Darren

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And my work here is done.

btw

We wanna be Kate!

I mooched over there recently. Saw a post in /r/UKPolitics that looked interesting. The overwhelming majority of comments were by frothing right wingers who want to see all immigrants drowned at sea.

I unsubbed.

It is, as it happens.

I’ve gone one step further: my wife’s boyfriend fucks my wife for free, meaning it costs me nothing to keep working at my business.

I use Castopod for when I’ve uploaded my radio show. At the moment it’s hosted on my site that’s on Hetzner. It only costs me a tenner a month, so I’m wondering whether it’s worth trying to work out how to host it all locally so I can have far more storage and it not cost me anything.

Hackintosh, baby.

I kinda wish I hadn’t sold my 2015 MBP Pro when I got my M2 Air. I wasn’t messing about with Linux then, but with hindsight it would have been an excellent machine. I had it running Ventura (I think it was) via OCLP, which was great, but the fans were basically constant. Turns out that it was likely just macOS/OCLP.

Currently running Kubuntu off a thumb drive plugged into my 2011 MBP and I honestly don’t think I’ve heard the fan on it. Running Ventura on the same machine was like trying to work next to a jet engine.

I have a kink for installing Linux on Macs. The only thing I ever have trouble with is wifi, particularly on my 2011 MacBook Pro.

Oh, and the trackpad gets significantly shitter, but that’s just life.

Every operating system has steep learning curves and you will struggle with how it does things when first starting out.

I’ve been using Linux seriously for almost a year now. I felt the same way as OP back in the beginning. It took me a couple of weeks to realise that it’s not so much that the OS is tricksier than macOS, it’s that I did all my stumbling around OS X when I got my first Mac back in 07, and now I know it pretty well. Sure, macOS has better guardrails, but it’s still worlds away from Windows.

I mean, if your aim as a business is to make money from your ideas, then yeah…

It isn’t enough to have good ideas if you can’t persuade someone to buy them.

In fairness to Jobs, he may have been an arsehole, but he was also an incredible salesman who knew what his customers wanted.

I’m old enough to remember how genuinely captivating his product presentations could be. The shit that Apple pre-records these days is worthless by comparison.

+1 for Mint as a gateway drug.

I started on Mint back in October. My server is still running Mint, because I can’t be arsed with setting everything up on another distro, but my work machine is on KDE Neon. And that isn’t safe.

Aye, “learn a new OS” as the solution to a problem solved by simply using LocalSend on whatever you already have.

Literally saw this on Mastodon yesterday.

“How come emailing a document to myself is still the easiest way to send something to another device?”

“Have you tried using Linux?”

Does it count that I have four computers running Linux because I can’t help myself?

Fair play, this is top quality confidently incorrect material.

Do you win or lose if you get to eat the biscuit, or is it just a matter of perspective?