I think the thing with Arch is that it’s very customizable, so it’s essentially as complicated as you make it. If you just install the base and Firefox and Libreoffice, and never mess with the AUR or touch anything else, then you’ll most likely never have much trouble. If you’re like me and you turn it into an unholy mishmash of base packages, AUR, flatpaks, Appimages, Docker containers, VMs and lashed-together Wine things, you’ll have a huge teetering pile of spinning plates that requires constant fiddling lol. But that is very much by design.

Or at least space them out a bit. You get one set for the first 5-10 years, and then the second set has to last you the remaining 60-70.

Getting a new set at like 35-40 seems like a more sensible system to me.

For me personally, I don’t hate Ubuntu but eventually I found it a bit frustrating. IMO they have a habit of picking a thing they think is shiny (eg: Unity Desktop, trying to converge desktop and phones, Mir, currently Snaps) and just going ALL-IN trying to force it to be a thing, regardless of whether people want it or if it makes any sense. Then they keep pushing until it’s almost actually decent, then drop it like a hot potato and chase after some other thing. So for me it always felt like important things were being neglected for the sake of whatever they think is cool at any given moment.

<homer backing into hedge gif>

I almost felt the same way about MalwareBytes. I know it’s actually useful but it hassled me so much about upgrading to premium that it was more annoying than having actual malware.

Darwinism in action I guess…

Yeah same here, new objects have to go through customs first lol

Yeah that seems like the more likely move, have a free tier that starts off decent and a premium tier with ‘power features’ or whatever, and then slowly drift almost everything over to the ‘premium’ tier until in a few years you won’t be able to change your desktop wallpaper without paying. That definitely sounds like the MS way to me.

Racecar too!

If you drive a Toyota in reverse you’re still a Toyota!

Jared Harris is great in it too, although he’s kind of under-utilized I think.

As a Brit living in another country, I get this too. People make jokes about me liking Doctor Who, drinking lots of tea and having bad teeth.

How dare you but also that is completely accurate.

Capitalism is so exhausting. Can’t they just make a lighbulb that changes colour and leave it at that?

I would definitely watch that!

I think it would depend on how confident I am that I’d be able to beat the kidnappers.

If it’s like inept comedy movie kidnappers and I feel like I’m on my way to deliver an ass kicking, then yes I’d play pump-up music.

If it’s scary KGB/ISIS kidnappers and I’m probably on my way to perform a well-intentioned yet ultimately futile gesture where I’ll likely get killed before I even get through the door, then probably no tunes for that one.

Season 2 is definitely the slowest season I think. It’s a bit of a slog but it’s doing a lot of the legwork for seasons 3 and 4 to go wild so it does kind of pay off in the long run IMO.

There are two new seasons and a movie!

Also Mr. Robot and Foundation and Good Omens and Fleabag and the new Beavis and Butthead and Station Eleven and Doctor Who is about to get good again and Irma Vep was great but I don’t think that one’s coming back

I definitely wouldn’t say it’s the best show of the last 10 years TBH. The first season is fun, and the second one kind of trails off a bit IMO.

The fishes, right?