The disappearance of defined benefit retirement plans is yet another way those on top are boning us, and it is NOT being talked about enough.

I have a '97 Honda Prelude Type SH. For the 5th generation, only about 60,000 USDM Preludes were made. The Type SH was more expensive. There was also no automatic option for the Type SH, and since manuals were already dying in the 90s, I’d guess that they didn’t even sell more than a few thousand of them.

It’s a little rough. One of these days, I’m gonna dump a few thousand bucks into it and make it beautiful. But we’re working on our house and some other things first. Someone put a bunch of those bluish LEDs all over the thing. I deconverted it back to soft white halogens.

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“$3,000 setup to play a game from 2010.”

I have an RTX 4070 that I’ve been using to play Half Life. I’ve owned my copy for a while, but have never played it.

Drives my wife crazy lol

Can confirm. I use Debian on a laptop and it’s great.

I’ve been running Half Life for the first time recently. I’m only a quarter century late.

The only time I forced Linux on anyone was when I gave my youngest brother a free laptop a couple years ago. It’s the laptop I had in college in 2011. It has a Sandy Bridge mobile Core i7. It’s too slow to run modern Windows. I told him he’s free to install Windows, but I don’t have a license to give him. For checking emails and web surfing, though, it was enough, and running Linux wasn’t going to give him trouble with that. To my knowledge (and to his credit), he still runs Linux on it.

This would have been so much funnier without any text.

Don’t forget how we killed like fucking everything.

A badge I wear with pride.

Depends on what I need to return to baseline.

• Need to cry to just get it out? Moon Song by Phoebe Bridgers
• Need to scream at everything? Monkey Wrench by Foo Fighters
• Need to just piss and moan for fourteen minutes? Beach Life-in-Death by Car Seat Headrest
• Need to feel calm again? Literally the entirety of Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
• Need something to lift me up so I can wear a happy face? Don’t Stop by Fleetwood Mac

And theeeeeeeen?

Mint and Kubuntu are great for newbies. Ubuntu is also great, but the community hates Ubuntu these days so be ready to get replies criticizing Ubuntu or your choice to use it. It still makes a lot of shit really easy.

yeah

For those who don’t know:

MY PKCELL

I used Ubuntu for over 10 years. I loved it. But Canonical does have a lot of baggage. Plus, I wanted to go to the source. So that’s why I use Debian. I’d still advise a new user to go for Mint if they loved the Windows UI or Ubuntu if they hated it. If you use and love Mint, I don’t think anyone would criticize you for continuing to use it. If you use and love Ubuntu, I’d say Debian is a very easy next step.

AI rice cooker, anyone?

Spoiler alert: the rice cooking function was analog the whole time.

Finally had something good to say about Alabama and they had to go and ruin it.

There was a promotion around at the time where if you bought a Windows 7 laptop within a certain time frame, you could get $25 off your Windows 8 Pro license, which cost $40 on launch day.

And so on launch day, I paid $15 for my retail copy of Windows 8 Pro and installed it on my new PC.

Everyone shits on Win 8, but I had some shell extension that brought back the Win 7 start menu so I have somewhat fond memories of Win 8. I almost never had to deal with the Metro Start Screen.

My thing is I’ve got years of experience in Linux. I began using Ubuntu in 2012 because my laptop’s hard disk failed, the sticker with my product key had worn away, and I wasn’t paying $100 for another copy of Windows 7.

I’ve only been noncommittal about it this this long because of my Steam library. But with the Steam Deck and Proton being so damn good, and all my games working just as well on Linux as they did in Windows (many times, better), I just stopped using Windows altogether.

So there I was, staring at GNOME Disks for a couple hours. Knowing that like a bad relationship that was doing something for me, but also hurting me, it was best to break things off. And then I nuked that bitch lol