I have zero gripes with my mother tongue borrowing English words for new concepts. It might be the best thing it can do, second only to dying.

But every one in ten words it borrows the wrong form. “*What’s that board? That’s a surfing. How do I call the one riding it? Why, a surfinger, of course. *” “My sister sent me another reels-- pluralize what, reelss? Of course it’s reelss, you weirdo.” Makes me wanna scrape my eyes and ears out.

$ howdidigethere

By repeatedly refusing to use 21th century package managers, of course.

I wrote https://github.com/t184256/yousable for myself

iodine

Church.

I’m been a Linux power user for more than half of my life, 8 last years spent on NixOS. I self-host my everything. I’ve bootstrapped a toolchain and a Linux distro from scratch^Wtcc for giggles twice, first without a package manager, then without one. For the last five years, I earn a living by working on a Linux distro. I still have my only decent GPU in a Windows 10 box half a continent away I stream games from. Would you be able to convince me to switch?

Just face it, Windows is the gaming console firmware.

I once played XCOM 2 with a stylus. Ended up adding a 6DOF mouse for thether hand because bouncing around the map without it was atrocious.

Gamepads rule. There are one-handed ones as well.

well, it locks you out of SSH key logins, so on a well configured host it can sometimes increase security

musl is a libc

Same as decades before: Ubuntu.

A thousand times less than the conspirologists suggest.

Because even IRC is better than matrix

Been there, it ended fine. Cheer up.

To be fair, first person (or fast paced) anything on anything leads to repetitive stress injury.

A plane ticket to a saner hemisphere is what, 1% of the median yearly income? 2%? You don’t even need visas.

Oh. Then lemme just wish you that whatever is that thing you’re having over there never heats up to a degree to that’d make you reconsider what “can’t travel” means. And yeah, phones, those you can just import.

How many years of your salary does an airplane ticket cost? How many countries even ask you for a visa? Guess what, you absolutely can.

Than asking for a password for a password? Yes. Than yesterday? Hardly.

Hold your horses. You want someone to build a service where you’d register, with a new separate set of credentials, so that you’d synchronize your email password between devices?

Well, I have to admit that this idea of having a password synchronize yourself another password becomes much more practical if you tweak it just a little bit and manage all your passwords with just one. In fact, Mozilla has one. It’s called Firefox Sync. I’d still recommend to use a real password manager like pass and either git or syncthing for synchronizing the underlying data.

I hope that’s a sound of you GTFOing out of the USA to pretty much anywhere else, where Samsungs have and always had unlocked bootloaders. =)