djdarren

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[–] djdarren@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I've recently gone through a pile of 'dead' ThinkPads T410 at work, cleaning them up, harvesting usable parts and installing Kubuntu on them so people on the shop floor who just need access to online forms can use them.

I've been genuinely surprised at the utility they can still offer, despite being fairly low spec dual core i5 machines from 2010. Sure, no one's gaming on them, but that's not the point. They're still useful.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

As a relatively new Linux user, I picked KDE Neon for my work PC as I figured it made sense to have direct access to up-to-date KDE software. So I'm kind of disconcerted at reading that Neon is considered by KDE to be at the end of its road.

Given that I just did a regular installation, without putting Home on a separate partition or anything like that, what's the most efficient way of backing everything up and moving across to a distro that's more actively maintained?

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago

The only US president whose brother was training to be a cage fighter.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

Mintedlambchopius it is then.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

He is absolutely FINE in The Bear.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm forever looking for a game that'll affect me emotionally as much as Arthur's last ride in RDR2. I still can't hear that Daniel Lanois track without feeling all of the feelings, and it's been a good few years since I played it.

Absolutely remarkable experience.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

Like it or not, the most certain way to affect any kind of societal change (if that's your goal), is to be rich.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

That app is basically magic, as far as I'm concerned.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

On a similar vibe, I'm 45, and one of the finest activities my partner and I enjoy is driving to a nearby beach, sitting in the car eating chips, and watching people walking their dogs.

If you'd told 25 year old me about this, he'd have laughed at you.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] djdarren@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

That sounds horrifying.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago

Buzzfeed saw the popularity of Clickhole and didn't get the joke.

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