I would suggest Seveneves by Neil Stephenson. It is a little bit more grand of a scale of time, but I would say up until the last chapter is pretty “hard” science fiction. Definitely one of the more lasting impressions in scifi for me.

I switched over to Pop!_OS a year ago and I am extremely happy with my choice. I’ve recently had to go back to dual booting only because sunshine/moonlight streaming games across my home network was having serious issues with Linux–so only the games I want to stream up to my TV box are on windows. I 100% prefer Linux to Windows for everything you’ve mentioned, and Steam/Epic (Legendary game launcher(?)) has pretty much worked flawlessly. One minor quibble I have is that it is irritatingly hard to get mod managers working consistently, and I enjoy modding many of the games I play (Skyrim, oblivion, fallout, etc,.).

I’m chomping at the bit for the new Rust-based COSMIC desktop to be released by Pop!_OS though. Should be FY24.

“Why are you doing that nerdy terminal stuff just use Fedora”.

Because nerdy terminal shit is cool.

explaining to me why Fedora better than my “nerd OS”

😂

All the OSes running the web servers and client browsers:

“Are we a joke to you??”

Been chomping at the bit for cosmic since I learned of it.

I’ll have to check this out.

Minor note–your name might be exposed (“joe smith shared this file with you”). Might want to find a different way to share anonymously, or change permissions if that is of concern to you.

It’s phenomenal for making statblocks for NPCs too. fleshes out the whole thing in seconds. spells, feats, abilities, everything.

Midjourney isn’t free though, correct? I was thinking about doing this, but I’m also just bit behind the curve with image generation AI and just not sure about how to best go about it.

Fiancee and I were hiking into and camping at a state park. We got a little turned around and low on water, so I was a bit out of it and tired. I saw an interesting looking log across the trail and stepped over the smaller end of it. It was around 9:30am, so things were a little cold. I stopped and turned to wait for my fiancee and right as she was about to step on the log I realized it was an enormous 6-ish foot long rattlesnake. I grabbed her arm right before she put her foot down on the bastard and yanked her as hard as I could and backed up a step or two. Somehow the snake hadn’t noticed me yet, but it noticed me wrenching my fiancee away from it and it went into full coil-up-and-rattle mode. Had that thing bitten me I would have been in a bad place because I was already dehydrated. If it had bitten my wife, both of us would have been in a bad place because we were closer to our destination with fresh water than to our car.

Init is program computer start that start computer. Computer use Lemmy to start init. Now init start Lemmy too