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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Oh, I don’t know. There’s lots of towns across the US that only came to be because it was a water stop. And in those towns the tracks still exist and the people living there commute to work.

    The little town I grew up in had a trainyard and that’s why it existed. The yard is gone but there’s still active train lines going through town.






  • Obligatory I use Arch, BTW

    But dependencies for proprietary software are part of why I use the Steam Flatpak. It doesn’t matter what other community and AUR packages are installed, the Steam Flatpak is unaffected by that for the most part.

    I really do think something like Flatpak could lead to more Linux adoption. Package management played an important role but sometimes it can be a hindrance IMHO




  • “Starter home”, I’m not sure how much more disdain I could have for that title. I bought a home in 2003 that would probably be called that now. It was a typical size for when it was built in 1982 but of course homes must be bigger now. My wife has a friend who has a home that’s nearly double the size yet she’s jealous of all the storage space we have. There’s this trend of building homes with huge main spaces and I don’t understand why.

    I understand if people end up having to move for work of course, and if the home they’re in is literally too small for their family, I just don’t understand moving just because a bigger house is available.



  • regeya@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlCampfire
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    Decades ago I was at the Visitors Center for the Western band of Cherokee and this woman was giving a talk next to a campfire, and the wind kept shifting. She kept moving and finally coughed and then apologized for the smoke blowing in everyone’s faces.

    There was another guy there who was clearly hitting on her, and he said, “they say smoke follows beauty.” With comedic timing the wind shifted and blew the smoke towards him, and she, quick as lightning, said, “Smoke follows wind.”

    (And in case you don’t know, in American English when someone is “windy” they talk a lot and don’t say much)




  • regeya@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldBTW
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    No…the whole idea behind free software is that you can build from source and can even modify and contribute because it’s free. There’s no moral imperative to use CPU cycles and energy to do everything on your own computer.

    It is pretty cool that Gentoo’s Portage extends the Ports tree concept to the base operating system, though. I used to use it but at a certain point I decided it was too much of a time suck. I hopped around distros and nowadays use Arch. If I get tired of Arch, it’ll probably be Fedora unless they go the way of Ubuntu and Windows.