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We’ve taken way too many things that don’t need to be plastic and made them plastic

• Just Cause 3
• Fallout 3
• Fallout 4
• Train Simulator Classic
• Gato Roboto
• Minit
• Cult Of The Lamb
• Divinity: Original Sin

I wanted to give OpenSuse Tumbleweed a go yesterday, but the live USB got stuck at “Loading basic drivers” so I couldn’t even get to being able to install it.

Leasehold is basically buying a property without actually truly owning it.

You “buy” a flat, but you’re actually only buying the lease to live there. Not that any single person ever lives long enough for this to happen, but technically if you lived there 99 years it would then revert to belonging to the freeholder and you’d be left with nothing.

In reality, anything below 80 years is seen as problematic and you have to renew the lease before then, at great cost.

If a lease does fall below 80 years, the costs for renewal get increasingly absurd.

I guess nothing’s changed then haha. I have a 2015 LCD Bravia. No longer my main TV, but it’s been awesome.

But the delay between turning it on and being able to switch inputs… Jesus.

Because it’s purely for learning / messing about, so nothing is of any real consequence.

This is all on my old, now spare and otherwise redundant 2012 MacBook Pro. My everyday computer is an M1 Pro 14”.

I had Mint running happily for ages, and basically knew everything I would need to know to rely on Mint if I ever needed to.

But with its HiDPI retina display I wanted to be 100% wayland, and I also wanted to use KDE Plasma… And also I own a Steam Deck, and wanted to be more familiar with Arch based distros because of that.

So to tick those boxes and learn something new I switched. There’s no photos, documents, music or anything on it so if it suddenly won’t boot one day it wouldn’t really matter.

The Ivy Bridge intel/Nvidia graphics on that Mac are an absolute nightmare for Linux though haha. On every distro I’ve ever tried up to and including this one…

Oh nice, thank you!

Yes, was literally just recommended this and looks useful!

I’ve been someone people would consider a “Mac expert” for years…

But giving Linux a go I realised how little I actually knew and understood about the underpinnings of operating systems.

Definitely interesting learning all the things that macOS was just doing for me or even hiding from me.

Interesting. I’ll check this out!

I should have guessed!

As obscure as stuff like that is, I do appreciate the quirky humour at the same time… once you know.

This is good to know, thanks.

So much of what you do early on is installing packages and updating. I guess it felt more different than it really is!

I think this simple tip is exactly what I wanted - straight in there! Thanks pal!

Yeah, discovered Nord and thought that was the best one for a good while.

But THEN discovered Gruvbox and it’s #1.

These two are exactly what I use on iOS also

This is the truest animal comic since “No take!! Only throw“

Elf.

Once you’ve seen the first 3 minutes and get the premise, then the entire rest of the film is so predictable in its jokes and situations that I derived absolutely zero pleasure from watching it and it just grated the entire way through.

Films can be funny because the initial premise leads to really entertaining, unexpected or clever situations… or a film can super straight up and shallow in its humour.

I really don’t get why Elf is so incredibly popular.

My 2012 MacBook Pro has exactly the opposite behaviour on a clean install across multiple distros. The brightness keys do nothing until after a suspend, then work fine until the next reboot. Never found a fix.

Yeah, I was a huge fan of that person going to that length, and saying they’d argued with their girlfriend about it, haha

Clearly a task beyond many dog owners of Brighton, sadly