So much this (link to Reddit).
Don’t worry about not looking great, or clever, or whatever you consider a flattering image of yourself when you read back your journal in a few days, months, years, or decades—yep, I’m that old.
That’s fine. No, that’s great.
Believe me, no matter what, as long as you wrote honestly about it (not in the sense of writing some supposed indisputable deep truth, in the sense of honestly writing what you were thinking and feeling back then, at that time, no matter how silly) it’s worth it and it will be worth reading back.
You have no idea how dearly I miss my old journals were I wrote about my first true love, as a little boy, and later about my second true love, as a young teen. And also, no matter how unflattering it is for me, all I may have written about my many crushes and my countless failed attempt at flirting. Thinking about it, I must have been in love every single day at that time and it must have been a real pain for my best friend who endured all of it—we’re still best friends all those years later ;)
Some forty+ years later, I still remember V. wonderful blue eyes and how she smiled and her eyes too, and how badly I wanted to impress her. And how fucking terrorized and excited I was the day I rang her door, completely out of the blue, because it was the last opportunity I could ask her out. I was 14, I had long hair, flowers in one hand (like, really) and my face was tomato red. I still remember how stupidly I smiled when the door opened to let her dad out. He was about to leave for his job, wearing his… cop uniform. He looked at me for more or less an eternity, and the more he looked at me the more I was dying inside.
You can believe me when I tell you that, he was not happy to meet me, and that V. and I did not end up getting married :P
;)
Alright. I gotta come clean. I saw your avatar, instantly recognized the fountain pen, visited your profile, and entered your blog (so… light stalking :/ ).
It. Was. Fire. Seriously amazing.
Your post, A Non-Disposable Desktop Computer, is a mindset I’ve been trying to portray to my Mac friends for years, and it won’t stick. Then there’s this quote:
Yesssssss!
Which Linux distro did you end up using? Why did you choose it?
Also, maybe I missed it, but do you have any posts on fountain pens (another of my loves)?
Hi
A person of taste, as I can see!
:p
Thx a lot. Really.
I don’t know you or your friends, so take this for what it’s worth but many longtime Apple users like myself have grown a thick skin against people knowing better than them. I mean, there is a lot of ready-made ideas going on about Apple and Apple users: Mac are mere toys, Apple is a fashion statement, they sell dumbed-down tools for… stupid users, and so on. That’s silly. Like, really silly. So, being tired of hearing the same silly comments may explain why your friends aren’t listening at all to any critics or remarks, even when they are reasonable ones, or when they’re spot on ;)
It’s also a lot of personal choice and… priorities in life. And those can change.
Thing changed for me when I started realizing Apple was less and less trying to make computers I liked to use and computers that helped work with as little friction as possible. Because, for me, all my choices are dictated by one simple rule: time is the most valuable resource there is, I can always earn more money but I can’t get a second more to live when my time will come to die. So, less friction using a tool means less wasted time. And that’s a win for me.
The other thing that changed is that I grew tired of Apple’s green-washing while at the same time they were selling non-fixable device. I realized that, by forcing myself to stop using those newer Mac, I could help reduce the amount of e-waste I was creating. By using a devise I would be able to easily upgrade and fix, or ask someone to do it for me. That meant a PC. Then, because I was not happy at all with the giant spyware and ad-machine that Windows is, that meant, I would have to use GNU/Linux. And that changed everything for me.
I fell in love with the GNU philosophy which in turn helped me go through the roughest corners of Linux. We tend to accept more flaws from our best friend than from strangers ;)
Linux Mint.
The reason? Brace yourself for some deep motivation and very subtle considerations. Or maybe not. Prior to Mint, I used Debian on my laptop which I liked a lot save that I never managed to make my Airpod work. After testing those Airpod with a few other distro with as little success I tried Mint and bam they worked. They just worked out of the box. I never looked back.
Now, I run Mint on my desktop too and they would need to do some real stupid thing for me to switch to another distro. I don’t know, put ads in their OS, or force some AI crap onto me.