JustARegularNerd @ JustARegularNerd @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I paid an extra $20 to extend the warranty of my $150AUD gaming headphones from 1 to 3 years.

Just over a year of owning them and the microphone boom broke. I never used the detachable microphone but the arm itself was rattling in the headset, so got it replaced at the retailer.

It's been about 12 months since then, and I may need to take them back at some point again soon as the plastic has fractured right where the headphone cup attaches to the band. It's not completely broken but its not far off

That's what emulation is for!

Yeah I completely agree when you put it that way. I've been doing this for the desktop web apps that I used to have installed (Discord, Spotify, Teams) accessing them via a browser instead.

I've been meaning to tidy up my phone anyway so I'll give the mobile Web UI a good go.

Why is it that you don't use 3rd party apps? I have no issue with Jerboa and have used it extensively, but I'm mainly wondering if there's something I'm missing with 3rd party Lemmy clients.

For desktop I've been getting playlists I like from the web Spotify UI, then using spotdl to download them.

On mobile I've been trying out Kreate (YouTube Music frontend) and so far it's not bad. It doesn't have a real algorithm but I tend to browse by genre until I land on a playlist, or go to a song I feel like and hit Song Radio. UI is still a bit clunky in my opinion but it has worked so far for me otherwise.

From my subscriptions, I don't have anyone who deals with racecars, but I enjoy Flexiny and Aging Wheels for old car content.

Maybe for the positions you may have been in; had I used Linux at any of those other jobs there would constantly be document compatibility issues between LibreOffice and Word, and in an IT position I wouldn't be able to replicate issues a user is facing, unable to read Windows memory dumps or event logs on my own machine, the RMM doesn't have a client for a tech to use on Linux, and that's just scratching the surface.

The benefits of Linux for me (no ads, no telemetry, familiarity of the terminal and config files, open source, privacy, sticking it to big tech, etc.) just don't translate into things that would make me more productive at work.

None of my desk jobs have ever allowed a personal computer because of the risk of data leaking.

Was cautioned about an employee at our competitor who used a personal device, it was stolen and it had client data on it including some of their IP, and when that client took legal action, because the employee acted out of company policy they were on the hook for it.

I had a standing desk at my old job and liked it a lot.

So when a desk riser came up at an op shop for $20, I snapped that up.

I tend to have the desk up when I'm gaming or studying, and lowered if I feel like I just want to chill and watch some YouTube.

However I wasn't aware of the sit-stand technique, so I may give this a go!

I thought from the headline that it was just a downgrade to Business Standard, no this is to Business Basic! That's a huge yikes, it's so much harder to be productive in those web versions.

I honestly would not be surprised if users work out installing LibreOffice et al. so they can still have a desktop app experience because of this move.

I'm not seeing it either. I found an article about this that explains this was due to the USA sanctioning the ICC https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/british-icc-chief-prosecutor-lost-email-bank-accounts-frozen-trump-sanctions/

I would say that !selfhosted@lemmy.world is leaking, but I think most of the communities here tend to leak into each other anyway

The anecdote at the start of the article is insane; "I didn't hit you, otherwise my sensors would have gone off. You rode into me!"

Outside of that, the statistics in this article are very eye opening, especially as someone who has to ride their bike along an unprotected bike lane on a major highway just to get into town if I don't want to use the car. 38 deaths / year is a lot less than the ~115 for pedestrians, but considering how many more people walk than ride, those odds are still pretty terrifying to me.

And speaking of that car, funny the article outright says "If you're in a Mazda 2, you're not coming off okay [against a collision with an SUV]" because my daily driver is an early 90s Mazda 323. It's always felt unnerving to drive it alongside large cars, especially as it's so old it doesn't even have *an" airbag or ABS.

I hear you, and I'm sure others do too, even if they don't reply back.

I'm not sure how to take this post, whether you're looking for some direction on where to go next, if you're just venting about your current situation, or something else.

Regardless, you've reached out to someone somewhere here on Lemmy and that's great. Maybe someone else here will comment some great advice specific to you, but otherwise I would highly suggest you find some free service to help if you haven't already.

I'm not sure where you are in the world (and I don't expect you to divulge that), but a good start might be a debt helpline. Australia has one, and I've been fortunate enough so far not to need it, so I can't speak for how good or bad they generally are but I don't see the harm in trying.

If you've already tried reaching out for help and you're still both in this situation and clearly stressed, don't discount all help options because the ones you tried didn't work out. Outside of public services, even asking friends (especially older ones) for advice would be worth it. Even the lady across the counter you regularly shop at. Don't dump it all on them but just ask if they were in crippling debt what would they do.

It's a fair bit older than yours, but I've been so pleased with my X260. I originally got it as a side to my T480 but I find myself just taking the X260 when studying and leaving my T480 as a docked laptop because of the smaller form factor, battery life is way better (6 hours for my use) and for what I do (attending online classes, programming, and other studies) the performance is good enough (on LMDE, it probably wouldn't take Windows well anymore)

The later X series like the X280 have options for quad core processors I believe if you wanted more performance. Given I only paid $120AUD for my X260 and I like the slight chunkiness of it (feels more rugged for on the go) that the X280 lost, I'm not upgrading anytime soon.

I grew up on Windows my entire life, but really only as a user until I got into teenagehood. I still remember when I was 12 and had to reinstall Windows 7, and I was given the option of either x64 or x86. I thought "Oh, my laptop is stupidly old, it's gotta be the lower number" and it took an embarrassing amount of time to then actually try the x86 option which immediately worked.

Like with all my devices, I will try to set a wallpaper that I took, usually from a trip. Each device has its own wallpaper to differentiate them and to remind me of different places I've been.

Here's my lock screen where I took a photo of a small roadside garden while I was in Hervey Bay, Queensland.

That's about as 'judging a book by it's cover' as it gets.

Ultimately OP isn't trying to sell it to you, they're just saying that for them, they've been happy with it.

And hey, if you choose your distros based on their name, I'd like to see you sell that idea.

I might actually suggest this to that relative. They're close to retirement and I believe are planning to put a percentage of their savings into BTC which has me apprehensive, but starting out with just $50 here and there to get a proper feel for it seems way less high stakes for learning.

I've got a close elderly family member who's recently gotten fixated on investing in crypto, watching all the YouTube videos on the subject.

I don't know enough about it to confidently say they're going to lose all their money, I've never looked into it because it just screams get rich quick scheme, but I don't have high hopes for them.