“We believe in an open internet… as long as you use these specific services.”

This really sucks. So we’re looking at a future where search engines are like streaming services now. “Hmmm now which search engine was <insert website here> on?”

I was entering my teens in the early 2000’s. My memory is terrible but my family got a pentium 3 desktop PC and I remember I had some versions of SuSE, Ubuntu and Mandrake (or was it Mandriva by then) on that PC at one time or another. My family never knew how to use it because it was different all the time. Heck I didn’t know how to use it.

When I built my first PC, a pentium 4, I dual booted windows and some flavour of Linux for a time, but I got into PC gaming so I only casually checked out new releases of Ubuntu over the years. Once Proton arrived though it was finally time to make the switch.

I’m not a developer, I made a pong clone with python once because I wanted to learn for the sake of it, but I support a few projects financially that I enjoy, I try to submit bug reports best I can. For the most part the community is great, and yes I use Arch btw.

My cat is named Princess Vivienne von kitty pants.

If I sell all my megalixers I’ve never used I could probably keep Firefox funded for years.

Well the CEO just had a massive panic attack yesterday and said there’s no way we’re going to finish this major project in time and the company is now ruined. The company is only one person. It’s me.

I always do this too. You think I’m going to finish my meal with 2 bites of chicken in a row?! No chance. Gotta be a clean finish with a bite of salad, bite of rice, bite of chicken.

I LOVE the idea of Lemmy and the decentralized web and people coming together to forge our own way. But there’s a far too high ratio of elitism, smugness, arrogance and belittlement to people that just want to discuss the things we enjoy. It is just really unfortunate. I don’t engage very much, or at all really so I understand part of that is on me, but every discussion I find I’d like to chime in on is already polluted by assholes. It’s just disheartening.

They work in a pinch but even on windows they always end up causing more trouble than it’s worth. I recently got a client business, a lawyer’s office, where their previous IT got them all Startech displaylink docks. After I replaced a couple of them where the users had some lower end i3 laptops, searches they ran in their document management system finished in maybe 50% of the time.

Good processors like the M1 you maybe can’t notice but they cripple the lower end systems.

This is over the course of 9 years. I haven’t played in a couple months now, (the aug 22 last played was just me entering my house so it doesn’t get demolished) but the itch will come back. It always does.

I listen to the Sunscreen Song when I’m wrestling with things like this. The quote from it that applies here I think would be

“Don’t congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance… So are everybody else’s”

Brilliant my friend! That did the trick. Thank you so much.

I miss the early days of android. When the next phone, or next software release was game changing. Now all we have to get excited about is 200mAh spec bumps and the inclusion of new types of data that will be harvested from us.

When it comes to copies, 1 is none, 2 is one, and 3 is a backup!

This is really great! Tried it out and it’s already earned the coveted “pin” on the taskbar. Thank you for your work on this.

Exactly. Leaves a sour taste in your mouth ruining a perfectly good whiskey.

I think I was around 13 years old, our home family computer had Windows ME on it. It broke all the time. I think I may have tried Ubuntu first on that PC but then came across SUSE and decided to replace windows with that because the KDE interface at the time (was horrendously 90’s looking) but felt more like windows. I think I ran that on the computer for a year or so before my father made me put XP on it when that was released.

It was my first real foray into Linux and it would be many moons until I ran it full time as an adult but I have a soft spot for it.

Edit: I think my memory is off because Ubuntu wouldn’t have been around back then… Must have tried Ubuntu later or maybe I was a bit older. In any case it was SUSE that sparked my interest in alternative operating systems, and probably why I still prefer KDE.

I’ll throw in my vote for Kavita. Works great. I read a lot on my phone so I just saved the app shortcut to my home screen from Firefox.

Because you just might happen to be Mr. Naughty Dog himself browsing Lemmy and thinking “wow that’s the kind of talent I need on my team!”

Isn’t it that he wanted model E but that’s the one Ford wouldn’t allow? Because there is a Tesla model X. He wanted to spell SEXY but instead he now has S3XY.

Amazing! Thanks for bringing infinity to Lemmy. It was my go-to app for Reddit.