Fuck them. They can have as much of my viewership and brand loyalty as CBS.

Done for my grandmother and at least three customers for my small (small) business. No one has had any complaints or questions. Just make the on screen text and icons kinda big, get them a Firefox icon on the desktop, make sure they can print and call it a day.

Adorable. Anyone got the source? I’d follow this kid’s adventures.

When life hands you a snowy parking lot on a quiet day, it’s pretty cool.

That’s lucky for them. I’m the the least of their worries (although statistcally, they have no worries, because they are scrolling TikToks while doing 12 over the speed limit)

fuck ICE

Got tailgated by a Genesis on the way home from family’s today going 55 down a highway that is 55, but on which people regularly get away with going 75. Eventually an F150 squeezed in between us and if you can believe it (and you should because luxury car drivers often outdo full-size truck owners in driver cuntiness) actually gave me a little more space than the Genesis. But regardless, they were both following like…less than 20 feet off my ass? I mean that wouldn’t be safe in 70-degree weather with no salt or moisture on the road.

I am not a perfect driver. But I do know that practically everyone else on the road is a worse driver than me. Staring at their cell phones. Close follow distances. Short stopping distances. Stupid fuzzy fucking things strapped over their wheels to guarantee the worst possible grip in an emergency situation. Not signaling and cutting off, of course. Just all of it. And the same solipsistic elements in a person’s personality that lead them to behave that way under desirable road conditions gives them the self-confidence to go out there and drive in 7 degree weather with thick clumps of packed-down snow and invisible ice on the salt-slicked roads with the precisely-same behavior as they would on any other day.

Fuck 'em.

Definitely a contender. I’d prefer the smokies when available but hot dog mac is no slouch. A worthy 9/10.

This is a holy concoction, and people who don’t fully appreciate that are the worst. My wife being one of them. It’s like. You like both things separately. One is cheesy. One is smoky, savory meat. Why in the fuck wouldn’t they be immaculate together? And I’m not even interested in the sociological speculation about whether it has the stink of poverty attached to it; it’s worthy of all income classes, and a gift to people on a budget because it slaps so hard for next to no money. Throw some broccoli on the side and you can even convince yourself it’s a balanced meal. 10/10 could eat every week if someone would let me.

I like it.

That’s great. I wish Visio/Vizio were not such common names for software and hardware. We done did those already. Do something else.

Disagreed. When the US was liberating people against their will I was shitposting about it in defiance. I’m an American hero.

I’d be so jazzed. Please come liberate UwU

I can’t find the interview now or remember who it was with because of my brainrot but roughly than six months ago this woman was saying in no uncertain terms things will get progressively darker and more violent. And I’ve thought of that when every one of these moments has arisen. She was speaking more to the need of a parent whose health premiums quadrupled and SNAP benefits were cut having to care for and feed a sick child and what that might do to their anger and willingness to go do something against the elements foisting this upon them, but of course we never can predict what the precise hinge point moments are going to be during turbulent times. We just knew they were coming. And now they are. And will continue.

I think you’re essentially right but sometimes I look at the Linux panels and wish they looked a little less…burdened with aesthetic growing pains or like…aesthetic arrested development. They don’t have to be skeuomorphic or frutiger aero or like, keep up with the Joneses, but config menus in Linux are often one of those little reminders, no matter how trivial, that this isn’t a polished product but a humble labor of love. It’s endearing. But sometimes it feels like holding a toy from the CVS when you want a Transformers from Toys R Us lol.

Bought a used Surface Laptop and didn’t think about it being weird proprietary hardware. Just figured it was a good price. Bought AMD because fuck Intel. Well, it turns out you have to run a surface-laptop custom kernel, a big pain to get going for a normie like me, and even then, because I bought the AMD one, my biometrics and touch screen are completely unusable. It’s like the one SKU that it’s just a bust on and since this is all volunteer maintained, it’s likely they’ve given up on fixing that on this obscure, years old model of laptop.

Whoa I didn’t know Affinity could run in Wine. How well??

I had to do something very basic recently which was to make my single-channel microphone ‘mono’ in the sense that it was present in both ears. This involved a lot of googling and command line action. I don’t mind that in principal but I can’t say I learned anything. I don’t remember what I ran, why I chose the option I did to make it work…and I know when I have to do it again it will be arcane again. If Linux is ever going to be truly mass market and bridge the uncanny valley of weird little use cases between pro users and Facebook grandmas, this sort of thing needs to be more readily available in settings applets. Call me a normie but there it is.

My concerns are mostly all unfair. Just want to acknowledge that right up front. Compared with macOS:

• Cider is an admirable but buggy solution for Apple Music (whose own web player is barely usable)
• I wish Alt+Tabbing had the option to bring to the fore all window instances for a given app like macOS’s Cmd+Tab; as it is I am always having to hunt down stray Firefox or Files windows, which get further buried down the Alt+Tab bar(in Cinnamon) when you minimize them.
• no OS does common alternate characters (dash and em-dash, accented characters, etc. all accessible with variations on the Alt key) or Japanese language input (Ctrl+space and then just start typing phonetically) as well as macOS does. The composition key is useful to a degree but it feels like second class citizen shit compared to the macOS implementations that make some typing and much language learning basically useless for me on my Linux devices.

Compared to Windows:

• pretty basic (and again Cinnamon centric) but Files / the file browser in other apps could use some love. Typing the first few letters of a file name in Files takes me there and highlights it which is great but if memory serves (not near machine now), I can’t just hit Enter from that point to open the thing. Equally annoying is when browsing for a file to open or save, there is often not a create folder option or button, and when there is, it isn’t tied to a keyboard shortcut like Ctrl+Shift+N or F12. I sincerely hate switching input methods when it isn’t called for, so having to grab my mouse just to click the new folder button and return to typing or worse, to leave that browser altogether to go to Files and create the folder because the button or command to do so didn’t exist in the browser window is a real drag.

In general:

• the least fair complaint of all because it seems especially like the answer is “well then why don’t you pitch in and help?” (The answer to which is, “I don’t have the skills, I’m sorry, I’ll be quiet”), is trying to replicate workflows in off-brand software. I love LibreOffice spiritually but trying to do some basic PowerPoint stuff recently, it really let me down. ONLYOFFICE was much more usable but it still has a lot of jank and, I suspect, a memory leak because the longer I use it, the slower and less stable it becomes. Krita seems more usable than GIMP, but neither is as usable as Affinity Photo, let alone Photoshop. Put another way, it’s tough to be constantly reminded you’re compromising in order to live a largely faster, stabler, freer computing experience. MacOS is a pile of shit these days but when compared to Windows (since I’m not gaming with it) I never feel like I’m compromising. It can do everything Windows can, and often better. If there isn’t Windows specific software, macOS may have competitive indie darling software to fill the void. Pixelmator for example (before being gobbled up) didn’t feel like it was a somewhat rudderless, good faith effort by a tired gaggle of volunteers…it felt premium. I’m still waiting for that experience on Linux.

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