I did not. But many years ago I had a girlfriend who named mine Roy, as in Orbison. Can’t for the life of me remember why… She liked to have long talks with Roy, but he was quite deaf, had to get right up in there to hear anything…

BC and AD are separate numbering schemes- so just because there is no year 0 defined doesn’t mean you can’t extrapolate - 0 AD is the same as 1 BC, and you’ll have -1 AD which is equivalent to 2 BC and so forth…

I have a 2005 car, but I don’t burn CDs. I plug my phone into a cassette adapter.

You are misusing “intrusive thoughts” much the same way people who like a clean house misuse “OCD”. Intrusive thoughts are not something you’d be ok doing were it not for social pressures. Intrusive thoughts are things you don’t want to think about, but pop into your head anyway, like steering your car into oncoming traffic, or punching your grandma.

How do we know you’re not an AI bot?

Sorry, I’ve been eating better for my health.

Yes!

Hell if I remember so long ago, redhat was in the mix, then mandrake… I ran Gentoo for years on a server, until I got bitten by some upgrade woes, then switched to Debian, then arch, now truenas. Meanwhile on my desktop I bounced around even more… Ubuntu until the stupid wannabe metro UI, then switched to mint, which I used exclusively (as in without dual-booting windows) for a while… Meanwhile my laptop dual boots Manjaro alongside windows 11…

Mine was slackware in I think 1997?