The Nomad + a car charger made long car trips a breeze. That was a damn good investment on my parents’ part.

Some of those retro emulator handhelds run Linux, to boot. I did a playthrough of Stardew Valley on my Anbernic SP.

I have an eidetic memory, so, I use it as a journal.

I did, in fact! I bought Immich for $100, and you know what? I don’t regret a god damn thing. It has been a stellar replacement for Google Photos, which was an app I depended on every day for, God, like 10 years now?

I don’t even understand that. The still-thriving, 30-year history of video game warez really says otherwise.

Just speaking as someone in the field, you would be surprised at how many IT decisions happen the way they do because nobody wants to be the one who gets called when an ornery geriatric complains that LibreOffice doesn’t have the ‘mail merge’ button in the right place.

The old saying goes, “nobody ever got fired for buying Cisco.”

I would consider it a privilege to live long enough to see the EU invest in and adopt FOSS software as a matter of national security.

Like all things FOSS & Libre, when a place as large as Europe benefits from the investment, so too do all of us benefit in kind.

It is the natural order of things; programmers love to program so much that they will do it for free, independent of any profit motive. We only see programmers charging money for their work because you basically need to sell something to survive in our Bootstrappist hellscape. Improving material conditions wouldn’t just make life better for everyone, it would also result in better, newer software, delivered faster.

I swear to God, I feel like the global rise in far-right parties has less to do with any kind of global cabal, and more to do with the fact that Boomers everywhere are powered by nostalgia. Seems like Boomers everywhere will stop at nothing to bring back the world of their parents that they never experienced.

Just look at how much of Russia’s foreign policy is basically “damn, remember when we were the USSR?”

“Well, wants to send me and people like me to a concentration camp, but I do hate gay people sooooooooooooooooooo”

I have been living in Philly for a decade now, and in that time, I am not sure I have seen a single new house go up for less than $500k. Everything in the $50k-$300k range has been either an ugly condo or old track housing from the post-WW2 period.

This entire line of thought comes from the fact that we have parents who are actively in our lives every damn day saying that nobody deserves to earn over $7.50 / hr because they only earned like $2-$3 / hr in the 70s. They are an active detriment that is preventing any means of progress.

They will not entertain information about buying power, inflation, or ballooning revenues / puckering salaries. This is a sore spot with millennials for this reason. We are not the ones bringing this up, our parents, who did enjoy life 50 years ago, are.

You can pretend that this is about having a toilet indoors all you’d like, they had access to pensions back then.