I am an avid Linux user and sharer of ISOs, never had a lick of trouble on 30/10.

10/1.5 was tough but doable.

1.5/300k was impossible.

Nah, it might be a little less spicy after a year, but still plenty useful, even for years it can remain functional. Months is nothing.

Source: grew up on a farm. Own gas powered yard tools.

Yep same here.

Biggest thing to worry about is leaving gas that has ethanol in it, in the tank/carburetor of your small engine machines. It gunks up the carb and wreaks all kinds of havoc.

So I run rec gas only, in those machines, personally. There might be other solutions, but this has been simple and foolproof for me. Hasn’t failed me yet.

If I knew the ethanol gas would be replaced with rec gas in the next few months, I’d run it. But thus far I’ve not taken the risk.

Funny how perspective changes things.

Growing up we had dialup. Around 2009 we got 1.5mbps down, something like 300kbps up. DSL, for 8 people.

We had that until… 2014? 2016? Then we got 10/1.5, mbps, down/up respectively.

We had that until 2022 ish, when we got 30/10. And I started self hosting with ease, plenty of bandwidth for myself and my immediate family’s needs.

Only last year, 2025, did we finally strike gold and get access to fiber. 8000/8000 available, but it’s spendy.

I’m used to living with significantly less, so I opted for the lowest tier, 300/300.

I feel like I’m legitimately living in the future right now, so fast.

I feel for everyone who is stuck with slow Internet. But it’s all perspective. And from my perspective, 20 up is plenty for most things your average person wants to do. More is always better, obviously. But even then, you don’t need gargantuan pipes to self host.

I will say, these days, anything less than 10/10 is criminal. 20/20 is slow but manageable. 30/30 is more than most normal people realistically need, though obviously, again, more is always better 🤷‍♂️

I’ve never installed tiktok. And I got rid of Instagram years before shorts. Additionally, while I enjoy long form YouTube videos from non-brainrot creators, I haven’t used the official app in years, so I avoid shorts there as well.

I’m not bragging, it’s just relevant to my next statement:

I too feel like my content consumption isn’t long enough. I think the instant gratification of moving to the next thing minutes after the first is bad for our brains.

In the last couple of months I have started reading again. Audiobooks mostly, and I know it’s not the same, but it engages my brain while driving for work.

Additionally, in the last few weeks, I’ve changed our TV habits. We usually watch 2 or 3 hours of TV in the evenings, which is probably too long by some metrics but I’m not ready to cut back yet, personally. What I have done, however, is stop binging.

Normally we pick two, maybe three at most, shows we want to watch. Then we burn through them, episode after episode. Churning through the seasons until they’re either gone or we’re caught up with it’s production.

Lately, I’ve done the opposite. We watch one episode of a show we like. Only one. We can watch one of another show if we want. But thus far we haven’t added more shows to the rotation, hard to keep track, might negate benefits, IDK.

When we’ve watched one episode of one or two shows. We either change gears and stop watching TV, or watch a movie.

By that time, the time for TV is more of less over.

Already I’m seeing benefits, small, but I’m happy. The next day, in my idle thoughts, I’ll find myself thinking about what happened in the show, and making connections and predictions that I otherwise wouldn’t have made. I enjoy this.

Plus we have a backlog of movies, we’re really bad about dedicating time to movies, even though we’d gladly waste that time watching several episodes in a row of a show 🤦‍♂️ So I’m glad to be getting into some good movies too.

That’s a fair assessment.

IDK man, I bought a 10 pack of cheap thumb drives on Amazon a year ago, just big enough for giving to friends full of files or installing Linux or whatever. They were microcenter brand… Not high quality.

The other day I used the last two, took them to work. Went to buy another pack? More than double the price I paid last week.

Yeah yeah it’s flash, not HDDs. I don’t think it matters. Everyone is riding the “computer get more expensive” train. And once the price goes up, it doesn’t come back down.

We’re boned.

My TV is a 50" I think? 1080p from 2013. It was cheap then, and it’s worth nothing now, on the market. But it works fine.

