Ok for realsies since you guys were asking real questions lol. I’m a professional software engineer, ex-top-tech, my setup is extravagantly complex. It did take a few hundred hours but it includes 15TB of data hoard, roms, emus, dos and flash games, Plex media server for home usage, a dizzying array of decades old software I’ve written in dozens of languages, very old obscure deprecated media formats like GMAX, a syncing script to keep it all organized and backed up with encrypted and chunked pCloud/local clones (20 rclone commands). Custom optical disc backup scripts and paper barcode storage because I’m also into cryonics. 50ish cryptocurrencies. Many online financial accounts, scripts to manage the tangle, scripts to manage the scripts.

Flashing and installing Ubuntu took an hour. I uncovered a bug where USB Sata connection install doesn’t work with LUKS FDE. To give you an idea of why my ultra complex setup slows me down, lol.

I’ve dual booted on and off for 15 years (I unknowingly installed everything from source back then!) but with my first child coming I’ve been reconsidering my values and made the full switch to FOSS. Also dual booting Qubes OS for a while, for fun.

I chose Ubuntu because I’m into Stable Diffusion AI and have an NVIDIA GPU, I’m time constrained and Ubuntu “just works” but I do plan to hop onto Debian/Gnome when I’m more settled. I use no other Ubuntu functionality. This will shock you but I prefer simplicity. Lol.

Not sure, it was on a USB in a Walmart parking lot. Something called freetacos.exe

Lol: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/44979912/18955914

Yes, it’s Linux Inc.'s newest OS.

I’m very much into privacy/FOSS so I have an old school Polaroid with no Bluetooth, where I manually screenshot my porn every 5 seconds with my left hand. Then I’ve been sending the pile every day to Satya Nadella at Microsoft HQ, Seattle via Snail Mail.

From the English translation of Chobits: animepedia.com/Hideki

99% working in 10 hours. There’s always that last little blue anal bead dingleberrying around.

Installation took 1 hour. Converting all my powershell scripts took 10. Copying my yummies from NTFS to Ext5 took 290 hours, I had to watch each and every one to be sure.

I use them all the time. If you plan to leave any data behind that even theoretically exists in 50 years, readable or not, optical media is your only option. Or Ardrive if you want to spend 1000x the amount and make it public. Or microfilm if you are a masochist. In case you plan on leaving any videos around for your grandchildren.

The joke only works if it’s real. “We don’t want to eat this because of all the effort the baker put in!” but it’s AI, there’s no skill.

“If my daughter’s skin flap is split, this old book says to throw rocks at her until her skull caves in.”

“Idk how to avoid sounding condescending.”

Maybe we shouldn’t avoid it.

Uh oh. I just learned about NixOS right now and I’m intrigued.

Then you’re lucky they had the freedom to donate their time like that.

Your operating system, Arch, is unsupported. Click here to upgrade to Debian.

Yea but that takes work, and we’d like, have to pay our teachers more.

It’s important because the rhetoric of “we only want useful people” isn’t true. It’s not just about her, it’s also about false rhetoric.

How so?