I’d bet $7 that if someone installed a distro on grandma’s computer and changed the desktop manager to something that looked like windows, added the appropriate shortcuts on the desktop, and used her same wallpaper she’d never notice. All the programs they use are on their desktop.
Seriously, I’ve had a few bumps in the road switching full time to Mint, but AI chatbots know their Linux and for the most part have been very useful in helping with problems. I have been messing around with one distro or another for years and years, but would always eventually run into some problem I didn’t have the time to google for hours to solve and have to go back to winblows. That shit is history and I couldn’t be happier
The difference in resource usage between winnblows11pro and mint cinnamon is astounding. It reminds me of Clarkson on Top Gear when, talking about a huge v8, he said “how do the Americans manage to get so little horsepower?”
still evil; still enshittified
I also went all-in, but in the last year and a half, the ads went bonkers. I went all in on ONN 4k boxes with projectivy installed. I get smarttube now and it’s the tits. Sure, the chinese are spying on me now, but at least it isn’t murdoch.
They either get a bribe or blackmail from Israel, and Zionists exist at every level of government in every office.
I have a lot of experience with police. They aren’t trustworthy at all. Every tool they have is habitually and systematically abused. The whole barrel is bad apples, they were picked that way.
0% of the people who have talked with me about the Gaza genocide knew what AIPAC and the ADL were before I explained it with multiple examples.
This just in: Reddit still shithole!
But seriously, there was a point where you could say what you wanted on Reddit and at worst, your comment would get removed. Then “woke” went mainstream (i’ve been woke a long time before that) and Reddit mods became lords of their own little Barney Fife fiefdoms handing out permabans to anyone who gently questioned the popular consensus. I’m not sure what specifically changed, but it’s been downhill since then. I’m not so sure it hasn’t sucked longer than it was cool at this point.
Stop trying to seduce me.
“Coming this January: Meta VPN services! For only $78 per month!”
Exactly. When I was a kid, I was all like “rules exist for good reason” and “the grownups are never unreasonable.” Historically, every time a government enacts a prohibition, it works great.
These kids are going to vibe-code entire parallel services.
They took the ram chips out of their email server and put them in their AI server, but they didn’t snap down the little white thingies.
You’re never going to get the other parents to fool with your messaging platform. Not because they don’t trust you, but because they simply can’t be bothered to. Normies have a bristling aversion to doing something different than they always have when it comes to apps/etc. I tried to get my friends on Signal, and gave up because they just wouldn’t.
Plus, the kids want to use what everyone else uses, creeps and trolls included.
I was surprised NPM was so low on the list. It is super easy to use.
It’s even enough to add a lite desktop manager to debian for that gui goodness.
You’re right, it’s more than enough to run debian, docker, and a host of containers, so OP can start experimenting, but anything dealing with video or audio will gobble that up in minutes.
I’m ready for the debian port to android cell phones. I have a pile and it would be so cool to make each into a server running off USB power with the battery bypassed.
I like lenovo thinkcentres I have a 700 series and a 900 series. At the time, one was less than $100 and one was $150. I put another ~$80 for old ram and old SAS drives. They’re working great and I have what I consider to be huge storage. Things are different now, but used office computers are always going to be plentiful, the only limitation is how old you want to go. Good news is that Debian will practically run on anything and doing docker via SSH CLI isn’t hard, especially if you get Dockhand or Portainer(for now) running first. If you’re serving data, 256gb won’t get though.
It’s always been that way.