Hated Windows. TechTV had a download of day that “works on both Windows and Linux!”
“I don’t know what Linux is but it can’t be worse that Windows.”
I’ve been on it ever since. That was 20+ years ago.
I honestly don’t know how windows works… I only ever used it for about a year and some change when I was a teenager in the 90s.
It’s easier to think about Linux on the context of what an individual application needs to run. Pretty much everything you do will have these components.
That’s really it. If something isn’t working, it’s pretty much exclusively going to fall into one of those categories. What that means is going to vary significantly from app to app but understanding this is how literally everything works makes the troubleshooting process a lot easier.
A small container running in kubernetes on an old laptop.
My personal laptop is whatever the first gen Framework is called. After many, many years doing the “cool” distros, I’ve settled on Mint and don’t really have any motivation to do anything else… I have real work I need to do and can’t be bothered to deal with figuring out weird shit. I just need it to work.
TBH, the only things I use my laptop for anymore is a browser, vim, git, and kubernetes tooling… I barely have any interest in running Linux on a workstation at this point. The only things that really interest me anymore are being run in distributed clusters. Desktop Linux is kinda boring and tedious for me.
Those days gave me a career so I can’t really complain.
Back in the dark, old days of Linux I spent 5-6 hours digging through dbus events and X11 configs to get my mouse working. It was unplugged.
In my defense, in those days, Linux was such an insane asylum that diving into dbus and X11 as a first step was usually the logical approach.
Woops!
I actually really like The Night Before. That Joe Seth Rogan movie. It’s the only one I’ve been rewatching over the last few years.
Higher’d’n AC.
No. Just change the location.
Meetup.com is how you get to know people in Tokyo. I lived there for a few years and this was extremely popular.
Have you looked into getting a psych evaluation?
Trains when possible.
I’ve been riding motorcycles on and off for years. For the last 8ish months I’ve been riding one of those like city share electric moped/scooter things. It’s a cheap Chinese NIU brand. For the size and state of infrastructure in my current city (Tbilisi) it’s honestly the best way to get around.
I lived in Tokyo for years though. I would take a train network like that any day of the week.
What software are you using that is keeping you on windows?
FWIW, the last version of windows I’ve run was WinME circa 2001ish… I’ve been on Linux since '99 or so. You can certainly get by for day to day stuff. The only thing holding you back is going to be pretty niche.
This is the right answer. Help Desk is by far the right entry point.
Blogs, news for each of the countries I spend time in, tech industry stuff, podcasts, torrent feeds, etc…
Fuck if this isn’t the truth… Saying this as a Sr. SRE with no degree or certs.
I only access banks electronically if they accommodate Tor.
So they know when you logged in and what you did when you got there. So you can’t escape it there.
The bank only gets to know my physical location when I do a transaction where that’s unavoidable.
So you can’t escape this either.
Even if I were to carry a mobile phone on standby wherever I go, the bank would get nothing from it if I don’t run their app.
They would get nothing except the time, location, amount, business, and how that relates to the other purchases you make and all the data those transactions generate as well. That data is shared with the bank, Visa or MasterCard, and all credit reporting agencies. This is unavoidable too.
You are not getting out of this unless you allow it to seriously affect your life.
Bluetooth on Linux fucking sucks