Hello, newly active members! Where have you been?

[szatox]

I don't have any stats to back this claim, but FGO felt much more lively this year 2024 than a bit earlier, even during summer there wasn't really any significant drop in activity, and I wonder if we had an influx of new people.
So, those who either joined or returned to the forums during 2024, what are your stories? Where have you been and what brought you here?

Stuck (at least until the new year's eve). This seems like a great welcoming message. --Zucca
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Make Computing Fun Again

[pjp]

Moved from Gentoo Forums Feedback to Gentoo Chat.
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Quis separabit? Quo animo?

[bent]

Long story short: became an Apple convert in 2010, loved it, also learned to code on MS platforms and made a good living. Then, I kinda just got sick of buying computers with faster and faster processors that just get slower and slower to use. The rise of Electron apps, the gigabyte memory footprint of even the most basic one, just accepting that throughout the day my CPU is going to hover at 5-10% unless I make a point of quitting apps instead of backgrounding them.

I feel like mainstream OSs aren't made for people like me any more. They're platforms for consuming content. They keep piling smarts into them that don't work the way I do, and I'm tired of finding out how to turn them off, or that I *can't* turn them off. I figure if I'm going to be messing with my OS as frequently as I do now, it may as well be an OS that wants me to do that.
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Back on the G after 15 years on the Cupertino Kool-aid