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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I agree, one friend installed Debian because he saw that everyone recommended it, but he couldn’t understand how to make VirtualBox work, even less when I explained the reason to him. He ended up returning to Windows because of more issues and he didn’t like troubleshooting as much as I do lol

    I’d say Linux Mint is pretty good too, Debian alone may be harder for new people who wants a system that just works out of the box.


  • I think we don’t really appreciate time until we know it ends. Unfortunately, we outlive some animals, but we get to enjoy time with them and doing everything possible to make their life better.

    I lost my dog last year, it was rough. My family wasn’t there, I had to go by myself and the vet couldn’t do more to save her, but I was there, she wasn’t alone, she never was. I always watched her, played with her, even danced with her because she was very tall. I remember the first time I saw that she couldn’t peek at the window anymore, she was getting old and fragile and she couldn’t get up, I realized that I could only give her all the love I could, but I distanced myself some days from her because I didn’t wanna suffer her loss, I was afraid of what was going to come in the next months.

    After some time, I realized I was being very selfish because I would remember all the love I had for her, but she would remember how in her last months I abandoned her, and I couldn’t let that happen. My love for her, my time with her; our time together was what make some parts of my life great! She made me feel better a lot of times and I always reciprocated.

    I think one of the points of life, at least mine, is to make other lives better, that includes to help all the animals I can, even if I’ll have to suffer when they’re gone, because they will be happy all the time they lived.



  • Oh, of course! I was referring only to Google and Amazon because I’d need to invest a lot more if I want an independent and open smart home, which is unnecessary and expensive for me right now.

    Alexa and Google Assistant are the default option in México, shipping alternatives is both expensive and hard :)





  • I used to “virtual distro hop” because I tried a lot of distros in VMs before dualbooting. I installed Tumbleweed and haven’t changed ever since.

    I don’t regret keeping my distro, I’ve been curious, of course, but I think i already have it all:

    • Stability
    • The newest updates
    • I know my system very well
    • By knowing my system, I can fix most problems and I know where to go if I can’t.

    I sometimes try distros in VMs, but with that and Distrobox I think I already have everything I could need to learn and try them in case I need to work with them in the future :)



  • I started dualbooting W10 and openSUSE Tumbleweed in October of 2022, I got tired of Windows 10 and having to enter regedit to change basic things (they solved some things with winget tbh), using inconsistent UIs and submenus to change other ones. Also, I had constant performance issues, then driver issues that most people told me I’d have in Linux, but have been barely existent.

    Since then I barely use Windows, I mostly start it for uni projects and to play Minecraft Bedrock because I get dizzy if I play in bigger screens. I also have less issues with my printer/scanner and the performance has been better. I also love customization and having the option to write small scripts to solve small issues nobody else cares about makes me so happy. There was some software I wanted to try too and couldn’t because it was not available on Windows or it was unusable, like Docker (and WSL was uncomfortable to use; inconsistent file names if you don’t use W10 in english don’t help either).

    It’s been a great journey, I love troubleshooting and I’ve been able to solve all issues I found in Linux, while Microsoft Support only said to me: “Have you tried reinstalling Windows?”. I’d say that using Linux daily has helped me to learn more about FOSS, containerization and operating systems, while also helping me develop more skills to solve problems by finding solutions or creating them :)


  • There’s a book called Opt-Out from Rory Price about a future where humanity starts using AR more and more to the point that it’s almost obligatory to have a device of this kind for everything, even as ID. It then talks about a group that develops a free/libre version of this device’s OS and they have to decide about personal issues or try to maintain their views. It’s entertaining and not too long, but I think it shows a very possible future.

    I haven’t heard from its author in some time, but I think they discovered they were someone else too ;), that’s why I love this book.




  • Yes! I still question myself because I adopt when I can just so they don’t stay in the streets, but I don’t call my family of dogs pets. I treat them with respect and don’t judge them based on human prejudices, but the rest of the people expects me to treat them as inferior and disrespect them ;:/

    And guess what?: those people are usually the ones that are abusive to the dogs/cats that live with them.



  • My only issue is software availability and management. I use the Packman repository to manage codecs and I avoid using the change vendor option; i used to change the vendor every time and ended up with a broken system, so I reinstalled and also resized my partition because I dual boot. I haven’t had problems at all.

    You only need to pay attention for your needs, I recently installed systemd networking packages because they don’t come preinstalled, and YaST is very helpful in some situations like installing patterns (multiple related packages at once), mostly desktop environments. I gotta say that the openSUSE Wiki may not be enough to understand, but there is an official forum and you can also look at the Arch wiki.

    Btw, GNOME is the official DE used by the developers, but KDE Plasma works very well, and all of them update constantly, you’ll have available updates every week.



  • I only enter to reddit to check information I can’t find in other places or because of communities there. I mostly enter for KDE reports and Stellaris lol

    I have a Twitter account because my friend are there and they’ve abandoned Facebook almost completely, but I enter one in a month or so. I’ve been using Mastodon daily because I found a lot of people that also have my interests and hobbies, even in my language.

    I only enter to Discord for casual gaming with friends, like one or two times a month.

    And I’ve been trying to use PeerTube more, but a lot of content creators I like are still on YouTube, and PeerTube doesn’t have an official app yet. I’m currently using Piped and NewPipe for watching videos (I use the YT app only when I want to support some creators).