Xubuntu LTS. I've been meaning to switch to Debian Stable when something breaks, but it's my third LTS on the desktop and 5th on the laptop and there was just no opportunity. I also learned to avoid PPAs and other 3rd party repos, and just use appimages when possible.

You can have a kernel from Testing or even Sid, I believe, but yeah, it's what we want to avoid - tweaking.

LTS is released every 2 years, for reference.

Da fuck does "instant hands" mean?

It's not inconvenient truth, it's white noise for the rest of the world

Have you met people?

Amazing, this way I could restrict network access with normal tools like firejail instead of fiddling with Flatpak. I've never heard of this tool before: https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/

Wrists pain, then back pain, then ass pain, all before my legs are properly tired

I got a cheapest Android smart TV and never connected it to the internet. On HDMI1 there is Amazon Firestick for the occasional Netflix use. On HDMI2 there is Kodi for every day watching. Because of how modern TVs work, both these extra boxes can be steered with the TV remote.

The curl author writes a lot about his struggles, but he's also employed to maintain curl, so not really a good example

Remember when COVID has been used by them to encourage or enforce cashless payments? That was scary.

I started by getting shitty jobs like $10/hour that were not enough to sustain myself but good for building work experience and some nice comments in my profile. I can't remember paying anything to Upwork but they were less agressive back then.

In about two months I got regular paying jobs.

I got a LED bulb before it was cool, the thing is immortal and also barely gets warm. Made in my country, not by some planned failure corporation. I wish it was still possible to buy from them, butirt's not

Very little content here. But I'm glad the crowd is more diverse than on Mastodon