My two cents: I ran a bit of both for a long time, and whenever something broke, I tended to jump ship on that device. I’m now only running 2 Ubuntu VMs, and all my bare metal is Fedora or Debian. Most of my VMs are one of those two as well. Snaps break or lag. Snaps kick me out in the middle of use. Debian is hard to use, but it’s still my computer, not theirs. Fedora is a bit easier to me.

I just had two 4TBs eat it on me simultaneously… I lost the entirety of a bunch of utterly replaceable stuff, thank God.

Nextcloud! It was it’s own box, then a VM.

An ungodly mess of cables, planks, threaded rod, and old, used servers! My very own Proxmox Cluster! I have spent years tweaking and changing it, but I’ve had some services up (not, like, continuously) for 13 years now. The original server was an i7-950, and now I’m on dual Xeon Silver on my newest box.

Fun fact: I used Libre Office to write an essay for school. I then saved as docx and uploaded it to my class page, the teacher had formatting weirdness so she asked me to resubmit. So I copy pasted the text into word for web, resubmitted… And promptly got called in for submitting AI. Her rationale? “No edits, no version history…” I had the email proof. What a moron.

Don’t chase the opposite sex. Chase interest. I didn’t meet my wife by seeking my wife, I met her by having an interest, sharing that interest, and having a friend of a friend go, “I bet future Mrs phanto would find that interesting.”

“Potentially.” I snorted at this. “AI” is just VR, NFT, crypto. A scam to keep big tech from having to compete.

Sentenced to being sane.

Crackers

When is someone going to make a balisong that’s disguised as a side folder? Geez!

Cricket.

The Save-On Foods right by my house because they accused me of shoplifting and searched my bag. Used to buy all my groceries there. Now they can bite me.

One day after half my office was in tears about Dolly, I played this and was the one in tears. Most of my office is younger, and they were all like, “Tim who?”

If we had a decent high speed rail system and shotengai style downtowns… But we don’t. I spent Christmas in Sapporo once, and it was cold, wet, blizzardy, and we were able to get everywhere without freezing.

Also, (at least for now), it gets really cold here! I’ve wiped out trying to bike on ice.

I had it forever, but it doesn’t work on later Android versions. I bought the paid version too.

I miss the Awoo videos. Puppies howling, Huskies going mental.

I am writing this on my Bluefox NX1… Android 15, 8gb ram, 128 GB storage. 4" on the diagonal, about three days battery. Crappy sound, crappy camera, finicky keyboard but autocorrect is a thing. Bluetooth earbuds and I don’t care about the camera most days. Dual SIM, 135$. Been using it exclusively for almost a year now.

My ThinkPad lives in Fedora and sits between 75%-80%, all day, every day.

In my case, I use a locally hosted stable diffusion setup, so it’s not even running 99.9% of the time. Turn it on, ask for the thing, turn it off again. Fans are spinning for a minute. A single session of any AAA game is worse.