I also learned a ton about different instruments by playing that interactive game where you match them to their countries. Thanks to Encarta I was probably in the privileged minority of American 8 year olds that knew what the heck a digerido, pan flute, or sitar was! :D

Ah look at the cute little Viewsonic birds on the upper left. :D

“Scary how hackers are always using DOS prompts isn’t it?”

–Confused Windows Viewers

I’d hope his children would heel-turn and dismantle his empire after deciding they don’t want to be an evil misanthropic Palpatine like him…

…but I’m a bit of an idealist. =\

Rocking Tumbleweed too!

• On Nvidia!
• With multiple displays at different refresh rates.
• On Wayland!

Right now they only update to the “stable” Nvidia drivers branch in the repos, so I had to install the 565.71 drivers manually via the run file from Nvidia’s website to fix an issue with variable sync. (Windows without Wayland support would strobe solid black randomly. Yikes!)

The only annoyance is having to reinstall the driver from terminal any time the kernel updates. (Protip: just make a drivers folder in your /home folder to easily get to it from the terminal.)

This is referred to as “the hard way”, but once you get it set up once it’s really just ls /drivers/nvidia, run it, and then enter -> enter -> enter -> enter -> reboot -> enjoy.

Otherwise, between Steam, Heroic Launcher (for GoG), Lutris (for EA), and Bottles (everything else / standalone games, disc games, etc), I can play pretty much anything I want! and it runs gloriously! (Be sure to get ProtonUp-Qt to get better Proton versions)

I primarily spend most of my time in Blender, but games work beautifully. Plasma 6 is just awesome as well. My win10 install is getting so dusty right now, and I actually made the jump because it kept Bluescreening on Vermintide 2, and refused to “refresh this system” because “Can’t. Sorry.”

My only thing on the wishlist is for my WMR-baser VR kit to work in Linux… maybe that’ll happen and maybe it won’t. Otherwise, I LOVE Tumbleweed.

Automatic rollbacks with Snapper and BTRFS have been wonderful too.

(If any of this sounds like rambling lingo please feel free to ask and I can clarify. ❤️)

Would be such a shame if that happened to get bonked right before/after they plug it in. 😏

Too right about the bed bugs. At the library they’ve had to start screening every returned book for them. Yeesh!!

We once took a gamble on a fancy tempurpedic mattress that was on local auction where my wife’s grandma worked. “Nah nothing seems wrong with it!” She said. Cool! Won it for cheap!

We muscle it into the house and only in the enclosed space did we realize it REEEEEKED of cigarettes. It was NAUSEATING. We eventually had to pay more to have it hauled away. Learned our lesson.

The plastic base for it was nice though, and was cleaned pretty well by applying elbow grease and strong cleaning chemicals and sunlight and fresh air.

Excellent list!

Man, how often needle nose pliers come in handy is INSANE.

Even quicker if you help!

Post-apocalyptic economics be like:

How can this timeline be so dark AND so stupid.

Current events are an ouroboros of self-parody at this point. It’d be hilarious if it weren’t for the very real consequences.

I can’t believe this is actually a thing.

Nice!

Tangentially related: So is Automate The Boring Stuff With Python!

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/#toc

I keep forgetting that one! Thanks! I always use up arrow and then waste time getting the cursor back with maybe the home key or ctrl+ left-arrow LOL

The NoStarch books are excellent overviews for newbies to go beyond being “just a user” though. They’re written in a very friendly and approachable manner. If you’re enthusiastic about learning how the OS works and playing with commands, they’re really good about that! I think it’s cool OP is repping rhem. :)

If someone was like “Hey I wanted to try Linux!” and thought they needed to go through LPIC/LINUX+ doorstoppers or had manuals about the kernel or something, I’d be like “Woah there. Calm down.” LOL

That’s so brutal. The foster system is also really strange, from my broad thousand-foot view of it.

Maybe I’m way off base but it feels like some weird dispassionate state shuffle system where kids don’t get a stable family situation, they just get passed around a series of “halfway homes”, develop psychological problems from these constant disruptions in their development because duh, and then suddenly are “of age” and booted out to go work or something. (And likely end up on the street? Shocker!)

(This constant attempt to reinstitute child labor scares me even more in this context)

My wife and I were consulting various sources about adoption. We basically found out adoption is like some weird underground “baby market” that obviously favors the rich, and prices different genetics traits differently. (YEP!)

Directed to the foster system, it sounds like you just end up as a revolving door extension of a failed, undercut, under funded social program that “processes” kids through your house like inmate transfers.

No wonder statistics are so grim! My research suggests to me it was a replacement for the antiquated orphanage system of old but… Sheesh was it really an improvement? (Of the best examples, for the sake of argument, not the worst ones).

All this rabble rabble about abortion being legal or not, but it could be legal again universally, tomorrow, and conservatives wouldn’t have to worry about it actually happening so often if they fixed their freaking obtuse child-as-market-product system. If they actually cared about children, that is. Fat chance they’ll even think of that though.

Sorry I didn’t know this was such a button with me but I hope I added to the conversation LOL. Thanks for your post. <3 So many people are just…invisible. And it’s heartbreaking.

I like how part of the reason she got super successful is appealing heavily to the working class instead of pretending to be some monolithic impossible “you wish” standard of fame, money, and power, to self-destructively aspire to.

Dolly is based.

Yeah I will agree I don’t think she’s spending all her time scheming on how to extract more and more wealth (her “stakeholders” likely are though)…there will be a natural point in “success” where it just keeps coming in by virtue of mass recognition, fandom, popularity, I don’t think that makes someone evil.

I’m not even a fan, she could probably be doing much better, but I think we need to make sure we direct our ire where it’s due, rather than being middle school kids who hate people just because they “got popular.”

There’s an entire class of folks who make their wealth directly off the backs of our misery, but I’m hesitant to demonize people just because they got popular or won the zipcode lottery.

Like I’d much rather depose our bosses than some random YouTuber that the algorithm blew up lol.

But that’s what scares me, the people are quickly reaching a point of becoming an indiscriminate mob. A direct consequence of the actions of the evil rich, surely, but mobs seem to direct their fury in a way where rhyme overrides reason.

The “elite” can stop this turn of events by changing course and humbling themselves, but that seems unlikely…

paying more than the games are worth because there’s a fucking leech at the top

Where we at now…30% and probably climbing? Ugh.

It is really hard to comprehend, seriously.

A guess I’ll venture is that the vast swaths of money are essential to retain influence, perhaps. The game stops being about money and starts being about power, and you lose your seat at the table unless you’re just hoarding stupid ridiculous amounts of money like the rest of the players.

I dunno, I used to think they do it because they’re terrified of slipping into having to actually work for a living instead of just making other people execute their maybe-good ideas. But that feels too simplistic for the uber rich, maybe it’s like that for the “petit-bourgoise” but not the mega-corp titans.

But yeah, they just couldn’t possibly spend themselves to a lower social class at this point, so there’s gotta be some weird motive at play. It boggles the rational mind. Like are Gaben’s 6 yahts “necessary” to wield influence at convenient locations and woo other industry titans? Dunno.

In any case, it’s stupid and wrong, I just wanna understand it.

I had never heard of Consent-O-Matic. It works for Firefox on Android too! I couldn’t install it fast enough! Thanks for that! :D