I worked at KFC in high school, the girl who ran the register got that so many times she finally snapped and would respond to instance of this lame joke in a totally monotone voice while looking them right in the eyes “oh yeah, never heard that one before, ha…ha…ha” she got so many complaints filed against her it was hilarious.

Yep, years ago there was a massive jackpot for mega millions or Powerball, I can’t remember. I was hanging out with a buddy and we got to talking about what we’d do if we won. Of course we joked about all the stupid things we’d do, but after that night the thought stayed with me and I’ve put a lot of thought into it.

After years of thinking about it I realized that when I take vacation from work, I stay home but I work on projects I care about. Homelab, open source, animal welfare, ect. I have severe ADHD and can’t stand just laying around, so I know I wouldn’t stop working, I’d just stop working to live.

I even spent one weekend researching and developing a plan for if I actually won and put it all in a folder so I can just open the doc and see my plan, then take that an the spreadsheets to the lawyers, asset manager, and CPA, and protect myself and the money. Definitely not a obsessive ADHD weekend…lol.

As it stands right now I’d take $5 million and live off dividends, each parent gets $5 million, and anything left over goes into a nonprofit foundation I would set up to fund all the open source and nonprofit projects I care about.

When people ask me why I waste money on the lottery, I just say I don’t want the money to be rich, I want the money to be free. Also I only spend $12 a week to play, the only time I buy extra tickets is if I win a few bucks on a ticket, then I just cash it in for some extra draws.

The previous windows install is the only thing I can see as the common denominator, I’ve installed Mint on three computers that started with no OS, and the Lenovo that was a Win 10 computer that I now have issues with.

Sorry I don’t have any real answers, I wish I did since I’m having issues with a laptop too.

Is the computer an old windows machine? I had a Lenovo laptop a while back that was a win 10 machine that I ran DBAN on then threw Mint on. After about a year of slow but solid performance I started having Grub issues and I just got sick of debugging it and gave up on it since it was just a hand-me-down and I prefer my desktop.

That’s actually a good idea, just a tiny local model just to help you learn how to work in a terminal. I would have loved that when I first made the jump, the RTFM crowd almost made me give up.

I’ve been running Mint for years and have never experienced this issue. Either I’m lucky or your not. I say give Mint another shot, the devs have put in a lot of work over the years.

I’d rather just not understand the meme.

Same, I pay for basic ChatGPT and use free Claude. So many things I would start, get overwhelmed by, and never go back to left sitting. Now “hey AI I have this thing, help me with it” and I’m done with it. I set up a project just for my homelab and having that has helped sooo much, it remembers my setup and tells me how to do what I ask it within my infrastructure, saves so much time. Not to mention the proposal for work that I was struggling with, had it help with the research and give me an outline to follow and I had that thing written in a weekend.

I honestly think everyone with ADHD should learn to use AI, it’s a no judgement productivity game changer.

Back and knees here, Aleve twice a day, Advil for flare ups. I’m pulling for ya, we’re all in this together.

Just pick one, burn the ISO to a USB stick and run a live version. When your done checking it out, shut down, unplug the USB stick, and boot back into windows. You can do this with any distro you are curious about, and once you find one you feel comfortable with you can install it.

My mom hates windows but is also uncomfortable with moving to a new OS, so this is what I did for her. She settled on Mint and now I’m taking an old laptop my dad gave me and I’m going to install Mint on that so she can use it full time but still have her windows machine for the time being. Once she’s comfortable with Mint I’ll move her over completely with the current windows computer since it’s far more up to date and powerful.

Aleve or Advil for the back?

Interesting, I’ve never heard of him. But then again I’m in my 40’s, single and no kids, never had a tiktok account, and mostly consume self-hosted media. Some of the locally owned stores I shop at play some…interesting… house music, so maybe I have heard his music and just don’t know it.

Hey if YT works for you, then use it.

Check out Nebula, it is paid but there are no ads and they have a decent amount of YouTubers and are adding more regularly.

Also your feed is based on subscriptions not an algorithm.

Lemmy was the founder and only constant member of the band Motorhead. He was Motorhead, he played rock and roll.

Also seems we’re in the same boat, I have no idea who bbno$ is.

Trick question, Lemmy is God!

Love Airheads.

9 Easy, you get to sit next to Lemmy.

No no, you spent your time well. I’m saving this for future use. Live to win brother.

Pretty much my thoughts, but I would also memorize some lottery numbers, or write them down if it’s not terminator time travel and I can take items with me.

I would hope to take someone with me though, it would be fun to sit around and reminisce about the future, “hey remember when this is going to happen?”

" That makes no sense"

So you agree it’s the most likely outcome from this regime.