@mpirnat @bitprophet I feel like I'm an evangelist these days... I put a second hard drive in my gaming computer almost 20 months ago, installed Bazzite. It has been happy-making and basically demanded no sysadmin work beyond initial install.

It's run everything from Steam, Epic, and GOG that I've thrown at it - with the exception of stuff with anti-cheat. Also I have an AMD GPU, so mileage may vary. I am fixing to format the original drive with Windows

@mpirnat @bitprophet I would say that a second physical drive is key to less-fuss dual booting these days, though. Never again will I try to juggle partitions around and all that noise

@mpirnat Haha, I just noticed your bio too, and now that's stuck in my head @bitprophet

@maddy That's just Big Candy trying to getcha

@bitprophet @links That's kind of the double whammy of this thing - it's created by a dickhole and it's not even very good :blobSmileSweating:

@rgegriff do not not eat?

The mascot character for Mico, the new Microsoft Copilot assistant, looks like a drop of pee?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/blog/2025/10/23/human-centered-ai/

Wherein @davew writes a thing about bring-your-own data and compute to web apps that gets me to write a thing too:

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2025/10/23/think-different-about-data/

@rysiek Oof, yeah, I see all the hoops folks jump through to carve out something they can own from the Bluesky machinery. And I'm just like... maybe set up a Mastodon instance? Maybe a GoToSocial instance? Set up a few? Even just federate them with a whitelist? It would be easier

@rysiek LIke, yeah yeah yeah, Mastodon and ActivityPub and friends are funky and obscure and can be a pain, but is it worse than what they're trying to do with ATProto?

I think I really like The False Dawns?

"Come monsoon season, expect a flood
So when you visit you’d do well to bring your ark
More street cred than your Subaru and much less grief to park"

https://thefalsedawns.bandcamp.com/album/our-tanks-your-lawn