Well, I guess I won’t need one then. Hardware is a bit older but if I can get the same performance I’ll avoid the windows partition.

Oh yeah, people who need more power definitely want something else. It’s all I need really. I’m about to inherit my daughter’s old gaming laptop though so I’m not sure what I’ll do then. Definitely Linux with a small partition for windows to play some VR games. I’d say I’ll still use the Steam deck for most things though because it’s so portable.

I’ve been docking mine and using it as my primary pc. The only issue I’ve had is that I was able to play CSGO perfectly, and CS2 don’t do so good.

Some of the sponsored shit is crazy too.

I was watching a video on a timeline of events with Puff Daddy and it hit this one part that went something like, “the young man said that Diddy wanted to play with his anus. Which reminds me of our sponsor, the law offices of so and so. Life is unpredictable and you or your loved ones could get molested too. If that happens you’ll need legal representation! Our sponsor will represent you…”.

Holy shit my brain shorted on that one.

I just found the one I have and it has an ARM processor. :(

I have one. It’s one of the higher end deals from a couple years ago (for a chrome book). I have been excited to work on it every time I’ve seen something like this posted.

I CAN’T FIND IT! Gaaaaah.

I seen the damn thing a thousand times. I wasn’t looking for it. Now? Gone. Nowhere.

Does this shit happen to anyone else?

Should I not be playing the native Linux version? Or am I just an idiot who doesn’t understand how the game works?

My wife uses Facebook every day.

She’s a very family oriented person and she’s gonna be wherever they are.

She’s the kind of person who wakes up and calls her mom, then her grandma, then her sisters every single day. Hell, she even talks to her nephews every day and they’re toddlers.

There really isn’t anything that compares as far as that goes.

I remember when this was the joke with Slackware.

I think I’m remembering right.

I’ve never used arch. If I get another laptop one day I’ll give it a go.

Oh hey, it actually was my cousin. Cory is always claiming he coined every cool word or phrase so haha, funny he actually did for a change. He actually claimed he popularized “epic” and “uber” in the 2000s. I mean, I know people pay attention to him but in all honesty he’s always kind of tooted his own horn wherever possible.

I’m sorry. I made all of that up. I guess my actual cousin and I aren’t that different, only he’d never say he made it up. He’d say it was a fact until he takes his last breath haha.

Hope everything is going well for you bud.

I would be so proud to be the dude who first said “enshitification” right now.

It’s probably my favorite new word I’ve ever heard in my life and seeing it widely used brings a smile to my face.

I’ve got a cousin who is probably claiming he invented it at this very moment.

You’re mean.

Eagle mean freedom brother. Tiger mean bite you.

Correct.

Someone dumb enough to scam, that’s the target.

It’s really interesting where that line is too. I’ve had people call me before terrified because of messages like this. They were juuuust smart enough to call the tech guy they know before sending money. One step dumber and they would’ve just sent it.

Here’s a story that really really hurts me to think about.

So, a mom brings me a laptop. Her son is sitting in the car with a blacked eye. She wanted me to to verify that what she was seeing on screen was legit before she called the police to have her son arrested. She literally beat the kid. She was crying, praying, it was insane.

So I turned the laptop on and the desktop was suddenly covered by an image like this one. It claimed to be an investigation conducted by EU authorities. It stated that illegal pornography had been downloaded and shared from the laptop. It claimed that the owner was going to be extradited to Europe for a trial and that the expenses needed to be covered in advance to avoid being arrested in America and put on trial in American courts first. It had a number to call to pay and unlock the laptop and begin the “legal process”.

I immediately calmed her down and told her it was fake, which sent her into another spiral about beating her teenage son. “You’ve got to understand. I thought he was hurting children. Oh my god he’ll never forgive me. Why didn’t I listen?”

What a mess.

Turns out he had downloaded what he thought was a pirated video game from a shady website. He tried to tell her that, but the message on screen convinced her and she lost her shit. She isn’t a stable woman any way.

Fuck those parasites.

One of my earliest experiences online was on an irc server.

I was showing my mom how it worked and she pissed some other woman off on there. The lady told her she was going to hack her.

Well, she started sending a bunch of ascii text and my mom panicked and forced me to unplug the computer.

My mom said, “How long should we wait to connect to the internet? We probably need antivirus.” Haha

I felt like a goddamn explorer in those days.

Oooh I loved my inline frames.

I was so fucking proud of that. My links down the left side, two inline frames neatly in a box on the right, perfectly designed in two versions. One for 800x600, the other for 1024x768.

I did websites for bands from East Tennessee, one for a weird website for survivors of “satanic ritual abuse”. I thought it was nuts but I made a hundred bucks.

I wouldn’t even know where to start on the modern web. I’m fine with that too. I lost the passion for it when everyone under the sun wanted me to be their free tech support years ago.

I remember when I first started on homestead. Seeing my dangling skeleton gifs and my “under construction” banners made me feel like something. There it was, the World Wide Web, and I had my own place on it. Perpetually under construction.

I used to love browsing geocities and the log in name would be right there in the link. Something like geocities.com/cartman1988

I’d guess the password and change things around on their page to mess with them. “Hmmm, Cartman eh? Let’s try southpark. I’M IN. Time to photoshop dicks on this dude’s face!”

To be a kid again.

Y’all got me all old and nostalgic here. :p

Stock OS. The only thing that has bothered me so far is that I can’t use voice chat in Counter-Strike: Source because it instantly crashes the game and I can’t find a solution anywhere online for it.

What good is a 2000s online shooter if you can’t tell your enemies that their mom is gay?

For real though. It does everything I want it to do.

I’m going with a lot.

My Steam deck is my primary computer these days. I dock it and and use it with a keyboard and mouse when I’m not gaming.