I love books

My biggest recommendation is to avoid asking for recommendations online, particularly in reading - centric communities.

People love to pretend their favourite books are classical just through sheer pretentiousness

The most genuine people you’ll find in life are the ones that are perfectly happy to admit they fucking love a trashy thriller

the cat

I feel old

You hit the nail on the head when you said “expats or exiles”

They’re immigrants, and it’s only Brits and Yanks that refuse to admit it

I’m an immigrant. Learn the fucking language yous cunts. Respect the country’s mindset. Pay your fucking taxes.

The Mirror is a British tabloid shitrag. A bunch of racist, shit-stirring, xenophobic hate-filled amateur “journalists” just trying to get clicks for ad revenue

Never click a post from them

Pffft they’re doing it because the EU is going to force this in a year or two, I bet

Exactly. You’d get your family “computer person” to do it.

If they care about the OS you want to use, they’ll upgrade to W11 this way.

If they’re obnoxious, self congratulatory Linux users, they’ll try to force you onto an OS you don’t understand

Which is better for the average person?

Aye it’s only a 22 hour drive OP, on you go 😂

Meanwhile the new president is both, simultaneously

True, it’s as difficult as plugging in a flash drive and clicking three things

Your average yank can’t attempt to tie their shoes without accidentally committing genocide lol stay away from installing operating systems

Yes, someone tells you a story about themselves and you just have to make it about you and shoehorn in some moral superiority

Mine said I couldn’t upgrade because of the no TPM thing. Turns out it’s just off by default on a lot of mobos.

Secondly, there’s a program called Rufus that can create a bootable flash drive with Windows 11 but removes stuff like the TPM requirements, the need for Microsoft account sign in, all the bad stuff etc

I’d been avoiding it for a year until I learned about Rufus but now that I’ve installed it, you know what? Without all the bloat, it’s a fucking smooth OS. Really excellent multitasking windows and fast too

Lemmy shits on it because “muh Linux” but if you install it right, it’s fucking excellent for the vast, vast majority of people

So you can install Linux but you couldn’t figure out how to use Rufus to install Windows? Figures

My dog took a shit on the rug last night and I stood in it this morning with bare feet and it was still more interesting than US politics

You missed this -

https://maps.app.goo.gl/DFuQXAf8jarGbzJf6

Interestingly, ‘tohught’ is the noise a cat uses to evict hairballs

The ability to be spontaneous is directly related to your

Work/Life balance

It’s almost as though you could stand up and fight for that, I dunno

gas station sushi

I didn’t know those 3 words existed in that combination and I’m frankly appalled that they do

When I started working decades ago, we were taught how to use bent bits of fence wire to find underground pipes before digging

I literally found scores of pipes that way, and saw dozens of other people do it regularly. It was even taught at a local agricultural college as part of the horticulture course

Then someone told me it was a myth and doesn’t work, so I set up a blind test with a hidden bucket of water and I utterly failed to find it

I simply cannot explain this

Fuck you :)

Yeah we have those outside!