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  • I bought a copy of Corel Linux in 2001 at a USAF base exchange because I was a broke airman and was building my first homebuilt PC and didn’t want to shell out money for Windows, and I didn’t have Internet to pirate it in the dorms (this was the days of no wifi and pay as you go Internet cafes). I thought it’d be JUST like Windows, and I could get shit done, and the differences were just like those between Mac/PC. Just a different interface.

    Boy was I wrong. It sucked balls. I didn’t pick up Linux again until Ubuntu in 2006. Now I daily drive Debian. Oh well, at least it came with an inflatable penguin.






  • You’re not going to be the only one with plans like that. There’s a few billion more of us that would like some water too. In an actual resource conflict, that water is most likely going to be secured, prioritized, and rationed by government authorities first, if some random militias or warlords don’t get to it first.

    This isn’t going to be a case of “oh I’ll just move away from the fighting and chill and keep going to work and paying taxes”. It’s going to come to you no matter where you are. Easy access to fresh water is a pretty basic foundation of an advanced, stable society.