DJDarren

This is kinda like a thing my wife and I do. She’ll play a game and if she loves it, she’ll ask if I want to play it too so she can watch.

I’m currently playing South of Midnight and it’s wonderful.

My 2014 Mac mini server is running Mint. All in all it's a really nice setup.

Oh, and a 2011 mini that I use to give induction presentations at work.

So he is. It's been a long day...

What's especially dumb about this is that Tom is an excellent writer. Villager is wonderful.

Christ, that's astonishing.

It's an M2 Air, so it does. Runs very well on it, in fact. But as it currently doesn't support external displays it's a little limiting. Other than that, it's a decent experience. But ultimately macOS is still somewhat more polished.

And somehow those prices won't really drop when the tarriffs are quietly removed.

I'm looking at you, energy prices.

I recently discovered that, at the beginning of Cheers, Cliff was some five years younger than I currently am, and I'm not happy about this AT ALL.

As someone who's used Apple's Pages as my primary word processor app for the past 18 years, I've spent the past 6 months or so using only LibreOffice in order to get myself to a place where I'm not reliant on Apple hardware.

And oh my fucking god, LibreOffice is dog shit in comparison. It's horrifically unwieldy, to the point that it's only marginally easier to use than Word. And Word is God's continuing punishment of all mankind for what we did to Jesus. Word is ebola tearing through an orphanage. Word is Kid Rock covering the collected works of U2.

And LibreOffice Writer is just a little better than that.

It kills me that Pages is locked to Apple hardware, because it's just so nice to use.

What I will offer from my limited experience is that the Mint install I have will begin to topple over after a few weeks if I don't run updates, whereas my Mac will soldier on without missing a beat if I miss several months of updates.

I'm gradually immersing myself in Linux until my Macbook loses macOS support, at which point I'll go full time on Asahi, having learned the ropes from Mint on my old Mac mini.

There are still some things that send me scuttling back to macOS, glad that Preview exists with its easy to operate editing and PDF viewing. But I'll learn to make that stuff second nature in Linux. Eventually.

Actually, this is radical.