It’s like that one video with the cop dropping to the ground doing barrel rolls and shouting shots fired, when an acorn fell and hit the roof of a car.

Bunch of untrained morons.

3 arm Tux, nice!

It’s all in moderation. Eating 8 or so eggs scrambled every morning probably isn’t healthy for you either. But 2-3 eggs, some toast with decent butter, and some fruit is more sensible. Maybe swap it with yogurt and granola one morning.

Personally if I’m even hungry in the morning I go light and have plain toast, or I get a loaf of rosemary sourdough from the store and have that untoasted. If I’m hungry I do the yogurt combo.

My main pet peeve is cooking and eating for hours…I don’t feel like cooking breakfast for 1-2 hours(pancakes from scratch, eggs, bacon, etc.) and then eat for another hour and now it’s already lunch time and I still haven’t cleaned up from breakfast.

If I do a “lumberjack” type of breakfast then I go out to eat because I ain’t dealing with the kitchen for that lol.

And it worked fine with finding the game’s folder under .steam?

I mostly mod Bethesda games, so MO2 is the defacto and it’s what I default to. So I’m kicking myself right now for not trying other mod managers if MO2 just wasn’t the right tool for the job…

Yeah I’m on free tier(evaluating proton as a whole) and I don’t see this option in my mobile app. I’ll have to look at the web to see if it’s there…but I doubt it

*Edit, checked the web client. Found the option, but it’s a mail plus feature, so I can’t disable it as a free user.

Hassle? What hassle? Adding a new device to the syncthing swarm and adding the folder where your database is stored?

I also have been using KeepassXC and syncthing for years. Best thing I have ever done!

KeepassXC and syncthing, free and easy

I loathe gnome, so whenever I recommend “Ubuntu” I always specify Kubuntu for that reason.

The average joe has no idea what “desktop environment” means and will not understand how you can just swap DE’s even. So starting them off with Kubuntu specifically is ideal IMO.

Ubuntu is fine for grandma, or even Mint, but someone born in the last 40 years will probably appreciate Plasma more.

If you’re really wanting to use “Ubuntu” but don’t want any of the standard options then PopOS is fine from my experience.

I haven’t tried modding on Linux in a while, so seeing “SteamOS” support is nice to see as that probably means proton support.

Last time I tried modding Fallout New Vegas on Linux…it didn’t end well.

I’m a Linux sysadmin, we use RHEL at work. So my experience is skewed.

Been gaming on Windows since the 90s. But I’ve had a Linux homelab since the mid-2000s. To be honest, I’ve never had an issue with gaming on Windows. I switched from Windows 7 to 8.1 when it first released because Windows 8 had direct ISO mounting. I switched to Windows 10 right when it released and the odd hiccup has happened, I’ve never had files go missing, settings revert, or performance drops due to updates. I updated to Windows 11 right when it released and been having the same experience, zero issues. Idk, I always build my PCs myself and I put a fresh copy of Windows on it, never used anything pre-installed or pre-made.

I’ve owned a Steam Deck since its launch and I think over time my experience with gaming on Linux has changed due to proton. I’ve tried switching in the past, but nothing ever *clicked and I just went back to Windows.

However, since the rise of AI, Microsoft locking Windows down, and wanting to “own” my PC, I switched to Linux on my main laptop and also switched on a secondary gaming desktop I have, just to have a test bed environment. So far it’s been solid, but I currently utilize Moonlight and Apollo to stream from my windows gaming PC to my Beelink mini PC because I moved my gaming PC to the garage due to heat/noise.

So I’m in-between deciding on switching my Beelink to Linux and still use moonlight or just switch my main gaming PC over to Linux as well. I need to test Apollo/Moonlight on the entirely Linux clients I have. I do heavy modding for some games like Fallout and the TaleofTwoWastelands mod, so I need to test this on my Linux gaming PC…

As for a distro. I use RHEL at work, so I’m familiar with Fedora. I use Proxmox/Debian for my homelab(and Ubuntu containers). So I’m familiar with that side as well. I’ve tried Fedora, Kubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, Endeavor…but I always ran into a weird issue or something didn’t feel “right” with the PC after a while. And I always see a bunch of YouTubers and people saying “XYZ distro is the best” but then another “new” distro comes out, so just tons of “flavor of the month” happening.

