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It makes it look like a shitpost at a glance lol

I desperately need a competitor to come in. They’re trying to raise my bill 50% right now and there’s not a single other broadband service at my address.

Desktop and Surface Laptop Studio: KDE Neon, because I like when my desktop is pretty and hate when it works sometimes Homelab server: NixOS, because when it dies (for the third time) I have no plans to dispense any time setting it back up.

That’s fair enough. I can’t say I’ve used Mint very much, I’ve just known it as something to suggest to newbies. My brother revived his 2009 Macbook Pro with it, but it’s so old he mostly uses it for character sheets during Pathfinder night.

I love nixos for my homelab! Out of curiosity, why C tier for KDE Neon? (My desktop and laptop both daily drive them, and I’ve loved it since abandoning Ubuntu post-Unity)

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I just finished fixing my storage setup and was ready to add more… 😭

LOL I found the github page before the website when I discovered it. So many folks mention Handbrake, but after canceling my Adobe subscription, using this was the first time I wasn’t missing Adobe Media Encoder.

I feel like it’s a nice intermediate step when learning the commands. man is great when you already know you have the right tool and you just need to check a flag. A newbie who just left Windows is gonna be so overwhelmed by a lot of manpages, but this does a nice job of easing them in using examples to give the user an idea of what that tool is capable of.

I like using Podman Desktop to keep an eye on containers and glance at logs, but more often than not I’m doing most operations on the CLI.

ffmpeg is great, and doing simple things is pretty straightforward, but if you work with a lot of media and do different kinds of operations, give Shutter Encoder a shot, it’s an amazing FOSS GUI tool for ffmpeg, yt-dlp, and more!

A couple years ago when I was preparing for a possible future exodus from Discord, I tried to self-host a Revolt instance, but I found that it was lacking in some important features, and there was some internal drama going on about licensing. I don’t know the specifics, but it felt messy at the time and I ended up just hosting a Matrix instance instead. I haven’t seen what it’s like these days.

I don’t really bother encrypting my personal PC, there’s just not much on there at all that I even store. My server is definitely LUKS encrypted, but it’s a lot of effort for a very specific attack vector that I don’t anticipate. There’s things I’d be much more concerned about a burglar stealing than a storage device.

Even 4K is noticeable for monitors (but probably not much beyond that), but this is referring to TVs that you’re watching from across the couch.

The shift to Linux is a tough one, and it just cannot happen all at once. The longer you spend in a workflow, the longer it takes to change it. If we offer our support and kindness to people when they struggle with Windows, it lends more credibility when we recommend Linux. Plus, I’m not really going to complain about another opportunity to call out when Microsoft does more dumb shit.

I am, thank you! I’ll definitely be on the lookout.

Me neither honestly, I just know she seems to have a massive following of fans that will do or pay anything that she touches lmao But it would be cool to buy some in general. I can’t remember how many times I listened to one Joan Jett tape as a kid

I figure normally, yeah, but I feel like Taylor Swift playing around with a new medium probably comes with a heavy price tag.

Perhaps a reason to dust off my walkman! … if this cassette is even affordable.

I don’t make quite that after 8 years of doing this stuff. That being said, I dropped out of college twice. Maybe $100k of debt is what I need to close that $25k difference lol