wheeldawg

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

The rubber didn't agree well on my old case. I poked it a couple years ago trying to figure it what it might be and the little triangles has gotten stiff and snapped off on one side, so I stopped poking it.

I was today years old when I learned what they were for though. I knew it was some kind of tube or pipe or hose, but I've spent about 0.3 seconds actually thinking about it so I never figured it out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I tried it when the first one I tried didn't work out.

Ctrl+C hard locked it instantly every time I pushed it. I could right-click and choose "Copy", but pushing Ctrl-C just froze whatever image was on screen. No response at all after that. Plus it was giving me a headache trying to get Nvidia drivers installed.

So then I moved to Pop since the correct driver was baked in, and it's been mostly smooth since.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Bust a nut challenge. Difficulty- shot to hell if an attempt is even made

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Homeopathy as a whole. It's just modern hippies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's the liquid version of the crazy crystal people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

I'm pretty be to it too, and it's the first and only one I've used for more than a couple hours.

I dumped GNOME immediately, but haven't really felt a need to change anything else and don't really know what else I'd want to, at least not yet.

I got my stuff working, got colors and window decorations sorted out, and got gaming working.

Now I'm just vibing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

I have never owned a laptop. I was given an old Chromebook to tinker with, but it's so old and incredibly slow that it's just not easy to deal with.

I was handed a laptop that has some issues including a "sometimes works, sometimes doesn't"keyboard and mostly fried GPU to the point where there are tons of tiny pink artifacts all over the screen. It technically still works, but hurts to look at. I was told it was mine, but other than some prodding to see what the issue was, (pretty sure there's a bunch of dust caked in the GPU fan) I haven't used it. So I guess I do actually own one, but I've only touched one a very few times ever.

I finished high school before dial up was completely out of style, and have only been exposed to "broadband" since college. (All 768Kbit of it)

I went to an in town college and mostly did my work on the gaming rig I built as my first computer, using their lab to print papers.

Laptops were sort of common, but still somewhat luxury at the time. Kinda like iPhones were at first. Lots of people already had a phone, but the "fancy" one was the status symbol even more than it is now.

Since then I've been rebuilding desktops ever since. I've had I think about 4 different cases now, each being upgraded with different parts a few times before moving on to the next as it fell apart. Some of my old machine parts are still in my parents' computer now. At least I think it is. That machine has changed a few times too and I haven't kept track because who cares.

So I'm right in the sweet spot of when phones became capable of laptop-like stuff, just as always having a computer available became more and more necessary. So since most people do most of their laptop stuff during school, and I never had a job that handed out company computers, I've just never really needed one.

I kinda wanna get one at some point, if for no other reason than to see the day to day of owning one and taking it places. But it's just a curiosity at the moment.

I'm totally anti Windows now (recently as of building my most recent rig a few months ago), so I would have to pay attention to which one I get because I know there can be compatibility issues with them. I know there's stuff like the Tuxedo brand which are all Linux all the time machines, but I don't want to limit my choices, so research would be necessary for all that.

I just moved my parents off Windows (their machine was really struggling as it was assembled when Win was new) because I knew they wouldn't be paying for extended security patches.

I type too much and I'm already past answering this lmao

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Always has been. Chk chk

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago

You literally can't, because you'll be dead by then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

There's a segment on a podcast I listen to that is all about conversations without context, and half of phone conversations are a common feature.

The hosts will mention some they've encountered over the week since their last recording, and people will call in to share the ones they hear. Always a good chuckle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Man I wish I could live in the no iPhone world.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Out of all of those, I only saw Russian doll. Did it ever come back? There was a huge gap after season 2, and it didn't finish the story at all. Never heard of it was continued, I haven't had Netflix since I stopped getting it for free with my phone bill.

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