I’m not stuck in time. I’ve embraced dependability.
Wow, I actually have the exact same radio alarm clock as the one pictured in the top right.
Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know?
Submitted 3 days ago by spicytuna62@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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QDgwZjQYdfbnMdMNQ@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
marcos@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yep. I need my computer to work so I can use it to make interesting stuff. I’m completely uninterested on the computer itself.
AFAIK, there’s currently 1 option of OS that works.
assembly@lemmy.world 3 days ago
How am I supposed to check tire pressure without a pressure gauge? My manual transmission is reliable and so is my alarm clock.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 days ago
A) Some modern cars have built-in pressure gauges and can tell you the pressure of each tire on a screen on the dashboard.
B) Some fuckers out there (for inexplicable reasons) like to use digital tire pressure gauges with little screens of their own. Why you’d want a tire pressure gauge that requires batteries when an analog one works fine … that’s beyond my understanding.
vrek@programming.dev 3 days ago
The problem with built in pressure gauges is they only work after driving a bit. If you fill your tires you never know it’s enough or too much until after you leave and then you need to either give up or turn around
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
The admitted benefit of the digital ones are accuracy. Mechanical pop out gauges, or even dial gauge styles, they have limited accuracy at pressure below their spec and obviously don;t work at all or will be damaged by pressure above their spec.
E.g, for the pop out gauges, you’ll usually see them sold in ranges of 5-30psi, 20-60psi, and 30-120 psi. 5-30 is good for lawn equipment, 20-60 for cars and light truck, 30-120 for heavy truck. A digital gauge covers all of them at once rather than needing 3 separate gauges banging around.
and for big lawn or flotation tires that need like 3psi, forget it, you need digital, most mechanical gauges never even go that low…
im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 3 days ago
I don’t mind at all if people think I’m old, I kind of am.
Thing is, fancy new containerised packages have really changed the dynamic here.
I don’t care if gnome is 5 years old. Everything I actually use is up to date.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 2 days ago
Hey that’s my dad’s stuff, give it back!
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Guy probably still washes with bar soap.
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Fuck yeah, I do. Body wash comes in plastic bottles, and I love to reduce the plastic waste I make when I can. I also buy powdered laundry detergent.
im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 3 days ago
Yeah team bar-soap here.
It’s just soap and when you use it you feel soapy and then you rinse it off and you feel like you’ve used soap.
Anything in a bottle is some concoction of bullshit woo-woo like honey and pomegranate or hibiscus petals and seal fur. As in, it’s more marketing than soap.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Same here.
xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 3 days ago
Meanwhile Hyprland users don’t know what soap is
/jk
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 3 days ago
Hey, not everyone can afford to buy it, don't judge stealing out of necessity.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The
mint | opensuse | arch | gentoo | freebsd | openbsd | void | devuan | debianpipeline is real.Maybe nix will pull me from depths of debian in few years before I get overconfident, try LFS, and promptly switch to goose farmer.
GrapheneOSRuinedMyPixel@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I was using a mix of debian servers, arch thinkpads and macos macbooks at the point where I moved everything to NixOS (macbooks did not survive this transition and were donated due to never working properly because of t2 issues).
Nix is extremely hard. I mean, don’t get me wrong, initial setup is easy, adding and updating packages is the easiest experience between all package managers out there, nixpkgs is overpowered as it has almost all the software that exists since there are no conflicting dependencies in nix. Getting something that is not in nixpkgs to run is impossible for a beginner (nixpkgs has steam-run to partially solve this, but results may vary). Getting to the point where a tornado may pass through your home and destroy all the hardware inside, and the whole recovery process from that point is about 20 minutes of your time, including the trip to the store for new hardware, requires significant effort, both time and mental, that most of us don’t have. But the entire point is that it is possible with Nix!
If Debian is like owning a 90s Corolla, NixOS is like owning a factory that can make any car you like. You can choose to get a 90s Corolla, you can choose to get a newer Corolla, you can skip corollas entirely and make something new and fast. When the new and fast thing breaks, you can make a new car or go back to the Corolla. The Corolla comes completely ready to use by you from the production line. If you need to adjust the mirrors, you just make a new car with the correct mirrors setup. All the cars you make after that will come with the mirrors setup how you like them, because that is now a part of the manufacturing instructions the factory has.
The only caveat is that factory gets updates every 6 months and then your car building pipeline may break when you get the update. In three years I’ve been using nixos fixing those took about 5 minutes and usually boiled down to stuff like ‘previously we had a list of car colors, passed as a string, now the factory expects to get a hex color code’.
Judging by the commit history, I moved most of my machines to NixOS after about 6 months building my config, then, 8 months later I rebuilt the entire thing from scratch when I understood nix enough to make everything truly modular.
I really doubt that once you’ve embraced NixOS you’d be tempted to use anything else or try LFS. NixOS is beautiful. NixOS just works (after 6 months of setup).
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I went straight from Ubuntu to Debian. It still took me a little bit to go from GNOME to KDE. I would not recommend new Linux users go straight to Debian from their first distro, but I’d been using Ubuntu on and off again since 2012 so when I decided to leave Windows in 2024, I also decided to leave Ubuntu for good and went straight to Debian. The idea that I set it and forget it and never have to worry about it was (and is) so appealing to me.
