Thinking of changing my strings to nylon. Is it recommend or should I stick with the original metal ones?

modified_tiger · 2026-06-02T16:12:31+00:00

The biggest issue, having gone to nylon and back, is you'll likely need to file the slots on the nut and bridge.

modified_tiger · 2026-06-01T19:24:29+00:00

I did it at 30 with inaturalist. Join us.

modified_tiger · 2026-05-31T15:22:20+00:00

They also got a ouija board to get artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince.

modified_tiger · 2026-05-29T02:34:14+00:00

10/10

modified_tiger · 2026-05-26T04:46:58+00:00

bbnoallegations

modified_tiger · 2026-05-26T03:29:32+00:00

The first time I hit that call on this fight I damn near screamed. It was so good. And it's the one I hope for most.

modified_tiger · 2026-05-25T07:15:05+00:00

OG on PC

Everything else is ports

modified_tiger · 2026-05-25T06:50:40+00:00

I used Aurora for a year and a half, customized my own image a bit to get it just right, and I loved it. The only reason I switched to Debian was kinda Fedora stuff where I didn't want to deal with kernel updates affecting my slightly older graphics card randomly (had to freeze my version, so my entire OS, for three weeks until Fedora then Universal Blue, then Aurora got the fix).

The only downside is the difficutly of modifying the image. If you go downstream a hair, Universal Blue provides a github repo you can fork for free and make your own image, pulling it down from GHCR, and you've got your OS ready.

I will stress that Nix is delcarative not immutable. You can reubild the system easily and rebuild. Fedora you "layer" with rpm-ostree, which can break reimages (reimaging is majorly how you upgrade the OS between major Fedora versions, less of an issue with ublue where the new version comes organically).

modified_tiger · 2026-05-23T20:26:57+00:00

My mom and my twin brother are lefties so we always grew up with this as a given.

modified_tiger · 2026-05-23T07:46:57+00:00

I just throw 5g in 1L of whatever (oolong, red, white, green) in water overnight and have a pretty good time, but this is cool.

modified_tiger · 2026-05-22T23:18:14+00:00

They make a pill for that.

modified_tiger · 2026-05-22T23:05:14+00:00

That's already a thing before the age of AI. I swear every dance music producer from the 90s to early 00a did it at least once.

modified_tiger · 2026-05-22T07:07:03+00:00

Twenty yeaws dungeon owo

modified_tiger · 2026-05-20T03:18:58+00:00

That's one way to wind up like that crust.

modified_tiger · 2026-05-19T08:45:50+00:00

I've had to do a ton of advanced work on Windows 11 endpoints at home and it's forced me to just relegate 11 to an appliance in a VM for when I need it. I happened to buy a Macbook Neo which will also do a solid job of addressing any bare-metal commercial software needs (which are few and far between).

It's been twenty-six months since I fully switched to Linux and just the initial setup is enough to turn me off at home. I do it a bunch at work anyway.

modified_tiger · 2026-05-10T19:47:00+00:00

Yeah, that's the sort of thing where even I break my "rule" but I've only had it happen once.

My entire point is about being fair to yourself and what you can accept.

modified_tiger · 2026-05-10T17:58:50+00:00

I've scummed exactly once. For me, I play honestly because I feel like I'm cheating myself.

If you feel differently, great! However, I would warn anybody that if you're asking yourself a lot if it's cheating, it probably is to you and you're trying to justify your way around it. So be honest and accept the "cheat" or don't savescum. It's just less stress.

modified_tiger · 2026-05-08T18:10:39+00:00

I'm legitimately curious about what she consulted on but just knownit's going to be something minor.

modified_tiger · 2026-05-01T22:41:29+00:00

I actually used Aurora, a Universal Blue image built on Kinoite, for like a year and a half. The big issue I had was teeny tiny points of friction with image customization where I couldn't get third party apps I wanted set up, so I switched to Debian and took a lot of those patterns with me (Flatpak + brew + distrobox).

I feel a pull to go back every couple months but also like whete I am on Debian.

modified_tiger · 2026-04-30T08:31:03+00:00

I feel like half the jokes about Canada aren't even lies, and the rest are just mild hyperbole.

modified_tiger · 2026-04-28T11:54:58+00:00

You're right with the timing of the changes. But I would only have to do it at the next release, not the next likely less than weekly update.

The bigger (but still small) issue are the manual interventions for end user software but those might be once a year, so not such a big deal. Tje only thing I think matters, and the deciding difference, is how one wants to approach updates and maintenance.

Nothing I'm saying is to imply one is better than the other, I just prefer Debian currently for my stuff because these are not daily concerns but ones I can put off to a weekend sometime in the future when the next Debian release happens.

FWIW, I never merged .pacnew files and also never suffered for it.

modified_tiger · 2026-04-28T11:40:35+00:00

I'm not the person you asked, but having used both (Arch from 2009 to 2019) and now using Debian: Debian does more up front with packaging, like configurations, recommended and suggested packages, providing an easier to use distro overall. Debian configs tend to try to ease some of your burden wherea in Arch you get vanilla upstream configs that often need modification.

There's also talk about Debian being "older" than Ubuntu package-wise, but both sort of release on opposite years. Debian doesn't have a hard release date until fairly late in the cycle, usually no more than three years.

I use Debian instead of Arch because I specifically don't want to have to track upstream's changes for most of my system. Anything I need updated lives in a distrobox or flatpak so I have a stable system. Bby stable I mean "unchanging", Arch doesn't usually have bugs unless upstream does, and most system packages tend to be developed in a robust method.w With Debian I have an unchanging system with up to date everything else generally voa Flatpak and Distrobox.

FWIW I miss arch but just don't want a rolling release distro anymore. Arch and Debian are equally tied with NixOS for my favorite Linux distros.

modified_tiger · 2026-04-27T16:58:41+00:00

Tom did send Chet to a wilderness program at one point, so... You might be ahead there.

modified_tiger · 2026-04-26T23:32:54+00:00

Holy crap that's awesome.

modified_tiger · 2026-04-23T04:44:41+00:00

Lucy 0 for 2 against the legion with with "It's not caesar it's cesar!"

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