What helps me at times is just straight up shutting off my phone, and putting it away (mainly in a Faraday bag).

Also realizing that a lot of smartphone app UIs is meant to keep the user on the app for as long as possible.

Think of turning off your phone like winning a fight against evil corporations.

One more child falls for the Apple Industry propaganda once more!

Best attitude to have

Been playing Pacific Drive. It’s a survival horror(ish) game where you drive through Western Washington in an abandoned government experiment paranormal area that is always changing. And you get to drive a 1960’s station wagon, and make repairs and build new parts. Pretty fun so far. (and intense)

Setting looking like The Brak Show.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9d70ced3-effc-48bc-a5a5-e42077b2228a.jpeg

It’s hella foss!

I know right? I mean, there isn’t even an Onion link there.

Thanks, I hate it.

Dude, fuck man, that takes me back all the way in highschool Computer Science class. Back when I ate up all the techbro propaganda.

I’ll take the juggalo face paint even though I am not a juggalo

Seattle mood

Relatable

They look like Gary Smith and Jimmy Hopkins from BULLY

Vaush moment

Do you ever miss something you’ve never had?

Looks like an analog horror version of GIMP and I love it. It has that early 3D modeling program vibes, while not fully being 32-bit colors just yet.

Not really any natural disasters.

We now have smoke season in the PNW. It gets really bad, and last for like a week or 2. I think since like 2018 we have been getting them. Then again, I live in Seattle, and Spokane is a lot further from the mountains.

Windows 10. It was during the pandemic (late 2020), and I saw a Mutahar video of his desktop (at the time, I did not know of KDE Plasma, just gnome, unity and cinnamon) and I was like “Whoa, his desktop looks so much better than when I remember using linux. I should install Arch because that is what he used to get that desktop.”

I have used linux before on Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu, so installing arch using a youtube tutorial was not going to be that hard. Although it did take 2 days (Mostly procrastination and fear).

I will say this: I have a 98 computer and an XP computer for me to use, and I found those UIs better than in Windows 10. When I switched to linux with KDE Plasma, the oldschool UIs could not compete. Plasma is just THAT good.

I was also madly in love, with me calling KDE Plasma like being in a dream, and using Windows 10 is like waking up to the cold old stale office life.

What great timing too, with Proton kicking off right at the same time too, eventually me removing the need to dual boot.

TL;DR: I switched because I found out about KDE Plasma, and linux gaming was becoming infinitly better.

Same tbh

Taxi Driver in a nutshell. Or Falling Down.

Take your pick