Oh fuck, seriously?

Welcome to Hell

In the early 2010s, Cape Girardeau, MO was chosen as a location for some of the filming of Gone Girl. I lived there and it was the talk of the town. People were running into Ben Affleck at the local Andy’s and shit.

Meanwhile they put out a casting call for extras. I didn’t care about it but of course my girlfriend and her cousin went psycho about it and signed us up. We waited in line with at least a thousand other people only to finally get up there, and all they did was take a headshot and send us on our way. The girls were all disappointed that there wasn’t anything else to it while I the introvert just laughed about it.

Until I was the one they called back. Not only that, but it turns out they picked me to be a stand-in for Boyd Holbrook. I spent a week hanging out on David Fincher’s set, occasionally doing work while trying to avoid getting in trouble for doing things like accidentally sitting in Rosamund Pike’s chair. Then one of the assistant directors’ mother died and he had to leave, so they “promoted” me to production assistant. At one point I was sent to look for and found David Fincher’s missing iPhone.

Fucking surreal man. But I’ve got the 20th Century Fox W-2s to prove it.

I could rephrase and say their beliefs are not the same, but their behaviors are. Think of some of the worst qualities of far right posting. Memes that pigeonhole non-believers, co-opting language to mean things other than what the majority of people understand it to mean, facts-optional diatribes. Now read any number of Hexbear threads.

I wondered this same thing and investigated installing Hyprland on Bazzite but didn’t really find anything. I suspect you’d layer the installation into the os with rpm-ostree, but I didn’t end up trying it.

There are still plenty of people that have gone so far left that they crossed the prime meridian and landed on the right.

Can you imagine being the person that hit that button today? Jesus.

My brother in Christ, I’ve borked Linux systems with a misplaced text file =D

This show is already about 75% of my daily speech. Now shut the fuck up, Doug. I’ll eat your wife’s wig.

I think there are quite a few non-gamers in their community, but yes a couple of the DE’s they offer lean into the RGB neon style. I like that they actually provide some style (that I like, luckily) out of the box instead of just a regular ass desktop like every other distro.

I don’t know why other distros don’t offer out-of-the-box rices like this. It’s just fun.

It’s finally an opinionated distro I agree with. Of course you can get anything to look like anything but I just like how they picked a path and went so far down it to make their own unique out-of-the-box experience.

Garuda Hyprland edition. All the neon-RGB styling of Garuda gamer on top of Hyprland’s smooth UI.

The power of defaults.

My god you’re right! It seems I’ve gotten away with it. Cheers.

I dual boot, but I’ve been dreading booting back into Windows recently because I upgraded my motherboard/CPU and know they are going to make me buy another license. And I understand Windows is more convenient for a lot of people but I am not one of them.

I can’t think of anything that is more convenient for me on Windows other than that I have to use it to run Studio One to record music from time to time. But “software availability” has nothing to do with the operating system itself; market position does. And a company’s market position rarely drives my purchasing decisions.

I dislike Windows for all the reasons people here typically state.

I just saw their Big Time video! Glad those guys have the guts to do that.

Donut - how? All the giga-sponsors they take lately?

My wife asked me to help her with her Windows laptop one day. She was stuck at the bitlocker prompt and of course didn’t remember enabling it or being given a password. I was like, WTF, they’re just randomly turning this on by surprise now? LOL

Luckily she was able to eventually get it unlocked by calling MS support.

Does it compress from the middle out?