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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Very much so, when I brought up that I am a software developer who just loves using their Macbook, because it just works, I was told I stupid because I am now locked in and what if I want to compile my own flavor of window manager, like with no sense of fucking irony.
Hey, you do you. I refuse to use anything apple related, but I'll be damned if they don't make great hardware and extremely convenient ecosystem.
I don't like being "locked in" but there's no alternative for a super light laptop with 10+ hours battery and good touchpad.
Tbh, I wanted to go with Framework, as I very much like the upgrade ability and reducing e-waste, unfortunately at the time they didn't ship to my country only some neighboring EU countries and while I could have made that work as a private purchase, I was purchasing through my company and there I couldn't make it work, so it was a choice between something like the Dell XPS ( which has notorious touchpad failures) pr the macbook pro, so then it was an easy choice.
Dicking around with a shit-box laptop running a barebones os all day and then opening my Mac book pro makes me question if this whole Linux thing really is it.
And then I have to install a niche program and apple calls in an airstrike on my position and I remember why I have the shit-box all over again.