For work I’ve found that Microsoft Teams no longer works on Debian + Firefox. My workaround is a dedicated VM running debian with Chrome installed (and nothing else). We’ll see how long that works.

You have time on your side. You can afford to make a few mistakes.

And wear sunscreen (can’t believe that song is >25 years old now)

OK @max, @thorbot, I didn’t know about this. I’d written off all VR in protest against corporate overreach. Time to do some more investigation…

I love spaceship games (think Elite: Dangerous and the like), and motorsport games. Anything where you’re set in a cockpit is a perfect candidate for VR. All I wanted was a headset that would act analagous to a dumb monitor - simply provide vision and audio and head tracking (with “simply” being a relative term - the challenges overcome and technology produced to date is, admittedly, amazing).

But no. What we have are a bunch of privacy-invading face huggers. I shouldn’t need to sign in to anything to use a piece of hardware that should require zero internet access (which is why anything Razer is also on my do not buy list).

So am I concerned about the Apple Vision Pro? Couldn’t give a shit to be honest. I’m not their customer.

Damn you! Angry upvote.

Started with Ubuntu (but this was about 10 years ago). Tried out a few different distros - Mint, mostly. I’ve eventually settled on Debian. I don’t got time for shit to randomly break with high frequency (/s). I don’t really have a good reason for why I picked Debian. The best I can think of is that I considered that since so many other distros are derived from Debian, I may as well got to the source.

With my laptop, the biggest issue I have is it doesn’t come back from suspend reliably. Other than that it’s fully functional. I don’t even think I’ve had an update break anything. The only reason I’ve reinstalled is because I broke it myself (like a few months ago when i was trying to install a C++ depencency so I could play dwarf fortress).

Wine and Proton are covering my gaming and Windows application needs. KVM with a (legit) Windows VM is also there to cover the increasingly rare circumstances where I need a proper Windows OS.

No brainer. Restart at 6 years old. Time is priceless.

So I take it the remainder of this individual’s political career is now measured in days…

why? because power and influence.

All religions are a business that sell fear to their victims. One of the greatest fears of an individual is disappointing other people - we are social animals after all. So how great a fear it must be to face being shunned by your fellow church members if you dare to speak up against the business.

Some disclosure - raised as a catholic. Walked away from it all in my 20s after one too many sermons talking about how much money the church had been making. That, and as a middle school child having to suffer attending the funeral of a paedophile teacher at my catholic school. The piece of shit had a reputation but the church protected him.

Out of all that I try (and constantly fail) to live by one phrase of Jesus: Love one another as I have loved you. Hell you can even drop the “…as I have loved you.” You don’t even need to believe in God to live by those words.