon car” as others have suggested.

Okay that’s actually pretty cool, thanks.

Just now checked with my Kiwi wife. She’s filling me in now with examples.

A person is 11% more likely to die in a crash inside an SUV than a regular saloon.

Was “sedan” meant here and not “saloon”?

Try as I might, I can’t think of why anyone would want to compare SUV’s to a western drinking establishment of a bygone era. Although I do see how being in a saloon at the wrong time would have also come with it’s own deadly risks.

You piqued my curiosity. Has to go check into these.

Shortest one is 22"?

It might depends on the AI.

I can’t speak for Bard, but ChatGPT’s data isn’t any more recent than 2021. As it often reminds me.

Kiwi’s academic thesis put up for sale without his knowledge

Downloaded for future reference, thanks

OT, but I die a little inside when I see some writing in a book. I’m sure in this case it was probably a student wanting to highlight, but still.

Negative. This is Maya:

https://www.autodesk.com/products/maya/overview?term=1-YEAR&tab=subscription

Obligatory Bugs Bunny reaction

Yeah, I’ve dabbled with package searches and installs as you’ve described. Basically the intro to Nix.

For the importing of RPM or DEB packages, source would be great if it weren’t a commercial product :) Just going from memory, it was Maya.

I’ve been using Manjaro for the last 2 years, it I’ll admit to finding NixOS interesting.

A couple of areas I have yet researched, though:

1. Is there a UI for the package manager?

I realize that Nix is really powerful, and have even installed it and tinkered a bit with it. But it would be nice to be able to have a UI to quickly search and install packages of interest, and leave the CLI for the more nuanced package activities.

I’ve got quite a few years of experience using yum and apt. The former, about 20 years now. I use pacman mainly to do updates, and yay to install packages pacman doesn’t know about. It even in Manjaro, sometimes it’s just more convenient to use the UI package manager.

Learning my way around Nix… well, were back to the problem of infrequency. Use it once a week, and only to do the one thing, then everything else is back to googling. If there was a UI package manager to use most times, leaving the CLI for the more nuanced activities, then…

2. Is there a tool for adapting/installing RPM or DEB packages?

I’ve had occasion to install something on Manjaro which was only available as a set of RPMs (try/buy graphics software). I managed to get there eventually, thanks to Google.

I learned it long ago as “catenate”.

checks Google

Yep, seems to fit.

Reminds me of the X-windows logo