Baggins @ baggins @beehaw.org

Music (mainly prog rock) and veggie loving, geeky cat butler living in Hert

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That'll be me 😏

Sort of - but a bit softer and thicker.

Being rectangular is a bonus

Well that was depressing. I agree though. I've always thought that after a certain amount, nobody needs more money. Most depressing of all was that this was just Americans. There are plenty more worldwide.

The article seems to suggest bread machines and slow cookers have gone away - I use both at least a couple of times a week.

Are these even allowed to be sold to Iran? The company producing them may not be too happy if they are supposed to be on a 'so sale' list.

Not interested in youtube links thanks.

A true seagull manager.

I thought this thread was going to be about The Expanse.

Those International Rescue lads have been busy 😏

Never!

Marmite and peanut butter is the way.

Or maybe peanut butter and some finely chopped fresh chilli.*

*Chilli flakes are acceptable as a last resort.

Well, we know what you have in yours 🔮

I've tried almost a dozen distros in the last couple of days. Only a couple of them see my second monitor, and none of them pick up my WiFi card. Guess what does every time? Windows 11. It's been rock solid, fast and smooth.

Now I could put in a usb adapter for WiFi and fiddle around to get the other monitor to liven up, but I shouldn't have to. I did this for Manjaro, and I was hopeful. On the second day it crapped out.

I didn't want to like Windows. I used to be a die hard Mac boy, my first computer was a Mac portable. Apple polo shirt, tie and lapel pins, wallet, watch with Apple logo. I even printed my own t-shirts. 'The box said Windows 95 or better, so I bought a Mac' etc.

Gave up a few years ago when they became more fashion items than tools.

I've tinkered with Linux since Hardy Heron and Mandriva, and Chromebooks since they first came out. It always needed tinkering, nothing just worked for too long. Mac did. Mind you, Windows was crappy back then though.

Perhaps it's because I'm on the Windows Insider programme but I really have no problem with 11. OK it has some guff that I don't need but I've removed that. And sure it's not as customisable as Linux distros, then again neither is Mac.

For me 11 just works. It syncs to my phone as soon as it's in range. KDE Connect never did. I can run Android apps now (yes I know Chromebooks can) so Samsung Notes is my go to Notes app ever since Evernote went down the pan. OneNote is a pile of old fish parts.

I'll keep trying distros though, I have to as my old HP laptop which dual boots MX Linux (that's been flawless on the laptop) and Peppermint, won't run Windows 11. I have a 'new' older laptop coming soon and that probably won't run 12 ;-)

But for now the daily driver is Windows 11.

Blimus, that was longer than I expected 😮

iTunes/Apple Music has joined the chat.

King Crimson

Greg Lake and John Wetton being my favourites.

I always thought Damian Wilson would have done a good job.

It says 'It's one o'clock and time for lunch, dum dee dum dee dum' in Tengwar script from the Silmarillion.

Two things that have kept me going for over 50 years. LOTR and prog ;-)

Came here to recommend Seconds Out.

That user name couldn't really recommend anything else though 😉

Genesis Live was a bit clunky.

Saw them at Sheffield on that tour. One of favourite gigs ever.

If people don't like Beehaw, they are free to go elsewhere.

They seem to forget they request to be here and have read the rules. Don't like them? Goodbye then.

I've noticed some 'I'm right and everyone else is wrong' types turning up on Lemmy world/ml.

I'll probably drop those accounts. This place is like a breath of fresh air.

Long may it stay!

I've been a Tolkien fan for sixty or so years.

Baggins wasn't available on Reddit but it was here.

I also use it in email addresses.