noundus

joined 1 year ago

The Pharisee paints the tax collector as evil, but the pharisee is the bad guy in this story. Literally the next two verses:

13 But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to raise his eyes toward heaven, but was beating his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other one; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

[–] noundus@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Galaga. Amazon Trail really got me hooked though. Then Earthworm Jim and Mechwarrior 2 turned me into a full-blown addict.

[–] noundus@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I strongly recommend XFCE if you can't upgrade. It's the snappiest of the easy DEs, and on a 10yo laptop, I suspect you'll notice. LXQT is half a tier more difficult, depending on how much you want to tweak the work flow.

If for some reason XFCE is still too heavy and slow, you can go lighter than LXQT without giving yourself a headache, but the only true beginner openbox distro I know of is Mabox, and you seem to prefer point release distros.

Edit: You know what though? Try KDE first; if it's fast enough for you, great!

Sounds like you already have a pretty good plan in place.

One extension you might consider is libredirect. Instead of manually copying a random youtube link, pasting into the url bar, and changing youtube to yewtu.be, you can just click the link and let libredirect do it for you. If the front-end gets 429'd, you just click the "switch instance" button until you find one that's unblocked.

You might also like Simple Tab Groups, if you ever have trouble compartmentalizing a million open tabs. Might be disruptive to your workflow though.

Distro doesn't really matter. Just pick any popular beginner-friendly distro that supports your preferred desktop environment. Use a gaming distro like Garuda or Nobara if you really want to, but I doubt it makes a huge difference.

[–] noundus@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You're not supposed to obey traffic laws. They're designed to fund local governments and give police arbitrary power.

In OP's defense, when's the last time art made you feel something?

[–] noundus@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Teddit and Libreddit are still working. I guess you don't need an API key to lurk.