I’ve never heard of Zardos personally, but it sounds like you’re looking for movies that have deep significance and application to the real world. My number one recommendation is Waking Life. It is a movie that thoroughly explores what it means to be human all without imposing any specific viewpoint or agenda.

It’s a series of borderline interviews taken from all walks of life and then rotoscoped into a beautiful dream sequence.

I can find ways that it’s relevant to just about every day of my life. It’s packed full of serious challenging conversations about the self, spirituality, morality and mankind.

If this isn’t the type of thing you’re looking for, maybe elaborate a bit more on what you mean.

The person who donated that probably heard from someone that it’s cheaper to replace the printer than the ink and didn’t know what they had.

True, but does it need to make mysterious clunking noises for three minutes before it starts?

ProxMox is what’s known as a HyperVisor or Virtual Machine. The general concept is that each element in ProxMox is an entire operating system, with each service configured in those operating systems. This requires maintaining and configuring an operating system for each service you want to run, or if you install multiple services in a singe host node, you’re back to the config conficts that we’re trying to avoid in the first place.

Docker’s approach is different. With Docker, You can use any host, including a daily desktop OS with many sort of half-VMs that only have access to specific parts of the system as defined in the Docker configuration. For instance, if you just need a service that handles chat, it doesn’t need to access much outside its own data and a port to access the internet. So instead of needing to manage the OS and the service, you’re left with just the service.

Another major boon is that it’s very easy to simply turn them off and back on and have them revert to their working state. If you really manage to screw up a configuration, no more digging through the OS to try and figure out what you can and can’t delete. You just nuke the system and try again. Outside writing the changes, it takes just a few seconds to reboot the service.

And one last bonus is that again, it’s very portable when using Docker Compose. Docker Compose takes this a step further and lets you configure the entire service through a single config file. You can put together multi-service database applications with a copy-paste and a few changes to the config. Absolutely massive time saver for people like me who are terrible at managing database applications, but really enjoy the benefits of them.

I used to do the VM approach, but having one script to one service works way better for me personally.

I’ve dabbled in it for a couple years, but this was my first year embracing docker. I now run way more services than I ever have before and don’t shy away from testing new ones out.

I went from someone who avoided new installs at all costs due to the litany of things that could go off the rails to someone who can find a new piece of software and have it running the same afternoon.

It also allows me to do a bunch of testing with a piece of software at home, then just copy and modify the config at work without having to waste precious time setting things up.

I know not everyone is a fan, but my god it’s useful.

This might be one of the first memes I ever saw on the internet. I still think it’s one of the best and simplest. The classic animal caption format feels eternal. Are there any good historical examples of this? We can’t be the first to do this.

Oh, but have you tried [insert software that has 8-billion tools, all of which you ignore and you just use as a notepad]?

I think there’s a few elements to it. The biggest part of it is that this comic artist had never done comics in this tone and the artist was already getting memed pretty often for generally “not that funny” jokes.

When this came out, it gave everyone whiplash because, well, who the fuck decided to make a comic about their wife’s miscarriage? I would get it to have a plain text media post or similar, but that was an odd step to take. IMO, that’s not something I’d casually drop in your otherwise innocuous comic strip.

Then the internet did its thing and the rest is history.

I don’t really follow any holiday traditions anymore. My friends don’t get me stuff and I don’t get them stuff.

I even stay home for Thanksgiving and don’t go to watch fireworks on the 4th.

It’s not that I don’t get out, but more so that I avoid the calamity everyone else is in on those days. To me, it’s a day off work and some time to catch up on chores or projects.

You should dress up KDE to look like Windows 11 just to prove a point.

I find a big part of trying to be the friend that transitions others to Linux is taking on the role of mentor. It’s something a lot of wish we could just hand to someone and dust off our hands, but that ultimately leads to experiences like yours.

For a better chance of success, especially on first install, be on the line with them as they go through the steps, or in person is better yet.

Answer all the questions you can and help them install all their usual stuff. Most people don’t want to have to go through this change, so making it fun and social goes a long way.

My solution to not letting corps ruin my memes since the beginning has been to not participate in the platforms they’re on.

Once they started making their mark on Reddit, I was glad Lemmy popped up just in time.

It is impossible to wake up until you are fully rested, including by alarm, fire, or intruder.

Does some sleuthing on Internet Archive and looks like someone parked it for a while and later gave up on it. Sadly doesn’t seem to have a period of time with the actual meme.

I feel this. My car has a super straightforward drivetrain (2003 Miata) and pretty simple electronics that I can follow and understand.

Looking under the hood of modern cars, half the time it’s so enclosed, you just see plastic and once you get past that, it’s an intertwined rats nest of complicated components.

On top of that, modern interiors are just loaded with features I don’t need. Give me driving, climate and radio controls. I don’t need anything more.

Don’t even get me started on all the assist features. I’m driving. I’ll handle the wheel, thanks.

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I like the irony here

I like David Cronenberg’s approach. Make it visually horrific, but so alien that you don’t know how to visually parse it and it just overloads your brain into ‘blech’ territory.

Loved The Thing and Videodrome for this style of horror.

Otherwise, give me omnipotent horror. Things like Oculus really get me.

You can take a look at Mero.chat. It’s a chat-with-strangers service. You earn more features the more you use it.