Dutch relatives. He was serious. My grandpa used to damage soup cans in the grocery store, then demand a discount on them.

If you get a cheap n100 or similar style mini PC with multiple network cards and install pfsense on it, the only account needed is the local login. It took me a lot of YouTube tutorials to get it working just the way I wanted, but it’s a great solution.

I’ve always found that there’s generally a new way to do things in Linux, but I rarely have issues. I have an Acer Nitro laptop with a Ryzen integrated AMD graphics and then an Nvidia 3060, and I had to look up how to install the drivers, which was rpmfusion, click, click, done. Instead of the usual launcher for games, it’s either Steam or Lutris. The only real bitch of a thing was some school stuff. Like, gnomes boxes handles all my virtualization, but school demanded VMware Workstation, which was legitimately a pain on Fedora. Likewise, Microsoft Teams. But web Office was fine, Libre locally… I get hella better frame rates on MHW in Linux than Windows. I didn’t pick the machine for its Linux compatibility, it just worked.

Matt & Steve’s spicy pickled beans. So good! Whole jar down the hatch, one sitting.

I’m not frugal, just a cheapskate. I have an i5 NUC that I got for 225$ Canadian, so like 16$ USD… (I exaggerate.) I got an old 1080p projector from an Electronics Recycling in town for 125$ CAD, and a receiver at an auction. No remote and the HDMI in was busted, 40$. So I used a USB sound card with optical out. (Another 40$.) Speakers from goodwill. The wall I project to is already white. I have an Ikea Kallax with the receiver and the projector right behind my couch. Speaker wire is scrap cat5 cable from work. The subwoofer has an annoying buzz at the moment, but it was 20$ from Goodwill, so… Otherwise, it’s big, bright, loud. I cobbled it together over a few months, but it’s a great setup and very cheap.

Congrats! I have a 2007 mp3 that I’ve been riding since new. So fun! Bzzzz! Saves so much gas money, makes the commute a blast!

I just did three nodes this evening from 8.4.1 to 9, no issues other than a bit of farting around with my sources.list files.

Not noticing anything significant, but I haven’t tried the mobile interface yet.

I was going to say this.

Never more in my life have I wanted to send a stranger a larger hard drive.

Not stupid at all. I think I read that Disney has something like that for charging communications equipment at the parks. (I could be remembering wrong, I am internet brain-addled.) You know the crazies would hate it, though. Smart money says that there’s an entirely port-free iPhone in the next five years.

I like the infinite playlist on Lemmy. Lots of good stuff there!

Uhh… 42!

Mint XFCE! I’m not giving that any context. Swap the BIOS battery, and you’re gold!

This guy. He’s right.

A good taco. Actually, I think the enchilada guy was right. What he said.

I would like to enjoy your novel in the form of a series of people slowly walking by me, each with a single sentence of your book tattooed on their back. Chapter headings tattooed on the side of a horse, so I can quickly glance down the street and know how soon the chapter will be ending.

Be in Siberia, Alaska, NWT, maybe inside a meat locker. Then head in her direction. Then leave her alone!

I have that brand’s liquid Castile soap. Fantastic stuff, one of only two brands that doesn’t cause me major skin issues.

Would’ve: fine. Would have: fine. Would of: me go mental! Why do people do this?! Argh!

I’m sorry. As a Canadian, that is not a legal admission of guilt, though.