What Are You Thinking? (cont'd)

[kat (1)]

Black Velvet https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1JufWiatmh/

[kat (1)]

Tired think it's going to be 6 pm bedtime again.

[TronRP]

Two days of snow shoveling and working outside in Arctic conditions can really take a lot out of a person.

[creatureofthenyte]

I think over the course of today, I’ve drank entirely too much coffee.

[kat (1)]

On 1/24/2026 at 1:00 AM, TronRP said:

Two days of snow shoveling and working outside in Arctic conditions can really take a lot out of a person.

🫂 

[kat (1)]

I feel off. I think I'm just through with everything.  I can't stand another day of this bullshit weather.

[TronRP]

I think about a foot of Snow fell in our area.

[kat (1)]

On 1/25/2026 at 10:53 PM, TronRP said:

I think about a foot of Snow fell in our area.

Oh yea I was standing in it with my car covered cleaning it off with the real broom! I didn't care about getting weird looks that's just smart..I'm short I need the long stick. 🤣

[TronRP]

18 hours ago, kat said:

Oh yea I was standing in it with my car covered cleaning it off with the real broom! I didn't care about getting weird looks that's just smart..I'm short I need the long stick. 🤣

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I'm just glad I didn't rush out to shovel Snow yesterday morning.  We got slammed with a blizzard right after I swept off the front porch yesterday afternoon.

 

I've been watching the weather radar, but the A.I. weather pattern predictions are getting worse and worse.

 

Radars are showing conflicting information for our area, so I'm just going to do a surface Snow removal.

[kat (1)]

1 hour ago, TronRP said:

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I'm just glad I didn't rush out to shovel Snow yesterday morning.  We got slammed with a blizzard right after I swept off the front porch yesterday afternoon.

 

I've been watching the weather radar, but the A.I. weather pattern predictions are getting worse and worse.

 

Radars are showing conflicting information for our area, so I'm just going to do a surface Snow removal.

I know yesterday I saw it was supposed to be clear this week but later in the day it said snow all week, now it's probably another exploding tree. I'm over this cold shit. First day it's warm I'm sleeping outside. I'm never going in the house this spring and summer, I'm going to live outside lol.

Edited January 28 by kat

[kat (1)]

One week and a couple days left of this term. New term starts Feb 23 and ends May and than I'm fucking done. I'll have my Master's degree! Long as they don't repo my car first, of course 🤞😂🤣😭

Edited January 28 by kat

[kat (1)]

I hate waiting for my nails to dry. I'd rather just wear them press on nails but fake nails are very uncomfortable and I rip them off in like 30 minutes. Maybe I'll get em done one day. Fucking expensive though. Stuff sucks.

Edited January 29 by kat

[TronRP]

I strongly dislike Widows 11.  After it let me know that my computer was incompatible with it programming and incapable of running its systems, it downloaded a partial suite upgrade and used up all the memory resources of my main drive.  This was very much unexpected.

 

So now I'm off to fix yet another thing that was unwanted.

[Soulrev]

14 hours ago, TronRP said:

I strongly dislike Widows 11.  After it let me know that my computer was incompatible with it programming and incapable of running its systems, it downloaded a partial suite upgrade and used up all the memory resources of my main drive.  This was very much unexpected.

 

So now I'm off to fix yet another thing that was unwanted.

 

Yeah I switched to Linux completely a few years back. I can't stand all the "big brother" in Windows, anymore. These days there are Linux builds that are much more secure, stable and imho easy to use as Windows. It's really not as hard to switch to Linux from Windows as most people think.

I personally use Parrot OS which is a security/privacy geared OS. But there are many different builds that are great for people coming from Windows. Mint is a good one, too. 
 

Not to mention it's free and OpenOffice (Linux answer to Microsoft Office) is just as good and also free!

 

I still "dual boot" so I have the option to use Windows for some things like video games, etc. But for the most part I use Linux now for everything else. 
 

🤠👍

Edited January 30 by Soulrev

[TronRP]

57 minutes ago, Soulrev said:

 

Yeah I switched to Linux completely a few years back. I can't stand all the "big brother" in Windows, anymore. These days there are Linux builds that are much more secure, stable and imho easy to use as Windows. It's really not as hard to switch to Linux from Windows as most people think.

