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  • There’s an old black and white movie I cannot remember the name of right now. But basically the plot is a town where everyone is fighting, everyone is broke. The lady who runs the diner borrowed a thousand dollars from the guy who runs the hotel, who borrowed a thousand dollars from the bank, who denied the loan, but the banker gave him the money out of his pocket, etc. basically, and I don’t remember how, someone comes into town and loses a thousand bucks. Each successive character finds it, and gives it to the next person in the line to repay their debt, and then eventually it gets back to the dude who lost it. No one, not a single person, is even a red cent wealthier than before the movie started. No one gets any money. No one buys anything with it. It just gets passed from hand to hand like a daisy chain of buckets to put out a fire. And then everything is fine. Everyone is okay, nothing changes, but now they’re all alright. The money was fake all along is the message I took from it. If they had all just agreed that the money didn’t exist to begin with it would have saved everyone a lot of trouble. But we insist on insisting that money is real.

    Iunno. This post just reminds me of that movie.











  • I took sort of the opposite route. Lifelong windows user. Tried Linux out several times from like 08-12/13. Moved to Linux full time, and landed on Fedora, and absolutely loved it because of Gnome. It was different enough from Windows that it felt like a fresh start. Have been daily driving it since then.

    Two weeks ago I got my first ever apple device because I wanted something genuine reliable for school that didn’t have any weird hiccups, and I just could not stomach the idea of going back to windows. It’s similar enough to gnome that I am adjusting pretty well. Still have fedora on my desktop and backup laptop, though