and condemns anyone who tries to advocate for anything otherwise.

it’s strange to see a nation that popularly keeps alive the memories of being at the receiving end of colonialism act like a colonizer themselves.

is that a pinebook?

Would it be possible to automatically encode the images client side when uploading?

seconded!

my /boot is also 2 gigs and i’m glad you shared this; thank you!

you should also know that it’s a double edged sword if you go with linux first vendors because you’ll likely never learn from resolving your own technical difficulties that arise as a result of hardware that is not 100% linux compatible.

i learned so much from putting linux on my windows & mac hardware; that it enabled me tow work on linux professionally for the last 21 years. switching to linux first hardware 5-ish years ago made my knowledge of people facing issues atrophy, so i bought windows first hardware to re-acquaint myself.

it’s hard to tell what the europeans want since they make all this noise about decoupling with american tech; but then turn around and capitulate to american tech like this.

as a mac & linux user since 2002 and i had a time machine to do it all over again but correctly this time; i would go with a linux first vendor like system76 or tuxedo or any other vendor that uses 100% open source hard/software. (ie coreboot/libreboot).

linux can work on almost all hardware (including mac) but you’re mileage is going to vary a lot and only the linux first vendors can give you an experience that rivals mac and windows.

every time i’ve heard a decider state the reason why they won’t embrace linux, it’s always because they don’t believe that linux is capable at handling the same scale that microsoft can and that’s despite the fact that significantly larger institutions realy on linux.

the excuse feels rehearsed since it’s always the same.

i’m going to be using mozilla until after they lock the doors and shutting off the lights; just like i did with netscape decades ago.

what happened w its creator?

privacy.

apple has proven time and time again that they’ll cave to the american government at any an all oppurtunities while doing theater to pretend to protect its users.

ai is an extreme that an overwhelming majority of people reject and probably the clearest sign of how much control of oligarchy has over us since their will over it is forcing the rest of us to accept it like we do with accepting the lack of universal basic income; socialized healthcare; minimum wage increase; education invistements; etc. despite an overwhelming majority of people needing it.

i was going to recommend this; a couple that loves doing something together is bound to be much more rewarding than the cost of one of these machines.

BATTAAAL!!!

woo loo loo

i didn’t know that jmp.chat was a thing!

THANK YOU!!!

i appreciate your attempt to help, but i really meant the word quagmired.

porting the google number requires a phone plan w carrier; but i only use prepaid accounts between multiple carriers that change roughly every 6 to 12 months or so, depending on the price and whether or not they’ll support the unlock phones that i buy online. also: my current carrier will not accept a google voice number per their technical support people.

and those companies rely on some sort of multi factor authentication and my experiences with forwarding teaches me that the forwarding doesn’t always go through in a timely enough manner.

that seems to spell doom for linux as it’s share is larger according to this report.

i’m quagmired in more ways than just the OS with things like: i need to figure out how to move paid subscriptions based on my gmail address to organizations/companies that refuse to let me change the email address on my account or that everyone that i’ve ever known for the last 20 years knows me by google voice phone number.