The backlight is evenly distributed, which is good, that’s a pet peeve of mine. But otherwise it’s unremarkable.

Honestly, I’d really like to try those new HDR TVs, a mini LED or OLED or something. But I just can’t justify it. Why? Because the TV I have, works fine 🤷‍♂️

If it magically died tomorrow, I’d upgrade. But I definitely don’t need 8k. Heck I don’t need 4k. I barely watch any content at 1080, it’s mostly 720 🤷‍♂️

Thanks! Glad I made a good choice.

Now that you mention it, one of my favorite YouTubers, Usagi Electric, recently switched to Linux, and had to find a new video editor. I believe he’s using davinci as well.

But I agree, they’re all a little terrible. But they’re doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Kdenlive did crash in me once, and I hadn’t saved in a long time. But I gave it a pass because of the aforementioned heavy lifting, and also it let me “recover” my project, and dropped me back exactly where I was, I lost maybe one most-recent action. You love to see it.

That was just giving context to my limited experience with video editors.

If you read further you’ll see I talk about using CS6, and finally, most recently, kdenlive.

I’ve used random Linux based video editors in the past, like 15-17 years ago. They were… Not great.

Later, I did a handful of projects with premier pro CS6, really liked it.

It’s been almost a decade since I’ve done any video editing, until literally a few hours ago when I needed to make a simple wedding video for my friend. Cut together a couple camera angles, some PiP, do some color correction, a couple fades and one linear swipe transition.

I’m running Bluefin, so I went the path of least resistance, and just checked the flatpack catalog for the highest rated and most downloaded video editor.

That was kdenlive. I found it to be fairly user friendly, and powerful enough for my needs. The GUI reminds me of CS6, though it’s been awhile since I used it, so that may be less true than I’m remembering.

Hardware acceleration for encoding didn’t work on my AMD 7840U, but… I didn’t try very hard. Maybe there’s a workaround, and it may not even be the programs fault.

Take my recommendation with a grain of salt, because again, this isn’t my world, and I did zero research haha. Kind of funny that this post is the first one I stumble across after finishing that project.

Oh for sure, do what you want to do. I’m just saying, while everyone has their opinions, some people like to follow the crowd of popular opinion, and the crowd is moving away from Ubuntu. Maybe not everyone knows that 🤷‍♂️

Ubuntu has kind of fallen out of favor with a lot of people, myself included. It used to be my go to, then I went mint, now I run fedora Bluefin.

Exactly this.

I am likewise a long time Debian user, different flavors, on and off. Played with Arch a little. Never touched fedora.

Installed Bluefin on my main laptop almost a year ago, haven’t looked back. The stability is exactly what I was looking for. It just works, and protects me from myself.

But still my proxmox is full of mostly Debian servers, I still value a traditional install.

But you better believe that when my buddy asked for help with Windows 10 EOL, one of the options I gave him was Linux. He was curious, we went over pros and cons, now he’s running Bluefin too.

That’s extremely frustrating. Like, it’s literally your job to get that number correct…

People frustrate me

Makes sense. I work at a different type of repair shop, we just had a brand new $400 battery go up in smoke on first power up. Ridiculous.

They got away with it. I bought the part months ago after bodging a fix on the stock connector. By time the bodge failed, the return window closed. It was $5 so unfortunately not worth my time fighting it.

My headlight connector got a little melty, just enough to get loose and stop working, just wore out I suppose.

I bought one on Amazon, along with new bulbs, installed it, and within an hour the new connector had catastrophically melted and shorted out enough to blow the fuse.

I should’ve known, the wire felt cheap, copper clad aluminum. But I thought it would be fine, it’s just a headlight 🤷‍♂️

Now I’ve got a replacement from the local auto parts. So far so good.

Like this one?

Or this one?

Ah yes winmodems, what garbage. That’s dumb. I probably should’ve dug deeper when I got it. Honestly I hate printers. I asked the printer community on Reddit to recommend me a cheap printer that used cheap toner. I gave them my requirements and they even found a Craigslist listing for me. I think I’m only in 20 or 40 bucks, can’t remember, but I guess I can’t complain too hard.