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  • Cobain died in April 1994.

    The first Slackware Linux release was in July 1993. Debian Linux¹ 0.9 came out in January 1994; SuSE Linux launched in March 1994.

    So yes, Kurt could have used Linux.

    But he probably would have had to install it from floppies.


    ¹ It wasn't called Debian GNU/Linux until later; see the 1994 revision of the Debian Linux Manifesto.

  • Nope. The brown of shit is dead blood cells filtered out by the liver. Those are a potent source of Death energy, and so are drawn up into the new vampire's body as part of the conversion process. What's left in the new vampire's colon is a nearly odorless, dusty gray substance — emptied of both Life and Death energy — that is typically farted out during the vampire's first few feedings.

  • Case in point, Microsoft's water use shot up from 6.4 million cubic meters in 2022 to 7.8 in 2023, in large part due to the "construction of more data centers."

    By way of comparison, the California almond industry uses 3.5 billion cubic meters of water per year. Describing datacenters as using "astronomical amounts of water" is a plain and simple lie.

    Moreover, datacenters can be cooled with water that's not suitable for most other uses. Google's Finland datacenter is cooled with seawater, for example.

  • Smoking in public also became rare, and generally people started smelling better without the need for fragrances.

    This has got to be a big part of it in two different ways: smokers wanting to cover their own stink, but also smokers having reduced sense of smell!

  • I watched this happen in a research institution in the early 2000s. Scientists who had been heavy SGI, Sun, or HP customers realized that they could get a lot more bang for their buck with beige-box PCs running Linux (or occasionally FreeBSD). Aside from up-front costs, hardware upgrades and replacements were much cheaper and easier to get for PCs.

    The big Unix vendors did not help their reputation when they started selling Windows machines — which all of them except Sun did in that era. It became increasingly clear that commercial Unix for scientific computing no longer had a future.

    • The compiler hates you
    • The compiler sees nothing wrong with your code and is just giving error messages to look busy
    • The compiler was written by a maniac with a semicolon fixation
    • The compiler could optimize your code, but it's just not feeling it today
    • The compiler wonders why you can't match braces right like your brother does
    • The compiler had a torrid affair with a Perl interpreter in 2006
    • The compiler likes big butts and cannot lie
    • The compiler wants to grow up to be an IDE but hasn't told its parents they need to send it to GUI school yet
    • The compiler reads Nazis on Twitter but only to make fun of them
    • The compiler works for the Servants of Cthulhu