I’m the same. I like the workflow of Plasma, I just find it more practical, but Gnome actually feels like an OS made this century. All the KDE software just feels like it was made in the early 00s and since then it’s just been getting hotfixes to keep it going. I wish they’d just abandon a bunch of their projects and stop spreading themselves so thin.

I get what they’re trying to say though. So many people think they need to keep up with other by having a constant supply of new clothes and a modern luxury car, etc. People will take credit to breaking point just to keep up with other people who are doing the same thing. I’ve done it myself and it took years to dig myself out. Now I take comfort in knowing that I’m not scared to open the mail because I have enough saved to handle any surprise bills. Some things keep me awake at night but it’s not bills, and I don’t care that phone’s 5 years old and my car’s 15 years old.

No small ask. New factories, new supply chains, more staff, etc.

It’s from some funny guy. I don’t know what his job is but his profile’s full of jokes.

I’m 99% sure this’ll happen during his term but I’m not sure it’ll happen right now. I’ll bet they’re positioning themselves to be able to react faster next time there’s a major protest. I don’t think it’ll be long.

I don’t think the person who turned him in will still work there, assuming they got the reward.

How do I get rid of this hangover?

Yeah, the VPN thing is so basic. Why does it bother to tell me that the VPN’s dropped after I wake my laptop up, just reconnect.

In the unlikely event I had to create a porn site account even the NSA wouldn’t be able to link it back to me.

Office is one of the most recognisable brands in the world. Why have they jammed it into a brand which is already toxic?

Disney Plus, VPN, OneDrive, NextCloud (to eventually replace OneDrive). I use Spotify and Amazon Prime through a family account.

I know this is a meme but how often are people buying RAM that they find this relatable? I upgraded my PC to 32gb over a year ago, I sn’t that plenty for now?

In the UK women can be called birds but it’s considered a bit tasteless nowadays.

I’m sick of the sight of that stupid grey all the pubs keep using.

Zypper

Milk and cookies seem bizarre, there’s nothing Christmassy about that. You need to put your foot down there.

We’re also UK and we just left out a mince pie, a chocolate biscuit that my daughter wanted to give him, a carrot, and some whisky which Santa asked for when we went to see him. We let our daughter pour the whisky and it was quite a generous serving. My wife said “That’s quite a lot, he’s going to be tipsy” and my daughter said “It’s only half a glass mummy”. I just poured it back into the bottle.

I don’t think this is big news.

Over the past year I’ve gradually switched from Gnome to Plasma but it’s so fucking clunky I do miss Gnome. I feel like it’s in the right place but it just needs rebuilding from the ground up in the modern world.

I wish I had a father.

The original reasoning for having all those directories was because some nerds in a university/lab kept running out of HD space and had to keep changing the filing system to spread everything out between an increasing number of drives.