Soban, I don’t partake in video games, so some of this post was lost on me. But I got your drift, being lost, drifting without a home. When that finally sunk in, I was heartbroken. So sad to see you so unhappy. At the cost of sounding cliche, I would like to suggest you be positive, things will one day tilt in your favor and you’ll find happiness, a “home”. (Didn’t you recently find a nice girl??)
Anyway, nine years ago I lost my husband of 30 years to eye cancer. Devastated I drifted alone for two years, too young to call it quits, but not bold enough to go into a bar or nightclub. Those two years were painfully lonely. Then I got lucky enough to stumble upon a guy who is now my best friend and soul mate. We hope to end our lives together. I never thought it would happen.
I’m sure you’re sick and tired of stories like mine, but reading your words of wisdom, I think you’re pretty cool and probably fun to be around. I look forward to your posts (sans the gaming). Hang in there.
Yeah, I subscribe to Louis Rossman's(*) channel (and I have paid his shop for services that ended up becoming totally useless because fuck Apple(**), but Rossman is awesome and that's not on him, story below) and he's been talking about this. I was really excited for a switch 2, but a few weeks ago I found out Steam Decks exist, and as it is, the switch games I play are mostly indie games I already own on steam and buy a second time so that they can be portable.
But I have a steam deck now so I don't need a switch 2
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So I use a macbook pro because I am a Ruby hipster. And my 2007 macbook pro in my closet still works, but I have like a 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2021, and 2023 macbooks in my closet, that are all broken. And most of them break in the same way, which Rossman has talked about on his channel: first, a column of pixels gets fucked up on the screen. Then, whatever happened, starts to spread, and the next thing I know, my laptop screen looks like the puzzles at the end of The Witness(*). This reliably happens to macbooks within a year or two of me buying them.
And, for anyone who doesn't know how macbooks work, they have exactly two parts to them: the screen, and the not-screen. And the only way Apple repairs them is by "selling you a new part for a thousand dollars". So, if the screen breaks, I buy a new laptop for $1500 instead of repairing an old one for $1000 because fuck Apple.
So in 2023, I wash my hands and don't dry them properly, and a single drop of water happens to fall beneath a key. Half the keyboard is fucked. If I take it to the Apple store, they will sell me a replacement Not Screen for a thousand dollars but I know laptop keyboards cost like fifty bucks. And Rossman Repair Group is only fourish miles from my house. So I took it there. $200, they fixed the keyboard good as new, and give it back to me.
But the backlight is fucked because the scavenged keyboard part they used to fix it had a bad backlight module, so they're like "ok the keyboard works now, you can take the laptop back, and when the keyboard with a good backlight comes in, bring your computer back in, we'll put the new keyboard in for free.
Well, in between when I got the laptop back and when they got the new keyboard part in, would you like to guess what happened to that laptop. I'll give you a hint: it happened in 2012, in 2014, in 2017, in 2018, and in 2021
And that's why I have an M3 macbook
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(*) Catchphrase
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(**) I am pretty much stuck using non-Windows laptops because Ruby programmer and bash-compliance or whatever, and also a seething hatred of Windows for forcibly injecting LGBT propaganda in gay month onto my desktop that I paid $300 for their software for. (I am less bothered by the gay part, and more bothered by the "I paid $300 for Windows 10 why the fuck am I seeing ads on my desktop?"). On Louis Rossman-style principle I will never use Windows again
I would really like to go to a linux laptop, but, with a laptop, assuming it's got unix in it somewhere, my two highest priorities are "battery life" and "heat dissipation", and Apple Silicon is ridiculously efficient so both of those factors are non-issues with macbooks. The last time I had a linux laptop, watching a youtube video got the CPU temp to 70C, and burned through the battery in an hour. My M3 macbook battery lasts almost 12 hours, and the fans don't even have to turn on, the CPU never gets above 40C unless I'm outside and outside is at 40C
Yeah, I'm a giant, so I hate laptops. Also, I've been using Linux nigh exclusively as my desktop OS since 1993. I've been using the same "bought at auction from the place I now work" IBM buckling spring keyboard with a PS/2 connector since around then as well. My keyboard isn't merely "old enough to drink", my keyboard is "old enough to be a *senator*".
Fuck modern hardware. OK, so, some of it, like the CPUs and the RAM and the M.2 SSD drives, I'm very, very into. But the stuff that should be *able* to last is all fuckin' garbage. I feel this same way about cell phones, too.
When that ad injection happened in June of 2021, I reformatted my drive on the spot and installed Linux Mint. Every game has worked perfectly and that is the only thing I use my desktop for. So I am full on 100% Linux desktop now.
I don't have a Model M like you do, but I have a fancy Das Keyboard with similar switches.
