and there’s a YouTuber filming them for klout

By Grabthar’s Hammer!

Zoinks!

as a Bulgarian tiger with insomnia, I’ll allow it

SOYLENT LINUX IS PEOPLE!

Linux users: people think about us

People: I wonder what’s for dinner

Yes! There wasn’t a lot of meat prepared in my house as I was growing up, so I didn’t get any experience with it. Having a meat thermometer means I don’t need to guess. It’s good.

I’ve started cooking meat a lil cooler than recommended, in theory that it’s more tender. With a meat thermometer I know it’s still good.

You’re right, but (I think) that’s a setting on the home instance for the community. Other instances can allow/show the downvotes, but the NSFW community will be blissfully unaware.

Right?!

A CD, right?

It depends on community. Some of the shitposting communities can be great (shout out to ncd).

But politics and current events can be a minefield if your views are outside of Lemmy’s tinsy tiny Overton window.

My theory is that we’re mostly here because we have very strong beliefs. We dropped out of Reddit because of their policies or we were banned. Or we’re open source people. We defend those beliefs vociferously. Long beyond what most other people would do.

Whatever. I still mostly enjoy it here. I hope you find a place here too.

Her: is that Harry Potter you’re reading?

She approached me on the bus when I was commuting. It was a couple of decades ago when HP was new and fun. She was fun too, but we only went on a couple of dates.

I’m not surprised at all. At the time, I was trying to be as social as possible. If she’d stomped on my toe and then asked me out, I’d probably have said yes.

I thought I was smart/knowledgeable until I started working with people who really are smart/knowledgeable.

I tried to keep up and be one of them, but I do better when I just try to follow along with them and consider alternatives and implications of what they propose.

I wouldn’t say I’m the token idiot, but I have perspectives they don’t, and those are useful. Then again, that’s exactly what the token idiot would say.

Their generation is marked by a lack of impulse control and a deep inner rage that can often be triggered by trivial inconveniences. They also seem to have a vindictiveness to them that I never really understood, holding grudges far past their expiration date.

oh shit i might be a boomer

I don’t really use a mouse or window switcher, so I prefer the dedicated hotkey. It’s nice to have a single keystroke that brings me in or out of the same terminal across every desktop.

Before Tilde and friends, that’s what I use. I prefer having a drop-down with the same terminal session.

But that’s a handy default.

I really like having a hotkey bound to the terminal window, so I can pop open a terminal, check something, and return to what I was doing.

https://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/tilda

Times definitely have changed.

Also, Google was “Do no Evil”

At the time Google seemed awesome. Gmail was a game changer - a usable webapp that was better than maybe clients.

Firefox was good, but not great.

Firefox was the best of a bad bunch. It was so easy for devs to move to Chrome because the experience on every other browser was bad.

A good while back, Chrom(ium) was just flat-out faster

Performance was huge.

I was willing to put up with a little jank from my browser because I wanted a diverse browser ecosystem, but Chrome felt much, much now performant. After I switched to Chrome, browsing felt noticably better.