Yeah I’ve had the tent I was sleeping in broken by a bear while solo backpacking. I didn’t end up needing to shoot it but I always carry bear spray and a gun when I’m solo camping in bear country.

I moved three Win 10 boxes to linux mint cinnamon this week. Twenty more and I’ll have made good progress on my little nonprofit. But I’m probably at least a decade from being able to go 100% away from windows and Mac’s. Fuck em both.

It’s easy at least. I just got my wife set up with it on a laptop that was running Windows 10 previously. Even the banking app she has been using in Windows has a Ubuntu release that worked pretty easily. She wasn’t even put off by having to use the terminal to install it. I’m calling it a win.

Also: “Why doesn’t the Fediverse have a larger user base?”

Everyone else laughs at you, you might as well get to join in.

I run a nonprofit that owns a few venues with great sound systems, so I deal very closely with a lot of musicians. And man do they all love their Macs. The windows attachment mostly has to with older large donors involved in our accounting. But neither of those things are going to change super quickly. I just keep switching over more machines one by one.

As much as I have no desire to play either of those games, their existence on Windows affects me exactly zero. I’m still a mixed Linux and Windows user (and a couple of Macs I don’t want), I manage a lot of machines between my family and my small nonprofit. I like Linux a lot but I doubt I’ll ever be able to walk away from Apple or Windows completely. But a man can dream! People keep dragging me back in…

At this point I don’t even know what a Nazi is anymore.

I live in a place with no alternatives to cars for transportation, and I make less than I did 20 years ago - and that’s before adjusting for inflation. I want Chinese car standards. I want a car for under $10k.

This is my future and I hate it.

Firewatch checked that box for me. Two of my kids did a playthrough too.

Patient gamers ftw!

Lemmy has lost that funny spark and energy, but it’s because of the weird niche user base. Other platforms don’t all have this problem.

That’s actually a great answer. Thank you! Yeah I know it’s been over a week but this is often how I function.

I’m all for an LS swap. Let’s LS swap the world!

Yeah my daughter is studying ASL in college right now and have learned a lot about sign language recently.

My local B league hockey team does discount nights with cheap seats and cheap options for beer/soft drinks and snacks. My wife and I will get tickets, have a few drinks and snacks and spend a total of maybe a little over $20. Even on full price nights it’s maybe $50 for the same.

Plus there’s the fights that almost always break out. Or, as the saying goes, there was a fight and a hockey game broke out.

I wish there was a movement of people taking them all down.

I also said, “I actually don’t watch any shows where that kind of delay is even a possibility.”

I don’t watch them until they’re done either. But my wife always complains about waiting for the next episode of something, and I just shake my head.

There was no reason Wash had to die. He was better than those gorram Reavers.