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Cake day: February 5th, 2026

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  • Those Intel Macs aren’t really that old. I had the last good MacBook Pro they made in 2015, which still had the glowing logo, then the the slump with the touchbar shits happened in 2016-2017.

    In 2017 I traded the MacBook for a Dell XPS 13. Like the MacBook, the build quality is really good. It’s running as a server in my media room. I’m running Ubuntu and I open it up daily to acquire new media, organize files, tweak my Jellyfin settings, etc.

    There is no reason that 2017 XPS laptop couldn’t serve as my daily driver. My OS is fully up to date and I applied a firmware update last night. The end of life for that device is nowhere in sight; it’s peaking honestly. But if I had kept the MacBook, which was the highest quality laptop hardware you could possibly buy, for a premium price, Apple would be telling me it was no longer supported?

    Regardless, Linux rocks so I hope Mac owners find joy installing a fun new OS on their good quality hardware. Here’s to the next ten years of life!









  • I definitely prefer MacOS-style desktop design, so I lean in favor of Gnome. I often use Ubuntu solely because their take on Gnome is super clean and attractive to me.

    The dash. What the fuck? It would be a cool option, but I like the dock, and the extension for that doesn’t work properly for me.

    If you’re gonna rip off MacOS then rip it off.



  • I had a community college psychology professor who worked in psychiatric research outside of teaching ask the class, “What is the shape of consciousness? What do you think it is?” He put a clever look on his face and his eyes scanned every perplexed student in the room to see if anyone could produce the simple, obvious answer to the question, “What is the shape of consciousness …”

    Finally he broke the suspense and enlightened us all. The shape of consciousness, according to a man who holds a license to practice medicine, is an oval. It’s an oval because you have two eyes and therefore your field of vision is elliptical.