also expensive

I was gonna say the same

I am actually excited for tech from the world of foss

I love simply reading patch notes and going like

"Ahhh yeah that annoyed me but I did not realize"

Thanks to all the hard working devs keeping things interesting and competitive with big tech

for real, on windows getting an update meant "ugh what thing do i need to disable now"

now on Linux, it’s "whoa, that’s a cool feature!" and "OMG THEY FINALLY FIXED THAT FINALLY"

the most negative thing is when they change something and you gotta get used to the new way. im not the biggest fan of the recent changes to Dolphin (the file manager, not the emulator), but it’s fine and I’ll get used to it. it’s not worse now, just different

Endless wonder if you enjoy reading patch notes like:

Fixed a bug that allowed the end user to select a drop-down menu when they selected a variable date.

In the FOSS world, I really appreciate what's happening to immutable / atomic distros like Bazzite. It feels great to have a system that "just works" while not being locked down like an Android or iPhone.

The Fediverse gives me a lot of hope too. It will probably never surpass the centralized corporate-owned sites. But, who cares? Lemmy and Mastodon are already filling a void for me. I used to spend most of my time on Reddit, and Reddit was at its best when it was significantly smaller than competitors like Digg. Digg imploding and all the Dig Dugs moving to Reddit was one step in a whole chain of events that made Reddit suck.

Proton is another game changer. I used to need a Windows desktop if I wanted to play PC games. I hated it, but I loved gaming. Now I only boot Windows once a month or so (mostly driver-related things).

Well just point me towards a FOSS laptop then. Or a FOSS TV? Why not a FOSS toothbrush?

Tech is not just software 🙄.