Connected a Samsung smart TV to my network when we first got it. The thing damn-near crashed my pi-hole asking for so many ad/tracking domains. Factory reset it later that same day. I think my % of requests blocked went from 15% to 68% in just the 3 hours or so the Smart TV was connected.

I also have had trouble during upgrades in the past.

I’ll have to disagree about the purple and orange theme though. I’m personally a big fan.

In the Beginning is an anime that follows the Christian old testament up through the birth of Jesus.

There’s also Superbook about 2 kids and a robot who time travel to bible times get involved in the biblical events.

Analogue is doing the lord’s work. Software is easy to copy infinite times but hardware isn’t prevalent or going to last forever.

I hope someday things like this will end up at a more commodity price

I switched to Delta Icons, also open source also on F-Droid. They aren’t as minimalist but they’re neat and flat and pastel.

Funny you mentioned articons. I have actually had a lot fewer stability problems when I switched away from articons.

Dope Wars Classic. The best modern recreation of the TI Calculator/Palm Pilot game Drugwar.

Still awesome to play to this day.

Kiss is exactly what I want in a launcher. I use it but it seems to crash a lot and/or fail to run the search properly or render my icons.

Have you noticed that at all? It’s happened across 2 phones for me but I may be unlucky or doing something wrong.

Same here. Cannot stand pasta salad. Ironically I love cold macaroni and cheese though so I don’t know exactly what way my brain is short-circuited.

Green bean casserole absolutely. I have never had a good version of it. Your version sounds better but I’d say it’s a flawed concept.

My most hated was white beans and ham with cornbread. It ruined both the ham and beans and smelled like hot dog water. I ended up just eating cornbread and pushing the beans and ham around until I could be excused.

Also creamed spinach. It looked and smelled like I had already puked it up.

Now look see what you’ve done here, I’m down another Wikipedia rabbit hole!

I think it’s amazing when done right.

But

Almost every time I’ve been to a 3d showing they have the screen adjusted wrong or in the wrong aspect ratio and it messes everything up.

I have a buddy with a home theater and a 3d projector with synchronized LCD glasses and 3d blu rays in that context are great.

I’ve been running crunchbang++ on an older laptop since they updated to the latest Debian release.

I love how simple and speedy it is and since it’s based on Debian 12 and GTK 4 I can still run all my software super easily.

It’s also become my go-to live distro.

I can personally guarantee you how nice ultrawide is and beats 2 small monitors every day. I have had one for 6 years and can’t go back. Windows makes it easy to snap left and right.

I use a program called PowerToys FancyZones to divide my ultrawide monitor into 3 equal sections that I can snap to as well. I suggest checking that one out no matter what you end up going with

Looks good. I’d go for 32 gigs of ram though if you can swing it. Also is there any reason why you want a 22" monitor specifically?

The reason this one should last is because ddr5 is new and so is the AM5 socket for AMD. AMD supported the previous socket from 2016-2022 so many are speculating that you should be able to do CPU upgrades for the foreseeable future without having to change the whole platform.

The original Twilight Zone is a rapid fire smorgasbord of the greatest Sci-Fi writers of the 60s. When I was around 12 or 13 I couldn’t get enough Twilight Zone. I always looked out for marathons on the SyFy channel on Holidays.

And since it’s from the 60s it doesn’t have any swearing or gore or anything inappropriate for kids but there’s a lot of irony and death that a kid a little older will be able to appreciate that a younger kid wouldn’t.

Short List of my Favorites: I Shot an Arrow into the Air To Serve Man The Monsters are Due on Maple Street It’s A Good Life Eye of the Beholder Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

Love to see this and hate to see it at the same time.

I wonder how long interoperability will last or if they will immediately start forging a new path.

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/forticlient/7.2.1/linux-release-notes/213138

I looked through the documentation on Fortigates website and it does look like it’s different steps for installation based on which Ubuntu version you have. Also something different for Debian. Not sure which Linux mint you have or even if it’s LMDE but I’d run through this doc page and see if anything works out for you.

Also obligatory nobody asked but zyxel has had a lot of severe security issues lately. Actually so has Fortinet so stay vigilant.

Oh man I already forgot about that monitor stand. Yeah that’s the kind of ridiculous stuff that people should be angry about.

This is a great point. Anyone that says that the MacBook is a piece of crap has never used one (other than the first gen 12 inch MacBook) they are awesome and the design is great.

MacOS on the other hand really gets on my nerves and all of their anti-consumer stuff is enough for me to avoid them entirely. I won’t even call them overpriced because a PC similarly equipped with a monitor as nice as theirs is just as much.

I wish there was a hardware designer as good as Apple on the PC side but because they are so good people excuse abhorrent business practices. You don’t see people vehemently defending stupid things that Dell does for instance.