This is why I’m always a few versions out of date, ever since they started bricking computers via Windows update. Keeps me clear of their horrifying AI and additional telemetry and adware “enhancements” too.

They’re in spring right now, and Tazmania is below freezing and snowing in some areas literally this very moment. So I guess it does. It is VERY far south, almost as far south as the tip of Argentina.

Hit and miss anyways. Into the Spiderverse is an incredible series of films, and yet Sony’s attempts at live action Spider-Man lately are certainly incompetent.

Don’t even utter such heresy lest they hear it.

Miyazaki has inferred multiple times that they would love to do a remake for PS5 or PC port, but Sony owns the IP and he’s thus not allowed to talk about it and they can’t touch it without Sony’s blessing.

It’s good to know I have options! Aster is already the singular solution on Windows as far as I can tell, and for good reason I figure… this is a pretty fringe need. But at least I know I can potentially replicate the setup on Linux - I’ll for sure look in to that.

I’ve watched the other Linus (the one with the tech tips) on a month long daily driver challenge for Linux and I just can’t bring myself to dive in voluntarily for all the headaches and incompatibilities I know I’ll uncover - those presented, and about a thousand others sure to come up for each individual user.

I used to LOVE flashing roms on my devices. Started with my PSP, installing CFW so I could install homebrew. Then it was my phone and I loved the flexibility to do things Android couldn’t do or didn’t want me to be able to do. It was basically a hobby all unto itself, checking for new feature updates, sometimes taking a nightly build to fix a bug, finding a problem and deep diving for the right root application to fix it, whatever the case. Now I do too much with my phone to have a broken user created 5g radio, or GPS is currently broken in this ROM, or my homescreen glitches out when I switch apps rapidly. I just don’t have the patience or time for my phone that I need to be able to trust to work - to not work, and good luck finding the root cause.

Same sort of deal with my PC. I already have a VERY unusual setup to begin with, using Aster v7 to multiseat both my wife and myself on the same computer. It’s over specced to the point that we can pretty easily play games simultaneously without issue. Aster SOMETIMES presents usability issues, but nothing like what Linux would do. And while I haven’t investigated it, I’d bet that it would be a real struggle to replicate this setup in Linux. But my weird edge case aside, I’m fully capable and yet completely disinterested in converting because I just need it to work, for everything I’m doing, and without a 2 hour rabbit hole on why I can’t install this one dependency I need.

I have a couple bootable flash drives laying around and have dualbooted computers in the past. But I just don’t think I could fully migrate today.

I bought a pro license because of basic features being stripped out of home over time - here’s to hoping it’s ONLY home licenses that get abused.

I’m feeling a bit cynical about this as well, despite their great reputation. Free never really means free in 2024. There’s always a catch…

We’re the generation that used forums all over the internet, Digg, and then reddit before it was cool. Now that reddit is going nuclear, we’re all looking for our new home because we yearn for the internet we all grew up with as it slowly erodes away thanks to millionaires/billionaires ruining all that is good to make a buck.