BromSwolligans

This is how I feel more and more. I do IT stuff for non-technical folks on the side and they're just squirming with these machines that can't upgrade to Win11. I dump Linux Mint on there, and they run like a dream, even at 10 or 11 years old. In some cases, the RAM cannot be upgraded beyond the 4 or 8GB it shipped with, and even so, they can watch streaming video, they can video conference...you know, of course, they can do office work in LibreOffice. It's a fucking joke that Microsoft is trying to lie to them—to all of us—and say their computers are no good any longer. And between the homelabbing I've been doing lately and all the machines I've been rehabbing for people, it just reminds me how much I enjoy using Linux. Even if it can be a pain in the ass. Even if it can be cryptic. It feels like honest-to-god computing in a way macOS hasn't felt like for a long time, and Windows no longer even resembles.

I use a Mac laptop because I always have, and I appreciate the convenience of the ecosystem (AirPods snapping right to the machine, iMessage letting me text from a desktop app, and so forth) but just because macOS's descent into enshittification is slower doesn't mean it's any less noticeable. I want a Framework laptop so damn bad, so I at least have the option to daily Linux. Dual-booting on an M-series Mac is just a little too inelegant. I want something with good support and flexibility, where the maintainers aren't fighting an upward battle to make a black box transparent, you know?

Anyway, I really believe this is "the year of the Linux desktop" as they've been saying, and I have become that annoying part of my friend group who won't stop recommending it. Seems like every week someone bitches about Windows 11, and every time, I dump three more articles or videos about how 90% of games work, and some even work better on Linux, or whatever, to try and tempt them out of their Windows-shaped box. We'll see if it ever takes. But we know this much for sure: Windows is only getting worse.

Nothing to change except for a lot more legal liability / responsibility to be on you and not your parents. Also, as you have to pay for more and more of your own existence by working as much as is required you'll find within a couple years your best "nothing to do" / "time to kill" hours are behind you. Time for hobbies and gaming and stuff will be at a premium and unless you get wealthy and / or forego having kids, it'll just keep shrinking away. Make sure you find ways to feel fulfilled by the ways you spend the time you do have, and don't make the serious mistake of shorting yourself on sleep. You wanna live long and well, you want to sleep more. Don't start drinking, by the way, even when you're 21. Isn't remotely worth it.

Gl;hf!

Took him long enough.

You gotta throw some sick shaders on there fam 😎

lol I forgot they were making a browser. But, like...yes, absolutely, that's how it's meant to work. Hey, look forward to this, though: according to Microsoft's newest statement, all Windows 11 computers will be the same soon, only, it's the entire computer! "With your permission", of course ;3

Sucks to see CarPlay go and we know why they did it, but I love the Bolt EUV, and it's good that there will continue to be an affordable option for folks still interested in EVs in this bizarre political moment. I think the new model looks pretty attractive, too, although the outgoing 2022-2023 models of EV and EUV were both pretty attractive as well, for being boring little family hatches.

It is absolutely something to meditate on, that's for sure.

I think you know what I meant. Most people who need a truck need a truck like mine. Obviously most people don't need a truck. I only have one because the last few years have required a lot of work on my house and yard. Whenever all that wraps up I'll swap it back out for another car.

People toss out the "you just need a buddy with a truck" or "you just need to rent one" thing so much but those things require you to bend your life around, say, inconveniencing people to borrow / hoping their schedule accommodates, or, having to go collect, use, pay for, and return during a narrow window of time a rented truck, which, yes, is fine for one day, but if again, you've got years of unpredictable needs ahead of you, it's not a sin to buy a cheap, well-used truck as a second or third vehicle so you've always got it when you need it. And in that case, those "most people" need a truck like mine_.

I have a midsize truck from a yester-decade that by now seems like a small truck. Even if it had a long bed and full cab it would be more practical, and I'd argue universally acceptable size and shape than full-sized trucks pulling even a crew cab + short bed combo. When you see a full size with a crew cab and a long or god help us extended bed, it just makes the blood boil. Because as we all know, on top of the "needs two parking spaces and probably takes 4-6 depending on the driver" situation, they have nothing in their beds practically all the time.

Trucks aren't inherently a problem, and it's okay if they're unladen plenty of the time. But most people need a truck like mine; most people have a truck like the full-sized nonsense described above. That's the problem.

Wasn't government cross-pollinating with industry a relevant component in 20th century definitions of fascism?

Came during the initial revolt. Increased attention after getting banned from Reddit because I joked I'd like a guy with a bunch of guns to give me one cause he had too many. They tried to say I was soliciting for the purchase of firearms, and when I said there was no way any serious person could have thought I was asking to buy a gun, they told me the lifetime ban was in place and if I ever came around again they'd ban me for ban evasion.

Lul. That place is a total fucking hellscape.

Man, or, when I'm driving through the mountains, "Hey, Siri, play [some song I've owned 20 years and have downloaded locally to my device] in my Music app"; "I'm sorry, I'm having trouble getting a connection." You useless fuck, you never needed a connection back when it was Voice Control; it was only after we moved to the awful Siri future some 15 years ago or whatever that this unbelievably basic, used-to-be-built-in-so-I-know-you-know-how-to-do-it function was replaced with something that has to call out to the Internet to do anything of value.