You are a good friend. Same here. Any time.

Naturally. 🙄

I got the P1 Gen 5 when it was new. Paid a mint for it. (Work did actually 😂) I’ve gotten RHEL to work on it decently (if you don’t want sound or Bluetooth), Arch if I’m willing to pull out my ventoy and fix it every time I update, and Ubuntu worked after some fiddling, then updated and wouldn’t boot past grub.

Nvidia

Hybrid graphics

Tbh I can probably get Bluetooth working because the wireless module is replaceable.

Usually I get remarks along the lines of “skill issues” when I vent my frustration - but I literally use Linux everywhere else, and live in the terminal on macOS. I’m not dumb, just unlucky with hardware choices. 😂

again, thank you for your patience and your words.

one day we can sit down over a cup of coffee or tea and talk about those stories haha

i loved it. thank you for answering my existential question. lol

i am questioning the world today.

I find this kind of sad, because people live til their 80's or 90's. Imagine for 50 years of your life, you only have two friends ever. Kind of a bizarre concept, but we all say it, why is this the case?

Just not mine. 🤣

It’s never the one I own, it’s always “tons of” other “laptops.”

I even got a Lenovo this time! 😛

That’s what I said. 🤣

❤️🫂

Be weird.

I’m seriously considering buying from System76 next time just to short circuit this cycle. 😂

I've had a similar outcome as mandrik, but with a somewhat different context. It's something I still think about a lot.

When I was an engineer/manager, I worked in person, and had a great social group there. After I left it, I became inherently remote-work based in my home office, which has a lot of advantages but also some social isolation-related challenges.

I then gradually drifted away from work-friends I knew for a decade. Between work and family, we just gradually could barely find time for a group lunch anymore. Actually it was more on their side than mine; they have longer commutes, children, etc.

And my US family is small and dispersed around the country. So aside from my husband, a lot of my social interaction is online and at events within the past few post-covid years. The big exception is the part of the year I spend in Egypt, where I am surrounded by in-person family and friends every day, but have less overall productivity (bad internet for starters, problematic time zone, plus it's also vacation time and social time).

And the most notable part of each year is when I come back to the US first to take care of things here, and my husband is still in Egypt for another month to finish taking care of things there, where I risk turning into a solo cat lady.

So that makes me really focus on genuine internet dynamics, treating people online similarly to how I treat them in real life, building real connections there, going to events to meet my "tribe" despite the travel hassle, etc.

It also has prioritized having children to me recently. I've been focusing on work, focusing on elder care, etc. Due to my starting point, I have been in the position of having to support a parent and then in-laws since my 20s, while also being a workaholic to reach the positions I've gotten to. For years I was simply too busy for anything else, but increasingly the next generation is an element of life I think about a lot.

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I boot it up about every three months just to see if it works on any of my hardware ootb yet.

As of last week, still no.

Predictions:

- Bitcoin stays for all eternity between the 60k-70k range.

- Trump wins election.

- Nicolás Maduro demonstrates that the elections were won democratically.

- Elon Musk arrives on Mars.

- The Federal Reserve stops printing money.

- Star Citizen releases its final version.

- It's the year of the desktop on Linux

My new guru. nostr:note1pu9psjvh0l7huaffc52x23hxq7v4wlumqtgwqtd920l26k64tamqjdp7nl

A bit nervous for tomorrow (for reasons). In need of a hand hold or a hug, but I’ll settle for a good book and a soft oversized T-shirt.

Goodnight 🫂

Mate, this would be siiiick, what you on about 😭🤣🫂

Sometimes I allow myself to have fun with them by acting like an ultra-maxi (which I am) and trying to proselytize them away from their shitcoins. I once kept someone like that on the line for 9 days to drive up their effort. At some point he got fed up with me.

Yeah I get these messages too