There’s so much I love about Aurora. Every time I boot up my video editing laptop or rendering desktop, it’s like… slipping into a hot tub on a cold winter night.

Funny you say that… my previous job was on Win 11 and a sovereign cloud version of Copilot, the latter of which we were “strongly encouraged” to use for everything. That went nowhere fast.

I have a minor hand washing compulsion, but it’s not a germophobia thing. While I would prefer everyone wash their hands after using the bathroom, it doesn’t gross me out like some other things, like nose-picking.

Lots of excreta aerosolize or otherwise get everywhere. While hand washing is a low bar to improving hygiene, shit is literally everywhere. Want to see something scary (depending on your squeamishness)? Get a 350nm UV flashlight and check out your home. Hell, try it right after you do a deep clean.

But maybe I’m just using it so much I don’t recognize the sharp edges as much anymore.

Nah. I used to think that GUI git clients were The Way. But they all fall short, especially when the ***slightest ***thing goes sideways. Once you get your head around the paradigm, the git CLI is how you get real shit done and quickly. If anything, the GUI clients are all sharp edges and half-measures; the only reason I pull out a GUI client is to get a visual on all the branches in progress/already merged.

In the 90s, I managed a nightclub. The owner of the club also owned a mixed zoning apartment building (sports bar on the first floor). As part of our compensation, employees could get an apartment in lieu of some wages. Most of the club DJs lived there. The sports bar regularly called up to complain about the noise from DJs practicing, which was especially surreal given that the bar also had live music.

“I mean, I wanna—I wanna kill. Kill. I wan—I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill. Kill. Kill! Kill!” And I started jumpin’ up and down yelling, “Kill! Kill!” and he started jumpin’ up and down with me and we was both jumpin’ up and down yelling, “Kill! Kill!” And the sergeant came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, and said, "You’re our boy."‎ Didn’t feel too good about it.‎

Gwenview is a new one on me. Thanks for the tip! Downloading it now.

Raster as background and marking up as vector graphics on an overlay.

There are lots of use cases for exactly that, like certain graphics tasks my partner does for her employer (flyers, t-shirt designs). with an existing raster image as background in Inkscape. For what I do, that workflow would be serious overkill.

Inkscape is for vectors and handles rasters poorly. I love Inkscape, but it boots slowly. Paint.NET is fast and light. Perfect for marking up screenshots for technical documentation. Pinta does okay in this role, but it’s no Paint.NET.

• Audio configuration: I just install DRS in Win10 and it works, as does all of the GPU integration*. My DAW also just works, no fiddling with the buffer to get rid of the crackling or to get it recognized.
• FL Studio: It’s not really FLS that I’m missing but rather I have a couple VSTs that absolutely won’t work in Linux, plus a huge amount of patches I built in those instruments. However, Bitwig kicks so much ass that it’s been worthwhile to try to rebuild those sounds inside Bitwig’s Grid.
• Inventor and AutoCAD: I hate Autodesk with the fury of a 1000 suns, but I know these apps cold and have a huge library of parts and assemblies. FreeCAD just ain’t there yet, and the new workbench menu has been an annoying learning curve. Inventor can handle enormous assemblies on my (previously running Win 10) laptop; FreeCAD still crashes when the object tree gets over a certain depth even on my burliest workstation. Assemblies in FreeCAD are a total mess too. I want to love FreeCAD and have great hopes for future versions.
• Suspend: one of my laptops won’t suspend correctly. Sometimes it reboots, sometimes it suspends, sometimes it goes into a weird middle state running at full throttle but the screen is dark and the keyboard is unresponsive even to REIUSB. I just always shut it down now, no BFD.

And despite all that, I don’t miss Windows at all.

*DRS was actually painless on Aurora Linux with my big workstation that only has a dGPU. All my computers with both iGPU and dGPU were more fiddly. I mostly blame Nvidia on this issue. I’m pretty sure the suspend problem is also an iGPU/dGPU thing and also blaming Nvidia for that.

I understand at least some of the downvotes, because it’s probably a sore spot for some people. I’m Vietnamese and this shit has always been hilarious to me. Sure it’s a bit of a hackneyed joke at this point, but I still reach for similar jokes when, for example, people sincerely mistake me for my cousins.

Racial prosopagnosia (seems like the wrong word for it, but that’s what I got) is a real phenomenon. It wasn’t until my mid teens that I could distinguish between some faces of most races. Hell, I still have difficulty distinguishing Polynesians and some Native Americans.

I neaten my bathroom every day. Police the water splatters (before they become water stains), lint, soap scum, toothpaste/saliva deposits in the sink, stray hairs, wipe the bowl… And then I deep clean once a week.

Am old, can confirm. Although I use composting toilets these days (live on a sailboat). Flow is non-existent.

he works one a month at best

I’m scared to see the bathroom where this toilet brush works.

Like the ones embedded in the sink perimeter? If so, those always tasted terrible to me; descaling them is a pain. I can’t bring it over to my brewing setup. All the ones I used had a fixed temperature that was too hot for delicate teas and too cold for light roast beans. Also, for making a proper pour over coffee, you need a scale to precisely gauge how much water you’re putting through the beans.

Serious question: what are y’all’s methods to prevent/deal with spicy pillows?

Frame? Has to pass through the caliper, which it won’t.

When I was a child, my family visited a Chinese restaurant in Washington DC, and we received hilarious gag fortune cookies. Mine said “If you’re reading this, the poison hasn’t worked yet.”

My mother’s asshole boyfriend got one that said “Some people have it, some people don’t. And you don’t.” He lost his shit. Fumed for days, and I laughed my ass off.

The comic book was an interesting premise and what-if. https://archive.org/details/robocop-vs-terminator-vol.-1

Oh, yup! I totally missed the approximately sign.