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I jumped ship from windows straight to Garuda. It just works. Any question I’ve had DeepSeek has answered correctly the first time I asked.

We had a chance at Star Trek, we decided to aim for Firefly instead.

I have a couple of uses for my steamdeck. The vast majority of the time it sits in my living room. I use it while I’m watching TV with my wife. The ability to pick it up, resume whatever I’m playing right where I left off is great.

The other use is when I’m traveling. It’s smaller than a laptop, desktop mode is a fully functional Linux operating system, and it connects to any hdmi port with a small dock. That means I can use it to game, and connect it to the TV in the hotel room and watch whatever I want.

I couldn’t get anything Debian based to install correctly. I ended up using Garuda, dragonized edition. It took less setup than a fresh windows install.

That was all just good fun

Am not!

Everything auto converts to 1080p x265 using tdarr. Ombi is set up so any of my friends with access to the plex server can request whatever they want.

Originally, I was too poor to afford software. Then my CD/dvd books were stolen and I couldn’t afford to replace the media I’d been collecting my entire life. I bought an external drive, an s-video to RF modulator, a Bluetooth keyboard and connected my computer to channel 3.

Eventually Pandora and Netflix were released and I stopped pirating. I spent most of a decade buying all of my media. Then I tried to buy a complete set of Good Eats and it wasn’t possible.

There was literally no way to purchase every episode legally. So I took the $500 I was going to spend on that box set and put it towards an ebay’d server and some drives.

By the time the streaming wars started to gain steam, I had everything automated, and was pushing 50TB of storage.

I spent years getting great with powershell so I can now confidently copy code out of chatgpt. Chatgpt’s ability to spit out close to correct code faster than I can type it is amazing, but useless if you don’t understand what the hell it’s trying to do.

Sorry about that, the formatting got stripped.

It hadn’t ever occurred to me to look for pirated patterns :D Here are some sites with a ton of free patterns.

https://www.allfreesewing.com/

https://vintagepatterns.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

https://sewingsupport.com/

https://threadsmonthly.com/free-sewing-patterns/

https://lovesewing.com/free-sewing-patterns-projects/

Z-Library also has a ton of stuff.

I didn’t realize there was a patreon, I made a Ko-fi account just for this.

Man, I didn’t realize there were only 22 people supporting you monthly.

I bought a MEPETEM-Steam Deck Protective Case and love it. My deck now takes up as little space in my backpack as possible.