But recently I put CachyOS on my laptop and secondary PC and it’s been surprisingly solid. Everything just seems to “work”. I heard about Cachy over a year ago, but again, “flavor of the month” so I ignored it. But looking into it more and tried it out on my laptop, I was surprised with how much a Arch distro was “easy” to setup and use out of the box.

So gaming on Linux has been pretty similar to Windows. There’s the odd issue with proton and CPU overhead I’ve experienced, but Cachy has helped a lot with Nvidia GPUs and I like that it isn’t a “gaming” distro but a distro that is flexible.

I think the main “issue” with Windows to Linux is that people try to make Linux into Windows. Linux isn’t a direct replacement to Windows, but it’s a very solid operating system that is beyond flexible. I would say buy a second drive, install Linux on that and try it out, if you like it then take the plunge. If you don’t, well wipe it and go back to Windows.

Not sure why anyone is still using Verizon.

US Mobile has access to their networks and it’s cheaper. Same service. Been with USM for nearly 2 years now. My parents and siblings all switched over too. Moved our numbers over with zero issues.

Verizon not in your area? Cool, USM also has access to T-Mobile and ATT.

People need to learn to shop around, especially in the current economy we’re in.

Yeah and the stuff releasing right now will be “old hardware” in 5 years.

I’m still gaming on a Ryzen 1700X. And my GPU is a used RTX 3080 I bought off eBay for $500 two years ago.

That 3080 was over $1000 during the GPU craze last time. And what was I using before that 3080? A 1080ti I bought at MSRP, which I still have and is my backup because hey, it’s nearly 10 years old and still works.

I’m not saying go buy a dual core Pentium, but “old hardware” isn’t some boogeyman and “we will eventually not have old computers” is like saying we’ll never have old cars.

And guess what, if everyone stopped buying all this overpriced crap then prices would come down, but we all know that isn’t going to happen.

Great post and I agree 100%!

something new shows up

Doesn’t even have to be a new thing either. Video games are still used as a scapegoat. Same as with music, and TV shows, and movies.

The “internet” is still killing teenagers because of social media bullying.

I wished our lawmakers were of a less senile age so we can write and pass more appropriate laws for this stuff…but not much we can do.

And new computers can break.

Might as well never buy anything because everything can break!

This is where I’m at. I’m selling off some old DDR3 RAM I have and I’m hanging onto my DDR4 stuff and systems.

Just bought a 3700X to replace an aging Ryzen 1700X. $100 on eBay, so not bad.

For your 5800X if it does die(*knock on wood) then at least you can snag a 5700X or 5800X on eBay for $200. Hopefully that stays consistent.

Looks like someone used that shadify url generator lmao

Yeah and the e-waste centers will clean up the hardware and resell it.

It’ll be a flood into the market. Supply and demand and all that.

I’m surprised to not see this suggestion, but Plex does music pretty well and they have an app dedicated for music/audio called “Plexamp”. Though I don’t think this app is on things like AppleTV/Roku(haven’t looked).

It’s so-so when it comes to playlist building…but the app on mobile works and I use it for audiobooks mainly, but I am starting to plan to use it switch off Spotify here soon.

or should I consider other software?

Unfortunately I had similar thoughts and plans that you outline here(receipt scanning into budgeting), but the amount of work involved was…too much for my liking.

I instead opted for a paid solution, which is Monarch: https://www.monarch.com/

It’s $100 a year, but they have a promotion(they always run promotions), where you can do your first year for 50% off with code: NEWYEAR2026

So far my wife and I have been loving Monarch. We linked our bank accounts and other financial institutions(401k, brokerages, IRAs, etc.) and everything mostly “just works”. There is an odd time or two where a bank account needs to be re-signed into to re-auth because token/api expired/changed, but again, the app works and does things well.

I’d suggest looking into it. I’m usually a huge proponent of self-hosting everything, but this is one of the few things I caved on…

The world economy collapsed because Americans stopped paying their mortgages.

So yeah, I’m sure nothing will come from domestic terrorists bombing corporate headquarters looking for children in dungeons and tens of millions of Americans dying.

At least our land will be cheap for countries to buy later on