I can imagine a future device with an e-ink page that’s so thin and flexible that it looks and feels like a paper book with magic changing text. I don’t know how many consumers would pay a premium for that, but I would definitely buy my wife one.
I’m just here to point out that the fact you genuinely care about your carbon footprint probably puts you ahead of 80% of the population, and the fact that it has materially affected your device choices probably puts you ahead of 80% of the remainder.
There’s definitely a unique satisfaction that comes from filling tech needs with hardware that already exists, and which does a great job at it too.
That goes across hobbies and mediums too. I just finished a big outdoor carpentry project where I was able to find perfect long-term uses for pieces of wood from The Initial Build in the construction of The New Hotness.
I think it’s pretty heavily implied that people are talking about a given tech giant’s entire ecosystem when they say de-google, delete Facebook, Fuck Nestle- I mean, fuck Apple, etc. lol
Nope I don’t have experience installing older distros. I used some Unix systems in the late 90s (Sun Solaris) and really liked them even though I wasn’t yet the Linux/FOSS enthusiast I am now.
Your comment does not surprise me at all, though. For any rough edges Linux has had over the years, at least the motivations of the developers creating it have been in the right place all along. That is, making software for themselves and users, as opposed to the innumerable forces of enshittification within tech giants like Microsoft.
I don’t think I ever messed with the Windows 3.1 OS on my family’s 486, but from Windows 95 and onwards I’ve done multiple installs of all the consumer versions of windows and was an avid user of win2k at the time. And for Windows 11 I have only ever installed it in a VM on a Linux machine to test Windows tools that are part of our builds at work.
I’ve also installed the last couple versions of Linux Mint a few times on some newer and older PCs. And some other distros in VMs for various reasons.
ALL of my recent Linux installs have gone far more smoothly and quickly than ANY Windows installs I remember.
Old windows? Better.
New Linux? Best!
I think that’s still a valid argument since perfection will probably never happen.
For me it’s more like, remember when the expectation was that Tesla would ever produce a version that didn’t suck ass?
I have multiple relatives who only seem to be able communicate ideas to other people in the form of complaints and gossip.
There’s a very strong correlation between that and being more negative, more conservative/Trumpy, more bigoted, and definitely more miserable to be around.
I grew up in that kind of environment, and I swear there are pathways buried deep in my brain that still try to generate the “look at that stupid asshole doing a thing I wouldn’t choose to do, or that I’m jealous over” emotion. However, it only strengthens my resolve to not carry that bullshit forward into the next generation.
Yeah, LLMs are interesting tech products to play with and find some niche uses for.
But for the love of god they are not “prop up the entire stock market and numerous multi-trillion-dollar companies indefinitely” good!
This is one reason I’m so glad we devs can install linux at work. I have LibreOffice installed sure, but if I need to use the Microsoft Office suite for some reason, it all works great as webpages in librewolf!
They can do that because Firefox is open source. If Mozilla disappeared and funding was sent to one of the forks instead, they could hire more developers and maintain it directly. Maybe even hire some of Mozilla’s best engineers.
g’news and g’day to you as well, g’lady!
you’re not gonna believe this…
Well I just finished looking at their website for 20 minutes.
Those look pretty awesome, and I know that I’d find reasons to use the thermal imaging all the time.
Does it run pure android (site says something like that), can you install your own OS, and how is the update support?
Yeah, or along the same lines I would love to see
Whole phone as thick as cameras, while still using good cameras.
Much of that space taken up by battery
Rest of that space taken up by some kind of compact cooling system that even has a thin little fan that can kick on when it’s docked
Because of course i’m talking about a dockable Linux phone
(I’m already seeing problems, like the fan probably needs to be part of the dock and the phone use the outside surface of the case as its heat sink)
Yeah your average user today does their “computing” on a device that they never plug anything into except power. And some of them never plug anything in at all.
I love cables and mechanically rugged tech, but the mainstream does not.
I think that when we are attacking mental health issues, we need to think of it like the swiss cheese model of security in IT, except that we are on offense instead of defense.
Everything needs to be on the table. Mental health affects how it feels to exist, which is pretty damn important when it comes to quality of life and finding some fulfillment, comfort, happiness, etc.
There is usually not a single thing that “cures” somebody. And if there is such a single thing that works so wonderfully, it certainly does not work that well for the vast majority of people.
Go for it.
I got heavy into carpentry this year because another one of my hobbies involved a bunch of construction.
Working with wood is satisfying as hell. So is building the exact thing you need that isn’t a product sold anywhere.
I appreciate your concern for the quality of your contributions, and I think this place has a higher proportion of that type of user than just about any other platform.
This place is small and it’s generally friendly and inclusive. Most comments won’t get any replies, but the ones that do will generally be constructive. The users here are into the whole idea of the social contract and that we can have something nice if we are just excellent to one another.
I repeatedly say “generally” because this is an open platform and assholes are allowed to join. The assholes can even have their own instance dedicated to asshole topics! But fortunately the instances and communities are generally moderated by actual decent humans who are much like the users!
So let that knowledge help you comment more, not less! Even if you get no comments and like 5 upvotes, it actually feels like something of value even if it’s just a nod from a few decent people.
Edit: part of the conclusion was supposed to be that you can consider comments more like a discussion with people and not some strict message board.
Yeah there is a real trend in conservative culture (at least where I grew up) that fits right in with the rest of the anti-intellectualism. And it’s not taught explicitly but it permeates social interactions.
I’m trying to decide how to describe it… Basically, you look down on people who are trying to improve themselves.
Yep! The most expensive equipment they might need is a magic smoke compressor, if that.