Quazatron

Carcinogenic plastic micro particles? Just don't.

Looks like nobody can or is willing to do decent printers anymore. I'll run my Laserjet 1100 till it dies, then I'm done with printing.

That's one tattoo I can respect.

Everything you do or don't do is a political statement. Do you think you can somehow exist in a bubble where politics is something that happens to someone else? How naive.

Oh, I have my favorites.

Nestle is up in the list, as is Monsanto.

For years I hated Microsoft with a passion for all the scummy things they did. They killed a lot of good companies and products by shady business practices rather than competing with quality software.

Then there's Nvidia. These bastards will just not play ball with open source, so every gamer kid that somehow decides to try Linux and fails thanks to their shitty drivers end up in reddit screaming "Linux sucks". AMD and Intel are fine to open source their drivers or at least publish the specs so others may do it for them. I suspect the true reason is that there's a lot of benchmark rigging code inside Nvidia's drivers.

I've been using it exclusively as my desktop for over 20 years. Does it have flaws and shortcomings? Sure. So have Windows and Mac. What system does not have issues?

Does it fit your use case? Who knows? Just try it and be the judge. If it doesn't work, just keep using whatever you're using, no harm done.

All you need is a USB stick, some curiosity and some time. It's not like it's a lifetime commitment or something. Unless, of course, you enjoy it... then you are doomed.

It's called frisson . There was an /r devoted to it, I haven't found any Lemmy equivalent.

Holy rabbit hole, Batman! Very interesting article if you're a typography geek.