That was my thought. I’m not sure if it’s based in science, but I remember being a huge fan of Windows 2000 back in the day, and Microsoft pushed a final service pack that made it highly unstable in 2005, and refused to update/fix it. My theory was that they were trying to push everyone to Windows XP, but I’m prone to thinking the worst of large corporations.

Holy crap. Other people have heard of Discuit.

This was happening to some extent 10-12 years ago when I first signed up for Facebook. There would be an ad for Target and it would say “Your friend Jimmy Smith likes Target”. And then I’d ask Jimmy if he follows the Target account on Facebook, and he’d say hell no.

This always seemed shady as fuck, and that was before Facebook got much much worse.

Yep. I use either and both. They are both phones that work well and have annoying issues.

SmartTube Next if you’re on a TV device.

A coworker bought a Jeep and I said “Oh wow, Jeeps are great vehicles! …unless you drive them on roads.”

I test drove one when they first came out. The salesperson was telling me about the continuously variable transmission, and how revolutionary it was.

“It’s a new technology? From an American car company? In it’s first model year? Ok, no thank you.”

lol, what a bunch of bullshit. Trucks are owned by people who want to look like big tough farmers. Drive around any suburban neighborhood and you’ll see giant-ass trucks parked in driveways because they are so stupidly large, they don’t fit in the garages. They don’t do shit that I don’t do more of with a station wagon.

I’m assuming this includes you more than most, because you like to talk about it.

In order of use: Smarttube Next (Youtube client), JellyFin, Nebula.

Medical emergency, months of painful rehab, permanent disability.

I’m down about 30 pounds since last Summer, and it’s had sticking power. I went from a few pounds over obese on my BMI to a normal BMI weight (200 lbs to 170).

I’m a data-driven guy, and I started using a phone app where you scan barcodes, or manually enter your food and weight. I got a scale off amazon for like $10. Before I even started changing my diet, I just started entering everything I was eating and drinking. It was a bit eye opening. The calorie count was too damn high. Lots of carbs, cheese, and alcohol.

I didn’t follow any specific diet or anything, but I tried to keep my calorie count around or just under 1500 calories per day. If you’re trying to meet a calorie count and not be hungry all the time, you figure some stuff out. You can eat a lot of vegetables. You can eat a decent amount of seasoned meats. Pasta and bread are things you can only have a little of. Drinking alcohol ruins the day.

Anyway, sticking to the count, I watched 1-3 pounds a week drop off and stay off. It was very satisfying. Math. Data. Measurable results. I recommend it.

You should really learn more about it before deciding that you have an expert opinion on it.

I bought a cheap-ass Asus laptop knowing that the installed wifi module was not supported by linux. So I bought a new wifi module that had linux support for like $20 and swapped it in.

This is the one I got, but I’m sure there are more like it. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SH6GV5S

This is a person who thinks that everyone else in the world is to blame, instead of considering the far more likely answer that they are the asshole. Jesus.

Baby… it’ll blow your mind.

I mean… parties and sex are pretty cool though.

I liked that I could get loud bursts of static in real-time!!

As arch users, we would never need the help of some low-level IT person though. That would be ridiculous.

I remember back in 2017, I didn’t really need any big desktop apps anymore. All I used was Salesforce, Netsuite, O365, Postman… I asked my company to just give me a Chromebook. Now I hate Chromebooks and I could very much do my job on a Linux distro mainly using web apps if needed.

My IT dept would never allow it because they can’t install security software on it. Obviously I’d be pretty safe from malware, but they’d have to trust that I set up firewalls and password protection because they couldn’t enforce a group policy, and their data loss prevention tools wouldn’t work.

Yeah, don’t do this, and you should be fine.