Ohh, so this is why those people are always shouting about globalism being bad.

I just installed Mint and some games on 5 Thinkpad T420s my boss was going to throw out. Sunday’s LAN party was pretty fun.

Is this my future?

Or it’s the cool block where the cool people hang out and you can be cool by hanging out there too

I dunno. It’s plugged in directly to the modem/router provided by my ISP while my wifi is provided by a separate mesh setup, which is also plugged in to the modem/router 🤷‍♂️

Yea same I don’t even care.

It’s an old laptop, I have a backup. Go ahead, fuck it up.

You can also pop your popcorn in plain undyed paper bags. Toss them in oil, put em in the bag, microwave.

The Zola algorithm is real

Oh weird. I had an issue where I couldn’t play Dawn of War II with my brother on windows from my Mac. I solved it by using windows through boot camp, but that’s so lame.

I wonder if it’s the same issue.

I was going to try to host my music on Jellyfin, but I had an issue.

Since 2005 I’ve been curating my music collection with my old iPod that I still use.

I like my albums in release order so, with the iPod in mind, probably 80% of them are named [year] - [album]

Lidarr and Jellyfin won’t find them because of this and I don’t want to manually sort through 2000-some albums.

So I still use my iPod (20 years old next year!)

So many people angry about phones in here. Just let people like what they like. Yeesh.

I set a timer on your phone to match(ish) the timer on the air fryer

There’s so many games out there I’d like to play, but I’m an adult with responsibilities. I don’t need the newest game or gaming hardware because no matter how hard I try to catch up I never will, so I don’t bother to try and I always have something to play on my hardware.

You can also make your own microwave popcorn without the PFAs for a lot cheaper. Just toss some popcorn seeds in oil, put em in a plain paper bag and microwave.

We have bins around our city for people to drop electronics off for recycling. I’ve taken a few laptops from there. You’re not supposed to, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

One I gave to my buddy who needed something just for emails and web browsing and whatnot, one is running a server, and a couple more went back in to the bin because they were actually broken, but I took the hard drives for the server machine. I have one on a self ready in case the server machine dies so I haven’t gone looking for any new ones in a while.

The best thing Europe could do is take those savings and use it to cover the salaries of a couple full time developers per country to help verify code and add new features.

It would be such a boon to the whole world.

It would be even cooler if we had a right to privacy

I use a Mac. I’m not really interested in high end games though. I like turn-based things.

I’m still using a 2018 Mac Mini (middle-of-the-road specs) and I run things like Pathfinder:Kingmaker and Wasteland 3 just fine. Both are older, but came out around the same time as the computer. However, Baldur’s Gate 3 suffers.

You can add eGPUs to them, but I’ve never bothered to look too much in to it because I’m satisfied with the games available to me.

I’ve heard nothing but good things about the new M-series but have yet to try one.

Or, imagine this: Ben is the parent this time.

Worst year so far.

It’s not going to get better. All the stuff they warned us about in the 90s is now coming to a head due to inaction by the people with power to do anything about it.

This comment makes me believe you don’t understand what unions are/do.