Lka1988

Oh no!

Anyway…

Jesus christ. So glad I ditched MS. It’s like getting out of a cult - once you see it looking in from the outside, you finally realize how terrible it is.

I switched earlier this year. No ragrets.

It’s not great, and heavily restricted, but it for sure exists

That’s kind of the point though. Apple’s file manager portrays a “flat” filesystem, where all of your data is laid out neatly on the table - so to speak - and the actual locations of those directories within the system are buried inside vague and protected locations “for security”. Android file managers embrace a more traditional Unix-like filesystem hierarchy.

Yeah, I know how capitalism works, unfortunately… I’m just ranting into the void at this point.

But spotify is easy and fast,

So you mean it’s convenient. That’s a valid reason. Evil shit aside, that’s literally why music streaming exploded the way it did.

Unfortunately, the evil shit is pushing me away. Why can’t we just have a regular music streaming service that doesn’t inevitably suffer from feature creep and enshittification? Why does everything have to constantly increase profits?

The average car is 12 years old. Car makers start to drop support (making/stocking parts) when the car is about 10 years old.

I haven’t had any issues with getting parts for my 2008 Sienna, or parts for my 2007 Honda Metropolitan scooter. But the Sienna uses the 2GR-FE though, which only recently stopped production a few years ago, and the scooter is based on the still-currently produced Ruckus 🤔… Still.

Come back and talk to me about that car when is is 25 years old and tell me how it is.

No need - I have two 46 year-old vehicles: a 1980 Honda XR500 motorcycle from 08/79, and a 1980 Mercedes 240D from 12/79. The motorcycle is currently torn apart in the garage, undergoing a full restoration. Believe me dude, I know aaaaaaall about the frustrations of long-discontinued parts 😂😂

I have a 26 year old truck, the bed has holes, the frame is showing signs of rot - I’m trying to decide if it is worth trying to rebuild the transmission, my mechanic isn’t intersted in part because they are not sure if they can find the parts - they will be more than $1000 in labor in before they know wihch bearing it has and thus can check if it can be had.

Man I feel that so hard with the Mercedes. Poor thing has cancer and I’m not sure if it’s possible to save in its current condition. It’s got almost half a million miles, but goddamn it drives so, so nice… I think it needs a clutch though. Luckily, since W123 cars are sought-after classics at this point, there are still options, but it’s gonna be a hell of a process if I decide to attempt a restoration. My dad (with help from me and my siblings, friends, and neighbors) somehow managed to save a pretty rusty 1963 VW Beetle almost 20 years ago, was about a 5 year process. That car recently went to a collector… I’m mad about it, but only in the “goddammit I wanted to inherit it” kinda way 😅

Ah, the Detroit approach

I mean, it’s just a single path, but at least it’s something.

Our 10 year-old Highlander still drives like new. It’s our newest vehicle, and one of Toyota’s last generation of vehicles without a cellular connection.

I live in the suburbs. The older kids can bike to the local Walmart (save it) as there is a pedestrian tunnel that crosses under the main road, providing a complete pedestrian/bike path from one end of the town to the other.

I’d prefer if we had more of those, but it’s something.

That’s what drove me to switch my gaming PC to LMDE6. I ran W11 for a couple months after it came out, then switched back to W10 because fuck W11, then when W10 got the EOL announcement I bit the bullet, backed everything up, and wiped Windows from my drive. No ragrets.

Yeah it has. I don’t even bother looking at the supported operating systems for most games on Steam anymore. I also don’t play overhyped microtransaction-laden bullshit like cod or fortnite, either, so no loss there. If I ever wanted to play that kind of game, I have a PS5.

I was being facetious. That’s the excuse these idiots use for every single “new” thing.

I rent a house. Our lease is explicit about no battery charging in the garage, including EVs. Yet they seemingly have no problem with my welder or RC cars…

How about talking to the landlords who refuse to install EV chargers? Or maybe talk to manufacturers who won’t sell a basic EV that isn’t overpriced?

This is just “Am I out of touch? No, it’s the children who are wrong!” again.

My, uh, friend needs an explanation

I’m mostly into protecting my data

Debian. Not Ubuntu - just Debian. Or Linux Mint Debian Edition (Debian with Cinnamon on top).

Glad I ditched Windows entirely on my personal devices and went to Linux. No ragrets. Games still work wonderfully.

Any absolutely required usage of Windows on a personal device is provided by a VM running a stripped-down version of W10 LTSC, activated by massgrave scripts.

Like always, outrage over useful tech is driven by stubborn conservatives hellbent on making everyone else suffer because “society”.