Most of my Arch experience is with SteamOS, but thankfully it does seem that once you get your desktop environment running it’s pretty easy to deal with software there via the graphical package manager, though I’m not really doing anything crazy other than some add-on packages for Minecraft, Emu and the like.

I’ve been a pretty strong supporter of Debian, but I’ve definately run into issues where Stable = behind on the packages needed for the hardware/software I want, whereas Ubuntu’s continual pushing of Snap and intrusive BS is just irritating. I often end up with Mint for the more-decent-than-Debian but mostly snap-free experience, but for my next hardware cycle I am considering Arch given most of the “support” documentation mentions running on such.

Meanwhile there’s me with the opposite issue due to too much coffee

Not just car insurance. My house insurance went up 25-30%, and the agent said there’s not much point in switching because companies “don’t want to take on houses older more than 40yo”

While my general Province hasn’t been great for various disasters, my city and neighborhood are on the safer end. The house itself doesn’t have any of the nasty stuff like asbestos, aluminum wiring, failure-prone plumbing, etc. The furnace was replaced when I moved in, AC and after tank are new within 5 years, and the roof was just done.

It’s just a fuck you tax at this point

Shit, that’s terrible. Here’s hoping that one day your grey matter can rewire itself in a way that allows you to enjoy games or blinking lights again without side effects

No, I got an error a bunch of times and it didn’t seem to actually post

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Man, this really makes me wish we had a more modern or powerful successor to the PinephonePro (that I could actually order from outside the EU)

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Ok the other hand, for people with painful period cramps they can actually help things quite a bit when installed (is that the right word here?) correctly

Linux desktop marketshare is going up, though it’s definitely not huge. Windows 11 is not particularly popular, and very resource-heavy in a time where those same resources are exploding in price. I’d imagine that hardware companies want to hedge their bets a bit and supporting Linux is this manner is pretty safe.

It’s worth noting that HP is also one of the bigger hardware vendors and a lot of servers run Linux, so again firmware updates are probably a good thing you support.

I saw it in theaters and loved it. Made sure to buy the DVD just to show support/sales

Yeah it’s not about not paying for me, it’s about being able to host my own with my protections and controls

Also, Plex controls the login/authentication through their portal, and can also receive data back from your host regarding the content being shared/watched.

Jellyfin is 100% locally configured accounts

Here’s hoping your terrible day may be the start to a wonderful new chapter in life

Microsoft is deep into the vibe coding now, but even before that it was cheap devs who could write somewhat functional code but had little concept of optimization, amidst a sprawling bloated OS that has only grown fatter over time.

The mentality of RAM and storage are cheap has suddenly come to a screeching halt but it’s taking to take them a long time to find talent that can actually fix the mess they’ve already built, especially as they try to grab more AI crap into every nook and cranny of their product line.

Ah yes, because bots absolutely haven’t managed to fake/generate faces now have they…

Right and who was or again supplying Russia with drones all this time… ah right

Yeah ironically one of the reasons I used an Anycubic, because while they may have issues with FOSS compliance, the firmware I did load on there (Rinkhals) isn’t

Yeah and TBF I’m pretty sure a lot of “right wing” folks would love to have a pet dino.

But they’d get a Tyrannosaurus to go with their Rottweilers and then tell people “don’t worry, he’s friendly” just before it bites some kid’s head off