I had some little grey box of an mp3 player in the late 90s that held like roughly one or two smallish albums. I remember one day finding a recording of my gym teacher trying to figure out how it worked for like five minutes after unknowingly pushing the record button.
You had to manually configure your IP on the PC's end. In practice it just meant you had to hit a button to connect to your network when you boot up. Considering that like a decade earlier we were all on dialup it didn't feel that weird at the time.
I was also getting my internet via cantenna back then, so DHCP was the least of my worries!
Ehh, I would take those Proton ratings with a grain of salt. I've definitely run into issues trying to run stuff that's supposed to be silver or gold. But again it all comes down to what your specific use case is. Hardware, software, peripherals, and goals and preferences.
I dream of this kind of storage. I just added a second m.2 with a couple of TB on it and the space is lovely but I can already see I'll fill it sooner than I'd like.
To be fair, someone with a more basic grasp of computers probably has fewer use cases that Linux will give you trouble with. I installed PuppyLinux on some ancient machine for someone I was renting from in like '08 and it was fine for her, but that's because all she ever did was look at YouTube and check her email. It didn't have any of the features of modern Ubuntu and the UI was clunky; if memory serves it didn't even have DHCP.
It worked fine for basic browsing, but if you tried to do anything more complex, you'd better be ready to learn a thing or two.
Today it's still pretty similar. Ubuntu and GNU at large have come a long way in the past couple of decades, but you still start running into issues when you get to more niche use cases.
I'd probably be running Ubuntu as my daily if Solaar worked properly with my MX Ergo, but it doesn't, so I can't. I guess I could go learn how to make contributions to patch that myself, and I may at some point, but at the moment I have stuff to get done and dealing with an unexpected hiccup in my workflow too often brings everything to a grinding halt.
They're honestly doing you a favor. Grammarly is terrible. I've seen some of my friends whose first language isn't English use it to try to clean their grammar up and it makes some really weird, often totally mistaken choices. Usually they would have been better off leaving it as they wrote it.
I found that it does well with actual full on spam in the form of unsolicited mass mails. If there's anything I've subscribed to, it does just dump it into the inbox until I tell it to do otherwise. So mostly decent. I feel like it might be benefiting from their spam sorting but not from the promotional tag.
I tend to use Lemmy most often just because it's easier to interact with Lemmy and kbin that way, but I have Mastodon, Lemmy, kbin, and pixelfed posts in my feed on my Calckey instance, so I can at least browse communities I'm subscribed to through there.
What would be nice is some way to sync subscriptions and blocks across platforms and between instances. I'd probably be using my own instance more often if that were a bit easier.
I forwarded all my gmail addresses to proton recently. I'm very pleased! It works a lot better than gmail-to-gmail forwarding and the UI is purple! Purple!!
There's no way the ink doesn't make them even worse. I've always loved Canada's over the top approach to visually discouraging smoking by hijacking half the pack with a picture. My favorite when I smoked cigarettes was the one with the kids giving you a judgemental look.
Given the numbers in this article, though, I'm not sure how well it's working.
That's not me, but I don't really feel like it's particularly helpful to be in someone's life if that's the way you look at it. Especially if it's a situation where your own standards have changed while theirs haven't.
Honestly, I don't really want to be spending my time around people who look down on me at all, full stop. Whatever the reason they may have, why have people in your life socially whose company you don't enjoy? I used to put up with a lot of that, largely when I was broke and directionless, but it's not really worth it. There are so many people out there, why not find some who are on the same page?
That doesn't have to attempt to be a position of moral superiority or putting your nose up about lack of responsibility. It can just not be a good fit. Lots of people aren't a good fit for one another.
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It was!