I’m not stuck in time. I’ve embraced dependability.
I feel targeted by this. Also how did you get into my house?
I feel there should be a classic leatherman utility knife in here too lol
Older doesn’t necessarily mean worse. Dependability is important for sure.
Omg, I loved that calculator.
It saw me through five years of math classes. I think I ultimately stored it improperly and something heavy broke the display.
It deserved better.
I once owned that exact alarm clock!
l use debian and l dont like this ? (!)
If somebody can still fully operate with this stuff, I’m jealous.
It means they’ve figured it out and they’re immune to almost all of the bullshit.
There’s bound to be some bridge, somewhere, but even then, that only needs to be minimal. These people are heroes and have a special power.
“I’m in this picture and it’s quite OK here.”
My car is a 20 year old shitbox, my bike gets new brake pads and a bit of random lubricant on the chain once a year and other “maintenance” only when parts fall off, and my stereo is a mix of hand me downs from my dad’s college days and some eBay home theatre stuff that got sold because it didn’t support the newest HDMI bullshit.
Oh, and of course it is a Thinkpad, thanks for asking.
Just the other day, a friend of mine running Arch tried to install something, which resulted in him having to do a full system update, including fixing several “that should not happen” s. Meanwhile, every few years I spend an evening update to the newest stable, and never had bigger issues than the color of some icon being unfamiliar.
What?!
You haven’t bowed to the gods of built-in obsolescence?! How dare you!?Different colored icon? Literally unusable! Time to distro hop
/jk
I feel like when humble-bragging Thinkpad it must be one of the models that became a Linux enthusiast meme.
Nah, L390 Yoga. I wanted touch because i thought I’d use it, but it ended up in a docking station most of the time anyway. Upgraded RAM and SSD, battery still hold “a few hours” despite being 7+ years old. I figured those 8th gen quad cores would last a while, and so far, they do. Doesn’t feel too terrible compared to my modern core u 235 work laptop.
I don’t have a Thinkpad myself. I do have a 10 year old Acer Aspire V3-372T. It’s a perfectly cromulent laptop. I use it to listen to podcasts and YouTube. I check my emails sometimes. I check weather.gov. I have a copy of my music library. I write my personal budgets. It has a touchscreen that I never use. I get around just fine.
One day, I’ll either get a Thinkpad or a Framework.
Perfectly fine if it does what it should. That is imo the essence of this post: Better is the enemy of good. I wouldn’t buy a new one (again), this one was a bit of an exception (customer return, with a little scratch), since used touch laptops with good performance were quite rare.
The “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” starter pack
That is where my wallet went, you dick!
I feel called out. Except my mechanical watch is a vintage USSR Podeba. And my 2001 car is a Lexus.
It’s a '96 manual transmission for sure, wallet’s maybe 10yo, never cared for consoles and have some manuals laying around.
I’ve replaced some stuff with my smartphone though and prefer Devuan, Slackware and Gentoo. Of course Thinkpads.I use Debian Stable and I don’t have anything pictured there. Anyhow, it’s getting late and I still have wood to chop and basketmaking to do. /j
I am in this picture and I feel awesome
Shifted to Debian from Ubuntu a few weeks back for my core infra. It could be a placebo but Debian feels way more snappy.
Debian feels way more snappy.
I see what you did there.
No advertisements in the CLI, you say?
Please regale me with more debian factoids. The only linux distro ive ever stuck with was ubuntu but ive been on it steadily for some time now. Your comment was the first time ive considered changing distro.
I have spent very less time on Debian compared to others on this thread. So I’m not very qualified to speak about this topic.
My silly observations
- No snap/Canonical nonsense. I don’t hate snap, but it’s not compatible with my workflow.
- Overall lesser number of processes OOTB compared to Ubuntu. So I can quickly find out if there is a stray process running via htop.
- Terminal operation/reboot seems way faster
- Slower update frequency, so no random feature changes
- Less RAM/disk requirement (Important in the post AI world)
Some quirks when coming from Ubuntu
- No sudo! You either have to install sudo/sudo-rs/doas. I went with doas
- Debian manages network differently (Not netplan)
- Lack of support from Nvidia if you work with AI. I don’t, so not a problem.
If you need to deploy a server with mainly docker workloads, just go with Debian. I have one last remaining Ubuntu server which I’ll replace one day.
after all the snap package nonsense ubuntu is basically just ‘debian but worse and less stable’ Definitely check out debian. Imo the golden years of ubuntu are well done and buried at this point. Tho, i will never forget installing the first beta of the unity desktop on my school laptop way back when, this is all said with a deep love for the project, just cant imagine daily driving it actually having any advantages to other distros atm
I’m in this picture and quite frankly it’s a great place to be. Everything either just works, I know how to fix it, or I at least know what is broken and not worth fixing.
Though that is a terrible style of air pressure gauge. Get a good dial one with the tube.
Or the tutorial written for Ubuntu users works without having to think about different package managers
I will brook no argument regarding Hamilton field watches. Buy one, wind it, wear it. Start living a better life.
Just bought a murph a few days ago its pretty good so far!