Soban, I don’t partake in video games, so some of this post was lost on me. But I got your drift, being lost, drifting without a home. When that finally sunk in, I was heartbroken. So sad to see you so unhappy. At the cost of sounding cliche, I would like to suggest you be positive, things will one day tilt in your favor and you’ll find happiness, a “home”. (Didn’t you recently find a nice girl??)
Anyway, nine years ago I lost my husband of 30 years to eye cancer. Devastated I drifted alone for two years, too young to call it quits, but not bold enough to go into a bar or nightclub. Those two years were painfully lonely. Then I got lucky enough to stumble upon a guy who is now my best friend and soul mate. We hope to end our lives together. I never thought it would happen.
I’m sure you’re sick and tired of stories like mine, but reading your words of wisdom, I think you’re pretty cool and probably fun to be around. I look forward to your posts (sans the gaming). Hang in there.
Nintendo: CANCELED!
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Yeah, I subscribe to Louis Rossman's(*) channel (and I have paid his shop for services that ended up becoming totally useless because fuck Apple(**), but Rossman is awesome and that's not on him, story below) and he's been talking about this. I was really excited for a switch 2, but a few weeks ago I found out Steam Decks exist, and as it is, the switch games I play are mostly indie games I already own on steam and buy a second time so that they can be portable.
But I have a steam deck now so I don't need a switch 2
----
So I use a macbook pro because I am a Ruby hipster. And my 2007 macbook pro in my closet still works, but I have like a 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2021, and 2023 macbooks in my closet, that are all broken. And most of them break in the same way, which Rossman has talked about on his channel: first, a column of pixels gets fucked up on the screen. Then, whatever happened, starts to spread, and the next thing I know, my laptop screen looks like the puzzles at the end of The Witness(*). This reliably happens to macbooks within a year or two of me buying them.
And, for anyone who doesn't know how macbooks work, they have exactly two parts to them: the screen, and the not-screen. And the only way Apple repairs them is by "selling you a new part for a thousand dollars". So, if the screen breaks, I buy a new laptop for $1500 instead of repairing an old one for $1000 because fuck Apple.
So in 2023, I wash my hands and don't dry them properly, and a single drop of water happens to fall beneath a key. Half the keyboard is fucked. If I take it to the Apple store, they will sell me a replacement Not Screen for a thousand dollars but I know laptop keyboards cost like fifty bucks. And Rossman Repair Group is only fourish miles from my house. So I took it there. $200, they fixed the keyboard good as new, and give it back to me.
But the backlight is fucked because the scavenged keyboard part they used to fix it had a bad backlight module, so they're like "ok the keyboard works now, you can take the laptop back, and when the keyboard with a good backlight comes in, bring your computer back in, we'll put the new keyboard in for free.
Well, in between when I got the laptop back and when they got the new keyboard part in, would you like to guess what happened to that laptop. I'll give you a hint: it happened in 2012, in 2014, in 2017, in 2018, and in 2021
And that's why I have an M3 macbook
----
(*) Catchphrase
----
(**) I am pretty much stuck using non-Windows laptops because Ruby programmer and bash-compliance or whatever, and also a seething hatred of Windows for forcibly injecting LGBT propaganda in gay month onto my desktop that I paid $300 for their software for. (I am less bothered by the gay part, and more bothered by the "I paid $300 for Windows 10 why the fuck am I seeing ads on my desktop?"). On Louis Rossman-style principle I will never use Windows again
I would really like to go to a linux laptop, but, with a laptop, assuming it's got unix in it somewhere, my two highest priorities are "battery life" and "heat dissipation", and Apple Silicon is ridiculously efficient so both of those factors are non-issues with macbooks. The last time I had a linux laptop, watching a youtube video got the CPU temp to 70C, and burned through the battery in an hour. My M3 macbook battery lasts almost 12 hours, and the fans don't even have to turn on, the CPU never gets above 40C unless I'm outside and outside is at 40C
Now I know why you could type an em dash. I assumed you were using a non-Mac.
Yeah, I'm a giant, so I hate laptops. Also, I've been using Linux nigh exclusively as my desktop OS since 1993. I've been using the same "bought at auction from the place I now work" IBM buckling spring keyboard with a PS/2 connector since around then as well. My keyboard isn't merely "old enough to drink", my keyboard is "old enough to be a *senator*".
Fuck modern hardware. OK, so, some of it, like the CPUs and the RAM and the M.2 SSD drives, I'm very, very into. But the stuff that should be *able* to last is all fuckin' garbage. I feel this same way about cell phones, too.
When that ad injection happened in June of 2021, I reformatted my drive on the spot and installed Linux Mint. Every game has worked perfectly and that is the only thing I use my desktop for. So I am full on 100% Linux desktop now.
I don't have a Model M like you do, but I have a fancy Das Keyboard with similar switches.