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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • Have I been on 10 years? I dunno, but I like to think I’m pretty experienced for an amateur.

    OpenSUSE Tumbleweed! It rolls! It games! It works with newer hardware and gets along sorta reasonably with Nvidia!

    Best part? If any of that ISN’T true (rarely after an update), it seamlessly integrates BTRFS snapshots with the boot menu, to just roll back and wait like a week til the wonderful souls working on it, fix stuff.

    The community is also very supportive.









  • Like others said, a lot is just nostalgia. I liked a lot of the aesthetics of the time, from 90’s to XP, to Vista/7.

    Also like others said, a majority of actually-affordable peripherals use some sort of specific driver system that’s Windows only. Big example being my cool Mechland keyboard I really like, but it’s one of those where trying to give it cool effects in OpenRGB would brick it, and only their Windows software can access some of its main features.

    Not the worst though, I just have a Win10 VM I fire up exclusively to update those peripherals.

    WAIT, KNOW WHAT? WORKING VR. I MISS THAT. But M$ themselves killed that one so it’s kinda moot? My WMR Odyssey+ worked GREAT, and since M$ decided it’s a paperweight now, the awesome souls behind Monado are our only hope for decent VR before the Steam Frame. (Which now terrifies me thanks to RAM inflation…)





  • I might have a lot of fun things that aren’t legal in California. Never thought my OS would be one, but here we are.

    If people went out of their way to learn a damn thing about computers, and all-consuming jobs didn’t force entire generations raised without parents, and maybe they didn’t let their 6 year olds on social media / online gaming / whatever unsupervised, maybe there’d be more backlash to the state and corporations trying to step in as parental figures.

    …Wish that wasn’t too friggin’ much to ask.

    Servers and data centers have zero business knowing anything about who’s behind my machine by default.