Not yet

Adulting is hard. I don’t even have kids, and even my childless friends have scheduling issues.

It’s universal, we’re all busy, especially at this time of the year (until we get mandatory days off at least). So much family stuff to do, even if you don’t have kids, seeing parents, siblings, cousins, whatever… It’s a whole thing.

I don’t think our games overlap very much, so I wouldn’t make a good gaming buddy for you. I hope you get to have fun with friends in good games soon.

I’m pretty deep into satisfactory most of the time. Over 1800 hours… That isn’t a typo.

I figure that it’s close enough that it might just fill in the gaps between satisfactory content updates. :p

My friends rarely play what I play. It sucks.

I’m thinking about grabbing…

Star birds

Last caretaker

And rv there yet

I’m also eyeballing planet Crafter, and a couple others on my wish list that dropped below $10.

I’ve also wanted to pick up ultra kill for a while but I never see it on sale for under $20 (Canadian schmeckles)…

Some that I’m still waiting to see come down in price to something more reasonable…

Horizon: forbidden West

Split fiction

Borderlands 4.

Even on discount, these are well over $40.

This is the way.

Most non-tech-enthusiast people do.

And that’s my point.

I need savings because all my bills land in the same week-and-a-half timespan.

So there needs to be all of the money in the account before that happens.

I know, it’ll balance itself out in the long term, but the weeks I don’t have bills to pay are usually the weeks that I need to refill the pantry, and end up spending more than I have allocated for that week so that I can eat.

I need to accumulate the base amount to pay all my bills when they come due, before I can really get started.

I know it seems really simple, once all my bills are done for the month, start then! Except there’s probably incidentals, like the food that I mentioned, that need to be purchased, that I just can’t afford on the $100 available for me that week. So I take what’s needed, and then I’m behind again. The cycle continues.

I had a very good system for this when I was getting paid twice a month. I took the ~400 or 450 or whatever (again CAD) from each paycheck, and I split my bills so that, by cost, they were roughly split between before-the-15th and after-the-15th pay periods. I’d get paid, take my share, let the bank do the rest, and when I get a notification for a bill I need to pay by hand, from my calendar app, I go and pay it in full.

Then I ended up with weekly pay and suddenly, I’m paying 130%+ of a weeks income to pay my bills on the same week.

It fucked me up man. I’m still pretty wrecked by it and it’s been like this for more than a year.

And I can buy this configuration off of a shelf at best buy?

You monster.

This all sounds great until you realize that you need time to run up to this, or a modicum of savings in order to make it happen.

Your numbers are optimistic at best. My bills vary and they’re more than 70% of my income (roughly).

It’s more efficient to deposit my money into a bill payment account, then take out what I can spend from that.

Guess what I already do?

Guess how much “spend” I have, per week, that needs to cover all of my gas, food, and everything else? I’m not even saving a dollar, and my available money per week is around $200.

That seems great until you realize that I’m Canadian and it’s Canadian dollars, and $200 CAD is around $150 USD.

I’m employed, full time, in a specialized field, and I can spend $100 USD a week on food because I need the extra $50 for incidentals and gas.

I don’t need a budget. I have a budget. I need a raise.

That would be a great idea if I had any discernable savings. I expect I need at least half a month of money in my bills account to balance everything out, for those weeks that I am paid less than what I need to pay for bills.

Hey, don’t poke holes in these undisputable “facts”!

How dare you.

I actually have no idea and I don’t even live in the USA and I’ve never heard of this person before now so I have no idea what I’m actually talking about.

This is killing me in a different way.

Weekly pay for monthly bills.

Most of my bills land between the 10th and 20th of the month, which means I have to set aside and reserve money from my other paycheques to cover that range.

I am bad at doing so.

These are all valid opinions. Certainly 1% of movement is better than no movement. Certainly gets us closer to the goal, but IMO, it will take more movement before publishers will take Linux seriously, especially for more custom applications.

This probably won’t be showing up on shelves at best buy along side computers from the likes of Dell, HP, and Lenovo. I kind of expect it to show up next to the Xbox, PlayStation, and switch, if it shows up at all.

Also, steamOS is not exactly a desktop operating system right out of the gate, is entirely gaming focused. Yeah, you can use it for those things, but that’s not the focus of the device/OS.

I’m not sure Grandma and Grandpa would want a steam machine as a replacement for their aging Windows 7 home computer.

Standardization is a requirement. Whether that still gives the user the ability to color outside of the lines on what’s considered “standard” will be the key factor.

I’m as happy about this news as the next tech enthusiast, but bluntly, it’s not a big shift. Going from … What? 5% to 6%? That’s great and all but it’s hardly moving the needle.

If we want a significant shift we need OEMs selling prebuilt PCs with some flavor of Linux pre-installed, that’s as easy to use as the competition (Windows/mac) with compatibility that’s both good enough and transparent enough that people don’t need to think about it much.

Before we get Linux OEM PCs on store shelves, we need to figure out that last bit first.

That still hasn’t happened yet. We can’t even agree what window manager should be used, nevermind any of the dozen or so other critical services on the system…

The thing that makes Linux great is that anyone and everyone can, and does, make stuff for it. That’s also the thing that’s going to hold it back from being put on store shelves pre installed on prebuilt PCs.

You wouldn’t be the first.

Completely off topic, but I like your icon.

Uh oh!