Also this. On some unremarkable HP office PC that’s probably about a decade old. No ad filtering or anything as it interferes with others in the house. I’ve thought about trying a second unbound service with adblocking for me, but haven’t gotten around to it.

I love Linux, but I admit these are valid. I’ve had some of these same issues.

Sleep mode that doesn’t work consistently,

I haven’t had any issues with sleep on my devices, but I have in the recent past on previous hardware.

WiFi driver issues, printer driver issues, touchpad driver issues,

My WiFi doesn’t work at all on my desktop. Though it’s worked on a live image from another distro so seems likely to be an issue with the distro’s distributed kernel, not a Linux one. I run a rolling release distro so won’t be that the kernel is too old. But don’t care so haven’t troubleshot it much. My printer requires the use of vendor provided drivers, which are only available for some distros. It works, but not a solution I’m happy with. Never had touchpad issues.

several different wonky ways to install programs instead of just double-clicking an .exe and pressing “next-next-OK”,

I think package repos > collecting and installing your software piecemeal from all over the place. But having to deal with repos, flatpaks, appimages, etc. can be daunting.

random shutdown of programs for no reason or error codes

Sounds like an OOM process kill maybe? That’ll show in your kernel logs if so. But no immediate visual feedback.

…the list goes on. And on topnof that, all the stuff that people are used to using that just doesn’t run on Linux at all.

If there’s proprietary software that doesn’t run on Linux that someone wants/needs to run and there aren’t any viable alternatives then yeah, probably a non-starter. There’s wine of course but it can be a crapshoot. No shade intended towards the project. It’s amazing what it can do, even if it can’t do everything.

No specific negative association. I can’t say for certain, as it’s too long ago to remember. But I think at one point when I was young i felt more lukewarm about the song, but it was overplayed which soured me.

Tangentially related: anyone else have a strong dislike of “Dancing Queen?” That song has annoyed me for as long as I can remember.

Just that song, not Abba as a whole.

Death Stranding

I’ve hated tofu every one of the few times I’ve tried to prepare it. Undoubtedly because I’m doing something wrong. And it’s just OK when I have it at a restaurant. But this looks and sounds pretty good and straightforward. I’ll give it a shot!

I hope they pull through. Not because of any loyalty. I’ll buy whatever is providing the best value for performance at the time. But I don’t want to see a monopoly in the x86 market.

74 miles/119km.

I don’t consider that specific place home. While it’s not particularly far, I have no memories of it and it is different culturally. The state in general though I do consider home.

The 3b just has USB 2, so even with slow spinning rust, that’s going to be a bottleneck. But it’s probably still plenty fast as a remote storage device for media storage.

Edit: said I didn’t know OP’s use case but in re-reading they did say. Edited accordingly.

Kind of reminds me of Goblin Valley. I don’t think it is. Too green and rocks are the wrong color. But first thing that came to mind.

Might exist, or maybe there’s some API that I can utilize in which case I could script it. I’ve done a very cursory search but nothing stood out.

I would love something that would grab x most popular songs from an artist/genre/year range that I have in my music library and create a playlist file. For if I’m just feeling like some “greatest hits” style music. And I don’t want an LLM involved.

I share a good number of these. I don’t like tomato, olives, or anything fishy tasting. I do like anise flavored things such as black licorice.

The remaining stuff our tastes differ on.

I am but a single humble meatbag that enjoys games and can’t speak for all gamers, but I generally dislike the typical “gaming rig” aesthetic. I don’t want RGB lights. I don’t like ostentatious looking cases or accessories. I do find it tasteless, to reuse your term.

No sleight on those that do though. If that’s your style, then enjoy it!

I feel like I was aware of this (much time has passed), but I think it’s something we discovered by trying it out of curiosity.

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Reminds me of the Ferd Fteenthousand. https://youtu.be/F8P5vGcf-NU

My laptop booted in to Windows once. I missed my first guess on the key to enter setup and USB storage didn’t have a higher boot order than internal storage.

Gross. I didn’t know that. I do occasionally use AirBnB. I’m aware of their impact on the rental market, so I favor hotels most of the time. But there have been a few occasions in recent years where I was traveling in a larger group and an AirBnB made more sense. But no more of that.

I looked in to this a little, and Joe Gebbia is no longer the CEO, but he is still on the board. Still a good enough reason to boycott.

I’ll try this! I used to use caldav via my mail provider with DAVx5, but I had problems with it not retaining notification settings with recurring events.

I don’t know if that’s a problem with their caldav server, DAVx5, or my phone’s calendar. But worth trying with radicale and see if it works.