Lots of fog heading into work this morning. It always looks cool

That’s amazing. I think my work being so close to home has made it a lot more tolerable than more interesting jobs further away

AMD plays much better with linux because all the drivers are open source. Their new flagship graphics card is cheaper than a 5080 and gets great performance. A good excuse to upgrade your GPU too if you go down the linux path

Yeah, WINE has come a long way since Steam uses it for the Steamdeck. It’s quite common for programs to run better on Linux than Windows now

Yeah, none of the major ones are on Linux. The simpler plugins should just work but anything that breaks your workflow too much will be a deal breaker.

I use waveform and it has a Linux version. Ardour is another DAW that’s been getting popular on Linux. It might be worth checking out

Should I ask how it got in the tree to start with?

It’s going to take a bit more work, but at least I have a massive partition of spyware out of the way for the moment

Looks like Bazza is installing on the old work laptop now. Bitlocker was getting in the way so I used command prompt to reformat the drive.

I had to use Windows to destroy the Windows.

I accidentally deleted an entire Facebook campaign at work today. I recreated it but it was just more time and panic.

The ads section of Facebook has such a terrible interface. It’s so clunky and confusing. You’d think that would be the one good part given it’s how they make their money

I don’t know if it’s still the case but you used to be able to redeem partial bills in Australia. Who knows, a bank might give you $6 for it.

It’s the fun world of tinkering with Linux. It actually makes computers interesting again, I’m always on the lookout for old gear to put it on and playing with different versions now.

It sucks that happened. I hope you can find something else and maybe French Persona helps you blow off some steam.

It does have a graphics card, and I want to check it out somewhere. I’ve got a gaming PC with w10 at the moment too, so this will be a good test run before I decide on a setup for the rig

That’s what the IT guy at work said. It feels odd given Dells are work computers mostly. There seems to be a GNU bash issue both times I’ve flashed it onto the thumb drive so I’m not sure if it’s the laptop or the media at this point.

I’ve taken the old work laptop home and I thought I’d try Bazzite on it. Apparently Fedora based distros don’t play well with Dell so if I still can’t get it to work I might try PopOS instead. Failing that, Mint Debian edition.

I hate it when I’m trying to get to work and I end up on FAKETRAM

I’ve been playing around with work’s Marketing automation and it is so nice to use. So much better than Marketing Cloud. I can’t wait to get in there properly.

I may be able to convince the head office team to switch the CMS to drupal too. That combination would be dream working conditions for me, it would be crazy smooth workflow

It’s great you’ve been able to reflect on things in that way.

I wonder if there’s a balance, like two in the morning and one in the afternoon so you can get through work with enough energy at the end of the day without being too hyper.

But I get the medicine probably doesn’t work that way

Showed this to someone at work so now I’ll have “I KNOW WHO I AM” stuck in my head all day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKvqhlhXq9s

That’s incredibly lucky. I love it when you accidentally get free things in the mail like that. I bought a digital radio for my mum once and got a free keyboard out of it because Dick Smith put the same tracking number on it, absolutely no way for them to trace it