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Be me
Discover linux in an effort to be able to customize your desktop and make it look like the haxxors in movies at 12 years old
???
Woops … Linuxed too hard and became a cloud infrastructure engineer.
FUCK!
Wiggly windows in compiz probably converted like 10 thousand 12 year olds to linux… I know from experience!
If you, like me, enjoyed enabling mouse trails in Windows because wooo particles…
Wiggly windows and the cube desktop switcher were like a huge step up LOL.
ABSO fucking lutely … that and the flaming mouse effect
I thought I was the coolest cat in the litter XD
Don’t forget about the whole desktop rain effect!
I look at this meme and lift my hand gently from the track-pad revealing the uncanny logo, ThinkPad and I think: Yes, this meme is for me.
Well, if it’s good enough for the ISS, it’s good enough for me.
now I gotta become an astronaut and be the first to install gentoo in space
You hear a knock on the window of the ISS, you look over and see an alien in a spacesuit floating, it holds a piece of space paper against the window that says “I use arch btw”.
Ah shit, I just accidentally unmounted the Soyuz module and the canadarm drivers haven’t been working since the hobbyist maintaining them for free got tired of abusive comments from NASA engineers and took up farming instead, so hopefully we don’t need to evacuate before they send up another one.
sudo umount -a|| ISS catastrophically disconnects all modules ||
SurprisedPikachu.jpeg
sudo apt purge doxygenOne character has never been this important.
Though on Windows, you might get:
Co-pilot could not find doxygen installed on this system but guessed that you meant Oxygen Management Service and uninstalled that for you. Please click on a star to rate your experience ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Doesn’t the ISS run Debian?
Edit: Yes, they introduced Debian on user devices back in 2013
literally the universal operating system
Set it and forget it… can’t argue with that.
If it wasn’t for those rascally penguins I would be flat broke trying to afford the latest system requirements for Windows 12 or a mediocre MacBook instead of a $120 5 year old Dell Latitude, how dare they!!
I fully support Linux and FOSS but, who the fuck pays for windows (not talking about pre installed computers).
I think the point is you can put a fully updated new Linux on a decade old ThinkPad but with windows you’d need to buy a whole new laptop to run modern stuff also it would be unusably slow
My daily driver laptop is the T410 I found at a thrift store for $5.
I keep hearing stories like this but all I see in thrift stores are like busted DVD players and other grimey old stuff that was second-rate even when released. In that awkward valley where it’s not vintage, and newer stuff is objectively better.
I think people caught on and the good finds are pushed to their auction sites and stuff now. =\
I’m happy with my X230 I got for $200 off eBay though, like 5 years back.¯_(ツ)_/¯
Goodwill is particularly bad about this. You can almost never find cool stuff in the stores anymore. It’s all siphoned off for ShopGoodwill.
It was definitely one of my luckiest finds, but I think another part of it was that it was a pay by weight bin outlet. A St. Vincent De Paul in my case. Stuff isn’t individually priced and you weigh your items on a scale when you check out and pay by the pound. It’s usually very cheap because mine has a maximum of $5.00 per item so even heavy things like typewriters have been cheap.
I much prefer bin outlets because of this.
I’m surprised and impressed it made it to the bin outlet!
I keep trying to keep an ear out for these fabled “IT cycles” where companies will just dump Dells and Thinkpads once in a while, but have never been privvy to one myself.
Maybe indystry caught on and switched procedure, realizing they weren’t creating enough e-waste /s lol.
(To be fair, the last place I worked donated their laptops for tax breaks, which is good I guess. But wouldn’t let me even buy one off them, so I’m salty lol.)
