Same. I pretty much have eidetic spacial memory.

It’s really chef’s kiss from OP. I laughed, I cried, I got a little angry. Well played OP, you bastard!

4GB? An embarassment of riches in today’s market!

I, for one, am triggered.

Totally get using others if something isn’t working. I’ve been known to (gasp) throw on another distro to get past a problem until a new kernel release or bug fix comes in, but it’s the rarity now. I gotta be honest that I’m surprised it was Debian which solved a corner case for your gaming table. Maybe it was a monitor issue or weird (old) hardware?

Good call on the final pass with Windows. With Steam, you really can’t miss on hardly any game these days unless it’s bloated with DRM, but who am I to speak - I have XBox that can actively spy on me for those DRMed games… Carry on.

That’s crazy talk right there. After decades of who knows how many Linux distros, SunOS/Solaris, HPUX, AIX (and a splash of FreeBSD), the proper answer is this:

• Mint
• Already correct! >Mint
• Mint
• Mint - hardened if external
• I’ll allow it

Non-Linux

• por que!? OOF… this should be Mint or really any Linux is better
• I’ll allow it, though I find OMV to be better for various reasons

Not gatekeeping - just having a bit of fun. You do you, but I found it crazy supporting so many distros after all these years. At some point you go for “works great out of the box with minimal tinkering” that covers like 99% of use cases and frees up your time. That being said I’m sure I have a system or two around here still running Ubuntu or Debian or whatever that I just can’t be arsed to change.

I Can Haz Cheezeburgr?

Got a link to a favorite, especially large tumbler size?

You forgot about PC Hardware

Can you elaborate?

Don’t forget Xitter, Facebook/Insta/Whatsapp/Meta, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Minnesota Star Tribune, LA Times, Time Magazine, Bloomberg, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Tiktok, Reddit, Sinclaire (Radio) and now CBS / Paramount, etc… It’s a trillion dollar propaganda machine run at the pleasure of billionaires. If we go orthagonal, we should include all major AI players too, most definitely Grok.

Right wing media IS mainstream media now.

TIL:

• MTV was still alive in 2025
• MTV Still had 24 hour music channels after say… 1993?
• MTV, much to my great surprise was able to keep the lights on past 2000!

Let’s not limit it to the US

Best Match… for Microsoft’s pockets.

What’s even scarier (and I legit thing more likely) is despite the fact that either after firewalling off a smart tv’s IP/Mac or using Pi-Hole to keep it from using the ad side of things and locking down firmware updates, that newer TVs seem increasingly likely to include antennas for 5G and connect to a fucking “partner” network for “free” to share revenue. It won’t matter if you never connect it to the internet - it will just spy even if you don’t use it’s apps. Oh, and most new tvs have microphones (on the remote, but who knows about elsewhere). I’m not sure about cameras, but I wouldn’t be shocked.

I have bad news for you.

Not only will this now accelerate, any fresh IP will get the dreaded production interference with MAGA themes

Which makes sense since it’s a fruit

Make Coca-Cola Great Again!

these are the sausages of the Starship Enterprise