OverfedRaccoon 🦝

Just a spacefaring raccoon that’s eaten all the food onboard. Sorry.

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Cake day: August 6th, 2023

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  • I went down that path about 2 years ago. Working from home and generally being a homebody, I'm basically on wifi all the time. I made the switch to Ting (from Sprint) and pay $15/mo, maybe $20 if I go over my 1GB data on 5G (I have alerts set up). It's not ideal if you drive a lot and stream music on Spotify or whatever (or if internet/power goes out), but if you literally have no life, don't go anywhere, and basically have nonstop wifi, Ting is pretty cool. It uses T-Mobile towers, so your mileage may vary. There's a few places it gets a little fucky, but it's been pretty reliable overall. I thought about looking into Mint recently, but decided not to even dive down that rabbit hole.


  • I'll try and keep it short with a bullet list, as I can tend to be long-winded about everything.

    • Helped recover files on an old laptop in the Win XP days (how I got started).
    • Breathed new life into older hardware that was too crappy for Windows.
    • Thought it was neat, novel, fresh, etc.
    • Free. Why pay for or pirate Windows?
    • FOSS and, specifically, FOSS alternatives to paid software I'd otherwise have pirated.
    • Less targeted for malware.
    • Windows 11 says no to my aging, but plenty capable, computer (the last holdout on Windows til Win 10 hits EOL).
    • Reasonable, optional telemetry.
    • Not having to reboot (possibly more than once) during updates.
    • Fun to learn.

    There are some reasons to like Windows, but it's harder to justify with the direction Microsoft is, and has been, moving.

    EDIT: To actually answer your question about Steam and Linux… because I have a Steam account that I've had for many, many years with 1000 games that predates me moving to Linux in a more serious capacity. While I could move to GOG (and have), I'm not just going to throw away my game library. But also, Steam working to make gaming more mainstream on Linux is a net positive for Linux in general. That was always the reason many people gave for why they wouldn't switch - that, and proprietary software that won't run on anything other than Windows or maybe Mac.




  • Run the program. You should start out with Download highlighted at the top. Put in your Lemmy instance and credentials where it asks. Hit the Download button, which will download a JSON file - it’ll pull stuff like subscriptions from your Lemmy account. At the top, tab over to Upload. Put in the new instance and credentials, and hit Upload. It should pull the JSON file it created when you downloaded and “set up” your new account you’re migrating to. You’ll still need to go in and adjust some things, but your subscriptions (for example) should be there.

    EDIT: To clarify, Download is for downloading your “old” account info, and Upload is for uploading that info to your “new” account.



  • What, you don’t like to install the Web Store through a separate extension crx download, mess around in the settings, and enable dev mode? Wait til you hear what you have to do to get DRM working (Spotify, Netflix, Hulu, etc). Hint: It’s a separate zipped download of Widevine that you have to extract deep in the AppData folder, assuming you’re on Windows.


  • While I agree with this, it’s kind of a pain in the ass if you use extensions. You have to roundabout install the Web Store through a crx download, tinkering in the settings and enabling dev mode, then use that extension to install other extensions. And may the cosmos grant you mercy if you need to use DRM for Spotify, Netflix, Hulu, etc, and have to download the Widevine DRM stuff separately and unzip it deep in the AppData folder.

    It’s not impossible, but I guess I’m just saying that this probably isn’t going to be the answer for the everyday, average person.