Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know?
I'm not stuck in time. I've embraced dependability.
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I don't mind at all if people think I'm old, I kind of am.
Thing is, fancy new containerised packages have really changed the dynamic here.
I don't care if gnome is 5 years old. Everything I actually use is up to date.
It works
I still keep my hp-42s calculator nearby
I went from cutting edge tech excited nerd to literally this picture, and life is better.
Me too, friend. Generational leaps were so cool when I was a kid. Now that I'm in my thirties, I just see it all as a rent-a-spy.
At this point, even my printer is suspect. It stays unplugged until it's needed.
But the phone? It's a shame the telephone is always listening.
Wait. Are you my Dad?
The Debian Stable lifestyle is appealing to me more and more every day now
Whereβs your 25 year old leather belt that has wear marks near every hole? Documenting your progression into middle age like tree rings.
Name something I canβt do with Debian stable.
Get laid?
I'm sure it could run VRchat lol
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.
Run my camera driver. ISP4 is in kernel 7.2 I think. ;_;
Oh well, it's a matter of time.
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 use arch linux and drive a 2001 sebring i found abandoned. My internet is a hotspot and i have 3 powerstrips hooked into a single outlet
But apparently from a time when it came exclusively as a CD.
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
Prelude is a sick car. Always fond of them and CRXs. 90s Honda/Nissan,Toyota were something else man.
RIP couch level comfort.
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.
Judging by this posi I should probably start using Debian stable
honestly man...it's not a bad decision. I for a long time didn't give Debian the time of day. Now i'm daily driving OpenBSD and I use a Debian VM on it for certain dev work (mainly builds and deploys) and then on my second NVME I first went with Bazzite to do gaming but then I changed my mind and was like "meh, debian" and it's solid. it's good. it stays out of my way for what I want to do on it which isn't much.
It's a decent distro that's just kinda there and you don't have to worry about it.
Except the NVIDIA drivers are 40 versions behind and break every time the kernel updates.
The Nvidia driver in the Debian repos is virtually abandoned, though thankfully the Cuda repos hosted by Nvidia support Debian now, and give Debian users access to the latest drivers, like 610.
I enabled this repo last week on Debian 13 (RTX4080). While it technically works, I'd say it's not without risks for those not a little familiar with linux.
It first required some fiddling cause the file that is supposed to blacklist Nouveau on boot was renamed by apt as .save or something as a result of the package upgrades, so the system just started loading Nouveau instead of the new driver. Fixing this got me further, as the 610 proprietary driver finally loaded.
Sarting my usual plasma X11 session didn't work though. It launched but didn't display shit (grey boxes instead of windows and taskbar basically).
Having also plasma wayland available from sddm, I tried to launch this session and it got me a working desktop. So I ended settling with this. Wayland used to be crap on my system, but with this recent NVIDIA drivers, it's usable. My only real complaint is the extra latency on the mouse cursor.
I also had some difficulty getting it working on my rig, and I'm not a big fan if Debian's documentation, as it often does assume knowledge, which makes it harder to follow along and feel confident you're doing the correct steps.
Ultimately I switched my only Nvidia system to standard Linux Mint to have access to their easy to use Nvidia driver installer, which makes upgrading or downgrading the driver a 1-click process (though it requires a third party PPA done by a canonical employee to access the latest 610 drivers).
Just wait until the kernel updates.
It's perfect for my 8 year old laptop
Wait, openbsd can run debian vms?
Why wouldn't it be able to if it supports virtualization? Probably could run Windows VMs if you wanted to.
vmm used to only support openbsd as guest os iirc, I guess it has added linux support.
As I grow older, I began relating to this list more and more. But as one who is born closer to the 2000βs and raised by a sheltered, buys-only-brand-names parent; I find myself paralyzed when attempting to buy from used goods vendors that these things are only found at these days. Judging if βtheyβre still goodβ is a skill issue.
(I also use Ubuntu for similar reasons)
What the fuck? Who's been taking pictures of my stuff?
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 whatβs the hate on the tire gauge? Does another kind exist other than a slide stick? Does another fancier kind even need to exist?
Found a compact dial gauge version and it's so much better than those stupid sticks.
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.
That's cool looking, I'll look into those
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.
Allow me to present this abomination:
I have one of those in my glovebox. I think I bought it in 2003. My 2003 manual jap econobox has no need for TPMS. If a tyre is 30kPa too low, you can feel it.
I wanted to upvote you for pointing out this Satanic instrument but I also don't want an upvote that close to something so wrong.
Why make a tire pressure gauge that needs batteries? Oh just what I want, to pull my bulky ass tire gauge out of my glove compartment and find itβs got corroded dead ass batteries cause itβs been sitting in there for a year untouched.
