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I think underwear and socks are some of the worst culprits for poor quality nowadays. socks especially seem to get threadbare so quickly

I use Photopea for Photoshop stuff, GIMP if what I’m doing needs a particular feature or does better (though that’s not Very many anymore). Inkscape is surprisingly good once you get accustomed to the interface.

I’ve heard good things about Krita but I’ve not messed around with it at all, but it supposedly is much more modern and user friendly than GIMP but suited for digital art and drawing.

I’m hoping affinity comes to Linux, or at least proton/wine pushes hard for it because it’s the one area where desktop Linux is really poor at the moment

Nvidia is just doing what every monopoly does, and AMD is just playing into it like they did on CPUs with Intel. They’ll keep competing for price performance for a few years then drop something that drops them back on top (or at least near it).

system d struggle sessions should be integrated into SystemD

Elon Musk.

Hell in the UK we had the (ex?) host of MasterChef, Greg Wallace, accused of being inappropriate with women in the workplace and making them feel unsafe and uncomfortable around him - Nothing illegal (that I know of), sure, but enough that he was rightfully dropped from whatever broadcaster was employing him.

Cut to a week into the tabloid media meltdown, Greg claims he “thinks he’s on the spectrum” as an explanation for his sexually explicit and creepy behaviour around women. The usual shit where you’re neuro typical until you’re a prick then you’re actually an autistic smol bean uWu.

When that didn’t help, he then showed his true colours by claiming the “typical” kind of woman (I’m assuming he’s referring to the trope of “ugly” women complaining about sexual harassment) making the complaints that got him fired.

“dead internet theory” is great until the users start acting like it’s not a symptom of the platforms they’re using, and just the reality for all of the internet.

Reddit, Instagram, Facebook are all websites struggling to maintain user counts which bring ad revenue and investment. Since investors and ad platforms can’t tell between real and fake users, there is MASSIVE incentive to allow bots on your website.

Moreso for sites like Reddit and Twitter that shit all over their user base and had to quickly mask their haemorrhaging support before the shareholders could complain.

Yup, already keep an off-site copy of the important stuff via Hetzner but my Linux ISOs are the big data hogs

That’ll do the trick. Get yourself a powered USB hub and connect a bunch of SSDs to it, then jam the hub into your mini PC. You’ve now got yourself a NAS in all ways except looks.

Honestly a raspberry pi or equivalent on diet pi (https://dietpi.com/) is probably a good start. Though with the caveat that you should use its internal utilities to create an off-site backup of your most important data via a provider such as hetzner.

Cheap, low power, and diet pi is Debian with some tweaks so it’s very easy to set up either bare metal or via containers (as others have said containers may help manage things easier and safer in the long run).

For storage, you’ll probably either need an externally powered USB dock (30ish EUR) or a powered 3.5inch HDD dock if you go this route as the pi cannot reliably power even one SSD from its USB ports - you’ll risk IO failures. The same will come from any setup that includes any low power SBC just for stability. In my experience it’s still less than 15W but you need stable power for IO stuff on SSDs.

fedora has a KDE spin, and others have mentioned stuff like Bazzite which is similar. I’m personally planning to switch eventually.

>cool CPU to 0 Kelvin

>CPU stops working

yeah I guess you’re right