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The naming is one thing I legitimately like about the whole Linux/GNU/FOSS world.

Things are still named by nerds/enthusiasts who have some spark of joy and fun left in their hearts. Could you imagine a sanitized corporate software product released today with a name that directly refers to the established product it is meant to displace?

For example, things like GNU's Not Unix or my favorite remotely accessible text/terminal based email client I used around the turn of the century, PINE Is Not Elm.

Then you get fun second-order software names like GIMP, too.

It's all so preferable to the commercial software branding world where even though the visual presentation is extremely samey (everybody switching to the same popular boring fonts and removing logos/artwork), the actual brands are often made up silly words that are easy to get the domain name and the social handles for.

Be sure to follow BONTO! on all your favorite trillion dollar propaganda and surveillance platforms!

Yep and part of that is just letting the things exist and be what they are, even if they aren't for you.

Let DOOM be what it is for those of us who were the right edgy age at the right time to eat it up. Let the calm games be what they are too, without requiring combat mechanics.

People gotta practice letting go. In general. About literally anything. The correlation I see in my acquaintances between not letting go of trivial shit (including the existence of different types of people that like different things) is stark.

I appreciate the juxtaposition between your username and this comment wanting to beat one of the universe's most useless life forms.

Here's my hot take to offer:

The Krunch 106.66 from Saints Row 2 is the best radio station in any city sandbox GTA-style game.

I like metal and there are a couple bands I started listening to because of that radio station.

I completely understand the sentiment!

I am still into some tech and "new computer" type stuff. I am about to install a bigger/faster drive in my PC and set up my Home Assistant server. That PC is already my Jellyfin server. I am also in the middle of building a brand new PC for my kid, which will also run Mint, lol.

But I spend time only on the things that I've learned really matter to me, and not on all the things you're "supposed to" mess with in your home lab that you obviously have.

You know the meme (or meme category) where it's a resume or linkedin profile where the recent work history goes something like Senior Network Architect, then Goose Farmer?

I may literally have a 3D printer still in the box, and PC & networking parts all over the house, but my daily routine is embedded linux C/C++ sr developer by day and animal tender on the evenings and weekends, lol.

Does anybody here have moderate to severe ADHD and can honestly say you do not have anxiety and depression? Not necessarily medicated, but I'd expect it to be a lot more common in this crowd. Our crowd.

I was thinking the autism dino would say something like "ok you still have to do everything somehow, but you cannot ask for help"

Wilhoit's law:

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

In looking up the exact text, apparently it is often attributed to the wrong Wilhoit, lol.

I never left!

I think I'm just old enough, have fiddled with my PC enough times in the past, have enough other shit to do, and get enough coding and troubleshooting experience at work that I look at the quest to find my spirit distro and think "that's a youngster's game."

Or, you know, maybe Mint is already my spirit distro and I am experienced enough to not fix what isn't broken!

Can something be enshittified if it never went through the good product and downward trajectory phases?

OpenAI was enshittibegotten!

I was coming to the comments to make some kind of comment about how the chill vibe of this meme is the reason I brought nature to me and built a pond in my yard and etc...

But your comment was at the very top. My "keep those damn fish alive" sense kicked in. So my train of thought took a hard turn towards "holy shit is that a mink?? RUN!!!"

Or replace mink with a similar cute little murder machine species. I haven't dealt with them, fortunately, but I've heard the stories.

Ouch, that line sure as hell would work on me!

But I'm not just an American who watched his show. I'm local to his area and I've been to the actual studios at WQED multiple times, on top of all the show artifacts I just saw the other day.