I remember back in the day, not having a DVD reader capable of unscrambling Wii games, so I spent an entire day and a half ripping my collection using the very very slow Wii drive (4x speed I think)

I’m not that much into ricing, but I bet it must be possible, specially since GNOME is already OSX-like

edit: you just made me check their website and the new StarLabs Horizon looks so tempting!

Privacy-focused Macbook-like? -> Smartlab 🇬🇧

I think you meant StarLabs. I got one running Debian and I absolutely love it

early 40s and I don’t feel old at all. Yet my younger zoomer coworkers behave like life is over at 24-26. Last time I asked my parents (boomers), they told me they started feeling old in their early 30s. Might be a generational thing.

I’ve been long time Debian fan, I use it on all my servers and my laptop, however on my gaming rig I had PopOS and recently switched to PikaOS which is based on Debian and I’m absolutely loving it

NZ has an investors visa which can lead to citizenship in a relative short span of time

The stakes are so low. we spent two whole episodes

I’m watching people in my industry (software development) who’ve bought into this crap forget how to code in real-time while they’re producing the shittiest garbage I’ve laid eyes on as a developer.

I just spent two days fixing multiple bugs introduced by some AI made changes, the person who submitted them, a senior developer, had no idea what the code was doing, he just prompted some words into Claude and submitted it without checking if it even worked, then it was “reviewed” and blindly approved by another coworker who, in his words, “if the AI made it, then it should be alright”

I had a friend who was a true believer in Stadia, he even sold his gaming PC as he was gaming in Stadia full time.

When Stadia shut down he told me “at least I get to keep the controller”

Debian is so boring (I love it from the bottom of my hearth and use it in all my servers and personal laptop)

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I installed Zorin Lite on my dad’s old computer back in 2022 because W10 wouldn’t run properly. They’ve been around for a while and advertised themselves as having a very Windows like ux.

It’s a perfectly serviceable OS, he has used it all these years without ever having to touch the terminal.

I just went to a restaurant yesterday and there was a couple from the US sitting behind us and they were so loud, they were even starting conversations with people on the adjacent tables, one of them were German (I think) and pretended not to speak English, and kept bothering everyone next to them.

Elder millennial here, I also struggle reading analogue clocks to this day. I can, but it just takes me a long time to do so. And I’ve been like this since I was a little kid.

580 is LTS tho, you’ll get security patches for a fee years at least

“everything is working fine, why do we even pay you for?”

greetings from Kansas province

I have a ~/Sync folder with a symlink to all my Syncthing shares, which I have quite a lot of. Helps me find them quickly and reminds me that everything in there us pulled or pushed somewhere else.

From back when I used to freelance as a photo and video editor. ~/Media which was a mount point for my second hard drive with all the personal and paid customer’s I was working on, it was a mix of Music, Photos and Videos that I was creating, but not consuming if that makes sense.

Just a remnant from back when I had a small SSD with my OS and a second larger mechanical drive for everything else

This one hits a bit too close to home

A few years ago I was working the early shift at my previous work (6 to 3) and my girlfriend at the time started working part time on the afternoon shifts at her work (1 to 6pm if memory serves me right). Over time she started to waking up later and later while I still needed to get up by 5am. Over a couple of months she started getting mad at me for going to bed early and not spending time with her, despite her going to bed past 2am on a weeknight.

Eventually she got a full time job and I stopped working the early shift, but damn that was an stressful year for my sleep cycle