Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome

On 1 May 2025 17:04:24 GMT, vallor wrote:

We are pretty smart, though -- the envy of the rest of the U.S.
Maybe that's why they tell so many stories about us.

Nah, you're just weird :) I grew up in upstate NY and as a kid I remember
being puzzled by TV shows originating in CA. There was one that made in
jokes about Knott's Berry Farm. WTF? I finally made it there in the '90s.
It was fun. Tacos? Even in the '70s I remember going into a bar near the
Kittery ME Naval Yard that had tacos on the menu. It came in a soup bowl
with the shell on the bottom and the usual stuff piled on it, served with
a spoon. It's like they read a recipe with the ingredients but didn't
really know what to do with them.

Summer of Love?  I made it to Haight Ashbury about 20 years to late when I
had to make an appearance at the Semicon show and had time to play
tourist. That was the first time I was in CA. Interesting, but I thought
the famed SF sweater weather was just a cold, foggy day on the Maine coast
with a hell of a PR campaign.

Even the car culture was unique to California. We raced on short dirt
tracks. You might race from stop light to stop light but drag racing as a
spectator sport wasn't a thing. Mostly nobody had enough money to get into
custom cars. The exception was if you needed a pickup and had an old sedan
and a cutting torch.

No, not envy. I've had many enjoyable experiences in CA and some not so
enjoyable. (Don't stay at a motel in Coalinga if the wind is blowing the
wrong way), but I've never wanted to live there. My brother liked it when
he moved from Ogden to Lompoc but Lompoc isn't really typical CA like
Santa Barbara down the road.