For some reason missed the text above the pic box, and I was like shrimp possessing and doing blow brings you joy? The context of your context cropping helped me enjoy it more.
I appreciate what you're saying, but I wasn't aware that commenting on a post suddenly made me adopt any and all of it's opinions. But when I see folks turn a post about a cheese and onion sandwich into an America bad jerkfest, I just felt compelled to point out how stupid that is, in spite of the fact that I probably agree with them.
Turning every tech post into Linux praise and every anything post into America bad does not create a healthy, entertaining community. It's boring and repetitive. You understand that. Right?
Well that's weird, but you Midwesterners are weird to me, so it makes sense!
I always liked to joke that, like, west of Wisconsin and Minnesota is the Midwest, and then Montana and Nevada are the West, and that Illinois and Indiana are the Mideast. It's not a good joke.
I didn't make the joke. I think the sandwich looks awful no matter who's eating it. I do not discriminate in my hate for awful sandwiches, I will dole it out accordingly.
I appreciate what you're saying. I will agree 100% it's gotten worse. I use it because I have a software that will never work on anything else, and a piece of hardware that only has drivers for windows.
I just find the argument to be disingenuous that Linux is this - to use the Ron Popwil catchphrase - set it and forget it OS. And I'm not suggesting you made that, but I see it often.
And so because I'm stuck with my work software (which I will use until I die because retirement isn't real), I just don't feel like going over to Linux is going to somehow better my life. I get along more than fine on Windows, same as I always have. I do get the itch to try Linux though, just to see, and so the constant bombardment here on Lemmy might be working. I did try Red Hat briefly 20+ years ago, but that's about the limit of my experience. I wanted to take over a MUD that had gone extinct.
Except that's not true. The little tweaks, remove onedrive, turn off copilot, use powertoys to reprogram the Copilot key to right control. Little, useful tips to improve user experience.
And the thing is, it's something we've been doing for as long as I can remember. I remember screwing around with windows 98 to improve my experience. It's been a fact of life with windows, and it's fine.
The piece of nuance every one of these threads seems to miss. I have software that literally only runs on windows. What do? Rather than talk about how to make Windows work better, the best you get is jump ship!
I made the mistake of watching this before bed the other night. Figured I was just watching a good long deep dive into renewables and specifically solar. Went to bed all fired up, especially because it's just so out of left field for Alec. Loved it. He just presents his information in such a good way to get a point across.
It hurts my mind when you say it was before your time and you never had kids when it was popular. You're both too young and too old to have watched Teletubbies.
I was 10 when it came out, fortunately, otherwise I may have grown up watching what appears to me to have been such a strange show. I recall it coming out and it being very weird.
I've taken less work than I could, making less money (still fortunate to make what I make), because I get to see my kids more. Kids are also a huge pain in the ass sometimes, and so I won't leave my wife with more of a burden than I have myself. We're a team, and we're a family. When they get older and more independent, maybe I'll put the hammer down and make more money, but right now I have the perfect balance and I wouldn't want it any other way.
Unfortunately, probably gonna have to go bash Nazis eventually.
Yeah, I turn down invitations to go out after my nighttime board meetings if it means I get home in time to put my kids to bed. I take them to school in the morning and pick them up just about every day. Sometimes they get on every single one of my nerves, but I love being home with them, playing with them, making dinners that they complain about and it makes my blood boil. It's all part of the package. The whole idea of the silent workaholic dad is just crazy to me. I want to be the one who takes them to the park.
Yeah, OneDrive became an instant uninstall for me because of how it works. I have 2TB of empty cloud storage that I would love to use, but refuse to completely rework my file structure. I am not going to move literally everything. I'll let you read my boring ass work shit, I don't care, I let Google do it probably when I upload shit to drive, I just want to organize things the way I have them, because that's how they work.
And the enemy of progress. If everyone arrived for "good enough" we'd get further than people who refuse to try for fear of not achieving perfection. And this is problem comes not only from that person, but from the external pressure to be perfect. Fuck that shit. My old man used to get on me as a kid, "You only want to be good enough?" Yeah, that's fine. I get everything done that I need to, and I can go be good enough at some other shit too, and I think I make the world around me better with all of my good enough shit.
For some reason missed the text above the pic box, and I was like shrimp possessing and doing blow brings you joy? The context of your context cropping helped me enjoy it more.