Windows 11 is the best operating system Microsoft have released in a long time, and I think it wins out on Arch Linux.

Agreed, and to be fair I still stop in at niche subreddits I used to follow to see what’s new, but never logged in.

While I love my ThinkPad T480, there’s a bit of me that feels bad for having that replace my Latitude E6420 that still had life left in it on LMDE, especially as I upgraded the processor to a quad core i7-2630QM from the i5-2520M it had.

That being said, the ThinkPad has been better for my back than the 2.5kg Latitude.

This is the actual reason for me too. I’m making a point to never visit that website again.

There’s exceptions like when searching for troubleshooting help and a relevant result happens to be on Reddit, but otherwise I avoid it as much as possible.

I haven’t left, but now it’s something that’s on the cards, which wasn’t the case beforehand.

I only recently linked my domain to my ProtonMail account, so if I do switch it should be relatively painless given I’ll transfer the domain too, and the original PM address has become more of a lost cause anyway due to spam.

Yeah I’m very much now considering alternative options like Tuta now. Been a Proton user since 2020 and subscribed for over 2 years with them, and didn’t have any intention of moving until now.

This is exactly how I feel when I use my TrackPoint and my colleague’s like “CALL IT WHAT IT IS, IT’S A NIPPLE”

I don’t get the hate comments here other than “hurr durr im on a morally superior social media and your daughter isn’t”. Yes, Rednote is a Chinese app with Chinese ideals, proprietary, non-free, foreign telemetry etc etc. but at the end of the day sounds like your daughter’s having fun on an app that’s not too indifferent from TikTok.

Careful saying that round these parts, you’ll summon the ducks.

It only started for me because I wanted to have the convenience of a cloud password manager but without it being publicly open on the internet or hosted outside my network.

I set up Vaultwarden and Tailscale on a Raspberry Pi.

Now I’ve got 2 servers and a (very fucking slow Linksys NSS4000) NAS for backups hosting my life at this point (Nextcloud, Invidious, Beaver Habits)

As a LMDE user who usually keeps it pretty stock, that’s customised. I actually didn’t even know you could do centred taskbar with Cinnamon (even if it is objectively a crime)

I just use Linux Mint Debian Edition for my study laptop, sounds pretty much the same - in over a year of use, I have literally never had a single problem with it (other than things directly caused by me like leftover fstab entries for testing). I know it’s what Debian is renowned for but god damn that is a stable operating system.

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Yeah, my thoughts exactly, even before reading the comments. Yeah, it’s a shitpost, but “Oh, Wallace is considered bottom of the barrel because… he’s like 100?” Straight up ageism.

There was a new kernel update so with some time they’ll start coming through after finishing compiling

^signed, a Linux user^

In roughly 7 years of Linux, I think I’ve only run into issues with automated installers in partitioning if you choose to just go automatic everything and you have a wacky existing partition layout.

Yeah, anything to make that line go up on YouTube’s end.

The latest tag still doesn’t support multiple audio tracks, which might sound niche, but YouTube just rolled out AI dubbed audio tracks, and so Invidious can just play the wrong track and you can’t do anything about it and it’s been this way for about a month.

That being said, it seems that the team’s plan is to put more dev time into changing the back end to video.js so they don’t have to brunt the video retrieval workload, and video.js supports multiple audio tracks as far as I know. I look forward to when that happens, but in the meantime the latest tag is not 100% usable :(

I’ve done this for about 6 months, I’ve had a very mixed experience with Invidious, mostly with YouTube constantly making changes without notice or the video stream not really supporting resuming if the connection breaks briefly.

This isn’t a comment on the Herculean effort the contributors are taking on, but new users should be aware that they need a very reliable connection, update the container regularly, and exercise patience in the current state of Invidious.

Opted to work during the holidays given my family don’t really observe Xmas. Working all days that aren’t public holidays (23, 24, 27, 30, 31 Dec) or weekends (as per our usual roster).

My only regret is after I agreed, a longtime online friend let me know they’d be moving to another country and they were briefly staying at a major city within 5 hours driving distance to me before departing, but with my schedule it’s just not possible for me to see them.

If you do have any Zen games to recommend that don’t have a long learning curve, let me know!

Other than Minecraft, I’ll casually play some old iPad games on an iPad 2 I still have.