drewcarreyfan

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[–] drewcarreyfan@lemm.ee 1 points 59 minutes ago

The Nomad + a car charger made long car trips a breeze. That was a damn good investment on my parents' part.

[–] drewcarreyfan@lemm.ee 1 points 59 minutes ago

Some of those retro emulator handhelds run Linux, to boot. I did a playthrough of Stardew Valley on my Anbernic SP.

[–] drewcarreyfan@lemm.ee 0 points 16 hours ago

I have an eidetic memory, so, I use it as a journal.

[–] drewcarreyfan@lemm.ee 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I did, in fact! I bought Immich for $100, and you know what? I don't regret a god damn thing. It has been a stellar replacement for Google Photos, which was an app I depended on every day for, God, like 10 years now?

[–] drewcarreyfan@lemm.ee 3 points 17 hours ago

I don't even understand that. The still-thriving, 30-year history of video game warez really says otherwise.

[–] drewcarreyfan@lemm.ee 51 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (7 children)

Just speaking as someone in the field, you would be surprised at how many IT decisions happen the way they do because nobody wants to be the one who gets called when an ornery geriatric complains that LibreOffice doesn't have the 'mail merge' button in the right place.

The old saying goes, "nobody ever got fired for buying Cisco."

[–] drewcarreyfan@lemm.ee 27 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

I would consider it a privilege to live long enough to see the EU invest in and adopt FOSS software as a matter of national security.

Like all things FOSS & Libre, when a place as large as Europe benefits from the investment, so too do all of us benefit in kind.

It is the natural order of things; programmers love to program so much that they will do it for free, independent of any profit motive. We only see programmers charging money for their work because you basically need to sell something to survive in our Bootstrappist hellscape. Improving material conditions wouldn't just make life better for everyone, it would also result in better, newer software, delivered faster.

[–] drewcarreyfan@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours ago

Wendy Kerby is off limits!

[–] drewcarreyfan@lemm.ee 24 points 20 hours ago

Doesn't matter. I was a bike messenger for 5 years. We all carried our U-Locks, some carried crowbars, batons, pistols, bear mace, stun guns... None of that matters when someone in a 2 ton death missile can basically light you out from behind faster than you can react.

The problem is and forever will be drivers.

[–] drewcarreyfan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Something something of the deed

[–] drewcarreyfan@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Homie is really out here playing devil's advocate on behalf of cancer.

[–] drewcarreyfan@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

I buy things that are a one-time purchase sometimes entirely because I was given the option.

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