kind of how AOSP is for Android)

https://9to5google.com/2025/03/28/google-android-aosp-changes-announcement/

Are you mounting a FAT32 disk by any chance?

I’d just re-install Windows over the top of the fucked up install normally. It was a bit easier to recover from, and a bit harder to fuck up

It was similar for me, but not quite the same. The thing I hated was starting from scratch. I’m very much not a distro hopper. Back in the day, I enjoyed the challenge of trying to troubleshoot issues and get the system working again, and that kept me interested, but eventually, I’d hit a problem I couldn’t resolve, and I’d have to start again from scratch, and at that point, I’d just go back to Windows.

Now, I still get to do the same thing. If I break it, I get to learn how I broke it and try and fix it, and I find that process compelling. But because I’m using btrfs restore points now, I don’t get to the point where I have to start again from scratch. So I can work at solving it to the limit of my abilities, with confidence that if I can’t work it out, it’s not a huge issue.

That also sounds like a good way to stop learning!

The “starting over” part is what made it take so long for linux to “stick” with me.

Once it became “restore from an earlier image”, it was a game changer!

If it actually worked, it would be really useful for a lot of people (it’s me. I’m a lot of people)

On the horizon? They crossed that horizon a long time ago. It’s just going to accelerate now

Phones are already too small. I use a fold because it’s the only way I can get a decent sized phone now!

I mean, I’m impressed that someone had the time to thoroughly try out all of those distros in two months to enable a meaningful comparison!

As soon as Jellyfin allows downloads for offline viewing

Time to jump ship then…

Jellyfin has had sync play for a long time

Yeah, it does

Came here to make this joke. Was an hour too late…

Digikam was my replacement for photo management and tagging. And darktable for editing. You can launch darktable from the Digikam catalogue, so it’s pretty smooth.

It took me a while to get used to darktable, especially the masking, but I genuinely prefer it to lightroom now.

You can also use other editing apps, like Gwenview, etc for quick and dirty edits. The only thing I’ve had no luck with are things like Topaz and DxO. They won’t run on Linux and don’t really have equivalents.

The other part is, lemmy hides content from you unless you have the language enabled in your settings, and so, I have all languages enabled just so I can see all the content. And that makes navigating the language list really unwieldy without a default option

Oh no, if I don’t give them money, I won’t get LLM enshitification? The horror!