Absolutely, was in the same boat as you.

Got burnt out with the corporate job but now I’ve moved to another discipline, I have my mojo back for messing with PCs.

The last few years I’ve delved into all the things I’ve wanted to but never took the time. I’m all in on Linux from mid-last year - which in itself has reinvigorated my curiosity for everything.

I’ve recently started leaning html to create a basic web page with the intention of joining the indie web, then when I tire off those, I’m keen to contribute to oss projects (support because I can’t code)

Chris Cornell’s cover of Nothing compares to you

That’s a good point and something I haven’t really considered but will keep that in mind moving forward - that’s part of my problem is not really being aware of what already exists or the most suitable method (or for different distros).

That’s what ended up getting me into trouble on Bazzite when I was attempting to use Fedora documentation thinking it’s similar and broke boot trying to mess with fstab. Only recently found out why that didn’t work!

Oh, thanks will look into those, might be a good alternative!

New Zealand.

Maggi Onion Soup (powdered soup mix), reduced cream, a splash of malt vinegar. Mix and cool in fridge to set.

Scoop and press between two potato chips of your choosing.

Think of something you’ve never mentioned or discussed before, then out of nowhere, start having a conversation with a friend about it, how much you like it and are thinking about getting it, taking lessons etc then see what happens over the next week on either your or your friend’s ads (turn off ad blocker if you use one).

I recommend something completely unusual for most people like an instrument (didgeridoo or cowbell)

Popup on the screen:

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They aren’t even waiting for market saturation, they’re just speed-running straight into enshittification now

A bad PSU will usually result in boot problems or general instability - applications or OS crashing, bsod etc particularly when power demand spikes (gaming, heavy disk use etc).

Assuming you’re not running out of RAM, this sounds like a software issue. It could be drivers as others mentioned, some background software interfering or perhaps even malware. As a just in case: have you fiddled with process priorities in task manager?

If you’ve got a spare hdd, you could swap that in and do a clean install of your OS. If the issues remain, it’s a hardware problem, if they disappear then it’s something software or config in your current install

I’ve seen the same, it was fixed by selecting a different color profile under display settings

Big screen. Small screens are only for short clips on sites, posts or a show I’ve seen 100x on repeat until I fall asleep

Only possible explanation for these responses: Elmo is the true alpha here, both Peterson and Taite were traumatized as children/teens when they came home from school one day and walked in on Elmo, fur-deep in their mum with their father huddled in the corner crying.

This is the ONLY possible explanation for raging at a children’s puppet like this.

Too little, too fucking late!

So painfully, boringly good.

Day-to-day, it just works, I don’t have to fight it. It doesn’t do anything I don’t want it to do. I don’t miss office, everything is clean and snappy.

I have managed to play almost every game thrown at it (Bazzite) - the only one that didn’t work was an older DX7 title. DOS games just work - they took more effort than this under Win9x.

I have got a couple of minor issues but all fixable.:

• I encountered a issue where it wouldn’t wake from sleep - fixed by selecting a different color profile in the display settings.
• I managed to break something in fstsb trying to setup a persistent network drive. Very easy to roll back, I’m 100% sold on immutable until I need something more customisable
• Recently my Bluetooth kb/mouse would drop off when the PC went idle, wouldn’t reconnect/wake up until power cycling the PC. Fixed by disabling BT hibernation/sleep

Having said that, last week I had to install Win11 on the kids laptop to be ready for school - I hadn’t installed 11 outside of a controlled Corp environment with solid group policy control since the early days. God-damn Win11 is a dumpster fire! The install UI looks nice but the noise is turned up to 11, popup, wizards, setup this, setup that, backup, OneDrive, give us all your information and sign away any privacy.

Regardless of any minor issues I bump into on the way, I am never going back!

The labels and categorisation of everything can get tiring, and be utterly useless or confusing for anyone unfamiliar with a particular genre (it all sounds the same!), however these can still be handy when you find a particular sound you like, you can use that to discover other bands with similar sounds or style.

As bands in that genre experiment and evolve their sound, they may cross, mix it create all new genres that can lead you down a new list of bands to explore - or perhaps it’s not your flavour so you stick with what you like.

Most hobbies have depth to them like this, I guess music is so variable that we need a thousand ways to describe all the various possibilities.

\m/

I second this, it’s why I went with Bazzite on my main rig - it just needs to work and be reliable. The last thing I want to be doing in my spare time is funking around trying to fix anything that happens to break.

All my other devices run whatever I feel like so I can scratch that curiosity-itch but they get reinstalled if anything major breaks and I can’t fix it in a reasonable amount of time

“What about pork? Ham? Bacon?”

“Dad! They all come from the same animal!”

“Right Lisa, some wonderful, magical animal!”

But can it run Crysis?

I bet he’s got a mate with a bobcat/mini digger too.

“Hey Jonesy, give us a hang with this job Saturday!”