All of the things I listed are examples from my personal experience that I ran into within the past 6 months. The sharing folder adventure happened just about two weeks ago. Don’t try to tell me that it’s all so easy now, I literally just went through hours of research and experimenting and samba settings and changing my disk’s fstab file just to get a folder to show up on my home network. “Oh well you should have done x or y or not used z” Well, frankly it doesn’t matter what the optimal workflow solution would be, what matters is this was my user experience. This was something I went through and was not some whacky fringe use case. Sharing a folder on a home network is not black magic or calling upon arcane demonic powers.

Now, I’m not going back at this point and I’m committed to Linux now, but pretending it’s all smooth sailing and so easy and polished is misleading. It’s certainly more usable than it ever has been but I think most people on Lemmy have no idea how hands off the average person is from their tech. It’s important to be honest about Linux’s shortcomings and prepare new users that they will probably gave to look up info or documentation for some tasks. You also can’t expect the average person to ever open Terminal without hyperventilating.

It’s fast and easy and no big deal until you want to do something radical like create a shortcut and pin it to your taskbar, or share a folder on a home network. Or share your screen with a TV… there have been too many damn times where I’ve wanted to do something that should be simple and the matter of a couple clicks but it sends me down a rabbit hole chasing dependencies and searching terminal commands and spending hours doing something that takes less than a minute on mainstream operating systems. My user experience has drastically improved since I swapped to Plasma but don’t pretend everything works perfectly and intuitively immediately for everyone unless the expected use case is literally turning it on and opening a browser.

I enjoy a pot of spiced black tea, usually a chai blend with cinnamon, ginger and cloves. Sometimes I will add cocoa powder and pour the tea over that with sugar and milk to make a chai tea/hot cocoa drink that is a highlight of my day.

The link is from a Russian aligned misinfo website, so take this article with a grain of salt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintPress_News

I just installed Debian with Plasma, and have been using a system with Mint and Plasma as my daily driver for a few months now. I used the default Cinnamon for about a year. Plasma is definitely way more polished and allows almost everything to be done via menus which is NOT a given with most Linux things. It does work most of the time but expect to run into some basic task you didn’t even think about on Windows and having a frustrating experience chasing solutions to untangle how to do it.

I’m never going back to Windows but the amount of times I’ve had to do something convoluted to attempt something you’d think would be easy is too damn high.

What you describe doesn’t reflect reality in my region of the world or amongst any of the people I know. Not sure where you are but you’re making a lot of generalized statements that should be a hell of a lot more specific. Do you live in Amish country maybe?

There are some lower sugar sodas, or hybrid sodas that use fruit juice along with Stevia or monkfruit in order to cut the weird taste. Olipop is my favorite, and Spindrift has some good flavors.

Hobbies, I can’t get enough of them, gotta collect 'em all. Every couple months it’s a new fixation.

Same, but I got out before OW “2”. I was a platinum Symmetra main in the 2.0 days and adored her. I’ve never done much head clicking in games and don’t have the precise mouse control needed to do it well, so I really gravitated towards being able to play a fast paced pvp game as a strategic, lateral thinking problem solver. I have so many fond memories of my team-mates groaning when I picked Sym only to later sing my praises after a clutch teleport or a flick shield saved them. I collected screen shots of enemies cursing me and calling me horrible things for my devious turret placements. It was just fun.

Then came her 3.0 rework and they basically deleted her. Her new kit played nothing like my skinny legend. I think what made Overwatch originally such a viral game was how welcoming it was. It had characters for seasoned pvp fps vets but also a bunch of low skill-floor heroes that you could get your girlfriend or your dad or somebody who had never played the genre before, in and having fun and contributing. I think each subsequent update after that felt like they were steering the game away from being fun for everyone, and towards being just another head clicking game. They gave me the loud and clear message that they didn’t want people like me playing.

I heard they tried walking it back, and that they added a mode in OW2 that’s like “vintage” Overwatch. Unfortunately the trust is gone now and I lost touch with my community. It’s nice that they realized their mistake in killing it completely but for me it’s just too late.

Personally I’m fine with the restrictions. I’m not in any age restricted servers and I don’t use the Stage feature. I already have pms restricted to mutual servers. If they want to “assume I’m 13” let them. If I can get on voice with my D&D group idgaf.

No I’m not trusting them with my info, or RL identity, but it sounds like they’re not booting people off the service for not providing it.

If you looked like anything, you probably only looked like someone who wouldn’t stand up for yourself or berate him right back. If you are a woman, you can claim some space by standing straight, shoulders back, and channeling some inner Karen energy.

https://www.sosproducts.com/Plastic-Whistle-with-Lanyard-100-Pack-p/22415b.htm

I am very attracted to instruments but lack the discipline to practice regularly. After abandoning several, I ended up acquiring an absolutely gorgeous steel tongue drum by serendipity and my favorite thing about it is that it doesn’t matter what I hit or do on it, it sounds pretty. It’s like a bubble bath for my ears and I can tap on it regardless of whether I’ve practiced or learned a melody and it’s beautiful. Very forgiving, doesn’t need tuning, and welcomes me back no matter how long it’s been since I touched it. I know the cheap ones might have spoiled a lot of people’s opinions of them but a good one sounds magical.

I still get the itch to to start up Alpha Centauri sometimes, which came out in 1999.

Ah you’re right, it seems there’s modern copycats. Try searching for an “Imperial Ten” Oster model 642. That’s the other one I have, and it’s an 860 watt blender, solid metal with a glass pitcher and weighs like 8lbs. It’s probably not on par with the performance of a Vitamix, but it’s also not $400+. For my uses though it has never disappointed, I usually use it for grinding frozen chunks of fruit or berries to make ice cream.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=oster+Imperial+ten+642

I have found two vintage Oster blenders at yard sales, each for under $10. They are from the 50s and 60s and are solid heavy metal things with glass pitchers. I needed to buy new seals for them and on one I had to replace the little star bolt that the pitcher locks into to turn the blades. Either of them will completely liquify things that my modern cheapo Hamilton Beach would meekly chew at. If you can find one online (ebay maybe) or better yet in person (thrift stores, yard sales), I can definitely attest they are built different.

Edited to add: a search on US ebay for “vintage 60s Oster beehive blender” turned up some results that look like mine between $40-50 plus shipping. It’s an excellent machine.

“I don’t think she looks good at pickleball at all, but at least she seems like she could hold a racquet”

What if we used something else, aside from how bangable or pretty men think she is, as a way to judge a woman’s value for a change?

Politics, jostling for power, elevating herself through her relationship? nah she’s got her own passions and things going on. Very refreshing to see that level of dgaf.

Enough… chocolate… What is that? Ridiculous notion

Good on you for setting up the Jellyfin early, it’s still on my to-do list

My personal favorite childhood movies/shows that made a real impact:

Fern Gully, the Disney animated originals (not remakes) mentioned elsewhere in the thread, Nightmare Before Christmas, Princess Bride, Neverending Story, Star Trek 4 (the whales one), Toy Story

Star Trek TNG and TOS, the old school B/W Addams Family, OG Looney Tunes, Nature on PBS, Nova on PBS, Mr Rogers, Arthur

Additional stuff I’ll be adding to my own kid’s Jellyfin (when I get to it)

Avatar the Last Airbender, Kipo and the Wonderbeasts, She-Ra:PoP (the Netflix one), Bluey, Storybots, Puffin Rock, Lucas the Spider, Trash Truck, Ms Rachel, Daniel Tiger, Elinor Wonders Why