new versions of windows just kind of feel like new phones now. It's good but.. who cares?

I can remember as a teen and upgrading from windows 98 to XP felt like jumping into the future.
Or, more recently, getting the first samsung galaxy after having a basic candybar phone.

Just seems like more of the same all while charging an arm and a leg for it.

Even if most of those trying it out eventually go back to Windows, this is still great for Linux!

I hear you. When I was a teen, Internet was: A handful of focused websites or your buddies geocities / angelfire site.
Chatting in crazy chat rooms on IRC, and having your close friends on ICQ.
Using a dial up modem to play doom, Warcraft 2, red alert, duke nukem, quake, StarCraft, total annihilation.. etc.

Those were fun times. Felt like the bleeding edge of tech.. hiding out and having fun in places people haven't even heard of.

I'm going to guess that MS AI determined the food bank is a tourist destination because it learned that more and more people are going there due to the rising costs of .. everything. It also probably learned that people don't like starving to death.

So cute of them to pretend that they give a fuck about kids or anyone outside their ridiculous worldview.

Always convenient when the trash takes itself out.

Stolen:

Classic sleepy Don.

Sure. "Costumes".

I upgraded to this chip from a 5600g, there was much more improvement than I was expecting. Nothing life changing but a good boost nonetheless. It smoothed out a lot of frame rate drops in my games and is quite capable for productivity workloads.

Only issue now I gotta watch my heat a little more since I went from a 65w CPU to the 105w CPU built in a fractal node 202. Still running my stock cooler for the 5600g.

It's not a gaming specific OS, but ive been running Pop!_OS on my main PC for just about 3 years now with mostly successes. Steam runs great with proton and i use bottles for the rest of it (gog, battle.net, uplay, etc)

I still use hexchat.. suppose i shouldn't since it's not being updated anymore. But, I've tried a bunch and it's the only one i like.

Huh I always thought ventoy was just another iso to usb writer. I've been totally sleeping on the fact it can hold a bunch of isos and installs them directly. That's so handy

Ugh. I barely want to live my whole life on this planet with the ways it is going.. let alone reverse back into my 20s with no actual "new game+"

Seconding pop os for a solid starter Linux distro.

Been daily driving it for about 3 years now i think.

Hate is a strong word, i don't feel strongly enough about an os to really hate it. I still use a Windows 10 pc for my music production since all of my vsts work there and continue working there even after updates and whatever else.

My daily driver is running pop os. my main reason for switching was just a personal disagreement with the direction windows was going back around 2021ish when they were talking about integrated advertising in the file explorer. Linux was always something I wanted to get to learning so the timing just seemed right to switch over.

If you were, not anymore. That's what I'm calling it from now on.

Just my anecdotal experience here, but it sounds like your self medication plan of using cannabis for depression isn't working.
I frequently combat depressive and high anxiety periods and find that weed doesn't specifically help with those feelings. What it does help is my sleep so i can at least rest instead of staying up all night thinking about things i can't change anyway. With that said, consider cutting back a bit and restricting your consumption to just before bed, and start working with a counsellor so you can start at a root cause of your depression. I hope things turn around for you soon :)

Now keep going 'til they're all dumped into the sea.

My joint walks go right by the gas station. so its either a chocolate bar or a bag of sunchips (french onion or cheddar) If i skip the gas station, i destroy all the leftovers and end up having nothing to bring for lunch tomorrow at work.