I personally use Parrot OS which is a security/privacy geared OS. But there are many different builds that are great for people coming from Windows. Mint is a good one, too. 
 

Not to mention it's free and OpenOffice (Linux answer to Microsoft Office) is just as good and also free!

 

I still "dual boot" so I have the option to use Windows for some things like video games, etc. But for the most part I use Linux now for everything else. 
 

🤠👍

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Thank you for that.

 

I've always heard people talk about using Linux, but I never new how that worked or even what exactly it meant, so I never really discussed it.  However, dealing with the software needed to run the VPS I had for a minute, a lot of things are making more sense to me now.

 

This will definitely be explored. 

[creatureofthenyte]

I think I was a bundle of nerves today at work. So glad the day is over.

[kat (1)]

Oh no.

[Soulrev]

On 1/30/2026 at 5:51 AM, TronRP said:

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Thank you for that.

 

I've always heard people talk about using Linux, but I never new how that worked or even what exactly it meant, so I never really discussed it.  However, dealing with the software needed to run the VPS I had for a minute, a lot of things are making more sense to me now.

 

This will definitely be explored. 

 

Let me know if you need any help or have any questions. There's a ton of how to videos and stuff, too, if that helps. Like this one should be pretty good for this - 

I didn't watch the whole thing, but seems pretty straight forward. 

 

Really the only major difference is how you install programs. In Windows, you simply click a few buttons and it's installed. In Linux, you need actually copy & paste commands into your terminal (think "command prompt" in Windows). So for instance let's say you want to install Brave Browser onto your Linux pc. You would go to Brave's website and navigate to the "Downloads" and look for Linux. 
 

Instead of actually downloading an .exe file that you then run to install it, it gives you the actual command you enter in your terminal window, to download & install the app. 
 

 

^^^ As you can see it gives you the exact commands you need to install depending on your specific version of Linux.

 

This is basically the hardest part of Linux. This and a few other commands that will help along the way, are important to learn, but overall Linux has come a *very* long way from the old days. 

[TronRP]

On 2/1/2026 at 9:14 PM, Soulrev said:

 

Let me know if you need any help or have any questions. There's a ton of how to videos and stuff, too, if that helps. Like this one should be pretty good for this - 

I didn't watch the whole thing, but seems pretty straight forward. 

 

Really the only major difference is how you install programs. In Windows, you simply click a few buttons and it's installed. In Linux, you need actually copy & paste commands into your terminal (think "command prompt" in Windows). So for instance let's say you want to install Brave Browser onto your Linux pc. You would go to Brave's website and navigate to the "Downloads" and look for Linux. 
 

Instead of actually downloading an .exe file that you then run to install it, it gives you the actual command you enter in your terminal window, to download & install the app. 
 

 

^^^ As you can see it gives you the exact commands you need to install depending on your specific version of Linux.

 

This is basically the hardest part of Linux. This and a few other commands that will help along the way, are important to learn, but overall Linux has come a *very* long way from the old days. 

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The cool thing is I am used to using a terminal for command inputs.  I feel most comfortable when I can actually see what is going on behind the scenes.  I do miss the "Command Prompt" that used to come with Windows.  The last version I used was for Windows XP before I was forced to upgrade to Windows 10.  Now they are forcing Windows 11 and I quit.

 

So yes.  This sounds like my kind of programming.

[kat (1)]

I'm cold.

[kat (1)]

Why is that cats in the cradle song in my head?

[kat (1)]

I feel like cutting my hair all off. Tired of looking at myself, same old stringy frizzy mess. Grrr. 

[TronRP]

2 hours ago, kat said:

I feel like cutting my hair all off. Tired of looking at myself, same old stringy frizzy mess. Grrr. 

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[kat (1)]

4 hours ago, TronRP said:

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I was having a moment. I just need a new style. Long, no short. I'd probably cry.

[kat (1)]

Warning***I look like the product of if an elf and a cabbage patch doll had a threesome with Cupid. 

Still fun times. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18KYuAaBSG/