Image source: "Home Improvement" - S07E05 - "A Night to Dismember"

A meme screenshot from the TV series "Home Improvement". During a Halloween episode, teenager Randy Taylor is pictured in the kitchen discussing his Halloween plans with his mother (not pictured). The text on the meme reads "Watching in 1997: Ah yes, a lighthearted Republican joke on a family friendly sitcom. Amusing." The next paragraph reads "Watching in 2026: squirms in discomfort". The punchline on the meme is dialogue from Randy Taylor, displayed as subitles on the meme, which reads: "Yeah. We're going as the scariest people we could think of: Republicans".

This meme was made under Mr. Beast's toxic working conditions

October 2025:

https://discord.com/press-releases/update-on-security-incident-involving-third-party-customer-service

https://proton.me/blog/discord-age-verfication-breach

You don't choose them, they choose you

Source: Happy Gilmore (1996)

What's up, guys, gals, and non-binary pals? I switched from Windows 10 to Linux Mint back in December 2024, and I catalogued my experiences in these posts:

• Alright you nerds, I made the jump to Linux.
• Alright nerds, I installed Linux Mint on my MacBook Pro

Just wanted to let you nerds know that everything has been running flawlessly. I can play any game I have, and none of my productivity is blocked. Doesn't matter whether it's all my ROMs I archived, my Steam games, GOG games, whatever. Linux plays them, and performance is fantastic. I don't play any anti-cheat games as the only one I do play periodically is Overwatch, and it runs perfect.

I can without a doubt now say that I will never go back to Windows. Should have switched years ago!

Build specs (the full list is in my first post linked above):

• CPU 9800x3d
• GPU RX 7900 XTX

Here are some issues I still can't solve on Linux Mint:

• Can't control my GPU fans
• Can't control my case fans
• Can't bind my case fans to ramp up with GPU load

I've tried CoreCTRL and so many other solutions I read online, and none of them work. Problem for another day! So all I've done for now is increase the count of intake fans I have and set it to a good speed to move plenty of air (but also set my exhaust fans higher to help counter and ensure proper positive pressure airflow. I have too many fans to get the ideal balance of neutral air flow). GPU runs with OEM fan speeds.

Edit: There's a bug in pasting instance agnostic links, so I just added direct URLs to my instance posts.

It's Pi Hole. Everything's computer.

i'm reppin ex cedrin

In the spirit of my previous post about switching to Linux Mint, I decided I'd go ahead and re-purpose my old computer.

Introducing: Apple MintBook Pro (13 inch, Mid 2012)

I think you nerds are gonna love it. I can actually do light gaming on this, too. Runs surprisingly fast, too!

Unlike modern day Apple, this MacBook was always fun to work on because you can easily swap parts without worrying about cloud activation locks, soldered RAM, glued batteries with self-destruct, etc. I dropped in a new aftermarket battery that took me five minutes to replace, upgraded the RAM, and slapped in a higher capacity SSD than what I originally bought this with back in the day.

My MintBook Pro runs fantastic, especially on Linux Mint 22.1 Xia with the new battery performance modes. Can't wait to use this more!

I tused to sit in a drawer as ewaste since the last possible compatible Mac OS version on this computer ran terrible and made my MacBook Pro unusable. Now that I upgraded to a MintBook Pro, the performance is incredible! Going to use this for when I need a computer away from my desk. Nice to have one for the couch that functions as an actual laptop!

Specs:

• MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
• 13.3-in LED display at 1280x800 (LOL)
• Intel i5-3210M @ 2.5 GHz
• 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz (we ballin' boys)
• 1 TB SSD Samsung 850 EVO I think
• CD/DVD burner (yass slay queen)
• Intel HD Graphics 4000 (i can play Stardew Valley with so many frames, biggest frames ever)
• This bad boy has the MagSafe power connector (my favorite back in the day) and firewire! Remember firewire?

Edit: Lemmy.world is having issues with uploading photos, so here's some links instead for two more pics:

• https://files.catbox.moe/lvrsz3.png
• https://files.catbox.moe/xjfea2.png

Source: https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/789916747522322337