Honestly, they should just reneg. Fuck it, it’s Trump Admin America. You can’t trust them for shit.

Pixel 6, I believe.

How much of a risk is GraphenOS to install? I really don’t wanna brick my phone.

oh fuck that’s even worse.

Look, if it takes you 2 days to debloat windows, linux is gonna take a real fucking while to learn right.

Yeah, I’m not surprised by it, but it’s still a bummer/roadblock.

Yeah if you have your games on Steam it seems to (mostly) just work. Other services get a bit more janky. Xbox App is, sadly, impossible as far as I can tell.

Honestly, using Linux Mint lately and it’s been far smoother than my previous linux attempts. Granted, there’s much better tech today to help, but yeah it’s been nice. My only sadness is not getting my singular Xbox App game playable on linux.

What’s made Arch better for you?

Buy freezer or shelf-stable microwave meals? You have food that way but it shouldn’t really just “go bad”. At least, not quickly.

Do be fair, that’s less because the fundamentals behind programming are changing and more because the specific implementations are changed all the damn time.

It’s not about the coffee specifically, it’s about all the pleasantries. Sure walks are nice and stargazing is lovely. And yeah, those things are great with friends and partners! But you know what else is a nice little treat? Coffee. Snacks. Watching that movie together. Some lovely flowers. Slick shoes.

Some of the pleasantries that make life worth living are free, but many of them cost money. You obviously can’t have everything, but having to give up on literally every pleasantry that costs money (even the cheapest of ones) just to afford enough to live what used to be a normal middle class life is definitely not something that should be treated as normal. There’s a clear trend of sinking purchasing power for the masses and, with it, sinking morale.

Previously I had the warnings until uBlock killed them. Only one has made it through in recent times, we’ll see how things keep going.

6 lessons? ew.

oh good to hear. I heard about windows doing jank stuff on update recently and was really worried I’d have to fight with it soon.

It’s been a while since I saw it, and I don’t plan on re-finding nor rewatching just to figure out what I hated at the time. I recall it was one about electricity, and there was something about claims that are fundamentally impossible within the realms of physics.

Unfortunately a lot of people are going to assume you have it under control already and/or would prefer the solitude as you sort through it. That’s not the extent of the issue, obviously, but that’s a pretty significant compounding factor.

For the screens I’m using, a book page is way narrower than the standard text region of a screen.

Sorry, Veritasium. And it’s been a while since I’ve watched his stuff, so I don’t remember which videos annoyed me. I know there was one that involved electricity that was just extremely wrong in a few key ways.

Got any details on the type of stuff your mom shared for improved UIs?