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wingsfortheirsmiles

@ wingsfortheirsmiles @feddit.uk

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  • curious what your current top ten albums of 2025 are.. what’s your #1 to beat?

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  • I preferred the first record but This Bitter Garden is up there for me as well. End Beginnings from Sandwell District is another honorable mention

  • What's your Nerf?

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  • I'm a fairly social, enthusiastic person but have a lot of dysphoria around both my appearance and just being human in general

  • TFW you got to a black metal show

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  • Never heard that about deathcore, fascinating. I was going to say bands like Panopticon or WitTR are some of the few exceptions from this list

  • Any tablet suggestions?

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  • This is the way, you can pick up a Surface Pro 6 for under £250 here on eBay, i7 and 16GB

  • Pixel Grip - Split

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  • Digging the new record but nothing beats Pursuit for me

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    What music do you find so hypnotic?

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    Whats your favorite Pink Flloyd album?

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  • My vote, I remember my dad playing me that and DsotM and I preferred the more psychedelic vibe for the former

  • I use Arch btw

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  • Went with EndeavourOS instead so at least I have more than an ice cubes chance in hell of not borking my install

  • ProtonPlus makes managing Proton versions on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck simple

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  • Initially thought this was about the Proton Foundation product before I realised which community I was in

  • Plague of Carcosa - The Elder Things (new single from the upcoming lp) [sludge/doom]

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  • Lovecraft and sludge metal? Definitely piques my interest 🦑🦑🦑

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    What words do you wish you used more often?

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  • Nonplussed and forbearance. Got the latter into a work email earlier, easily the highlight of my day

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    Do you ever drink "strategically"?

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  • I do, but the other way as I'm getting old and can't down them like I used to. Met up with a mate to watch the F1 in the pub garden on a sunny Sunday, just had a couple of halves as I still wanted to try a number of new drops

    Though I completely understand using alcohol to loosen up a bit, for numerous social situations. Definitely used it more that way in my younger days, to varying degrees of success

  • PSA: Stop Using These Fire-Prone Anker Power Banks Right Now

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  • Do note that you should also check that you initiate the recall from the Anker site matching your location

  • What holiday destination is the most concerning?

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  • With everything that's happening over there rn, probably the US

  • Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations

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  • A lot of great points here, I would be on aboard if phones therefore had two USB-C ports as standard

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  • But of course, such heinous basic decency must be punished

    I hate this pathetic species sometimes.

  • What's your LEAST favorite song

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  • I think I actually like it more for the memes than as a song at this point

  • What's your LEAST favorite song

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  • Old U2 is actually pretty decent, I quite like The Unforgettable Fire

  • What's the smallest laptop that runs Linux and is actually usable?

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  • This isn't the smallest you can go per se and isn't a laptop but I've happily run PopOS on my Surface Pro 8 for over a year. You lose the front camera due to the proprietary blobs, and there's some tweaking needed such as to get the keyboard working for LUKS decrypt but it's pretty damn good for those tasks you mention. I read a lot of comics and RPG rule/corebooks and it's perfect for that plus some light browsing and media consumption. Biggest downsides are the battery life which isn't great compared to on Windows (around 5hrs or so, up to 7 with light usage) but that's Linux for you, and ofc it's more awkward to balance the folio keyboard on your lap. But for all that, it's pretty convenient to take around plus you get the benefit of that bright, Surface Pro display