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  • djdarren@piefed.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a childEnglish
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    8 小时前

    45yo here, and yeah, kinda.

    I’m happily married (for the second time), and have a decent job that no longer requires back breaking manual labour that enables me to clock off at 4pm and fuck off home where I don’t have to think about. I have a grown up kid who’s just graduated with a law degree and is forging his own path in life. All things considered, I’m pretty chill. I try to take a more adult, considered view on things that affect me.

    I don’t own my home, because my wife isn’t able to earn as much, so we can’t get a mortgage, but I’ve kind of made peace with that.

    And I’ve accrued some of the toys I couldn’t afford when I was younger. I have a collection of computers that I can tinker with, an an iPod that I love.

  • djdarren@piefed.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Reccommending a Linux distro for a friendEnglish
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    2 天前

    +1 for Winboat. As long as you’ve got the RAM and CPU cores to spare, it’s a really nice solution to the Windows software that you really can’t replace. My PC has an 8core CPU and 16Gb RAM. Much less than that and it gets pretty taxing.

    WinApps is more complete, in that you can right click on a file to open it in an installed Windows app, which isn’t something you can (currently) do with Winboat, but WinApps is more of a bastard to set up.

  • djdarren@piefed.socialtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Solved Problems (by kplx)English
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    5 天前

    You can still use an iPod. Pick up a 5th or 6th gen, replace the HDD with an SD card adapter and you can rock out with 500Gb of portable tunes.

    And what’s mad is that I can plug mine into my M2 MacBook Air and sync it. Apple, who have enormous Hardon’s for obsoleting anything doesn’t make them any money, have, for some reason, continued to maintain the ability to sync almost any iPod in macOS. The one caveat is that OS 26 no longer supports the FireWire needed to run the first couple of classics.

    Oh, and if you want to do it via Linux, you’ll either need to run macOS or Windows in a VM, or flash the iPod with Rockbox.

    But it all still works.

  • djdarren@piefed.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Why did you move from Windows to Linux?English
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    8 天前

    I’ve (mostly) moved over from macOS.

    Generally I actually prefer macOS to Linux (I’ve settled on Kububtu mostly), but I’ve become increasingly dissatisfied with Apple over the past few years. The cost of their services and products creeping, being able to see business decisions that falsely cripple cheaper devices, and general all round shittiness that I no longer wish to be a part of.

    I had a series of iPhones from a 3GS in 2009 up to a 13 mini, but grew tired of having to jump through hoops to make iOS do what I wanted from it - a feeling exacerbated by using iPadOS on my iPad mini. So last February I grabbed a Pixel 9 and put Graphene on it. hell of a learning curve, but one that showed me that there were better, more equitable ways to achieve what the interconnected Apple ecosystem can do. It might not be as polished, but it’s significantly cheaper, and uses equipment that won’t be rendered obsolete and unable to be upgraded or used in some way.

    Then Tim Apple pulled that stunt giving Trump the big gold trophy and I knew that Apple was no longer a company that shared the least of my values. Not that I really believed that before, they’re a multi-trillion dollar company, after all, but of the available options they seemed the least shitty. But not any more.

    So now I only use macOS on my M2 Air. When that eventually falls apart I’ll replace it with something I can put Linux on.

  • djdarren@piefed.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is entertainment getting worse or am I getting old?English
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    9 天前

    Television and Radio are 75% advertisement.

    This won’t help you, but this comment leads me to believe you’re in the US, where everything you talk about is almost certainly significantly worse than pretty much any other country. Because the US is essentially lawless when it comes to advertising.

    Here in the UK, we have the BBC, which only runs promos for its own content, and only ever between programmes. The BBC isn’t perfect by any means. It feels to me like its management has become steadily worse over the past 10/15 years, as the board of directors was filled with Conservative appointees. And the news department really ought to be made to answer for consistently encouraging the worst voices on air.

    But in the end, that £175 a year for the licence fee acts as a bulwark from the worst excesses of commercial broadcasting. ITV, for example, is lousy for advertising, but is kept reasonably in check by the BBC because comparison is easy. If they allowed themselves to become too much like the US model, people would be rightly irritated when they switch over from watching something on BBC1.

    The same is true of BBC vs. commercial radio. The BBC keeps the other broadcasters reasonably honest, and they don’t necessarily have to turn a profit.

    So in answer to your original point; the problem is - as ever - capitalism. The perpetual need for maximising shareholder profit means that the US entertainment industry aims 90% of its output at the lowest common denominator, and it’ll only get worse while that’s the predominant driver.