honestly man...it's not a bad decision. I for a long time didn't give Debian the time of day. Now i'm daily driving OpenBSD and I use a Debian VM on it for certain dev work (mainly builds and deploys) and then on my second NVME I first went with Bazzite to do gaming but then I changed my mind and was like "meh, debian" and it's solid. it's good. it stays out of my way for what I want to do on it which isn't much.

It's a decent distro that's just kinda there and you don't have to worry about it.

No 20 year old belt. But I do have a set of 20 year old suspenders or galluses if you prefer. I wear suspenders because I have a very large surgical scar from a ruptured appendix years ago. Belt are very irritating to wear.

Me too, friend. Generational leaps were so cool when I was a kid. Now that I'm in my thirties, I just see it all as a rent-a-spy.

At this point, even my printer is suspect. It stays unplugged until it's needed.

But the phone? It's a shame the telephone is always listening.

I used to be so excited about a everything-digital during my teenage years. Now I look at my mechanical tools with joy, and become suspicious of anything not having an open firmware.

Best part is even when you do a major version update, Debian still doesn't break your shit. At least it never has with me. Can't say the same for most other ditros I've tried.

I use arch linux and drive a 2001 sebring i found abandoned. My internet is a hotspot and i have 3 powerstrips hooked into a single outlet

My real car is a 97 Honda Prelude, and yes, it is a manual. When my 2012 Civic had a dead starter motor, that Prelude was my daily driver for six months until the weather cooled off enough to actually do the job.

The Prelude is definitely more of a project/weekend car. Every car guy knows you never project your daily, but I feel pretty comfy dailying my project lol

Stick pressure gauges are bad.

Bourdon pressure gauges are the only pressure gauge to get. (Not bourdon brand but one that uses what is known as a bourdon tube).

They are analogue AND reliable over the long term.

They exist with a round dial as well. Personally I don't measure my tire pressure, ever. My car will tell me if one is low, and I'd go to a gas station to fill them to spec. Although lately I got a little compressor which goes in the cigarette lighter, which just lets you enter the desired pressure. I use that for the car, bikes, footballs and whatever else needs to be pumped to a given pressure.

Found a compact dial gauge version and it's so much better than those stupid sticks.

Or the tutorial written for Ubuntu users works without having to think about different package managers

My man.

Most of my listening is also done over headphones, and I admit that my library is all in mp3 format. As much as I love optical media, it's because I can rip my discs to my machine in whatever quality and format I want, then never have to handle them again unless all my copies are deleted. This preserves the discs.

I have a portable CD player from, and I use the term portalble liberally because while it can accept six AA batteries for a power source, it also has no anti-skip because it was made in 1991.

But what I love about this thing is how much of an occasion it makes the listening experience. Handling the discs carefully so as not to smudge or scratch them. Waiting for it to spin up and start playing. And just sitting there and intentionally listening to it. It's kind of magical. Even more so with a decent set of cans and a dark room.

Mazda3 is an excellent car to have. My brother used to have an '08 Mazda3 hatch until it was totaled by a drunk driver. He wasn't in the car. It was parked on the side of the road. Really cool car, and the 2.3 is probably one of the most underrated engines out there. They really pack a punch.

I don't necessarily have a thing against automatics. My beef is more with the fact that manuals aren't really an option anymore. I said in another comment that my real cars are a '97 Honda Prelude and a '12 Civic. I did daily the Prelude for six months when the starter died in my Civic, but the Prelude is really only a weekend car because it does maybe 25 mpg and takes premium fuel. My Civic does 40 without trying and E10 costs about $1.40 less per gallon where I am. My Civic is an auto, and I'm fine with it. Automatic just feels boring to me. I really enjoy having something to do with all four limbs at once.

If I ever feel like dropping money on a newer car, I've always loved the idea of a manual midsize sedan. I know the Accord could be had with a six speed manual all the way until like 2021, which is bonkers to me since Toyota stopped making the manual Camry in 2006. I think my only other option in this very specific segment is a BMW 3-series, and I just can't picture myself in a Bimmer.

Anything brakes is always so stressful. If anything else fails, you can probably still get the 3,000 pound metal death box to stop. But if your BRAKES fail? Yeah, just pull the hand brake and try not to cry too much. I basically rebuilt the rear brakes on my Civic last month. It has 147,000 miles on it and was running on original brake shoes. And because I'd waited until they started grinding, the drums couldn't be resurfaced, either. So I went all in and got new hardware and cylinders, too. I'd so much rather do disc brakes than drum brakes. Those springs are such a pain, and Honda made them really weird. Not to mention my hammer was entirely too small for the job of literally beating the brakes off the thing lol 2012 was the last year the Civic LX had drum brakes of any kind. I'm fine with drums. They really do last forever if you're not a monster on the brake pedal. I'm just glad I won't be doing brake shoes again for at least another 7-10 years.

My wife points out every new gray hair in my beard. One day, there will be so many new ones at once that she'll have to stop counting. For now, it's really cute. I love it.

What?!
You haven't bowed to the gods of built-in obsolescence?! How dare you!?

Different colored icon? Literally unusable! Time to distro hop

/jk

I feel like when humble-bragging Thinkpad it must be one of the models that became a Linux enthusiast meme.

Run my camera driver. ISP4 is in kernel 7.2 I think. ;_;

Oh well, it's a matter of time.

Run AI models with the latest Nvidia drivers.

But, that's a small sacrifice for me. I ain't giving up Debian for that.

Well... use certbot's new dns persistence mode. That may be a few years before it gets in. May be in backports, haven't checked.

Debian feels way more snappy.

I see what you did there.

No advertisements in the CLI, you say?

Please regale me with more debian factoids. The only linux distro ive ever stuck with was ubuntu but ive been on it steadily for some time now. Your comment was the first time ive considered changing distro.

I tick most of these boxes and still have a rotary landline phone in service.

I've also got a PSP. Those things will never not be cool.

Hey, I've got the Vostok "Scuba Dude" Amphibia self winder dive watch and the Komandirskie army version manual wind. Rugged and reliable after all these years!