I’m not stuck in time. I’ve embraced dependability.
I am as high tech as I can be without feeling like I am selling my daily life to some cloud company.
I use Debian on my PC and servers
But of course on KDE Plasma
Where’s your 25 year old leather belt that has wear marks near every hole? Documenting your progression into middle age like tree rings.
No 20 year old belt. But I do have a set of 20 year old suspenders or galluses if you prefer. I wear suspenders because I have a very large surgical scar from a ruptured appendix years ago. Belt are very irritating to wear.
What the fuck? Who’s been taking pictures of my stuff?
I drive an older model manual transmission acura and use a 1980s style programmable thermostat with no smart features or connectivity. Use Debian stable with KDE. Checks out
“I’m in this picture and it’s quite OK here.”
My car is a 20 year old shitbox, my bike gets new brake pads and a bit of random lubricant on the chain once a year and other “maintenance” only when parts fall off, and my stereo is a mix of hand me downs from my dad’s college days and some eBay home theatre stuff that got sold because it didn’t support the newest HDMI bullshit.
Oh, and of course it is a Thinkpad, thanks for asking.
Just the other day, a friend of mine running Arch tried to install something, which resulted in him having to do a full system update, including fixing several “that should not happen” s. Meanwhile, every few years I spend an evening update to the newest stable, and never had bigger issues than the color of some icon being unfamiliar.
Man I always hear about these people who have to fix random that should not happen things. Yet I haven’t had that problem in a decade of using rolling distros.
While ever time I’ve ever had a fixed release cycle distro update it implodes. What black magic fuckery is this.
I guess it depends on how much you can abuse or ignore it. Debian works just fine if you put it in a locker for 3 years and then try to update. With gentoo, if you didn’t update for a week, you might as well reinstall :)
Arch is somehow in the middle, I had an arch VM that never had any problems except that certificate issue despite not getting many updates.
I feel like when humble-bragging Thinkpad it must be one of the models that became a Linux enthusiast meme.
Nah, L390 Yoga. I wanted touch because i thought I’d use it, but it ended up in a docking station most of the time anyway. Upgraded RAM and SSD, battery still hold “a few hours” despite being 7+ years old. I figured those 8th gen quad cores would last a while, and so far, they do. Doesn’t feel too terrible compared to my modern core u 235 work laptop.
I don’t have a Thinkpad myself. I do have a 10 year old Acer Aspire V3-372T. It’s a perfectly cromulent laptop. I use it to listen to podcasts and YouTube. I check my emails sometimes. I check weather.gov. I have a copy of my music library. I write my personal budgets. It has a touchscreen that I never use. I get around just fine.
One day, I’ll either get a Thinkpad or a Framework.
Perfectly fine if it does what it should. That is imo the essence of this post: Better is the enemy of good. I wouldn’t buy a new one (again), this one was a bit of an exception (customer return, with a little scratch), since used touch laptops with good performance were quite rare.
Dude, that GE clock is the best, that watch is also solid af. Plus look at all those nice old receivers, I bet they sound great.
Also what’s the hate on the tire gauge? Does another kind exist other than a slide stick? Does another fancier kind even need to exist?
Stick pressure gauges are bad.
Bourdon pressure gauges are the only pressure gauge to get. (Not bourdon brand but one that uses what is known as a bourdon tube).
They are analogue AND reliable over the long term.
Gonna have to check these out. Unfortunately for my wife, now I have a reason to go to the hardware store lol
They exist with a round dial as well. Personally I don’t measure my tire pressure, ever. My car will tell me if one is low, and I’d go to a gas station to fill them to spec. Although lately I got a little compressor which goes in the cigarette lighter, which just lets you enter the desired pressure. I use that for the car, bikes, footballs and whatever else needs to be pumped to a given pressure.
Y’all seem cool as hell, you should leave your basement so we can meet sometime.
I have damn near everything in this photo except it’s a 91 Honda accord and I don’t have a PS2, I have an original Wii. I feel suspiciously called out.
My real car is a 97 Honda Prelude, and yes, it is a manual. When my 2012 Civic had a dead starter motor, that Prelude was my daily driver for six months until the weather cooled off enough to actually do the job.
The Prelude is definitely more of a project/weekend car. Every car guy knows you never project your daily, but I feel pretty comfy dailying my project lol
Name something I can’t do with Debian stable.
Run my camera driver. ISP4 is in kernel 7.2 I think. ;_;
Oh well, it’s a matter of time.
A very long time…
Some time in '27 probably. Don’t have to show my face during teams calls in the meantime. 🎉
Well… use certbot’s new dns persistence mode. That may be a few years before it gets in. May be in backports, haven’t checked.
Pretty much any experimental Nvidia feature. By the time you have it working you aren’t on debian anymore and have basically butchered the distro beyond reasoning.
Wait. Are you my Dad?
It’s missing daily medication for old age related illnesses and glasses.
I’m in this picture based on vibes, but don’t possess the goods listed there.
How am I supposed to check tire pressure without a pressure gauge? My manual transmission is reliable and so is my alarm clock.
I feel called out. Except my mechanical watch is a vintage USSR Podeba. And my 2001 car is a Lexus.
Hey, I’ve got the Vostok “Scuba Dude” Amphibia self winder dive watch and the Komandirskie army version manual wind. Rugged and reliable after all these years!
I love the look of the Komandirskies.
I like the little bit smaller size and weight over my Amphibia for daily wear too. Toss in a NATO strap and it’s a good looking piece.
No Nokia 3310?
I tick most of these boxes and still have a rotary landline phone in service.
Guy probably still washes with bar soap.
Fuck yeah, I do. Body wash comes in plastic bottles, and I love to reduce the plastic waste I make when I can. I also buy powdered laundry detergent.
Same here.
