Ahhhh I accelerate very quickly because it’s fun, and I brake very slowly because I like not wearing my brake pads down. So I really only accelerate hard if there’s a ton of space in front of me and good side-visibility so I don’t have to risk sudden breaking (obv not only for my brakes, but so I don’t hurt anything!)

But I am soooo accelerating fast at every safe opportunity because it just feels awesome lawl. Then again, in a good month, I’m going 100-200 miles or less (partner and I both gremlins) so the fuel expenditure is maybe 10 bucks a month. Not even that high.

original post this is attempting to jack the style of:

“Clavicular was mid jestergooning when a group of Foids came and spiked his Cortisol levels 😭

Is Ignoring the Foids while munting and mogging Moids more useful then SMV chadfishing in the club?”

I love my Valheim server. I can spin it up and pop in for a round of farming and planting, maybe build a new lil storage place when my boxes are filling up. Maybe go mine a lil for some ores I need. Cook food, mead, make some portions to stock my supply box. Play ten minutes or a half hour and set myself up for a journey when I have time for one.

Or I can grab portal mats, choose an icon from a quest in an area I’ve never come close to exploring, and go on a two hour quest to put teleporters on every continent on the way and eventually find out if Killfuck Gronkblaster is a souped up golem with an army of star golems… or a boar. (I could look in my menu to read about K. Gronk, but ruin the surprise?)

Hey, a giant tower! Can’t seem to just walk in… better go grab some stacks of wood and make ladders and platforms to scale the outside and OH GOD WHAT IS THIS PLACE

My lil Lenovos are actually desktops! But I’m sure they use laptop parts, considering their insanely small size. Getting Linux on any of them was a breeze, I knew to install windows first and disable all the stupid fast boot/secure boot garbage, and I did get some errors starting out that some things in my BIOS were not enabled (VMX and SGX) but I was able to easily find and enable those! :3

Aha, you know what’s up, I ain’t gotta tell you hahaha. I paid the small price for Wipr 2 after loving the first one, and the dev is a really cool person. I don’t use YT much but my one complaint is that it does not tend to block YT ads. Firefox Focus does perfectly, and allows for background play too! I’m interested in adguard to try, but I mostly don’t leave the house and my PiHole lives here for DNS stuff!

Bevi fucks. Cucumber, black cherry, and key lime are soooo good.

Her name is Bevi and she’s the best fucking water dispenser in the world. I hate IoT with a passion but Bevi fucks. Carbonated+electrolytes cucumber, black cherry, key lime, and some of the seasonal flavors are soooo good.

Ugh PUBG was one of the best games ever when it came out for computer. Full of jank, sure, but every time you started a new game, it was an ADVENTURE! I always landed far away from people so I could get max exploring in. I loved that there were tons of garbage items on the floor, like clothing and stuff. It made every time you found a nice gun or attachment feel AWESOME. Then as the round is further in, I’m armed to the teeth and driving a bike with a sidecar towards the action. Then I hit a twig and my bike launches into orbit, doing 500 flips, exploding on impact. Except the time it didn’t—I was driving and my partner was in the sidecar, we launched and did a million flips, and it landed without so much as a bounce (doing damage to us and lighting on fire, but not killing us!) I wish I had a clip from that moment, with our reactions.

Then PUBG mobile came out, and a friend of mine was sooo into it, and soooo stoked that he got so many kills and was so good at the game. I’m not a teen anymore so I’m not a fun-ruiner like I was back then; I didn’t have the heart to tell him he was playing against majority boys with bad AI, and the game has crazy auto aim for players.

The computer version removed all bad loot, so everything you find was guns, ammo, attachments… suddenly everything was inundated with loot. If I wanted that, I’d just go play a game with load outs! I want to have to hunt for good gear, that’s what made the game so unique for me!

Then PUBG went full on garbage mode. Removed proxy-chat, went F2P, and added bots. Fuck bots! Ruins the concept of the game completely. I uninstalled the day bots were added and never played again.

I am very happy to have had a few 1v99 wins before bots were added. My first win against 99 others happened maybe 50 hours in, and my watch warned me my heart rate hit 180. I’ve never felt that kind of rush from a game before or since.

If we’re going by THAT metric, Pokémon would top this list hahaha

Nahhh everyone wanted Red Steel (lawl)

iOS can now run uBlock Origin! Before that, there was Wipr/wipr 2 which are still excellent, and the Firefox Focus browser which has some stellar adblocking and wipes all browsing data, cookies, cache, everything every time you exit the browser (or click the button to do it.)

Permissions in iOS have historically been more locked down for apps as well, giving users much more control over what apps can access. This changed a couple years back and now Android gives users more control over what apps can access than it used to.

