Not too weird, but I found this accidentally: a subwoofer under my bed (the speakers that came with it broke)

I found a ten hour long brown noise mp3 that is set to loop indefinitely on an old burner phone. Through the subwoofer it sounds exactly like the warp engines from Star Trek TNG. Incredibly comforting, and hard to sleep without

Hah oh shit. I'm a reddit refugee, seeing you feels like seeing like a local celebrity. Thanks for modding that sub, I was there a lot

Takei was put in American internment camps as a kid during WWII just because his parents were Japanese. And he's still a *proud American. He can do and say whatever the fuck he wants

Mint is rad. I currently use barebones Debian testing with a bunch of customized stuff, but I always keep a bootable Mint flash drive on my keychain. It's a very solid choice

My dummy is three-ish. There is no randomly chewed plastic, but if I'm sitting at my desk and not giving him my full attention, he's chewing on everything

I built my own watch from parts I got online!

Respectfully, hard disagree and terrible take. I work in IT, and your stance only makes sense if people have some tech knowledge. Which is never going to happen for the average person.

I can't tell you how many older people I've had to tell that I can't save their grandkids first pics because of bitlocker

You're a piss poor anarchist if you want the the orange fascist to win

Same. I went from one overly complicated Debian install to two dozen neat and self contained VMs that do one thing each. I even tricked a Windows VM into not knowing that it's a VM, so I can game with anticheat games.

I personally use goharddrive and serverpartdeals on eBay and have had good luck, but I'm always looking for others

I'd like to inject some sanity (pun intended) into their point. Diabetes is body vs itself which obviously needs assistance. Some mental health things need to be "treated" just to make someone a "productive" member of society.

For a slightly different take, would you amputate one of your arms to fit in with a society where everyone else has only one arm?

Nice, where do you get yours?

Uh. You know you're responding in a self hosting community right? Should I explain why we're all here?

Ayy Debian has been my main for like ten years. Dtrx is one of the ten things I apt immediately every time I have a re install

Java was my first language over ten years ago. I haven't touched it in a decade (I'm mostly a hobbyist). I am grateful that I had to type all that shit out, and grateful that I don't have to anymore (I've been using python since then).

I just recently helped a younger friend with their Java homework. I had to Google the syntax, but otherwise helped them ace it. I've mostly used Python since then, but learning java gave me such a good base of the fundamentals

You're not wrong, and I'm upvoting everything you say because I hate the smug SO people who ask why instead of actually trying to help.

But in this specific case, there's literally no reason to use OpenOffice, it's discontinued. People shouldn't have to explain how to use a defunct software with an addendum.

It's not an obscure programming language with an edge case, it's a word processor.

Hmm I'm a technically registered as Republican (registered 15+ years ago, and I never bothered to change it) and I've done some android programming, I know how to spoof my location...

Ugh. Yeah I've heard that "it isn't the best. It was the easiest to sign up for when the reddit exodus happened. I'm anti Israel and pro Ukraine and I'm always busy with real life/my own hobbies. I just don't have the bandwidth for finding the best instance. C

You're a fucking dumbass who is confusing dumb ass libertarians with actual anarchists.

Hah dude I've been using i3 for years, and same. Like maybe 30% of the time. And half the time the background image is wonky when I start it up. Super+shift+r fixes it every time though, so fuck it