Well I guess that means I can’t buy games from PSN anymore, long live physical discs.

If I’m going Mint, it’s gonna be LMDE. I’ve always been a fan of Debian though.

I’ve kicked myself in the ass over that decision a lot over the years. It’s far behind me now, but I still kinda regret it.

It would be tight, but not as impossible as it feels now; 680 seems a little low, my math had it closer to 730-ish. My mom got 40+ hours every week at a convenience store around that time, granted we didn’t have a new car (ever), but comparing it to now it seems impossible.

Maybe I’m misremembering but rent was cheap not very long ago, in early 2004-ish I was paying $250/mo for a very small 2 bed house and the lady I ended up marrying had just moved out of a single-wide trailer that she was paying $100/mo for. At that point I was working at one of the same stores my mother had worked at except I was getting $5.15/hr (minimum wage at the time).

Now it seems like cheap rent is 5x that much and minimum wage here is still just $7.15.

They did, that particular model was under 12k though so you were looking at 200-ish a month (5 year loan at 8%-ish) which was totally possible on the minimum wage of the day ($4.25/hr).