MiddledAgedGuy @ MiddledAgedGuy @beehaw.org

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Highly regarded VPN service.

I think "lost it's soul" is a great way to put it re: Ubuntu.

I just distro hopped to nixos. I was unaware of it until I came to the fediverse. The declarative system, once you get over the small learning curve, I feel is very easy to understand and configure. Creating and being able to roll back system configurations is a great feature too.

Previously I was using void. I quite enjoy it too and am sure I'll revisit it. It's a light (no systemd) rolling release distro with an emphasis on stable packages.

I agree. I don't use Arch (I have in the past) but I use Arch Wiki heavily.

I can't argue with that!

I enjoyed the all too accurate description.

I get that it's probably a joke. But I would absolutely go out of my way to get small bills to buy basic grilled sandwiches from this person complete with, what I assume, is barely hospitable service.

I feel like that's kind of a hipster thing? I don't care for the label, but I can't argue it sometimes fits.

Water cooling feels unnecessary and expensive. Like most of my hobbies. I don't get this particular one, but I can appreciate why people might.

I appreciate what he's done for the FOSS movement.

I've read up his commentary about underage women, choosing to form my own opinion. And yeah I find it pretty gross.

Random article I found said about 26% of people in the US use adblocking services. Working on the assumption that's reasonably accurate, that's a pretty big chunk of ad revenue.

I'm not much of a fan of Discovery, as seems to be the case for many Trek fans. It's alright though. But this aspect I found myself enjoying. I liked the whole mycelial network angle.

Bad behavior in Windows article up on the Fediverse for four hours and no one telling us how their Linux laptop doesn't have this problem?

My Linux laptop doesn't have this problem 😁.

Sounds like it's a combo of bad Windows behavior and buggy implementations, but had to deliver the joke first.

I have no great solution to games that don't work. Thankfully it's increasingly rare. And I get wanting to do something just for curiosity's sake.

There's PCI-E pass through to hand direct control of your GPU to the VM if you aren't already familiar, but my two cents is dual boot is less of a pain.

Is there a specific benefit that you're expecting from dual booting? That tidbit might help us talk you out of it 😁

Seriously, I think a VM is almost always the better solution.

Starfield. I know people are polarized about it, but I'm enjoying it.

Also Valheim.

Just :s/x/w/g on every bit of source code and recompile wscreensaver.

I'll go research that, thanks for the heads up!

Ironically/coincidentally -- Can I blame Alannis Morisette for my lack of understanding of the differences? -- I watched "V For Vendetta" recently. Nov. 5th and all.

In it (if you're unaware) the US tore itself apart while the UK kept some semblance of order through authoritarianism. So, feels half right? We're tearing ourselves apart over attempted authoritarianism.

"national security threat" == "threat to the regime we're trying to establish".

I saw a rumor mill style post that Apple was going to allow sideloading of apps. If so, that'll probably get me to switch. These changes and choice in software eliminates my gripes with iOS vs. Android.

As a point of clarity, I think both suck. But if Apple removes it's disadvantages (even if by force) and is the more privacy respecting option out of the box, it makes sense to me.