I remember trying to browse forums before iOS/android were a thing and yah, it was a nightmare. Shoot, when iPhones came out, they couldn’t even copy and paste! I had the first Android phone that was released when it came out, the Dream, and it was revolutionary. I stopped using all Google products and services a long while ago, so iOS was pretty fleshed out by the time I got my first iPhone.

Now, full desktop sites work pretty well on mobile devices—I often prefer them to mobile versions of sites. I’m lucky to have really good eyesight though, so I like my text very small and condensed and all over the screen for maximum info without scrolling.

The speaker popping thing was so weird! It happened with anything plugged into the built-in 3.5mm jack, and it happened A LOT. It’s normal to hear that while first booting or shutting down, but Fedora did it like a LOT. The machine is a Lenovo Tiny, so it’s nice hardware. I have replicated the pops in Catchy now on another (identical) Lenovo Tiny, but only when it dims the screen for power-save mode. Solution: no more power save mode hahaha.

I didn’t even consider printer! I have a laserjet on my network, I’ll have to set that up on each of my distros and see how they handle it!

Also 0, because I keep all of mine in a local encrypted incremental backup. It’s the only way I’ve ever done it. I don’t want any personal stuff on someone else’s computer. Pictures, same thing. It’s the only thing I’ve ever used iTunes for… but it does it really well, it’s very impressive. Every new phone, I plug it into my computer and hit “go” and it’s the exact same phone I had before, but better and faster and with a much better camera (I keep my phones for five or six years hahaha)

I did get a large amount of space through Poroton though, so I may rip everything, encrypt it, and throw the encrypted file on there, to have it offsite. Otherwise multiple on-site backups for all of the most important personal stuff.

App for a web site is ALWAYS worse. I hate that shit. The only time the app is better is if they purposefully make the mobile site worse so you switch to the app. Facebook was excellent at doing this.

Between multiple browsers on desktop and mobile, all in private mode or browsers that do not save any cookies or data, VPNed into any country I tried, you now need to be logged in to see reviews. Either you’re logged in, or lived in a place that isn’t Canada, the US, Japan, Denmark, Australia, Norway, or whatever other places I tried.

Someone I know (who isn’t close to me geographically) said their laptop just broke and now they only have their phone… I wish I could get to them. I have like six computers waiting to be used for stuff, the rest of them I’m playing with/learning with!

I tried in many regions and countries and all of them required login to see reviews. I use a browser that keeps no cookies and deletes all browsing data on exit.

20 computers. I can’t stop getting more computers I need help there’s so many computers they’re in every room and they’re computing aaaaaaaa

I installed it last night while all messed up after played games online with friends all night and this morning I woke up with vague memories of doing so…. It’s working perfectly, it’s so fast and pretty. Holy balls. It has none of the issues my fedora install had and had to learn to fix, either. This fuuuucks. Thank you for the recco!

Ooo I actually did Fedora with KDE as my most recent install! It’s now running as our living room media computer and my partner has no complaints! I DID have some issues, though—it was actually more difficult than I expected! At first, it refused to play any media from my SMB server from the integrated video player or even VLC. After a lot of digging, I learned that the Fedora version of VLC is not shipped with SMB support, so I had to go find and install Samba plugin. Then it played! Mostly. Except for when it didn’t play video, or a file at all. THEN I learned that Fedora doesn’t ship with the video codecs I’ve had in all my other OSes! So I find a helpful post from a while ago on some forum that leads me to install THOSE… and it works! VLC now plays everything, and from my server!

…oop, except the speakers make a loud horrible popping sound randomly when not playing media! This took me two days to fix. Initially I plugged in a 3.5mm to USB adapter and that worked fine with no pops, but the whole point of me playing with new OSes is to learn to how to fix things, first by searching the internet, then asking if I can’t do it myself (I have a couple friends who can fix legit ANYTHING Linux.) For the Fedora install, I was stubborn and REALLY didn’t wanna ask anyone for help. Eventually I found out the popping was caused by the system going into some sort of power save mode for audio. I found a terminal command that fixed it but it was back every reboot. I found a few different suggestions of edits I could to to config files and none worked. FINALLY one post had a suggestion for someone having the same issue that actually fixed it for me! I get a pop on startup, but most OSes do, and no pops at all when using the OS.

Overall, I like Fedora, but it did have more issues than I ran into when installing Pop!.

Last night, I got all messed up with my partner and played games with friends. Super early in the morning, I decided to wind down by trying to install CatchyOS alongside the Windows install that was already on another mini desktop I just switched out to the Fedora one. Since it’s a type of Arch Linux, I expected hilarious results, and me not being able to figure out how to install it at all, having heard of Arch’s high learning curve. In like 30 minutes, I had it installed, working perfectly with everything, VLC plays every file from my server, custom global themes work (still having trouble on my Fedora install with those…) and wow. I love it so far, but I’ve only used it for like a half hour last night and a bit this morning hahaha