Piracy. I’d buy albums if I had money, though. I’ll slowly phase into getting them once I get some more cash.

I can find most stuff I listen to, and I rarely grow my music library. I mostly listen to 20-30 albums, with some more mainstream music peppered in.

My music library currently sits at 90 gigabytes (mostly flacs), so quite small compared to others I’ve seen around here. Still, I have plenty of variation to keep me entertained :D

If you have Tidal, aren’t there some apps to rip the lossless audio from there? You could get most of the stuff that you need, and then cancel the subscription. If you feel bad, maybe order some merch from the band, haha.

That is good to know. Tried the free version of Roll20 before, and it definitely felt lacking in certain areas. Oh, and thanks for letting me know about the sale! I’ll definitely keep an eye out for that one :)

I got NFS Most Wanted (2005) working in Wine, and was somewhat impressed how easy it was at the time. Game worked quite well, and would only crash once in a while with some cryptic errors that I don’t remember. Made me hopeful for the future of linux gaming :)

The Framework 13 inch model should be plenty, especially if you want to dev on the go. Much more lightweight and smaller, and you can connect it to external monitors if the screen size is not big enough. Also, you shouldn’t have issues running Linux on either laptops.

Instead of going for the 16 version, I would use the extra 900-1000 euros (that’s the amount I saw I could save between the two almost maxed-out models) to make a dedicated server or mini-cluster to run your workloads. Deploy Kubernetes or Proxmox on it, and you’ll also get some more practice on it outside work if you want to run stuff for your home lab. That is only if you don’t want to game on your laptop, but I’d still put that money aside to make a desktop.

It’s amazing that Linux gaming is becoming a thing that’s better sometimes than Windows gaming (minus the getting banned part in some games). I also like that AMD is making some big pushes on open source drivers, plus their ROCm open-source alternative to CUDA.

This is a great time for Linux users! :)

What a stupid article. It’s like saying “stop using electric vehicles because you can’t use gas stations”. I don’t understand why he’s so adamant about this? It’s not like Wayland had about 20 years of extra time to develop like X11. People keep working on it, and it takes time to polish things.

It’s a cooling block for the GPU, and apparently it can knock off up to 20 degrees. However, it is crazy expensive, like 900$.

You can do it here too! Just tag @remindme@mstdn.social :)

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That’s good to know! The format overall was nice. They got a few questions wrong, but the users seem to provide the correct answers in the discussion.

I’d pay, but I’m not really in a position to do it right now. Also, I can’t justify doing it for only a single exam, when the price for a month is 40$, and I only need it for one day haha.

Some good recent ones are:

• Dr. Stone
• Kaguya-sama (Love is War)
• Spy x Family
• Chainsaw Man
• Jujutsu Kaisen
• Megalo Box - A hidden gem tbh, especially season 2.
• Akudama Drive - Pretty interesting, and I’d say it’s worth a watch.
• 86 - It has 2 seasons, and I think 1 was better.
• Classroom of the Elite
• One Punch Man - You might have already watched it, but S2 came out more recently.
• Mushoku Tensei - Okay, but the MC sometimes crosses the border on perviness (actual degenerate behaviour). Kind of off-putting sometimes (and I almost quit it because of it), but the world building is great compared to other isekais.
• Deca Dence
• Re:Zero
• Demon Slayer
• Oshi no Ko - Haven’t watched it myself yet, but I heard it’s fked up and good.
• Mashle - A hilarious parody of Harry Potter.
• Overlord - Haven’t watched since S2, but I hear it’s good.
• Saiki Kusuo - Trust me, this one is worth it if you like Japanese humour.

I’d probably fall into the Tech Paranoid if it weren’t for gaming. I’m honestly rooting for Steam to jumpstart the Linux gaming ecosystem even more.