• barnaclebutt@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I switched my house for a shitty apartment and I’m never going back. I replaced my car with a streetcar and bus ride and you should too. I switched my wife for being single, and she’s never coming back.

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      I have some remote controlled toys. Sounds fun but the apps are shit. Even with a partner it’s horrible to actually use it. You just want to get fucked but instead the app fucks you with ads, bugs and complicated constructions to get it working and that way to get fucked is really not something that makes you cum.

      • I have a bunch of FOSS apps made for a few different toy platforms already bookmarked if I got one, as well as a couple of VR “games” with support. I just don’t want to spend more than $100 on a toy that isn’t custom made from Bad Dragon.

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    I love the amazing advances in hardware and general tech that enabled this progression.

    However, what I am finding only works better and better for my brain and well-being is to push in the opposite direction. I went from wearing a smart watch 23 hours a day, 365 days of the year for several years, to not even knowing where it is right now.

    I do most of my computing/gaming/browsing on an old desktop PC running Linux. I just replaced the fans in one of the PCs that’s 15 years old because they sounded like a locomotive.

    The best part though is getting up to get a drink, hit the restroom, or even go chill outside with my pets for an hour and just leave my phone wherever it’s sitting. Just some time to exist and pay attention to my senses and the world around me without getting fucking notifications.

    Or hell, even being at work and literally working on technology while being isolated from the outside tech world trying to get my attention.

    Though if you have a smart watch that can save you from missing notifications during those times. That’s why mine had to go, lol.

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      I’ve worn a pebble smartwatch for a decade just to avoid all the annoying noises our phones make non stop. So i keep my phone on silent and I’ve got the pebble set to only get notifications for texts and calls neither of which i get a ton of on a daily basis. I like to be able to glance down and either ignore or pull out my phone and deal with.

      I am also a big fan of leaving my phone in the other room and dont wear the pebble a lot on weekends just to get a break.

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    To be fair a phone that can be docked and used as any number of other workstations should really be the goal. One device that can do everything is the dream… Running Linux also a requirement.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Replace things?

    Virtually every computing device I’ve ever owned is somewhere in the house I’m in. I sold my first PC (a Leading Edge 8088 IBM clone) and I still regret it. It’d have been hard to get hooked into my homelab, but I would have figured it out.

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    Seriously I replaced my PC (you know, big tower with lot of fans) with a Beelink MiniPC and OMG I do not regret it! It is super small, like 4"x5", sitting on my desk, sometimes I can hear the fan but mostly never, it’s fast, quiet, powerful. Best thing ever.

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      8 hours ago

      Same here. My gaming rig moved into the living room, and I’m about to start playing around with containerized gaming in proxmox with it.

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      Unless you want to do AAA gaming or 4k video editing, a cheap mini PC will be pretty much all you need. Those things have been getting pretty good lately.

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      Thinkcentre tiny here, good for absolutely everything except gaming. So I got a bigger box for that.

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      11 hours ago

      Of course!

      Then, when AWS goes down it’ll turn on randomly, reset the password to the default 50 character password and not unlock until you’ve input it corectly.