My family photos from the 90’s disagree. There’s even one of my uncles with a mustache in them, and he was like 20 or 30.

By reading the comments, TIL that some people wash clothes with warm water. I have never even seen a washing machine that warms water.

You go to the stores to buy [item]
Short-term memory gets erased when passing through the magic entrance door
Can’t remember what you needed to buy
You buy everything you can think of, everything that will be needed at home
Finally arrive at home, tired and carrying a lot of stuff
Spouse: did you buy the [item]?
You: …

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Communist grandmas need more love <3

You got a good point here.

I see you already got the answers you need, so I just came to welcome you to the linux community, and wish you good luck.

In the beginning, it will be a bit hard, because changing things we’re used to is always hard, but give it some time, and you get the long-term benefits, which, in my opinion, are very worth it. Among a few things, you will experience no arbitrary interruptions to your device usage, will have lower hardware requirements, your devices will last longer, will have to deal with much less bullshit, and will even have more free time (unless you become one who likes to spend time tinkering with the system lol)

Those kind of “aged like milk” news are a great sort of memento mori reminding us that we should always be skeptical of tech news articles making speculative claims

My mom had a metal dolphin that looked exactly like that one, as if made from the same mold, but it was a can opener

Congrats!

What about creating an user account only for games and not in the sudoers file? Would that be a reasonable way to protect your main user account?

I don’t even speak english well enough to express how shocked I am by their age 😱

Out of context, but he looked MUCH older than he was. I guess fascist ideas aren’t good not only for the body, but also for the mind

Edit: I swapped accidentally the position of mind and body in the phrase, but in my defense, I was in shock lol

I have a theory that part of this game’s enormous success is due to it being to run on most computers without special requirements. People are tired of needing a more and more expensive gpu to play stuff that isn’t that great, and seeing your hardware become obsolete at record rates. Also, the game costing a lower price than average, for the same reasons.

This made me remember when my grandfather told me that the worst thing about getting old is seeing all your friends die :(

I was going to say “hey, a rural nowhere is pretty nice”, but then I read the other part…

I hope things eventually improve for you

Works, but isn’t the same. Needs one more stuff to buy and carry around, and can’t be used while charging and connected to a device via usb

Almost all the smartphones being sold around the world*

If we consider the smartphones in use, I’m not sure this would be the case

Sometimes I think about the fairphone and similar projects that face some sort of conflict with their user base, and I believe this is the great trouble with creating stuff for non consumerist people. For example, I love the concept of the fairphone, but will I buy one? Well, maybe in a few years when my current phone stops working and has no means to be fixed anymore. Mine is a low end device from 2020 that I repaired a broken screen earlier this year. It’s a bit slow, but I mostly run foss apps with very little requirements, so I don’t really care. Since the introduction of GSIs, android version obsolescence isn’t much of a problem for the tech-savvy anymore. I siply don’t have any plans of replacing it.

If I had to buy another one, I’d probably look for a phone exactly like the described in the posted image, and I also have those conflicts with the latest fairphone model. In fact, I’d probably buy the previous models. I don’t care for a version number of manufacturing date, or any other number, I just care for the actual use value to me. But for a company to stay afloat in our economy, they must release stuff often, or will be labeled as “lacking innovation”, and if they don’t follow the direction of other brands, the frequent buyers might leave them. And this is exactly the problem of such products, because their target audience aren’t the frequent buyers! If they try to make the frequent buyers happy, they will make the target audience unhappy, and vice versa.

As a matter of fact, When my phone eventually needs to be replaced, there’s a good chance that I won’t even need to buy another, because some friend or relative might have an unused one lying around that they just stopped using because it’s “old”, and I will gladly give a second life to it. It’s hard to compete with a sea of disposed stuff in good conditions.