Neopets is still around. Monetized to hell, but still…

How many attempts was that?

Fair enough.

And why a Twitter account?

It’s hard to do so when it seems like your seeding is never connecting to anyone…

X1 Carbon is awesome specs and has that lightweight portability element.

Gives me hope, I’m glad the kids are still curious and willing to learn. I’ve seen too many early-20s people at work who have absolutely zero computer skills.

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It is the most ‘Windows-like’ of the mainstream desktop environments. I don’t usually snap into quadrants but you can, here’s an example of how that would look in KDE.

Yeah, Linux gaming may not be for you if you play a ton of anti-cheat games.

Using a 4090 on Kubuntu works well for my gaming so far. Wayland can be a bit buggy with NVIDIA, but nothing severe.

Admittedly, I don’t play anti-cheat games which don’t really work well and I tend to play older games more than not (though I did just get Stray, which looks great).

I think you want KDE. I’m using KDE on vanilla EndeavourOS and it snaps windows just fine. Hotkeys work too, just slightly different (super + page up instead of up arrow to maximize).

I’m doing Orphan Black and Severance right now, but I’ll probably go Firefly then Dollhouse. (Part of what made me think of Dollhouse is the fact that Dichen Lachman is in Severance!) The Nevers is also on my watchlist, apparently, so I might or might not get to that later.

Yeah, fair point. I’ve got to watch Dollhouse and Firefly eventually.

project it over onto the screen in our meeting room with two clicks is pretty awesome.

Didn’t know that was a feature, that’s pretty cool.

I have been looking at Boox, yes. Though their price range is seemingly not much better than reMarkable… I’m still waiting for a decent used market to develop around some of these newer models. I’m okay with being patient on e-ink tech.

Thanks! A great one is also BookFinder - there are a few versions of it, I know .com and .de and I’m sure there are others.

It’s making me get into book collecting and finding older/out-of-print editions, so at least that is a silver lining.

Thanks for reminding me to set up Timeshift on my EndeavourOS install, salute to you.

I mean, I’m just one reference point, but here we go. I started with Kubuntu – I liked KDE, and Ubuntu is a stable, LTS distro. What could go wrong?

But my PC is Intel/Nvidia, so I’m constantly facing driver issues, and not to mention, snap is completely fucked. Ubuntu is supposed to be LTS but I’ve somehow still got 2-4 GB of updates every day or two. I’ve also got random bugs here and there and no real idea of how to troubleshoot them because the support is disparate or doesn’t address my specific issue.

Meanwhile, on my Chrultrabook, I decided to go with Arch, which of course presented its own set of issues. The archinstall script was straightforward, and debugging it was also fairly easy since the Arch wiki and forums were a trove of information. But debugging and tinkering, even when I accidentally bricked my laptop and had to do a clean slate (don’t ever interrupt pacman, I’ve learned!), has been a great learning experience. It’s made me feel like I actually understand a little more of what goes on under the hood. Ubuntu could do that as well, but it isn’t meant to be design.

Neither is good nor bad on its own, but different people enjoy different things. I didn’t think I would be the type to enjoy Arch, but it gave me valuable experience and a fun project (even if I did end up staying up until 3 or 4 AM on work nights). I’ve got EndeavourOS on my laptop now and still Kubuntu on my PC, but I’m wondering if I shouldn’t just switch over. Arch/eOS being a rolling release feels nice too, as I’m doing all these updates on Ubuntu anyway, but I’m slightly more worried about fucking something up.