maybe, to replace my ageing Minisforum mini computer

i had thought of the Framework Desktop but was waiting to see what the Steam Machine brought to the table.

why ? is it illegal ? what standings could they possibly have ?

Freedom to choose (servers). no corporate shilling.

I browsed as Anon some years ago, signed up to .world and have moved servers since, along with a backup on piefed.

i left Reddit long before i signed you on Lemmy. I came to Lemmy from Mastodon. I mostly don’t use that anymore but do have a gotosocial account

as a not that big a gamer, i was thinking of the Steamdeck to replace my aging Minisforum “desktop”.

I had originally thought of the Framework

https://frame.work/desktop

with 64GB/2TB

and then move move the Minisforum to some LAN self hosting work (Jellyfin etc) but it has nothing for HDDs aside from external USB3, (and 1x internal NVME and 2x internal SSD) which i am led to believe is problematic

i currently just run a HDD on the router and use Kodi via a Nvidia box to a dumb TV.

I’d love to hear opinions from those with more insight

I run Linux mint on the Minisforum

you’ve mistaken the forest for the trees

no, for 100,000 years we went vegetarians.

this is a bizarre response, so what do u do the day after that when you forget to recharge?

always locally hosted on my device

I also use Internet radio to listen to new stuff

perpetually in this insatnce means, for as long as they say

mehh I’ve been using Libre office for many years, fuck 'em.

ahh yeah, my steel stick welding looks like a swarm of seagulls with daierherra

zero times.

you’ve not met humans before ?

Any time I think of the art of war

full circle, back when I started, main frames with thin clients.

indeed, for me it’s incredibly sophisticated and complex but that complexity brings issues of useage

I use that and Inkscape which is awesome

Many people bounce back to Windows after their first attempt at running Linux.

this was me from Vista to 10, swore every time i’d do it, endless dual boots with Ubuntu that lasted a couple days.

3 years ago with 11 looming, I took the plunge and grabbed a new nvme, installed Mint, made sure it booted and I could use FF, then reformatted my Windows drive and installed LMDE and have been using that ever since. The rest of it I just muddled through, mostly still muddling though.

First Windows was 3.1 at work, MS Dos prior to that both on top of Netware as the default IT guy but used an Amiga 1200 at home (from a C64, to Amiga 1000 to 1200.

The CLI is bullshit as the default for near everything, it’s not 1990 anymore. It should be there but eg the dick around I had installing Signal on my desktop as the Flatpak is some not authorized version , same with my VPN, what a fuck around needing Nord themselves to diagnose it, having the default boot drive fill up with what seems like a zillion kernels and need to delete them on my laptop etc etc

still have zero chance of going back to Windows but I get the ipad generation steering away from Linux.

you always leave with a full charge as you can charge at home overnight, so that helps

I charge mine 80% of the time off the solar panels on my roof here in Australia. Making your own fuel is quite the thing.

Another 10% is overnight on a cheap tariff

and the other 10% public charging on longer trips.

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