This guy used to hang with The Shelter People.
Cute kitties took refuge, too. 
Did Santa gift you an overpriced SD card? 
The Voice: Ease his pain.
ā¦People will come Ray. Theyāll come to Iowa for reasons they canāt even fathom. Theyāll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why theyāre doing it. Theyāll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we wonāt mind if you look around, youāll say. Itās only $20 per person. Theyāll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And theyāll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. Theyāll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And theyāll watch the game and itāll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick theyāll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: itās a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Ohā¦ people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.
Santa made a wrong delivery, he gave me the COAL that was supposed to go to you. I re-gifted it to MFP .
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āGet ready for the $5090 5090: GPU prices expected to soar next yearā
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My advice to gamers: stop gaming. You are affecting the future too much.
Here is a good price on a 1TB 2.5 SSD.
Here is a screenshot in case the price changes.
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I have a couple USB 2 thumb drives from Centon, no experience with them other than that. Would you commit your daily driver laptop to a bargain SSD, or pay up for a Samsung or the like? 
I like name brand storage and memory for my daily driver machines. I found this deal while looking for extra hard drives to experiment with various Linux distros. I have two old laptops where I can remove 2 screws to access the hard drives.
Makes it very easy to swap different 2.5 drives with different OSs. I know I could dual boot, but swapping drives is so easy I thought why not keep each OS install separate.
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Do you use Ventoy? Thatās currently my favorite tool for carrying and being able to launch various images from a single stick.
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I have been using Rufus to make my bootable ISO sticks. Thanks for the tip, I going to try Ventoy.
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Rufus is a great tool, and I use that for some things, especially if Iām using a smaller stick and just want one ISO on it because I intend to use that to install an OS onto a hard drive or something. Ventoy is great if you want to play with multiple things or have different live environments available for various purposes. I have a 64 GB stick that has 21 ISOs on it right now, one of which is Windows, and I can boot into whichever environment I want thanks to Ventoy.
So far Iāve used it only for generic live ISOs and installation media, like if I was writing the ISO to a CD or DVD. I understand that Ventoy has the ability to allow persistence (like if you wanted to boot into live Ubuntu, for example, modify the desktop to suit your tastes, edit some files, and save everything for next time), but I havenāt played with that. Mostly I use it for giving myself installation options or ācleanā OSs to boot into.
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Pardon my ignorance, I know that Linux and itās variants are powerful OS environments, but beside Web surfing what are you guys using them for?
Again, this is my ignorance talking, but from what I know only Windows and Macintosh have commercial and productivity apps? Are there equivalent apps for Linux?
I use Windows 11, Mac and Linux. Windows I still keep around because I have a program that only runs on Windows. Yes, there are comparable programs on Mac and Linux, but I like to run this one program and want to run it natively on Windows. I am getting tired of Windows asking me to sign into a Microsoft account and asking me to backup to One Drive.
Mac I like because Apple makes the hardware and the OS. It has a premium feel and everything just works nicely together.
I like Linux because I like how I can choose to use the Terminal or GUI to do most things. Pretty much all Linux software is free to use.
Specking of free software, I use the Libre Office Suite on Windows, Mac and Linux. Even if you like Microsoft Office, Libre Office is free and you can have both on your computer. At some point you can decide if you want to continue paying for an Office Suite or not.
Also, if you want to try Linux, Zorin OS 18 and Linux Mint might give a Windows user the most comfortable transition.
For me itās essentially a daily desktop OS and Microsoft Windows replacement.
The question Iād ask is equivalent for what? There are all kinds of open source solutions for various kinds of productivity applications that are cross platform, and there are few things Iāve found that I want to do but have been unable since switching to Linux. (One exception for me is older proprietary software I use to connect to a particular NVR. I think it requires a Windows client, so when I want to access that I generally use RDP to connect from my Linux PC to an old Windows laptop, but I might just replace that with a mini PC running Windows at some point. (Probably what I really should do is get newer/better hardware and then just run Windows in a VM on that.)) There is commercial software available for Linux, but open source stuff works well enough for me that I havenāt seen a reason to explore that much. I also like the flexibility I get with Linux regarding so many available desktop environments, and I cut my teeth on the command line, so getting stuff done in a terminal session isnāt intimidating. (Even on Windows machines that I routinely use, I drop shortcuts for both standard and administrator command prompts so that I can open an appropriate console with a few keystrokes. GUIs are nice, but the command line is often the quickest and easiest way to accomplish some things.)
I donāt know if that really answered your questions, and I donāt want to completely hijack @peepeepās topic (he creates so few, you know, so we must treat them as precious gems! 
), but Iām glad that there are solid alternatives to Windows and macOS.
This for sure. Itās annoying, but I do still use that older hardware and like being able to continue to connect to it remotely.
Thatās annoying. I prefer just using local accounts.
Itās been years since Iāve tried either of those. Lately Iāve used mostly stock Ubuntu, Trisquel, KDE neon, and Solus. For a Mac user like @habib, Iād probably look into something like Solus (or another distro running Budgie; I used Ubuntu Budgie for a while and liked that) or elementary OS, and there are likely several other reasonable alternatives depending on oneās desktop environment preferences.
Like the present?
Thereās no time. 
Thanks, AI!
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I second that, thatās why I stuck with Mac for so long. Tried Windows long time ago and didnāt get persuaded to switch. Stopped using it completely after Win 7, in my limited opinion best version.
I use Libre Office as well, but my need of office products is less than 2% of my time.
Being a packaging designer I rely heavily on Adobe Suite especially Illustrator and Photoshop. Occasionally a client will ask me to design a brochure or a newsletter than Iād use InDesign. Some time ago I found a cheaper Adobe alternative, Affinity Design Suite (now owned by Canva), however it lacks power elements for prepress compared to Adobe. Unfortunately Adobe has cornered the graphics industry and I hope Canva will change that in the near future.
To some degree as all of us have unique computing needs. My apologies to @peepeep for derailing the thread 
Still havenāt found one for a Mac, not interested in Windows especially Win 11 mess.
Thank you all for chiming in.
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You are forgiven
Visit @Bam 's garage. Heāll help you get your freak on. 
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I log into Windows as a local user. I still get Notifications to log into a Microsoft account. If you know of a way to eliminate the login Notification, please share.
Stop using Windows 
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