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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • Arch with KDE on ThinkPad T460s (studying and bullshit pc).

    Nobara with i3wm on home studio/gaming desktop. Switching to Arch on it one day but CBA at the moment.

    Honestly which distro I use isn’t all that important to me these days so long as I’m getting decently new kernel updates. Depending on my use case that’s not even important. Used Debian LTS on a home media center for probably 8 years.






  • Linux has come a long way with gaming fortunately. I daily drive fedora and use Proton-GE/Wine-GE and can play most games with the exception of some problem ones (Assetto Corsa & Rust, I’m looking at you).

    Only time I ever fool with W11 these days is when I use Studio One for music or play on of the (very few) problem games some friends want me to join them on. I’d recommend checking out the Nobara distro for games.

    Not surprising OSX is a better Windows in some ways. Switched to iPhone last summer for my daily driver and don’t regret it. Best mobile experience I’ve had since my custom ROMs days on Android. Even started out setting up app folders to copy my Nova Launcher setup. That said, I’ll be excited when more privacy respecting options come around to the mobile market for my next phone.





  • I’ve had pretty good luck with the random kitchen accouterment or phone case from Aliexpress but probably due to marketing, Temu seems to have overwhelmed several countries’ postal systems so I’ll also be steering clear. These companies (amazon included) all massively contribute to exploitation though so I wouldn’t recommend going hog wild on them with 100 orders of random shit.

    Just turns out that it’s really cheap to make various types of garbage in China and ship it the cheapest possible way that takes 1+ months to arrive. Many of these products lack fancy packaging and marketing as well which also slashes costs.









  • Had a similar thing happen. Half woke up in a guest room at my grandma’s. Was my uncle’s room. Has a few model cars and this racecar wallpaper with lotus, jaguar, old cars, trophies etc on it. Well my sleepy hardly awake brain saw some creepy ass momo looking mf face as soon as my eyes opened and I threw a haymaker at that bitch! Nope, just quickly faded into a wallpaper pattern.

    Luckily it was barely out of my reach to hit it so hard so it didn’t put a hole there. Just loud thump that probably startled someone.


  • iDunnoBro@sopuli.xyztoworldnews@lemmy.world*World* news vs US politics
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    1 year ago

    I also struggle with this often as a 'Merican expat living in another country, hopefully permanently. Occasionally I wanna catch up on US shit but most of the time I care more about what’s going on in Europe and other places so I couldn’t care less about the perpetually stupid shit happening back in the US.

    I’m still learning the language where I moved to so English news resources that are about other places can be very valuable to me. My main resource (and advice to others with this issue) is using an RSS reader with good sources you find along the way. Not every site has RSS these days but many do. I fill in the blanks with podcasts and stories in the language of my country. Only downside is no discussion unless you post on Lemmy or other social media, but maybe that can become a thing we do. :)


  • Yeah that’s the unfortunate side. Given the situation it makes way more financial sense for the consumer to take the plane ticket unless they enjoy the novelty of a long train journey.

    Also had a situation recently where just a 1.5 hour train trip became 6 hours due to it breaking down in a town with few bus stops and no other trains, probably due to summer tourism. It would be nice if the rail infrastructure were even further expanded and tickets made cheaper to make it more competitive.