When people ask me why I like Linux, my go-to reason is my main personal machine. I use it for everything I do outside of work, including running my Emby server.

I built it from $500 worth of parts 13 years ago. I’ve kept updating the os and applications. It’s starting to slow down a bit after the last os upgrade, but it’s still plenty usable.

I am getting concerned about the spinning platters. As far as I am aware, Linux won’t prevent an ancient hard disk drive from reaching the natural end of is life.

It’s probably time to move on to a new machine. Well, new motherboard, CPU, RAM, and disks at least.

They’re all weird he’s just bald ;-)

I run Linux on my personal machine.

My needs aren’t particularly demanding. Web browsing, watching streaming services, accounting software, some low impact games, 3D modeling, and running a video server.

I assembled my machine from $500 worth of parts 12 years ago. In between, I’ve added some RAM, and about 8TB of mirrored disk to store movies for the video server.

Admittedly, I’m starting to be concerned about the age of the disks, and I think I’d like a better processor, but money is tight.

Given the age of the thing, there’s a chance that it’s just going to drop dead one of these days, but it’s been running for years without me having to do anything but install updates for the OS.

Obligatory capitalism is bad too (but at least I’m in less danger of getting vanned in the middle of the night for insulting random great leader - attemtping to undermine the social order or whatever they called thoughtcrimes).

Capitalism requires the limits imposed by a strong, functional democracy, otherwise it drifts into horrifying tyranny.

Unrestrained capitalism can give communism a run for it’s money in terms of genocide.

Edit: typo

While I don’t think Uber eats is worth it, and I love the USPS, there’s a major difference between the two: time. No one is having the USPS delivery their lunch.

Well, yeah. No one said he wasn’t flawed.

I’d argue that Ring of Fire is a metaphor about forbidden love that you know is damning you but the feelings are too powerful to resist.

Rather than a harmless metaphor, I find it an incredibly powerful metaphor about the pain and suffering caused by helplessly loving the “wrong” person.

Plus, there’s an opportunity to make STD jokes.

All the toys under the fridge.

Picture and words, but it’s missing the picture.

How nice. You’ve got yourself a talented cat!

Keep the bathroom door closed, or add a bidet seat to the toilet…and rig it so it turns on when the roll turns.

If you haven’t already done so, flip the roll over so that the end comes out underneath the roll.

You’ll have to deal with people complaining that you’re putting the roll on wrong, but it usually is enough to keep a cat from unrolling it.

I used to work in the GRASP lab at Penn, and my predecessor there was John Bradley of xv fame. He had started naming all the machines after fish.

When I got there I continued the practice, naming some tiny computers being used for mini robots after different types of goldfish.

In my current job, years ago, I managed a group of Linux servers, and I named them after Demons (Lucifer, Asmodeus, Azrael, Beelzebub, etc.).

At this point, there is a specific naming convention in use where I’m at, and the name is limited to identifying organization, application, and server type.

Username checks out.

Oooh, yeah, I didn’t consider that.

No big deal. You have until August. Just skip the avocado toast until then and you’ll be fine.

Italian grandmothers agree with cats: food is love.

I’m not a pineapple, so I should be safe.

Pol Pot?