It’s a good KDE distro (my preferred DE) and I’ve become familiar with tools like zypper and YaST that I’d be sad to lose.

Oh for sure. I just like OpenSUSE enough to switch GPUs for. I only really run older games aside from Baldur’s Gate III and Cyberpunk, so I really don’t need the latest and greatest.

I forgot how terrible Windows actually is

Windows, while always shitty, has seriously gone downhill in the past 5 years. I’m looking to switch back to Linux myself, but I have an NVidia GPU that needs constant driver babying on OpenSUSE (my preferred distro). My current plan is to find someone who is willing to swap a RTX 4070 for a equivalent or slightly worse AMD card, and then switch back to OpenSUSE.

Bots are largely a nuisance to the communities they’re in; I would advise against making one.

Yup. They’re not selling eBooks, they’re leasing licenses to eBooks. Vastly different.

Could be a good thing or a bad thing for you; Witch King is very, very different from the Murderbot series. I see a lot of people liking one and hating the other (in both directions), and not a lot of people liking both.

My advice would be to have your expectations set like it was a completely different author.

firmware updates, then I forget the network on the device and then denylist the MAC address

lmao, what a tool

If you factory reset your Bravia and then decline all the Google features (don’t sign in, etc.) it’s about as close to a dumb TV as you can get these days.

Yes, tragically. Don’t buy a Samsung Odyssey monitor like I did. It takes 7 button presses to change the input and there’s a Disney+, Netflix, and Prime Video dedicated buttons on the remote.

I’m looking to “down”-grade ASAP.

My TV and computer monitor are deny-listed on my router, and I’m angry that I even have to do that.

I think this diff makes it pretty clear its time to run, not walk: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/114078708183574404

Came here to recommend this. Cheers! 🍻