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Cake day: January 20th, 2022

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  • Until a viable alternative is presented, I doubt Discord will die anytime soon. Part of the problem is people have a hard time accepting that even if you make the best meal in town, you’ve gotta get people to step inside before they’ll try it. To an extent, this does involve winning a popularity contest of sorts if you want Discord to die.

    I think often times folks are torn between enjoying a space/app as is, and making compromises to attract a larger group. IMO Linux has the same issue and that’s part of why die hard fanboys get so aggressively defensive when this is brought up.

    It’s the software equivalent of being the bitter "nice guy" that simultaneously wants to attract a girlfriend (users) but is kind of an asshole to women. You might think you don’t stink but please wear deodorant.



  • Because you’re making stuff up. Literally every install of an OS has some little issue here and there-- but this is my mistake for assuming any Linux community could be humble enough to cut the BS and stop acting like Linux is a flawless experience. I’m out, keep hanging out at that ~5% market cap and wondering why folks don’t flock over despite it being free.





  • I’m bored so I’m just going to make a list:

    • Lightroom Classic (I’ve tried Darktable, just not for me. I take a lot of photos on my DSLR and I’ve been using Lightroom since 2015 so for me it’s worth eating the awful monthly subscription that I split with someone else.)

    • Anki (flashcard app, very popular among med school students and folks trying to learn new languages. Open source and tons of useful decks available. I’ve aced plenty of exams thanks to Anki.)

    • Bitwarden (finally caved and got a password manager-- could not be happier)

    • CHIRP (the best for programming handheld, mobile and base station radios)

    • CrystalDiskInfo (great for checking the health of SSDs and HDDs)

    • DaVinci Resolve (love using this for video editing-- pirated copy was easy to find)

    • Deluge (great for torrenting)

    • foobar2000 (I love it for music)

    • Greenshot (useful screencapture software)

    • inSSIDer (great for wifi analysis)

    • IrfanView (very good for photo management)

    • MusicBrainz Picard (amaaaaaaaaazing god tier music management software to get all the correct metadata/album art)

    • reWASD ($7 but it’s so good for no BS macro’ing of keyboard/mouse/gamepad shortcuts and profiles. I have two PCs and two mice + gamepad attached to my PC and this software is very helpful. I think the license is for life.)

    • WizTree (SSD/HDD visualization tool that is useful for figuring out what’s taking up too much space on your drive)