I’ve considered running Slack on my laptop, though.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Seems like I also took the hard route. #YayMe
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
LMDE is the good middle ground. New user friendly, but with options to immerse yourself into the debianness if you need/want to
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Seems like I skipped the whole pipeline amd went straight from Rasbpian to debian :p
I tried a bit of mint but it was too annoying to get something to run and bailed.
dimmuborgnine@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I always thought Debian stable was basically just for the ISS
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I feel there should be a classic leatherman utility knife in here too lol
dimmuborgnine@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Excuse me, mine is a skeletool. Very futuristic. Very manufactured by Leatherman.
FE80@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The future is fuckin weird.
nycvin@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I will brook no argument regarding Hamilton field watches. Buy one, wind it, wear it. Start living a better life.
AbKingPro@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Just bought a murph a few days ago its pretty good so far!
BlindFrog@lemmy.world 2 days ago
May someone explain the audio (or video, idk) cabinet stacked like a 20u rack? Why so many devices? What would each be for?
chippydingo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ll take the bait. This is a classic AV rack setup which is a relic of the bygone era. Looks like a pretty typical configuration with a Receiver/amplifier, CD player, Laser disc player(?), double tape deck, and a VHS Cassette player. And of course you have to have the colossal speakers to accompany this technological tour de force from the early 90s. The little box may be a headphone amp but not sure.
Once you had all of this, you officially made it. I never quite did and this is one of my many regrets. I will go back to the nursing home now…
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 days ago
The little box looks like it has the DirecTV logon on the right side, might be a receiver for that. There’s no VCR, but it does look like a mix of audio and video equipment based on the unplugged RCA trio.
Laser disc is a solid maybe. A radio tuner is in there somewhere, too. My thought is above the tape deck.
Shaunhitorigoto@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Well you kinda just answered your own question. Put in anything you want, VHS player, DVD player, CD player, AV receiver, amplifier etc. My grandad had an LD player in one of these lol. Basically everything netflix and spotify gives you but you gotta manage it yourself.
ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” starter pack
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
That is where my wallet went, you dick!
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I used to have basically that thermostat. Slightly different model. I “upgraded” because the “smart” ones were supposed to save money. Saw my bills go up right away. Regretted the Nest Thermostat almost immediately.
And that wallet is in better condition than mine right now. Fuck it, I’ll take everything in that photo, but swap out the manual for an automatic.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh my. My one daughter just published 2 research papers on household thermostats. And according to her long term testing, Nest is one to definitely avoid.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If she’s willing to share, I would love to read those papers.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I also ditched my “dumb” thermostats but went the DIY route. I put at least one temp sensor in each room/zone. Then switched out the actual thermostats with hard-wired Shelly relays from ameridroid. Everything is in a Zigbee network governed by “Better Thermostat” in Home Assistant.
A bit more work, yes, but everything stays local, I have all heating and cooling in one dashboard customized to my preferences, and the system is modular and extendable - next will be further automation with open door and window sensors + better presence detection.
utopiah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is so dumb it is tiring…
I’m using Debian stable on my desktop but I also play games, AAA to indie, with the latest gadgets, e.g. Steam Controller or even VR headsets. I also control my house with IoT with single keypresses on my mechanical keyboard with has its own touchpach (no mouse) with individual RGB key. I have a more modern setup than most but I still stick to a stable distribution because one can have both.
TL;DR: tired trope, I have weird brand e-gadgets and peripherals doing very demanding tasks while still relying on Debian stable.
0x0@infosec.pub 2 days ago
You think it’s important people understand your opinion that you barely explained coherently and at the same time you don’t want anyone to explain it to you.
Is your middle name Karen or is that just your first name?
utopiah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
damn that was helpful, insulting someone rather than asking for clarification, blocked and reported.
utopiah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Why am I actually tired of that trope? Because when you propagate the wrong preconception that you need an unstable or quirky distribution to make Linux work, you are gatekeeping. You are preventing others from switching to Linux and it is due to your ignorance.
xSikes@feddit.online 3 days ago
It works
owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Debian Sid?
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Hamilton watches are pretty fucking nice though.
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I do have a mechanical Hamilton Khaki field watch. I love it. They’re not cheap, but it’s such a nice watch. My wife bought it for my for my 30th birthday because I’d been telling her for years that I’d wanted one. Given the expense, I only wear it for occasions like family get-togethers or dinner dates.
So this is my daily driver.
Been ticking for over 10 years without issue now. I just replaced the band because the old leather band did finally give up the ghost. Other than that, this has also been a great watch.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I don’t think you can just drop that you own a Field Khaki without paying the tax.
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Yeah I was gonna say the same thing. I have a Khaki King II and it’s excellent. The Khaki Field in the picture is also great, I want to get one.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I’m a big fan of all those things.
I don’t run Debian, but I don’t mind it at all either.
RevolverSly@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s the point: stable
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I feel personally attacked
randomdude@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
where ThinkPad?
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
That’s a ThiccPad, wrong model.
assertnull@programming.dev 3 days ago
I still keep my hp-42s calculator nearby
fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I still have a working HP-41C in my desk at the office.
dismay3915@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Absolute chad
koyakow@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
l use debian and l dont like this ? (!)
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Is that a seagull watch?
pokexpert30@jlai.lu 2 days ago
Hamilton Khaki Field
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Well, guess I’ve gotta try Debian…
muzzle@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I feel seen. But I have a PSP.
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’ve also got a PSP. Those things will never not be cool.
Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I’ve got 3 of those.
Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I’ve got 3 of those :)