“A wizards staff has a knob at the end.”

GNU Sir Terry Pratchett

Do you happen to also use Arch?

No. If I did, I would say so!

Haha.

(Apologies to my arch-user peers.)

That could get old. But…

I play Pathfinder, by the way.

Oh. Thanks.

So France is now openly pro-tifa. What’s that short for again? Oh. Right. Fascist.

Holy shit. I’m glad I don’t need anything in France.

“Newton: Start of something big?”

Narrator: It was not.

Delightful to see these old covers. Thank you for sharing them.

You might try Wayfinder.

It feels like classic World of Warcraft without the grinding for levels or loot.

Does BSD count as fake Gnus?

What’s up with the Rust hate?

The Rust community keeps trying to rewrite key pieces of Linux that aren’t broken.

They probably have the right idea, in the long run, but it’s still fun to give them a hard time about it.

Good info, thanks!

I route my email through my domain names, and so I can reroute emails at the DNS level, but I can see this being important to some folks.

Tuta deletes free accounts that have not been logged into for 6 months.

This, and I heard that some legitimate newly registered free accounts have been wiped a couple days later by anti-bot automation. So I guess one would want to age their Tuta account (or you know, just pay for it) before they trust it with too much.

I’ve had a free Tuta account for some time without any issues.

I see Proton and Tuta recommended here, often.

I also see complaints about both (Proton’s politics and Tuta’s tendency to lock and clean free accounts).

Both seem better than Google, who seem to be tightening their grip on those unable to walk away.

I’ve stagnated at my position and have learned just about everything my position can learn.

Get a cloud learning subscription and spend an hour every day learning DevOps skills or something. You’re in a great spot. You probably don’t need to drive an hour every day just to learn something new.

No. You’re restless. But you’re asking here because you need someone to tell you to wait for a decent opportunity, which this is not.

Don’t take the pay cut.

Don’t give up one hour per day to commute.

Don’t waste your time and money and health eating lunch away from home.

Keep your ears and eyes open for the right opportunity.

This isn’t it. Don’t take it. Wait for the right opportunity

I expect that’s why the internet’s been falling apart lately.

I’m sure it is.

It’s been interesting to see people not really getting angry about it, yet.

Simon’s Puzzles is what i use when I’m trying to reduce my own doom scrolling.

Luanti (a very nice free Minecraft clone) is also great for a few minutes (…or hours) here and there.

Edit:

What the hey, here’s a few more!

Burger Party - Like that pizza game, but burgers

Breakout 71 - Breakout as a Rogue-lite

Endless Sky - Space Trader Simulator

Gridle (Crosswords-Like Wordle)

Gurgle (Wordle)

Mindustry - Mobile Factorio-like

Pixel Dungeon - Rogue revisited and constantly updated

Roboyard - Slide robots to their goals

Super Tux Kart

It’s for people who aren’t tech literate.

My experience installing Linux for tech illiterate parents and grandparents was lovely.

They never noticed they’re not on Windows. They just wanted their two desktop icons - web and email.

Edit: Funny related story - they (grandparents) always rebooted with the power button after Linux told them it had updated - which was almost never necessary. I always just told them “good job”, when they mentioned it, though.

when they run into HW issues they post on fourms and reddit like its personal tech support

For folks reading along, we absolutely are your personal tech support. Most of us owe way more than that to our mentors, and can never pay our mentors back, we can only pay it forward to folks like you.

Ask away!

and to my surprise everything seems good! (knock on wood)

After a few aborted attempts to switch to Linux, over the years, that has been exactly the vibe of my latest journey.

“So this all just works now?” has been my repeated surprised thought.

Standard disclaimer: I don’t have any hardware by Nvidia. Not by choice, I was just feeling broke when Nvidia got hot.

Couldn’t you also make a throwaway ms account?

I could, but them I’m up a creek later if I need to use any recovery functionality, as it all ties back to that MS cloud account.

It’s certainly possible to get working, disable all of the cloud saves and telemetry, and then just save the MS account in a password vault for later.

But all of that is much more work than clicking “next” a few times in the Linux Mint installer. ¯_(ツ)_/¯