love you mom

after oomf silently dying of laughter next to me when i told her to bear with me and open up a terminal and type "sudo apt install vlc", correct her that "install" has two Ls, figure out the root password which was the username, vlc was found out to be already installed

happy little moments

but its the only device at home that can read dvds so...

mom called me the other day asking how to *play* a dvd on linux instead of juts opening the files on it

i told her yeah just open it in vlc that should do it, but it wasnt installed

btw this is a 15 year old laptop begging to die, held together by hopes and dreams... and linux

weirdly enough the motherboard had 2 speaker plugs and there were conveniently placed mounting points for where the second speaker was supposed to be, except it didn't have an opening like the first one, so a second hole was drilled in the plastic

after buying replacement speakers and opening up the laptop i found out that it only has one (1) speaker, this thing has been running mono the entire time

i keep a list of things i wanted to draw at some point

its usually so bad that it "helps" me come up with better ideas