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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri stan account. serial dabbler. Submarine Qualified. Made in AK, Learning architecture in Baltimore, MD - "America's Only City" I Will Not turn on autocorrect. he/him

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🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 22h

On a bus into manhattan for the first time since i was a very small child and so far my impression is 'yes zohran please make this city cheaper so i can live in it'

🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 23h

What's the best kind of apple? I don't know. Taste one, see if you like it.

🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 23h

Behind that installer window, there's a whole desktop environment, in which you can play with settings, browse the web, try things out, and generally get your bearings. If you take the usb drive out and restart the computer, windows will still be right where you left it.

🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 23h

One of the best things about switching to linux is you can try most distros without comitting. follow the distro installation instructions up to the point you boot from a usb stick.

🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 23h

Personally, when asked, I recommend Mint to new nontechincal windows-expats. Its easy to install, laid out in a familiar way, and decently well supported. It runs great on an old pc. These things are also true of several other distros, but too many recommendations is as bad as none.

🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 23h

Switching to linux means trading that onboarding advantage away for greater freedom and control. I think it's a good trade, but linux advocates should be aware of it. Its worth a lot more to nontechnical users, who want their computer to do their computing tasks without worrying about how.

🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 23h

Ive seen a bunch of windows-tired but linux-averse commenters complain that the choice of distro is confusing, that everyone has a different recommendation. That's a real issue! For a monolithic OS like windows, you know theres only one way to get it, so you won't mess it up.

🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 23h

Enthusiasts should feel comfortable trying a bunch of varieties; switching costs are low, and it can be fun to experiment.
On the other hand, nontechnical users can rest assured that while the tastes differ, there are numerous popular options that provide a comparably satisfactory experience.

🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 23h

'Whats the best #linux distro?'

What's the best kind of apple?

There are outright wrong answers (red delicious) and answers that make sense for bakers but not to pack in a kid's lunchbox (granny smith)

But there are a bunch of good all-rounders, distinguished mainly by taste. (Gala, cosmic crisp)

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 1d

You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 2d

they should invent an attention surplus order

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🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 2d

I havent used mint but i use pop-os which is also ubuntu/debian based, no issue running the overwhelmong majority of steam games that i've tried. Sometimes you have to pick a different version of proton but its not hard tinkering.

I dont know how much mint differs but id be surptised if its much

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🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 3d

i may be crashing out

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 6d

there's something here

A normal-versus-normal matchup is what politics used to be — persuasion, messaging, negotiation, compromise. Behaving this way will lose against someone donning body armor while calling you an antifa domestic terrorist MS-13 gang member. And the guy in the body armor will always lose to the guy in the inflatable frog suit.

3x3 grid charting how aura farming, shitposting, and acting normal interact

Aura Farming Shitposting Acting Normal
Aura Farming Stronger aura farmer wins Shitposter wins Aura farmer wins
Shitposting Shitposter wins Society loses Acting normal wins
Acting Normal Aura farmer wins Acting normal wins We live in a society

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 14d

"In honor of all the people who brave the unthinkable struggle of having to be American every day: The Thin American Line"

A b/w US flag, with a squeezed normal flag in the thin blue line spot.

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🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 8d

We cannot allow a torment gap

🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 9d

Who's gonna front the 8-9 mil to run this on the superbowl?

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10d

Twitter BANNED the creator of this ad because it moves voters 7 pts toward Dems.

Voters are DISGUSTED by Trump’s gestapo kidnapping US citizens in Portland and Chicago.

SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE

🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 9d

Teleglitch used chromatic abberation for some weapons and other effects, iI thought it was a good look.

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Teleglitch: Die More Edition on Steam

In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You...

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🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 10d

Jerry, no

Accuweather: Tropical storm jerry forms & is set to take a swipe at the northern Caribbean. Tap for details

🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 10d

get wiped, goofball

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Aug 31

young Keanu: "they should invent a way out that isn't through."

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🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 12d

This motherfucker really did walk out of the 1930s unit in highschool history class with newfound clarity and direction in life didnt he. Like the teacher turns on the lights and starts rewinding the vhs tape and hes like 'Whoaaaaah i got it'

🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 13d

If you spill a bunch of coins on the ground you need a broom, you cant soak them up like water. Thats called a 'non-spongeable token'

🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 14d

12G after a reboot, and nothing visible in task manger pulling more than 500M. Windows, man

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🌇👃🌃 @waxrepli.ca · 14d

Why is this machine using 16 gigs of ram idle. That doesnt make sense.

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