Hull, England for me! I went up as a student and stayed another year, partly because I loved the city and wasn’t ready to go home.

There was a great vibe, music venues, free museums and galleries, felt safe, and loved wandering.

I saw the rougher bits too, but it didn’t seem to different to most places. On the whole, the centre was way nicer than I expected, and there was a lot of cool community things people were running.

My 1080 was okay with Linux Mint, no complaints, and performance is the same from what I can tell. :)

I just switched over to Mint from Windows 10 a month ago, and besides from setting up my quirky USB audio for music making, I was astonished as I rarely needed to look anything up. :)

Using DuckDuckGo helped I think, but presently, most of my questions I searched came back with forums with real people talking, which was lovely.

I remember trying this in 2010 and… nope, everything was a project, command lines everywhere, and it was a pig. I was very impressed this time, everything quietly worked. :) Even every steam game I threw at it, even ruddy GTA San Andreas, which never ran for me on Window 10!

The searches/sticking points I looked up were

• what the heck am I doing with partitions. (eventually nuked windows anyway)
• how do I get my specific USB audio card thingy to work.*
• how to mod fallout new vegas** (gave up and reinstalled on a windows pc, too many .exes)
• how to auto-mount a second hard drive for steam so I don’t have to click the disk every time I boot.

*there was actually a human-made guide for my usb audio when I searched on DuckDuckGo, which was made by an utter saint of a person!

** it ran fine, but I was in the middle of a save, so wanted to keep my mod loadout :)

I bet there’s a bunch of quality of life things I take for granted on android! I think you’re right about the search :)

Windows Phone’s UI is a hill I will die on, it was really nice! I actively missed it for a while when switching.

I loved the cross-platform approach Kenny has taken, it is stuff that will be useful for years, and stuff like this is tricky to find resources for. :)

Saved for when I am at the “user” stage of my game, beyond “yay saves now work” and the lower level code :)

Ooh for me that would be another “I know I should hear this but somehow haven’t!” :) looking forward to tomorrow already to see what’s next! :)

I do now! First album is Illmatic by Nas, and it’s been a good discovery so far :) I have a limited knowledge of hip-hop, so this is really cool to listen to! Thank you for the link to this :)

Thank you for this, I like the idea a lot :) here’s hoping we have some good news at last!

It weirds me out to think some younger people will think the past decade was just “normal” as it’ll be most of what thaey have experienced.

Removed by mod

We have both… But having experienced migraines from american mountain dew, our idea of it is hampered by pesky things like banned additives.

On the upside I now don’t drink the UK edition as it tastes watered down in comparison! :)

Can’t vouch for cheetos as it’s been a while, but they exist here at least :)

Oh fantastic! :) Thank you, next playthrough I will get things going on Linux in that case, as that’s new to me! :) Like a fool I tried nexus mods vortex in Wine initially because I didn’t know better!

I can second this! For me it meant that I could finish my game of modded fallout new vegas, and connect to my work’s microsoft vpn nonsense (IT support didn’t fancy trying it on Mint but that’s another story!)

I now have a personal OS that I like, and a windows partition for those few things that I can’t be bothered to troubleshoot.

So far the list is just those things and the Unity Engine as Visual Studio debugs better than code in my experience. :)

Having the option to flick back is great :) In the XP days, I loved the WUBI(?) tool that let you install ubuntu dual boot as an exe, but I think that’s not a thing these days., :)

Of course!

I have a few in the car, but this is today’s project! :) This case has been with me at least a decade judging by the fact I used it to cart music to play in the Oxfam shop while on the till.

https://i.imgur.com/aqomdjU.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/PhZaBEN.jpeg

In case of curiousity, this week’s music was things I like but haven’t listened to in ages!

• Yuck - Yuck
• Radiohead - In Rainbows
• Neil Young - Unplugged
• Fontaines DC - A Hero’s Death
• R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
• Wet Leg - Wet Leg
• Placebo - Without You I’m Nothing
• Mogwai - As the Love Continues
• Mojo (Magazine) - Sub-pop silver jubilee

I just set up a nice little wallet of cds :) it makes me happy to do, and some of the stuff isn’t on spotify :)

Love that Paul Bearer is in here!

Ohhhhh yesssss

Works okay for me, Galaxy S10, Android 12 :)

:(

Heck yes! Earthbound! One of those games I felt was made perfectly to my taste :) funny, quirky, slightly uncomfortable… All great. :)

I thought I was hiding posts, turns out I’ve got mark as read as a button enabled!

As I have hide read enabled, it hides them so well that I forgot this was even a workaround! :)