i guess my age will show a bit here, but it's public radio that's on whenever i'm in the car. when there's kids along, though, it's usually soundtracks to their movies (yea, those. and i don't really mind--i like 'em too)
cable is still the cash cow for companies that own content, have networks, and streaming services (comcast, disney, etc), who cannot apparently make a profit off their streaming services. imagine that, selling your content on the open market made more money than locking it all behind your own paywall.
i actually burned a cd yesterday.. a boot disk for a utility.
only to find the system i needed it for didn't support legacy boot, and the boot image didn't have uefi support.
i had to take out an audio cd to burn it.. so yea, cd do get used here.. occasionally. probably been a year or more since that audio cd had been played.
alt textthree rows with a barbecue on the left and William Wallace in Braveheart on the right. In the first row, captioned Wednesday, the barbecue is labelled “$899.99” and Wallace says “hold”. The second row, captioned Thursday, depicts the same. In the third row, captioned Black Friday, the there is a label with...
there's a couple decent deals on basic laptops.. that aren't shit-tier specs, either. that's about all i've seen--but then, i haven't been "looking" either. rent keeps going up, can't afford anything so i don't even bother to look at ads and sales on things that aren't absolutely essential to simply exist.
i do plan on going to wm on friday.. but later in the afternoon--for a few groceries.
that 'designated distro' for newcomers used to be ubuntu. probably still is. as much as i'd want to say mint or some other variant of ubuntu or debian that i happen to like.. 'one man shows' and distros with very small teams aren't what a new user should be going with. there's a reason why so many base off ubuntu. it's big. it's solid. and it just works.
keep doing what you're doing; if you need to get whatever runs in windows out of a vm and on 'bare metal'--get a separate system for that and network the two to share files, if needed.
i think that the libreoffice people should have re-joined openoffice once their main gripe (oracle) was out of the picture, which wasn't long after they split-off and released their first forked version.
From wikipedia: “Pirate Party is a label adopted by political parties around the world. Pirate parties support civil rights, direct democracy (including e-democracy) or alternatively participation in government, reform of copyright and patent laws to make them more flexible and open to encourage innovation and creativity, use...
better to support via votes, funding, spreading-the-word, and volunteer efforts, than to label oneself a 'pirate' (or anything, really) on voter registrations, which are public data here. i'll stick with "independent" on that form, tyvm.
Oh hey, I heard Star Trek got mentioned on the news! Let's just go check and- (startrek.website)
context:...
US Pedestrian deaths rose a troubling 77% between 2010 and 2021. (www.ghsa.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/12581895...
What’s your go to driving song?
Merry ChristmaX (lemmy.world)
People who own typewriters, what is your favorite use for it?
Is it a note-taking station? Is it a decoration only? Is it your regular journal? Is it a shopping list maker? Is it on display or tucked away?...
Star Shrek 2: The wrath of Farkhan (pixelfed.social)
And this is why I no longer have cable. (lemmy.world)
9 December 2023 (sh.itjust.works)
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what caused you to get into Linux?
What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?
Black Friday (files.mastodon.online)
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alias 2024='echo "YEAR OF THE DESKTOP"' (lemmy.ml)
Edit: Enough money as in buying a PC supporting windows 11
A symptom of linux past traumas
So, I had to reinstall windows as a dualboot, because I need some CAD tools for work. It was painful but it’s not thebaubject...
6 LibreOffice Alternatives for Linux (itsfoss.com)
I am THIS close to joining the Chromium monopoly gang (i.imgflip.com)
Population of USA in units of Canada (startrek.website)
I'm booked! (lemmy.world)
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Yes, Ubuntu Is Withholding Security Patches for Some Software (www.flu0r1ne.net)
If you love piracy you should consider voting/joining your local Pirate Party (pp-international.net)
From wikipedia: “Pirate Party is a label adopted by political parties around the world. Pirate parties support civil rights, direct democracy (including e-democracy) or alternatively participation in government, reform of copyright and patent laws to make them more flexible and open to encourage innovation and creativity, use...
It's just the most 100 recently saved songs. The fuck. (startrek.website)
Dave has arrived say hello (lemmy.ml)
Much Better (lemmy.world)