[-] southernbrewer@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I had to help my sister keep her 8 year old Mac going or buy a new secondhand (cheap) machine. With the options out there and with the state of Windows, I didn't even consider it.

She's ended up with her same 8 year old Mac with Ubuntu 24.04, and I've been really impressed with how it's actually great for non-technical users these days! And works really well on old hardware.

This should give her another few years of life out of the thing without worrying about software support.

[-] southernbrewer@lemmy.world 69 points 7 months ago

What's a home fries? Isn't fries just short for french fries? I don't speak american

[-] southernbrewer@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

For me it's more like 95% or more. In the last year I've played

  • Factorio (heavily)
  • Halflife
  • Halflife 2
  • Portal 2
  • Supreme Commander
  • Rimworld
  • World of Goo
  • Untitled Goose Game
  • Railway Empire

I don't think I've played many games that are younger than 6 years.

Most of the good games have been made already

[-] southernbrewer@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

Wow am I the only gamer who had no idea you could organise games into groups in steam? It never even occurred to me to look for this feature

[-] southernbrewer@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

On a macbook? You can't plug a normal keyboard in without a USB hub because there's no USB-A port

[-] southernbrewer@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago

American political ideology as a whole has shifted left in recent years

What the fuck is this bullshit. This is the opposite of what has happened.

[-] southernbrewer@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

If you ever have to cut a bit of wood to act as a diagonal brace it's pretty useful to whip out the old tan. So I've used this every time I built a gate.

That's four times in the last decade, so not exactly daily but I'm glad I knew how to do it or my gates would have sucked.

[-] southernbrewer@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"and so" is perfectly valid as a conjunction for implying causation. "Thus" would be a synonym. It fits better than "and also" which doesn't imply causation and so isn't the right word.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/so#dictionary-entry-2

[-] southernbrewer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Maybe in modern media. He's definitely not portrayed as an equal or opposite to God in the bible. He's just another angel

[-] southernbrewer@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

I'll do the reverse - I think most people would expect homebrewing beer to be quite hard to get started with, but for $50 you can get everything you need to start making a really quite good beer, and save money at the same time (homebrewed beer is usually much cheaper than store bought)

If you want to get started search for "brew in a bag" and buy a kit beer mix. You'll need a handful of equipment like a brew bag and fermenter, but that stuff is really cheap.

Then you can indeed go down a massive rabbit hole of refinements, but it just amazed me that the first beer you make will already be a good one.

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