lol the insignia in the corner, very American

It was plenty stupid in that context

I was its friend, but it wasn’t my friend

So it’s over, isn’t it? The nitpickers are here to stay

They still ask you why their garbage doesn’t work or how to run a PDF.
I’m not even a computer programmer, I do industrial automation!

When I was a kid we hung out at the record store… it was free

I’m writing this on Bazzite right now, it’s awesome, works great, and it’s true that the preinstalled apps and scripts are really useful for someone coming over from Windows… but not just for them! I’ve been a Linux user for maybe a couple of decades now and I find them very useful.

My mom used OpenSUSE maybe 10 years ago on a netbook-ish notebook and never had problems until the hardware failed

I tried playing it on the steam deck but it had a huge, weird dead zone on the right thumb stick which I couldn’t fix. I’ll have to try on the desktop.

Mine’s a Mikrotik, cool hardware but man, do I miss OpenWRT every time I have to change a setting

My router broke the other day. I had to replace it with a new one, incompatible with the old one’s backups.

That was painful, nothing worked for quite a while, save for zigbee devices which I couldn’t control anyway 'cause I couldn’t reach HA.

it’s called Home Assistant

Italian here:

Photography hobbyist here: our eyes adapt to light more than we realize. What to us is a slight change in brightness is a dramatic difference to a photo camera.

Soviet Union had public healthcare

The URSS curse, the USA defeated it but doing so condemned itself to ruin

What about the VPN I have to my home?

Here in Italy all family doctors use Gmail for safety data regularly

And there’s way fewer Christians nowadays

I’m not well versed in encryption, can’t they just decrypt them at will? When I use their webmail I just login, I don’t provide any decryption pass