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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I tried MacOS on my work machine for a couple of years, because everyone says how easy is. It never clicked for me. It felt like the short cuts all needed another key. It was also unintuitive for me. Of course that could be because I grew up on Windows. Either way, I did not like it.

    Linux is crazy easy to install and really cool that you can run a live USB so easily. It’s also secure, stable, can run on garbage hardware, and has a thousand cool flavors. Intuitive and easy for (Mint, Ubuntu, etc.) common stuff. An absolute minefield to install soooo many things- if they even can work. I just want to double click shit and then run it. Much of that is on Microsoft for making things a challenge on purpose.

    Windows gets more intrusive and obnoxious every year, but it runs almost everything I need.

    Never really tried iOS. I don’t like the idea of being locked down.

    Android can do a lot of cool stuff, but gets more intrusive every year too. So I run that for now.

    Some day I’ll probably try some other OS on my phone, but I have less patience and time every day.

    At home, I run Linux on one machine, Windows on another, hoping to cut ties with Windows entirely, but probably won’t ever get there.



  • AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldChoices
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    27 days ago

    Those 100 companies have made it so it’s incredibly difficult not to buy from them.

    Groceries? There’s like 10 companies that own all of the food supply. Good luck figuring out which one’s have child labor, and a horrendous environmental impact. They’ve very purposely masked that image.

    Oh wow, everything is recyclable! No, those companies just slapped that logo on all of their products so we can ignorantly wish-cycle their garbage. Most of it ends up in the landfill.

    Don’t want a car? Our cities are very deliberately designed to require cars. There is a very strong private agenda against good public transportation.

    Then there’s the pollution. These companies pollute so much more than we know. Whether that’s dumping forever chemicals into our water, or taking private jets everywhere. It’s not like the label on your T-shirt tells you that.

    Finally find a good company? They’ll buy it up, lobby against it, or coerce them out of business. Just look how many companies Luxottica has destroyed.

    There’s layer after layer of obfuscation to hide what these companies are doing. It’s not just a matter of picking Product A over Product B. We rarely have much choice, or the information to make better choices.






  • It was probably still worth what you bought it for. Those things hold their value forever, despite bring notorious for being unreliable.

    I had a 93’ with absolutely no features others than 4WD. No cruise, AC, nothing. It was worth about the same as my 05’ accord with pretty much every feature.

    The clutch died three times in 30k miles on my Wrangler. The local shop, a Jeep dealer, and a Wrangler specialty shop couldn’t figure out why. I finally found the answer in a forum. Basically the brake lines shared fluid with the clutch and there was a small leak. The clutch always failed first so no one ever found the leak.

    Also, the Wrangler is the only vehicle I’ve ever spun out on the highway, and it happened more than once.



  • My wife used to get all grumpy with high school kids (and sometimes even adults) trick or treating. I told her, I’m glad to see anyone that still has that spirit and energy. And if they don’t have costumes… They probably can’t afford them. Worst case, they’re doing something better than the trouble they could be up to.

    … But fuck those people that take the whole bowl at houses with no one home.