I work in logistics. I’ve always had a fascination with tech, and was leery of all these neato things on offer from big tech, from social media to the cloud.

Found out I could self-host, and got to learning.

I hate listening to my younger brother talk about technology. He is just a sheep in an apple pen, and perfectly happy. I don’t get it.

Who needs therapy when you have pacman?

Me too. Man, this sport can be brutal.

This is just gonna end sadly, isn’t it?

For being a complete douche.

What looks good about the economy, out of curiosity.

Semi truck for a company known for something else. Private fleet.

And honestly? I’m tired of being gaslit by both sides. Fuck you all.

I also drive for a living, and boy is it slow out there.

And ohhhh, you think I’m a solipsist because I used personal experience to back up my claims. Cool.

That’s what’s going on in reality, though. Try touching some grass rather than believing what you see on a screen.

It’s fascinating, how the media tries to prop up their “side” despite the obvious reality.

Fox News praising Trump during COVID (which he absolutely blundered), and now the left media saying we have a great economy when me and all my friends are slow at work. So slow it’s concerning.

Well even a bare bones install of Debian has USB plug and play, networking, printing…they include a bit more than Arch, even if you do have to install your own programs.

Some functionality is missing, like USB plug and play, certain network file sharing capabilities, printing…so in addition to learning pacman, having to learn all the package names, you have to look up how to give the OS certain functionalities…it’s a lot as a newbie. If you don’t love working on computers, you may not make it through that phase.

And I say this with all due respect, as an Arch user myself.

I’ve “refreshed” a couple coworker’s old PCs with Linux Mint XFCE. It’s actually gone pretty well.

“All I do is browse the net.”

Okay, I’ll put the browser right on the desktop, so you don’t have to search for it. Be patient, it’s an older computer. But at least this works, unlike Windows.

And I haven’t really heard too much from them. Internet works. Basic needs fulfilled.

I feel like someone who knows a bit more could be more of a pain. But for very basic computing needs like paying your bills and surfing IG, it can go well.

Even the state of the economy is spun these days. Who even knows at this point, depending who you ask and what factors you look at.

This is how I run all my services. I have a nice docker compose file, I always set my server computers up the same way so no editing will be necessary…

I was using podman, but like all Red Hat products, I found it to be unnecessarily complicated. Yes of course it has better security, but… Docker just works.

Good bot, if this is how you earn your keep.

Different software purposes and all, but it vaguely puts me in the mind of the Sony compact disc DRM scandal.

Wow. Really reaching there, huh?

What Meta shit wouldn’t I like to see? A general watering down of the comment quality. Trolling. Nonsense. What has happened to every somewhat technical technology the second the normies cry “gatekeeping” and force their way in with a dumb fucking look on their face and without an original idea in their heads.

That Meta shit is what I’d like to avoid. Just because one doesn’t have opportunity to respond doesn’t mean there isn’t a response.

Tetris? The recent record?