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Yeah the base OS seems pretty much centered around pretty fixed images etc for updates, but thankfully most of what I need can live happily in user-land either under the homedir or detachable storage

Most of my Arch experience is with SteamOS, but thankfully it does seem that once you get your desktop environment running it's pretty easy to deal with software there via the graphical package manager, though I'm not really doing anything crazy other than some add-on packages for Minecraft, Emu and the like.

I've been a pretty strong supporter of Debian, but I've definately run into issues where Stable = behind on the packages needed for the hardware/software I want, whereas Ubuntu's continual pushing of Snap and intrusive BS is just irritating. I often end up with Mint for the more-decent-than-Debian but mostly snap-free experience, but for my next hardware cycle I am considering Arch given most of the "support" documentation mentions running on such.

Meanwhile there's me with the opposite issue due to too much coffee

That is more or less what the old TrueCrypt (and also VeraCrypt) systems did. One password gets you the real data, the other opens a different partition that could be stuffed with dummy data.

True privacy/security night involve a hybrid, where it opens the device to the fake partition+profile but also kills off internal keys to the real data when the duress is used

Most like the first of many attacks by right-wing nutjobs that resent any platform still exists that isn't pumping their own agenda full throttle...

I have a couple PS3's. Bought used. No online games. I think I've bought more of their titles on PC than console.

It's not even a boycott, I just haven't seen value in their recent offerings and would rather spend my money elsewhere.

Really? Ripping kids away from their family and having everyone think their parent is as abuser based on an unsubstantiated "tip" from some rando is better?

Both seem pretty fucking bad to me.

They misheard when somebody said they enjoy a nice cold coke in the evening...

Yeah, seems he traded his God complex for victim complex in the end...

Hell, it doesn't even need to be able "resisting urges". I'd be more behind a guys-only gym where I'm less likely to end up in some random chick's social media session.

Yes, guys do the social media crap too but at least in my experience they tend towards places that don't involve broadcasting everyone else (except maybe the dudes with the creep glasses, fuck them). I'm tired of having to dodge some glam-girl who has decided to make the beach, park, gym or whatever her personal studio and including me or my kids as unwilling participants in their narcissism.

Yeah, it really depends on the album and the way the artist has put it together. Any sort of "mix" album if matters very little the order you play it in, or which songs. Something Iike a concert recording, an (e.g. Pink Floyd) album where one song transitions to another, or a Rock Opera that tells a story across songs, the specific songs played and order can matter a lot!

I've got my own music collection on a self-hosted server which I can stream to my devices, and would love to have some sort of "not a singular/standalone" flag for songs which really don't fit or sound good outside of the larger album when I'm playing random/mix mode.

Shit, that's terrible. Here's hoping that one day your grey matter can rewire itself in a way that allows you to enjoy games or blinking lights again without side effects