I use Arch on my main machine, but I just got a new (old!) laptop that I’m going to set up probably with Debian. Someone mentioned I might try Devuan… and learn about all the init stuff… but I’m thinking I’ll keep it simpler for this one and go straight Debian first.

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Ha, yeah! I had to practically go into hiding to get through Severance without hearing hints from coworkers/internet/friends. Expanse hasn’t been quite as challenging :fingerscrossed:

Same here on The Expanse. I hope to get back to it someday because my friends say it gets better.

Same! I gave up after season 1. That s1 finale just pissed me off.

Wow… define loser? That’s awesome!

Bach. Anything after that’s pretty cheesy…

Wow, yeah, are we sure those aren’t just some 2025 Oregonians??

David Foster Wallace, shook hands and chatted at a book signing… He was very pleasant, shy-seeming, like you’d expect. RIP!

Philip Seymour Hoffman, shook his hand and chatted briefly, after seeing a play he was in. Oddly similar to DFW: shy, warm, very human. Also RIP!

(I guess, don’t shake my hand?)

Does peanut butter count? I eat it on carrots, dip dark chocolate bars into it, sometimes just scoop it with a spoon. Yum.

With Rattle and Hiss, the Slither brothers…

I basically read two types of books. One is lit-nerd stuff (Joyce, Pynchon…) where you can read and re-read and still find new things, find communities online of people discussing it, read it with a friend and share what you got out of each chapter, etc. The other type I do is more immersive sci-fi/fantasy (Rothfuss, Stephenson, etc.) which I read for totally different reasons… like you said, an escape into another world.

TV makes me feel like a spoonfed zombie. I’m trying to watch Severance, and it’s good, but I hate the feeling of being hooked, tied to it, and having to sit there and binge it. And they’re doing all the imaginating for me. I much prefer to spend that 50 hours with a good thick book. No judgment on how other people like to do it… I just prefer the quiet of paging through a book!

I keep hearing about this thing. Does it really do all the photoshop things? adjustment layers, masks, dodge+burn, all that stuff? and I guess, does it do it well, with big files?

Yeah, that. Opaque means no transparency. Easier to read/work, or see a picture/video without background stuff mixing in with it. But for my non-focused windows, I’m not actively working on those, so rice it up, transparency all the way! (but still add blur to those, just so I can read them if I need to…)

I have my focused window opaque, the rest transparent+blur.

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Wow, you got right on that, hahaha. Nice. :) I think I’ve seen most of the TNG episodes, TNG is my fave of the ST series, and that might be my most memorable episode because it’s so unlike the others, and just a darn good story. Enjoy the rest!

Whoa, I just listened to the Tool song and it is a trip… thanks for that.

Awesome!! Let me know what you think!

lol, nice. I’ll have to listen to that song… I got into their earlier stuff when it came out.

The flute was a reference to a ST:TNG episode, “Inner Light.” Kind of a classic… I won’t spoil it in case you watch it!

I feel like I’m missing a reference to something…

But here’s one for ya: he came back suddenly knowing how to play the flute.