First task is to prepare a nice line.

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A line of cocaine for every completed task!

I use a Mac with unified memory, so that distinction slipped my mind.

It’s hundreds of megabytes for something that unetbootin, image writer, and others do in a couple of MBs.

Have you ever tried running a decent sized LLM locally?

RAM disk is your friend.

Spotify, Steam

Balena Etcher is a software crime though.

You never know at what stage of the bubble you are. Will it burst in one year or five?

FreeBSD has a fantastic handbook for starters. The whole system from the kernel to the userland is developed concurrently and fit together really well. Linux distros are all a hodgepodge of different parts with often only arbitrary or esoteric differences.

The filesystem layout is cleaner and makes more sense than what Linux distros typically do.

The network stack is super performant, so it’s great for servers. Security tools are also top notch.

Jails have done containers and virtualization extremely well for decades.

Native ZFS alone is a reason to use it. It’s the best filesystem. BTRFS has barely caught up with it.

DTrace for profiling performance and finding bottlenecks is fantastic and super powerful.

Less free software zealotry and crusaders leads to a friendlier community.

FreeBSD has proper UNIX pedigree.

More freedom, because you can for example distribute your own appliance that‘s based on FreeBSD without being restricted by the legal complications of the GPL.

Every FreeBSD release has 4 years of support.

Especially for servers, it’s great.

TrueNAS is based on FreeBSD and the best OS for a NAS, I have found so far.

Welcome to the present old man.

If your Linux isn’t certified, you will break the law by connecting it to the internet.

Every kitchen knife is a weapon.

You can make a law that you’re only allowed to modify your devices under certain condition.

This law doesn’t even need to be uniformly enforced. See the drug market. Millions of people do drugs even though it’s illegal. This provides a convenient way to oppress and silence people.

Im using 1Blocker on Safari macOS and iOS and get no ads on YouTube.

Android has proven that wrong before.

I like buying hardware, that I know is supported by an operating system. Although that doesn’t always have a good result either. I bought a small Linux netbook with an ARM chip, that never received a kernel update because of incompatible drivers.

This is what self care looks like.

There’s also Deezer, SoundCloud, and others.

The reason why I stay with Spotify is sharing playlists with friends and Spotify connect supported by my HDMI receiver.

With a shared family account Spotify is also affordable.

It’s been like that that since I can remember. Upgrading can extend the lifespan by a few years, but often it’s a good idea to replace the whole system.

It depends on a lot of factors of course. If you buy a midrange machine now, you can upgrade it in five years to a high end machine from today, then five years ago.

Rarely do you get to take advantage of technology shifts like hard drives to SSD. A couple of years ago, adding more RAM and an SSD made machines usable, that had these bottlenecks. Still the best thing you can do to an old laptop or desktop.

Over the last decade performance hasn’t improved that much for most typical use cases. An i7 from ten years ago with 16 GB RAM and a 1 TB SSD, and a NVIDIA GTX 1080 is still a decent computer today.

What makes PCs great is that you’re more flexible regarding how you configure your machine. Adding more storage, more ports, extension cards, optical drives inside your machine etc. is just nice.

With a laptop you end up with crappy hubs and lots of cables.

A loving community that personally knows you and how you operate help of course. Not being along when swimming or someone else driving for example. Or you living a life where you don’t even need to drive a vehicle daily.

Exhaustion and depression are a result of constantly being overwhelmed, hypervigilant, and so on.

Your environment and activity can change your neurochemistry in a major way.

Let’s say you lived in a multi generational family. You don’t need to do all the laundry and household chores by yourself, nor do you need to manage them. Singing silly songs with a companion during chores make them more easily doable for someone with ADHD.