I run a nonprofit that owns a few venues with great sound systems, so I deal very closely with a lot of musicians. And man do they all love their Macs. The windows attachment mostly has to with older large donors involved in our accounting. But neither of those things are going to change super quickly. I just keep switching over more machines one by one.

As much as I have no desire to play either of those games, their existence on Windows affects me exactly zero. I’m still a mixed Linux and Windows user (and a couple of Macs I don’t want), I manage a lot of machines between my family and my small nonprofit. I like Linux a lot but I doubt I’ll ever be able to walk away from Apple or Windows completely. But a man can dream! People keep dragging me back in…

At this point I don’t even know what a Nazi is anymore.

I lived a couple of years in Europe but more and more I don’t care for western European culture. Some of the northeastern countries are okay. But I’m in my 50’s and my short time living there doesn’t define me outside of broadening my perspective and appreciating other cultures far more.

Europe hasn’t been an ally of the US in a generation, nor the other way around.

This is my future and I hate it.

Firewatch checked that box for me. Two of my kids did a playthrough too.

Patient gamers ftw!

Lemmy has lost that funny spark and energy, but it’s because of the weird niche user base. Other platforms don’t all have this problem.

I taught my brother basic programming when he was 7, and then a little pascal. When he was 8 he asked for a fat C+ programming manual for Christmas. When he was 9, he made a working version of MS Word from scratch, it even saved files in compatible file formats.

That was 1989. I think Word has not improved since then, but my brother is doing alright for himself. I still like to fix computers, but I don’t work in computer science.

I came to the comments hoping that someone had acknowledged that lack of water has consistently led to war.

I’m good, but I like to always express my appreciation for an offer.

I’m all for an LS swap. Let’s LS swap the world!

Yeah my daughter is studying ASL in college right now and have learned a lot about sign language recently.

My local B league hockey team does discount nights with cheap seats and cheap options for beer/soft drinks and snacks. My wife and I will get tickets, have a few drinks and snacks and spend a total of maybe a little over $20. Even on full price nights it’s maybe $50 for the same.

Plus there’s the fights that almost always break out. Or, as the saying goes, there was a fight and a hockey game broke out.

To be fair, almost no one is excited to see a starling.

Never put your PC on the floor unless it’s your company’s shitty workstation tower that really needs to be replaced.

My area got flooded with Flock cameras during Biden’s last year. Both parties want the surveillance no question. But they also want to be in power. God I hate those cameras.

I have a table outside. But between the insects and the weather, it is unbearable 11 months of the year. So my table is just covered in mildew. I’d love to move back to the California coast where the weather is nice, but I’d have to live in my car. My wife, my 3.5 kids and I wouldn’t fit in my car very well.

I can advocate. But my community has zero chance of being bike friendly before I’m dead. Absolutely fucking zero.