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Cake day: September 8th, 2023

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  • There’s a lot of good thoughts here, but don’t forget the effect that rationalization as a coping mechanism has on behavior.

    For example if restaurants were so expensive growing up that they never got to go, they have the choice of feeling like they are missing out or rationalizing that what they have is better to stop wanting the things they can’t have.

    Later when there are affordable restaurants, they still carry that rationalization with them and may not even realize it. They may actually believe it at this point.

    Not saying this is the case with your parents, but this kind of thing happens all the time in every culture.


  • I started on Bazzite when I switched, and it was ok but never felt quite right. After that I switched to Garuda, which is also designed to be a ready right out of the box experience that is gaming and performance focused.

    It is based on Arch, so it is currently being kept up to date and has been extremely reliable. Pretty much every issue has been solved with an update and reboot.

    As an aside, everyone always pushes KDE, but I personally love xfce, it’s worth a look.







  • My first distro was Bazzite, and I switched to Garuda to get away from immutability.

    Maybe it’s silly, but it pissed me off to not be able to change my login screen background.

    I have never had problems with Nvidia drivers with these distros, and Arch on Garuda has been easy. Honestly, I don’t know what all the fuss is about over these. Maybe I just got lucky with my choices.

    Also I use xfce, it just looked straightforward. It has some quirks regarding the application bar, but had otherwise been pretty straightforward.





  • When I lived in LA it started a week early and on the 4th itself it was a fireworks show finale amount of fireworks for 8 hours straight.

    But just turn on the radio… right.

    Maybe it’s time to realize different places are different and there may be values to other people’s perspectives even if they don’t reflect your particular worldview.


  • I didn’t get a Bambu printer because of the price or design, I got it because of its “just works” reputation, which it does.

    Unless Qidi matches that ease, it isn’t equivalent, and that’s important to mention. Maybe it does?

    And yeah, I don’t love the recent changes, but that’s only ideologically. Practically speaking it is still amazing.