40 years since invention and outside of a few interesting edge cases like projectors, I still don’t understand the purpose of a wireless mouse. It sits next to your computer full time. Pay less, get more response, much more longevity, and go wired.

Just this one. The philosophy is still there, Linus and TLF have abandoned it with great hubris. I am very disappointed in them.

I had this problem back in the great recession and joined habitat for humanity. Met some weirdos, was pretty good.

Do some work, go to the gym, cook dinner, plan a fun weekend event, go to bed early. I fear I am fully institutionalized at this point.

Just finished Pikmin 4. I found it disappointing. I miss 1 and 2 which I see as complementary masterpieces.

It’s a Canon. If I just sit down for a bit with it I’m sure I can get it working, but sometimes you just want it to work right now.

Throwing out another idea: I upgraded an aging laptop and put mint on it and it’s my main right now, but I can get on the newer windows computer if I need to. I rarely need to now, though things will come up and its nice to have an out. Recently it was getting my printer working which I so rarely use. Didn’t have the patience, just needed the doc printed, flipped to windows.

It’s a little sad to me. I watched windows rise to its peak with windows 2000 and slowly fall. Been using it since 3.1, and had dos-only for a little while before that. It’s time to say goodbye. Been on and off with Linux since the early 2000s but this is my first real big push to use it outside of work or projects. Linux has come a long way from those days.

Paying for software or software support is a genuine hurdle:

1. Ads
2. Sell user data
3. Subscription fee
4. Donations

Article ultimately focuses on 4 wanting to make it a social norm. I think this is wishful thinking. Businesses need hard legal or financial incentives to do anything. Adding a (stronger) tax break could work, but now you’ve added complexity to the tax code which means more loopholes. Suddenly paying for android is “teeeechnically” open source and you get abuse.

Seems like this is a solvable problem though.