Yeah back then I was in elementary school. I chased single percent performance gains from bleeding edge because I couldn’t just buy better hardware. If you wanted the latest versions of anything ubuntu couldn’t do it without iffy unofficial repos and dependency hell. I did it anyway and it sucked.

If you compiled the kernel but forgot to rebuild the graphics modules you had to live cd in, because a 64mb usb stick was like 300 bucks back then and booting off usb wasn’t really a thing yet. Then next would be some janky terminal instructions off someones blog printed at the library because phones weren’t even moto razr and arch wiki didnt exist yet, then pray it worked and that there was enough time left in the day to do whatever stupid homework needed the computer.

I never liked the nvidia installer and it’s control panel that seemingly needed root then somehow fucked up the monitor config while not even applying the driver config, but it was all I knew as I never had a radeon until after the amd acquisition of ati. I also have no idea if the driver was always in kernel or if that was more recent but being able to compile a kernel with some silly buzzword feature that probably only situationally added 2fps to maybe one or two games and not risk graphics related boot failure was a game changer to my broke ass in the early days of working.

Anyway that was peak ubuntu era as I remember it. I mainly used ubuntu with spots of opensuse and some others here and there until whenever the r9 280 came out and then primarily used arch until the the early immutable distros showed up. Now even my dad and grandparents are on bazzite and my mom on aurora and its literally the best thing ever because they actually don’t fuck it up anymore and I don’t spend every waking hour on call for tech support.

I would actually recommend the nvidia image of bazzite since it takes the potential driver module and kernel mismatch problem out of the equation which IMO is one of the most annoying problems an nvidia user can face, and if it somehow bugs out anyway rollback is one or two keypresses away depending on if you hide grub or not.

Virtualization is possible with the boot flags and vfio if needed setup using the “ujust setup-virtualization” script. qemu/kvm, probably not virtualbox which also requires kernel modules iirc.

I’m honestly tempted. I know someone that does movie masks like mrs doubtfire which has led me to have a bit of a fixation on them but I know a few people that would be up for doing one or two of these a month

by “prison” do you mean “in the dirt”?

Is it enough that I watched yowamushi pedal? I already biked for my work commute but I can get behind naming and talking to my abs. I felt sick to my stomach when I went biking with friends and some of them started singing hime hime though.

I still don’t understand why people watch any sports. I’ve been to basketball, baseball, hockey, rugby, even curling and its ultimately the same as watching the dvd logo bounce to me.

shopping is most certainly not one of those use cases

“wait I have razor blades in my pockets. They were on clearance…”

epstein being called a hoax in an attempt to brush it all under the rug happened and I have been worrying about since he was killed

dunno about butter and fudge but almost every supermarket chocolate has palm oil in it

meanwhile I make poor choices and do fuck all and the bank keeps offering me loans and cc limit increases until I begged them to stop twice

the chain smoking and hard drugs of video game’s

the only damaged bike lane in my town is the one that people drive on idiotically. its the dedicated turn lane to the highway onramp and a bike lane runs along it and continues on the overpass. people treat the bike lane and car turn lane combined as two car lanes only to compound merge on to the highway 80 meters later.

anyone have that meme where the view of a driver of a cyclist with and without hi-viz and both are just the driver’s cell phone?

Yeah my house was one of the ones with Computer

I just shopped on one side of the street, now please excuse me while I drive to the salon across the street.

LOL

oh well yeah if I was a pigeon I’d have no choice. judging by the size of the nug, she tries to hold it in pretty long before giving it up. sometimes I open the door and she rushes in out of nowhere, stands above the toilet and looks down before backing in and dropping bombs like hiroshima

I can open the door and I leave it open for the pigeon who free roams the house, but grandma keeps closing it then complaining about shit in front of the door…

this made me snort my coffee