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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • It would probably be the most point and click on one of the gaming-centric immutable distros. I think nobara is basically a shell for gaming that just happens to have a linux kernel so that might be a good one.

    I, myself, am old… And I use standard distros due to ancient muscle memory and shell scripts from the age of dinosaurs. Usually debian based. Right now I’m on PopOS for my daily driver and really digging it.

    Lutris is a GUI app with normal point and click interface. So even on a ‘normal’ distro I think it may be like 6 clicks to get the battle.net client installed, and then inside bnet you can install wow or hearthstone (and probably the others, but I can’t vouch directly) just as you did in windows.

    Lutris will even give you a nice little bnet icon if you want :)







  • I find that some of the manual labor and stress involved with trying to keep basic infrastructure running is easier to handle than the stress I get during my day job.

    Like somehow when my stress is tied more closely to survival, it tickles the fight side of the fight-or-flight response more so than the flight response that you have to squash to maintain a job.

    Having said that. We are not really that utterly remote. There is a gas station, Post office, and small grocery type store, about 18 minutes away.

    That 18 minutes can seem daunting sometimes if the plows haven’t been out in the middle of winter though…

    I’m sure there are moments of regret when I’m standing outside with a kettleful of water I warmed up to thaw the pipes to restore function to my toilet. But in general I don’t think I regret it. I feel strangely anxious every time we go to the city now.











  • That is a basic survival worry. I tend to believe that humans faced with real survival issues are less negatively impacted than those who have material worries.

    My stress about work is killing me.

    My stress about not freezing to death leads me to do things like chopping wood, lighting fires, and maintaining my chimney. Which are all good things.