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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • LOL, give it up. Lemmy is full of kids who have never had a physically challenging job in their fucking life.

    “I saw bad things!”

    Is no way comparable to:

    “I’ve blown out my back and knees, can barely stand up in the morning and can’t make a fist.”

    And for those bitching about the first two items, 19 of 20 of them are, and have always been, fat fucks.

    Anyways, looks like GenZ is about to get hard as fuck in the next few years when they see what real suffering is.















  • Just use Ubuntu. (Surely I’ll get hate for this.)

    It’s based on Debian, a major branch off the tree. It just fucking works. Millions of tutorials, groups, etc. to find troubleshooting info. Probably won’t have to do anything to get a machine running that does everything you’re doing now.

    Get the swing of that and go from there, if you want to try other branches.

    This realization helped me quite a bit: Windows does all sorts of arcane voodoo with the registry and DLLs and such. Weirdness Linux appeals to many because all the configuration is contained in simple text files. Got a program that reads and writes plain old text? Aight. You can configure Linux. In a way, it’s so simple it’s hard to get your head around coming from Windows.

    tl;dr: Just download and install Ubuntu. Go from there with your nicely working machine.




  • Pratchett’s Discworld deserves the Marvel treatment. If I had a few billion, I’d be all in.

    Reading selected novels for the 3rd pass. I get that much wouldn’t translate to screen, but plenty enough would. We have an abundance of genius in Hollywood to pull this off. Take LOTR and Harry Potter for fantasy examples.