As a young Norwegian I can say that I’ve saved a bit of money by pirating. I have a nas with 10s of tb of movies disney or Warner bros can’t delete from my library.

“what is love?” (baby don’t hurt me)

What? But the factory must grow

Or in physics terms, potential energy.

1.5Tb data cap, jeez. I regularly push 6tb of monthly traffic by myself. This feels like mobile internet all over again, but now with wired…

Thx for the tip! I’ll try to recalibrate it based on those instructions :3

Your cat has my dad’s name

I personally won’t pay for the extra security updates, and will switch to Linux, but like you said, it’ll be very overwhelming at first. I’ve used kubuntu on my laptop for a while now, but it’s hard to rewrite my own software for Linux because it uses native system APIs.

Eh she’s going to get evicted because because the second tenant (cockroach) didn’t pay for rent

It’ll end up in a museum somewhere…

i got you

Robux since that’s more valuable than the Russian ruble

Funnily enough noone noticed that anything was “out of the ordinary”. The event organizer, who isn’t techy, asked to use my pc so he could transfer some assets for display, sent them over, right clicked the photoshop files, and opened them in a cracked photoshop program i installed using wine. He then proceeded to add some finishing touches and export them as png files without noticing this pc wasn’t running windows.

The thing that caused the most hiccups wasn’t the os/software, but the hardware. The camera crew handed me some thunderbolt capture cards which didn’t work because my $300 laptop which I got for free didn’t support thunderbolt. We switched to some usb capture cards, and they worked perfectly without any configuring.

So I guess Linux has reached the title of It just works™️ (at least for this use case)

It’s time for nap time

Thx. It’s the title screen background from the Interea visual novel :3

Kubuntu

We had the display to ourselves, so we dug around in the settings of the scaler but couldn’t find anything that might set the resolution or aspect ratio. The goal was to keep this thing running for the show so we didn’t want to break anything by messing up the settings.

I wonder how that bug happens from a programming standpoint. Despite that bug, it didn’t crash or misbehave during the entire 2 day show, so I’m happy.

The native resolution of that thing was something along the lines of 1500x1000, but the scaler only accepted 1920x1080, and 1920x1200. Both resolutions had the same top and bottom bars so we assumed something got disconnected during transit, and we didn’t bother fixing it as all content was in 16:9 anyways.

For the pictures with hyfetch I just captured the display of the laptop in obs and forwarded it to the big screen as that was more convenient than fiddling with the terminal window on a screen I couldn’t see from laptop’s position.

We had a dress code so I had to wear pants, which is why I didn’t bother putting on some Linux socks. If you want to see the same laptop but with socks then here ya go