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Toasty @toastyraptor.bsky.social · 16h

If you told me this was a homeless shelter, I would have no reason to question it.

Why are techbros like this?

Toasty @toastyraptor.bsky.social · 17h

As it turns out, killing a large chunk of your brain cells does infact "fix" many things.

In the same way that cancer in a petri dish can be effectively destroyed with fire. Yay you cured it.

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Toasty @toastyraptor.bsky.social · 17h

Given how people look at me when i'm shopping by myself... I can only assume I must look a lot more intimidating than I actually am. Dang.

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Toasty @toastyraptor.bsky.social · 1d

Mhm. Eventually in the prolonged absence, you can no longer experience anything at all. No sorrow, no joy, no anger, no regrets.

Part of me misses that in a strange way. Life was so much more simple when it was just pure determination of goals and nothing else mattered.

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Toasty @toastyraptor.bsky.social · 1d

OMG your hair color is just... so beautiful.
I need to ask my hair stylist how on earth I can get blue to work. 🥳

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Toasty @toastyraptor.bsky.social · 1d

Taking the enemies symbols in conquest has the same feeling as "keeping trophies of my kills".

Big old YIKES from me on that.

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Toasty @toastyraptor.bsky.social · 1d

100%.
Pastas (like spaghetti) can make a lot of food for pretty low cost.

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Toasty @toastyraptor.bsky.social · 2d

A person's personality is a combination of the people they are the closest with.

Just throwing that out there.

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Toasty @toastyraptor.bsky.social · 2d

To be fair, Broadcom and Intel were extremely protective of their chipset documentation back then.

Trial & Error takes a lot longer than if you have the real interface documentation to work with.

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Toasty @toastyraptor.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah. Anything that's not an exact replica of Windows is going to be a very painful transition for a lot.

Linux Mint is pretty close but it still has a lot of Linuxness that can be a transition.

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Toasty @toastyraptor.bsky.social · 2d

Ultimately my biggest gripe with Linux is that it suffers from the same issues I have with the cereal aisle.

Too many choices. Do we need eight different apps to manage bluetooth connections? Rationally No.

Do we need 600 linux distros with everyone saying theirs is the best? >.>

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Toasty @toastyraptor.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah. Compared to twenty years ago, I find Linux (at least Linux Mint anyway) a million times easier to use. Sometimes I forget that i'm not running Windows 10 still.

But with an engineering background, that doesn't mean much.

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Toasty @toastyraptor.bsky.social · 2d

The trouble is that "customer experience" is a very different skill set than software engineering.

You don't generally see a lot of people with that skill set working on open source projects. It's all engineers.

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 3d

#MondayMotivation