It was a serious problem for a long time. Late 90’s/early 2000’s E3 and game shows were greasy.

I remember gaming magazines running whole sections just on the “best booth babes” of the season.

I can’t imagine anyone gaming on this. But, I’m stoked for multiple vendors offering ARM devices since the MS/Qualcomm deal is done.

I’m excited about a thin tiny laptop, with great battery life, that runs my code.

Rabble. It’s themed with my other devices, Pibble, Pabble, and Ribble.

I don’t even know what my display drivers are.

They’re handled and updated by the operating system.

Once a week I check for updates, and click a button to install anything I want updated.

I literally have no clue what you’re talking about.

Yeah linux sucks unless you want to browse the internet, do office work, or play games.

Anything else is basically impossible.

The problem I have is normalization. People complained about micro-monetization in video games, but that was normalized. People complained about corporate interest in open source, but that’s normalized. Now people are complaining about your operating system advertising to you against your will, it will be normal soon.

“It’s a Rust based…” You son of a bitch, I’m in.

When I was a residential garbage collector, I saved close to a dozen computers from the landfill that just needed a quick cleaning. A lot of people will get rid of their year old Alienware once it fills with cat hair.

I was tempted to do this with my tux sticker, but when my wife saw me sizing it up she kiboshed it.

"I’m not having a terminator penguin stare at me everyday. "

Those interests usually mean you have good experience with alcohol.

I’m an aged university student, and I spend most of the first day of any group project trying to convince people why NOT to use Discord or Instagram for all our comms.

It’s infuriating, but sometimes I feel like I’m yelling at a cloud.

Yeah. Some folk use portable computers on top of their laps. It’s weird :/

I used logseq for my first semester of university and I can’t see any reason to switch right now.

It handles markdown and KaTeX, so it handles everything I need really, in a fast simple program.

I have a standing theory that once a person is no longer concerned about their welfare or the welfare of their descendants, they go crazy.

Like, once you reach a point where survival is no longer a problem, that part of your brain goes nuts. It’s not a flawless theory, since philanthropy is a thing and people like Dean Kamen exist, but it’s a thing that seems to happen an awful lot.

My first thought was " Who has a PLC in their home?".

Oh man. I’ve been using logseq, but being able to draw and scribble on my notes makes this mighty appealing…

You only need to eat two meals a day, really.

Oh man he looks weird. He said the prognosis is good, I really wish him the best!

There’s an old adage for cars that I think applies to home servers.

Fast, Cheap, Reliable. Pick two

In my experience, SBCs take a whole lot more tinkering than I like to do. I bought a cheap matx motherboard and a second hand ryzen 2400g which has served me well. Inside a second hand htpc chassis with an ssd for the os and a couple hdds for storage. It even has a 5.25" bay I can install a drive for ripping. I’d rubbing OpenMediaVault with Docker for Sonarr/Radarr/Overseerr/Nextcloud etc.

It’s probably not the cheapest to run, but it was cheap to buy and it’s very reliable because it’s based on x86 so the support will probably outlast me.

I’ve never used OS2, but I’m pretty experienced with OS2/Warp!