Click was SO GOOD.

But I’m still a little mad at the betrayal by the marketing, making it seem super silly and goofy, leaving my young self unprepared for an emotional gut-punch. Lol

It effectively did what it set out to do though, being a modern fable about where our priorities in life ultimately lead us. I think of it often, especially the way it portrays the trap of career-worship, and when I catch myself wishing time away.

That silly movie had so much heart it might have actually shaped my young worldview a bit. Lol

Movie was based.

What about The Cobbler? That one was unexpectedly charming.

It was “Great Scott!” but the DeLorean smashed through the second “t” in the past. 🌲🌲

Makes me wonder if anyone remembers me for something random like this.

In a wild turn of events, I was going through my replies and remembered you from a future comment, for kindly encouraging me when I described my ADHD struggle with keeping my comments brief online!

So, I guarantee I’m not the only one who remembers you for a good word. :)

“Look guys, their industry makes their boss abusive to them which makes them abusive to their staff, so it’s just how it is because money…”

This is like "Well my drunk granddad had anger issues after the war so he beat my dad who beat me something fierce and I turned out fine " of the professional world.

Some people think enough money or status is worth disrespecting other human beings who are just trying to do their already shitty enough job, and that’s concerning.

I.T has to hit their “ticket targets” to stay on the “lights come on when they flip the switch at home” track, it’s how they make their money and what they’re paid to do.

Playing coddling psychologist for grown adults who could pass a bar exam but can’t handle basic respect doesn’t make things any easier lol.

To any of those types reading this:

Stressed or not, it’s amazing how fast things move when you work with IT as teammates instead of underlings, using your level brain instead of your emotionally unstable mouth.

I don’t think I want the best IT person in the world performing an appendectomy.

“Okay so let’s start with the simplest thing by performing a power cycle and seeing if that fixes it…CLEAR!”

EVERY TIME!!

“A program is preventing Windows from shutting down”

The program : A generic non-descript white box icon with no title.

Clicking shutdown/restart anyway becomes standard procedure at this point.

I get what you mean. When updating Linux mint, the “This needs to get some additional packages too” window, relatively benign, has a big scary ⚠️/ /!\ on it.

Felt the need to explain to the person I was installing it for. “That’s totally normal, just look it over first and continue.”

…like, it’s gonna do that almost every time it updates, it doesn’t need to look scary. :|

Awesome or something, IDK I have used XFCE before.

Ah, the Arch forum/stack experience. Along with

“Problem still exists like 2 years later.”

“DON’T NECRO. CLOSED.”

Thanks, that worked like a charm! I was looking everywhere for an answer! :D

Yeah right now this graph says that on other OSs, your gaming skill steadily improves as you play.

But by the time you’ve learned and set up NixOS, your gaming skills will be crazy powerful but you’ve plateued.

…I guessssss it could make sense? XD

Nexus mods is working on a Linux client which is really exciting! Also Steam Workshop works on Linux. This covers a ton of use cases.

Not saying everything is 100% perfection, but it’s easier than ever to switch, and only getting easier.

I imagine “Windows locked mods” would probably also benefit from just disconnecting the internet and keeping it set up just the way one likes it, since MS is gonna drop Win10 soon.

That’s the case with WMR VR headsets. Sadly don’t see those getting cracked to work on Linux any time soon. :(

Thanks, this was hugely helpful. For some reason half the comments here made it about politics.

Interested to see where this new software actually goes.

I bet that saves you a boatload in senseless licensing costs and lost time dealing with Microsoft’s shenanigans!

When you’ve REALLY had it, you can walk into work with Kali installed on your work laptop. 😎

Added bonus is that it runs MegaMek natively

This is always a fun thing to read in the wild. Keep on stompin’, MechWarrior! O7 (salute)

Gentoo might have been quite a leap! :p I wanna try it some day as a challenge but it’s def intimidating.

I run Tumbleweed on my main rig and love how crazy stable it is for being cutting edge. Endeavour OS is also cool for this. Both great communities too.

But agree with you on Mint. It’s just a really nice smooth experience. So far it’s on my “little media laptop I won’t update much, need to be reliable, and will probably hand to family on occasion”, and I can trust it’s just gonna work.

Wow, I really appreciate you taking the time. I’m bookmarking this. Thanks, Dan!

As I look to upgrade or re-factor the server a bit, I’m gonna take a closer look at Podman. Not running as root by default sounds extremely sensible!

I tried that with a few of my Docker containers with results ranging from “Did it actually do it?” to “Nice job breaking it, hero.” Lol

OMV has a really nice Docker GUI built in, but I’d much rather be ready to understand the open-for-all solution if I could. :)

Hope you have a great one!

I’ve heard of Palantir, now Anduril… What’s next, Saruman Ltd.? Uruk-Hai-corp? Poor Tolkien doesn’t deserve his mythology being co-opted by war profiteers. :(

Meme gave me a laugh. XD

I see people not happy with Docker as a company, and, I get that, tech co. Lol

But I gotta admit, it’s definitely been awesome for self hosting. My home server would probably just be OpenMediaVault and a Samba share if I couldn’t just spin up compose files and had to worry about every app wanting its own database and stuff!

Are there better alternatives for newbs who just wanna self host stuff?