This is where Bullet Journaling has had the most impact for me. I write it down and I never forget where because it is always in the same place.

Hoarding hobbies is a hobby.

I use Pop!_OS with Bitwig, Renoise, and Reaper as Linux native DAWs and Guitar Rig 7 through Wine emulation. I haven’t given the Guitar Rig 7 install a proper run through, but Bitwig, Renoise and Reaper work great.

I rented a house once that had a hammered copper kitchen sink. Never have I been more shamed in my life. It is the reason I trained myself to wash as I cook. It turns out that racing to wash before the water boils over or the food burns is a great way to keep my focus.

I’ve been using Pop!_OS as my main system (Lenovo X1 Extreme) since just before the COVID lockdown and I’ve never had an issue with my Bluetooth devices.

I am going to guess that maybe the issue is that some computers use a Bluetooth device that has less than optimal Linux support. Maybe the way to address the issue is by having a more detailed hardware support list so that consumers can choose the hardware that is the most stable with Linux.

100%, but OP said he was a complete noob. Given that they only have 4GB of RAM on an older computer, I suggested Lubuntu. But yes, no DE is best if they can manage it.

Another choice is Lubuntu, a lightweight and fast variant of Ubuntu, so the Ubuntu instructions you find online should still work.

I didn’t back then but eventually I messed with my sleep.schedule so much that I developed that type of insomnia. At my worst I would sleep 90 minutes in a 24 hour period. Within two weeks you are not the same person. Literally insane. I fixed it by eating a piece of plain tofu and a microdose of delta-8 (not 9, 10, or weed) right before laying my head down to sleep. Now I get 5-6 hours, which is nice.

I got really good at timing my meds so that the crash (never use XR) would match bed time.

“One sheep, two…Zzzzzzzz”

I guess you do understand what the M chip is, which makes your comparison even more surprising. First, comparing a SoC to a GPU is wildly unfair. Second, you are severely underselling exactly how much more energy efficient an M chip is versus a CPU/GPU combo. My PC laptop with an i7 and a 4070 built in will run for about 20 minutes, maybe 30, under a full workload, all the while being hot enough to fry an egg and noisier than a jet engine. Even then, the performance will be trash and get worse as the temps rise. My MBP M3 Max will run a DAW sessions my PC could never dream of, with multiple plugins, on battery, silent, no heat, for a couple of hours without even the hint of a stutter.

All of that said, when it comes to price, Apple’s gonna Apple.

PS: I’m typing this on my phone while the idle i7/4070 laptop is fanning (again, fully idle) because it runs so hot. I might need to start traveling for work again and, if I do, I might need to switch to a MacBook Air for work on the road unless I can find an ultra-slim, powerful yet efficient, high resolution screen, Linux supported laptop. Simply because of the chip. We need an equivalent on the PC side.

I don’t think you quite grasp what an M chip is if you are comparing it to a 4070 Ti.

I believe in using the best tool for the job. For that reason, I use Macs for all my music stuff, Windows if I have to, and Linux for everything else.

Apple’s M chips are amazing. If only there was full Linux support for Apple hardware.

Don’t mess with their system!

Any “underwear sensory issues” folk in the house? I do not mean that in any sort of sexy way but in a “dear God get it off me” way.

Mostly informative. There wasn’t much trash on the Internet back then. A lot of magazine articles, news papers, university resources, etc.

I was a relatively early user of Gopher, from 1994 up until 1997.

And Gopher?

My wife is a genius. My wife is on the spectrum but is the opposite of ADHD. He normal state is me maxed out on ADHD meds. Where my ADHD comes in handy is when it is time for her to explain what she is doing or basically have any sort of technical conversation. Her brain goes so fast that she leaves out a ton of context, and when she tries to compensate she gives so much background information that everyone’s eyes glaze over. So my job, as someone who’s been with her for many years and whose brain is always on multiple trains of thought, is to translate for her and ELI5 for those trying to keep up with her.

Her crazy matches my crazy.
(Deadpool line. None of us are necessarily crazy.)