Consistency. You can take 3 readings in a row with that stick and get 3 wildly different results. I have a $20 digital one from decades ago that gives me the same reading within 5kPa on each try.
Beats me.
But it's definitely a thing that exists. I, unfortunately, got one as a birthday present once, way back when. Used it maybe once or twice, then went back to a normal slide gauge and haven't touched it since.
I do use Debian stable and I do still use a calculator like that and a wallet I repaired many times.
If they're still working just fine, why replace them?
Here's my actual wallet.
I bought it for $25 in 2009 and have carried it every day since. The fabric in the cash pocket has separated from the leather and the plastic window for my photo ID is missing. My wife told me I should buy a new one since this one's so worn. I said, "Why? It still works perfectly." Not a knock against her. We just have different ideas about the meaning of durability.
This was my husband. He only bought a new one because he wanted one of the metal ones that just hold cards, that you can stick on the back of your phone. I spent 15 years with him before that, and he'd had the wallet at least 7 years when we met.
Literally a fossil.
The Toyota XV10 Camry is the best car ever produced and thatβs a hill Iβm willing to die on.
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.
Yeah team bar-soap here.
It's just soap and when you use it you feel soapy and then you rinse it off and you feel like you've used soap.
Anything in a bottle is some concoction of bullshit woo-woo like honey and pomegranate or hibiscus petals and seal fur. As in, it's more marketing than soap.
Same here.
Hey, not everyone can afford to buy it, don't judge stealing out of necessity.
I always thought Debian stable was basically just for the ISS
It shines in infrastructure roles, so you're not entirely wrong. I started using it for my self-hosting recently after ubuntu server fell off.
Yep. I need my computer to work so I can use it to make interesting stuff. I'm completely uninterested on the computer itself.
AFAIK, there's currently 1 option of OS that works.
How am I supposed to check tire pressure without a pressure gauge? My manual transmission is reliable and so is my alarm clock.
A) Some modern cars have built-in pressure gauges and can tell you the pressure of each tire on a screen on the dashboard.
B) Some fuckers out there (for inexplicable reasons) like to use digital tire pressure gauges with little screens of their own. Why you'd want a tire pressure gauge that requires batteries when an analog one works fine ... that's beyond my understanding.
The problem with built in pressure gauges is they only work after driving a bit. If you fill your tires you never know it's enough or too much until after you leave and then you need to either give up or turn around
The admitted benefit of the digital ones are accuracy. Mechanical pop out gauges, or even dial gauge styles, they have limited accuracy at pressure below their spec and obviously don;t work at all or will be damaged by pressure above their spec.
E.g, for the pop out gauges, you'll usually see them sold in ranges of 5-30psi, 20-60psi, and 30-120 psi. 5-30 is good for lawn equipment, 20-60 for cars and light truck, 30-120 for heavy truck. A digital gauge covers all of them at once rather than needing 3 separate gauges banging around in the toolbox.
The digtial gauge can get you within 0.5psi while the mechanicals usually are within 2psi at best. And for big lawn or flotation tires that need like 3psi or less, forget it, you need digital, most mechanical gauges never even go that low..
Iβm not driving a race car to where I need tire pressure that accurate. The mornings here start cold and warm up so that line impacts my tire pressure more than the variance in the gauge not to mention the tires warm up during driving. It does seem nice to have a constant ability to see tires pressure in the dashboard though. I just donβt have that.
Yeah... But in 99% of situations, within 2psi is fine.
No Nokia 3310?
I tick most of these boxes and still have a rotary landline phone in service.
I feel seen. But I have a PSP, And my alarm clock is a squeezebox.
I've also got a PSP. Those things will never not be cool.
I've got 3 of those.
I've got 3 of those :)
I feel personally attacked
I use Debian as my homelab OS, have done for years. But I don't have anything in that picture, I'm still to young?
Mind you, 1983 is old
Absolute chad
Hamilton watches are pretty fucking nice though.
Yeah I was gonna say the same thing. I have a Khaki King II and itβs excellent. The Khaki Field in the picture is also great, I want to get one.
I do have a mechanical Hamilton Khaki field watch. I love it. They're not cheap, but it's such a nice watch. My wife bought it for my for my 30th birthday because I'd been telling her for years that I'd wanted one. Given the expense, I only wear it for occasions like family get-togethers or dinner dates.
So this is my daily driver.
Been ticking for over 10 years without issue now. I just replaced the band because the old leather band did finally give up the ghost. Other than that, this has also been a great watch.
That's the point: stable
There is something nostalgic about Gnome 1/2. i do miss them
The
mint | opensuse | fedora | arch | gentoo | freebsd | openbsd | void | devuan | debianpipeline is real.Maybe nix will pull me from depths of stability soon before I get overconfident, try LFS, and promptly switch to pen & paper.