It sure looks like a Dell XPS to me. Those old XPS cases were nonstandard so it was very hard to upgrade the parts later on.

eMachines had cases that look like that too back in 2006

I think that one predates YouTube. I remember first watching it on a friends computer who shared his files during a LAN party

I have a Quest 2 but I hardly ever use it for gaming (modded Beat Saber once in a blue moon). Instead, it’s my personal gigantic HD TV.

I am a night owl but everyone else in my household is not so I use IR light sources and camera passthrough for janky night vision.

I sideloaded Android APKs and watch streaming video in super high definition. With wired earbuds and various settings and mods (such as spatial audio disabled) it makes for a comfy couch experience.

(I really wish the Quest wasn’t tainted with Facebook though. Imagine Linux on it!)

Plus it was usually yellowed and sticky with nicotine tar

TIL about soy chorizo and it sounds amazing 🤤

Power Suppwy. OP may be a furry /s

Way back when, Slashdot had something like this to place in your signature. It was a code string that looked like a PGP/GPG signature but the letters were actually personal details.

I recall you could encode age, gender, and relationship status in it, and I think location and whether you worked in the tech industry

In addition this was back when airlines had strong restrictions on wireless being used on planes, so many devices had physical switches to turn WiFi/Bluetooth off. Maybe it’s still turned off

I called 911 a few years ago and they had a police officer call me back when he got to my neighborhood. I had to do this a few times as the incident repeated a few days later. Each time the officer called me his number was hidden.

That’s the only time I’ve ever had a call from a hidden number that was not a scam, but I would be hesitant to block them all

Also an old fart, also love XFCE

I am a longtime fan of Debian Stable, for exactly that reason. I installed the XFCE version using the custom installer about 8 years ago and have had very few issues.

Initially my GPU wasn’t well supported so I had to use the installer from Nvidia, forcing me to manually reinstall the driver after every kernel update. That issue has been fixed in recent years so now I can just use the driver from the Debian repos.

I installed the unattended-updates package about 2 years ago and it has been smooth sailing since

I have some bad news for you - any random idiot with a driver’s license and a two-ton death machine already puts your ass at risk, all the time. We call it “traffic” because we’ve just gotten used to it

Everyone I know who has had a skunk spray was due to one of two causes:

1). They ran it over with their car or 2). Their dog attacked it

In general skunks are very reticent to actually spray. I’ve never known anyone to get it from just walking by. I knew someone who blocked a skunk with their shoe from running in the house, because they mistook it for their cat.

From what I understand, they have poor eyesight and hearing, so in my experience they usually don’t even notice you. They are a wild animal though so the important thing would be to not surprise them. I think if you make noise, keep your distance, and never corner one you should be fine.

What a world we have created where “we won’t have to work anymore” means “we’re all doomed”

We could be creating a new utopia, but we know the people in power will hoard every scrap

This is the one I got. I wonder why they use different photos sometimes

I came to the comments to mention that exact experience. There must be historical reasons that SCP uses -P and SSH uses -p but I certainly didn’t expect it since they’re both from the same package (openssh)

Shelled and unshelled both also mean unshelled and shelled, respectively

Invalid USB-A male to USB-A male cables are also commonly used on low cost KVM switches.

The one I got from Amazon has two of them - one for each computer, then the other end of each cable connects to the switch. The switch has its own micro-USB power supply but it is optional, so the cables must pass power

I read, many years ago when people were changing them to say “ZOMBIES AHEAD”, that the default password is the two digit state code followed by DOT.

E.g., for signs operated by the Washington State Department of Transportation it is simply “WADOT”

[Borat voice: wife!] right now