MintyFresh

joined 6 months ago
[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

I've been getting the razors from Aldi's for when I (rarely) clean shave. Can't tell the difference from the "fancy" brands

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Ha! In a century or two it will be the Taliban v the Mormons for supremacy of what's left of earth.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Lol you've never been to Illinois.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I watched it recently, not expecting much. And was still disappointed.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I hate abusing my family, but the money's too good. Thanks Obama!

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Thank you. I've always thought it was fucked people used this line of argument. If we can't build our buildings and clear our own trash? We need an endless stream of low paid poorly treated brown folk to do all those troublesome chores? Seems kinda fucked to me

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't wanna start a shit storm, but I think Canada got it right calling them first nations.

For one it's just more accurate, they're more than tribes, they're independent, sovereign, recognized nations, who were indeed here first. First nations, has a certain simplicity and forthrightness that's hard to fuck up.

Secondly, as a giant ass white dude from the Midwest I consider myself native. I hate to be rude about it, but my ancestors have been here for centuries, I'm not from anywhere else. I'm willing to bet Europe doesn't want me or any other American back.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I switched to Linux mint about 6mo ago now. No regrets. Works so smooth

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Linguistics is cool AF! A lot of people think (I certainly used to) English is a romance language, sharing as much as it does from French. But it is Germanic!

While something like 90% of the dictionary owes itself to French in loan words, 95% of the most commonly used words, and the Grammer by which they're used, belongs to the Germanic language family!

Fun linguistics fact for ya! Now you don't have to play that game.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The lack of commercialization being shoved down and up your orifices is really nice.

 

Thank you all who reached out, it really was awesome.

Was super easy, even my Nvidia cards driver was basically automated. Haven't played anything yet but I'm sure I'll be fine.

I opened up the command thingy a couple of times just to get some settings how I wanted them, but could have gotten by without it.

The biggest stumbling block for me personally was getting the thumb drive in order, then the hardware to boot from it. First you gotta use a thing called Rufus to format the drive correctly, not sure how or why, but you do.

And then I couldn't get my laptop to load bios no matter what key/s I mashed at restart, but searching " advanced startup options" in settings brought me to a menu to reboot from my (now correctly formatted) USB drive.

The rest drove itself. Still some stuff to figure out with it but it's doable. Very polished and user friendly.Thank you all again so much!

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by MintyFresh@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I just fucking can't with windows anymore. I'd preach about it but I imagine you've heard it all. I have minimal computer expertise.

I use my PC mainly for streaming, downloading torrent files who's copyright you don't need to worry about, and light gaming. Usually just messing with New Vegas mods.

If someone knows of a good YouTube channel or guide or something written for andelder millennial caveman I would be grateful.

Edit: after having been recommended mint OS and giving it a quick Google, I got this! I haven't fucked with anything linux scince the early aughts. And holy shit has that come a ways. Guess I remembered back and got a little intimidated. Mint is downloading now. As a small f.u. I booted up edge to do it. Ty you beautiful people!

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