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IntheTreetop

@ IntheTreetop @lemm.ee

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I'm just a nerd. I'm an unbelievably amateur novelist and I'm a lover of the greatest game on earth, baseball. Go Giants, Eff the Dodgers and such.

  • Alright you nerds, I made the jump to Linux.

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  • A direct hop is usually not the best way to move into the Linux world. The best way I've heard (and wished I did myself) is slowly start migrating to programs that will be available and you'll be using, while still on Windows. Get used to how new things work and if an emergency comes up, you can fall back to your tried and true tools. Then, just keep migrating apps until most of what you use is open source stuff, or stuff widely available. (Spotify, Discord, Zoom, etc.) Once you have your workflow worked out, you've found substitutes for things you can't get on Linux, then is a good time to take the plunge.

    Going cold turkey is going to be really rough. I had Fedora on a side piece laptop for years before my first try on my workstation and it was a disaster. Less than a week later I had to go back to Windows. But, now I'm familiar with the tools I use and I've been a full convert for a few months now and it's been great.

    You can do it! Just...take it slow.

  • Millions at risk of losing health insurance following Trump's victory

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  • Yup. I have to take twelve medications daily to keep me from dying. Retail price for all of them would be about $15k a month. Once that goes away, I go away. Now I have to face the idea of sitting down with my wife and planning what she'll do when I die.

    No one in this day and age should have to do that. I'm 42...

  • The worst

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  • I will forever shout it from the rooftops. Monopoly is a 30 minute game, regardless of how many players you have. If you play by the actual rules, and none of the house rules you've made up for yourself, it's really quick and really fun. No families need to be shattered over the game. No friendships lost. Just play by the actual rules!

  • Burning Up

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  • This makes a lot of sense, and why I'd never survive in Canada.

  • MIT stopped subscribing to Elsevier journals, instead ordering materials as needed. It saved millions.

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  • Blank tapes?

  • Adobe's Employees Are Just As Upset at the Company As Its Users: Report

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  • Unfortunately, they were also recently acquired by Canva. It may be all right for the time being, but I wouldn't throw my full weight behind them anymore.

  • Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever.

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  • No problem, friend. I have time for both.

  • I totally meant to do that

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  • Having no knowledge of chess really at all, I'm like 60% sure all those words are made up and it's just a giant gag the chess community uses to confuse people. They must have some random chess generator that spits out random gibberish that sounds impressive.

  • tumblr saves the world. again.

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  • Seriously no idea at all. My wife, who doesn't generally care for music at all was very well acquainted with it. It was just one of those one-in-a-million things just seemed to happen.

  • tumblr saves the world. again.

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  • Semi-relevant story time!

    A couple weeks ago I was watching a favorite Youtuber, 12Tone, deconstructing a song I wasn't aware of. During the intro he made a joke about trying to explain the song, then stopped, saying everyone already knew what the song was. I had no idea at all. So I went and listened to the song and looked up a bit more about it.

    Due to some weird convergence of chance and Matrix-esque internet dodging that I didn't know I was doing, I somehow missed out on the phenomenon that was Mr. Brightside.

    It's a really good song and I had the fortune to be one of that day's lucky 10,000.