MintyFresh

joined 2 years ago
[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Dust from an angel. What could possibly go wrong?

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

"standard fecklessness"

Lol. Y'all can put that on my tombstone.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Ya, it's cozy and quiet.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Fargo is a surprisingly fun town to be in your 20's. Lots of music and a cool art scene.

I had a blast there in my early 20s. Lots of jobs and reasonable rents. Walkable neighborhoods.

There was a grateful dead cover band that played every Thursday night in this awesome space that used to be a theater. Danced my face off on the regular.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I love carpet, just the ones that you can pull up and give a thorough clean to occasionally tho. Built-in carpets are nuts.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

I've always been of the opinion that one can use their words. I've never read anything with emojis crammed in where I felt they've added anything of substance. It just seems lazy and a bit trashy.

Yes. I'm well aware I'm a curmudgeon. I make no apologies.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Indoor plumbing. Seriously. Go without for a couple of weeks and tell me how you feel about hot showers and flush toilets.

Also, people really underestimate how difficult it would be to just fuck off into the woods. You'd need a good amount of planning and knowledge to do it. What's edible within what time range. Where the animals are at what time of year. And if you're up north you always gotta be laying in firewood.

Also civilization has taken over most of the good hunter gatherer/ subsistence farming spots. River valleys, estuaries, anywhere with good fertile soil. Most of the places with good desolate wilderness to fuck off into was left desolate because it's fucking desolate.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Being an over the road trucker has cured me of all poop shyness and public toilet squeamishness. Dump out in the company of some of the foulest humans to ever grace these American byways. Kinda cathartic in a fucked up sorta way.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

How you think I got my name? It burns good

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

I noticed my dreams get more hectic and urgent if I have to pee. If I get up, relive the bladder and then go back to sleep it's sweet dreams again.

But I wish I could remember my dreams better. I wake up convinced I could write a banger of a novel some days. But they're gone so quickly from my reckoning. The brain is such a weird thing.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh man this is one of my pet peeves. You're standing in line, then in front of the cashier. All to pay for your stuff. Then it's this whole production werin a look of surprise that, yes you do actually have to pay, followed by 5 minutes of digging through the bag for your card.

Most people pay with a card. You can usually tap your card as soon as the cashier scans something.

 
 

Ohh ya baby!

 

I stand with the otters

 

Like they could cool their shit, and desalinate water with the waste heat. Provide water to dry areas. Like Baja or Texas. Bonus points if they could run off renewables. Seems like a win win

 

Ripped from PaulDrye@lemmings.world no idea who the original artist was. They are talented AF though!

 

10 of the last 10 years were the hottest on record. It's time. I know so many people that will give lip service to the environment and then think nothing of taking multiple flights per year on the flimsiest of pretexts.

And as all too often happens, people go to poorer countries where they get waited on hand and foot, and then act like they're doing some giant favor to the locals. All too often these tourist sights end up being an unmitigated natural disaster, not to mention locking the locals out of their own back yard.

And then they'll turn around and claim they're "helping the local economy" trying to justify it. It's colonialism by another name. If they paid fair wages to the workers these vacations would become much more expensive, perhaps prohibitively so.

And wtf is wrong with you, you can't relax in your own region? Gonna cook the planet because you can't be happy and relax in your own hemisphere. Y'all need to chill it with the air travel!

 

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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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