My excuse these days is… I already built the damned thing. If there’s a game I want to play I can just upgrade it for (in most cases) less than the cost of a console + game to play the new game I want. PC gaming offers a lot of flexibility in that way.

ITT: people defending their 4K/8K display purchases as if this study was a personal attack on their financial decision making.

I work for local government and we were recently ordered to return to office because leadership was concerned we would look “lazy” to the public if we were allowed to work from home… I don’t work directly with the public in any shape or form. On top of that I’m geographically located about 1.5 hours from the rest of my team so I report to a different office than they do, so we still meet on Teams.

I actually enjoy a number of Nickleback songs. The “hate” was meme’d to the heavens but the band isn’t really that bad and Chad Kroeger legit has a good singing voice.

Yeah, and I tried MATE but it just doesn’t hit the same. I mostly use cinnamon and xfce these days.

Modern gnome sucks. gnome 2 was peak imo.

KDE MFs be like, “it’s very intuitive.” Meanwhile it looks like this:

Usually socks because my feet get cold easily but they come off if it’s warm and if I’ve swept the floor recently. Can’t stand stuff sticking to my feet while I’m walking around.