Onomatopoeia @ Onomatopoeia @lemmy.cafe

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Ye, that's crap, but seems mostly an Apple issue. If you need a PC with both, you buy a business class machine (which I do anyway, because consumer lines suck).

But that approach you lose wifi.

Though I have 3 laptops with both wifi and cell, 2 old Dells and a newer Lenovo.

I think the complaint here is Apple not even giving the option of both simultaneously.

1. Voice calls via POTS isn't a big thing via laptop. Most calls like this are now via apps. Hell, I despise using POTS any more, my phone SIM doesn't even do voice, all calls are VOIP now via a service that interconnects with POTS.
2. You can use a SIM dongle for laptops without a built-in modem. Though business class laptops have a cell modem as an option

There's just little call for circuit-based voice calls any more. Those connections are more sensitive to network issues, and I'd bet most voice calls are some form of VOIP anyway. If you really need circuit-based calling, you can still do it over IP using a service like jmp.chat

I have 3.

It just has to be chosen as an option at purchase time. Though usually consumer lines don't have the option.

Combination of Macrodroid's drawer feature and Jina Folders. Works pretty well.

Goosefat for grilling asparagus? Hell yea!

I think the market for it really isn't there for a few reasons.

Performance is questionable, depending on the apps. Android isn't really a desktop (or even laptop) OS from a UI standpoint. Tied to this, Android apps aren't designed around desktop use.

Then we have laptops that have come a very long way in the last ten years, where battery life now approaches tablet OS (my newest laptops run all day, which is what my iPad does if I use it all day like a laptop). Considering the battery life equivalence, I get a lot more functionality from a desktop OS per charge cycle than I do from a mobile OS (not by watts, but by how often I need to charge).

I used to take my iPad with me on trips when I needed a little more than phone functionality, but not desktop. Now my laptop is marginally larger and heavier than an iPad with a keyboard case, and it charges from the same USB C cable as my phone.

All this seems to be something this idea returns to every time it comes around. Having a single device sounds brilliant, but I'd have to carry a dock anyway, so there's not really a benefit in the end, may as well carry a laptop too.

Lol, so you were fine with Google spying with all the prior administrations back to 2000...

There is some strong evidence that Google was created with strong ties to the NSA... During the Clinton administration. You were OK with that?

That would be saying you were OK with the creation of this spying behemoth because it was under an admin you agreed with.

I'm not OK with it, regardless of which admin it was. It's not a good thing, and at a minimum violates the spirit of law.

As opposed to any place in the world that does this?

Also Wireguard, which is what Tailscale uses.

Resilio Sync or Syncthing

Ah, just saw the browser requirement.

In nextcloud discussions I've heard of Seafile. I've never used it, so not sure what it's capable of.

Ooh, ah, thinner sliders, background blur in quick settings.

Quit fucking around, and give us real changes. Like letting us fully disable immersive apps (I'd like to see my status bar in maps, thank you very much), fix the worthless waste of space oval quick settings, which I just stopped using because they're now useless. I went and loaded a sidebar app, because it works so much better than the now pointless quick settings.

And let users adjust a lot more stuff, like for accessibility. I can't imaging handing a new phone to someone with vision or motor issues. I hit the wrong thing all the time, and I don't have either issue.

Oh, bringing color back to the status bar, but only for Google icons? Can I please have the color back like I had, oh 15 years ago? So I know who messaged me by the color of the icon?

Keep on dumbing things down, while also making them more opaque.

Meh, DRM has been repeatedly circumvented. It's a cat-and-mouse game, with very few cats (DRM developers/vendors) and many mice (DRM circumventors) who are very motivated.

DRM is to prevent the average consumer from sharing stuff.

Using a mesh network like Wireguard/Tailscale enables you to have a public interface that's not on your home router, but the VPS instead.

I dunno, I've listened to some Middle English on a History of English podcast, and could follow along only slightly. I'm sure I could come up to speed quickly, since it at least has the French influence already (if I remember right).

I'm not familiar with the great vowel shift, is that a result of the Norman invasion in 1066, adding French into Old English? (That's the sequence, right? It's been a while since I read about it).

Because I don't need a reverse proxy?

Also, as for ease of setup, with Tailscale I install an app and login. Done.

Lol

Okie Pew, show me an open source spreadsheet app that can do tables, I'll wait.

Or, let's see you install Debian in one try on any of my machines. Or worse, Mint. Machines that Windows has zero problem installing.

How about cad? Or running any form of CNC? or a million other systems that have zero support in Linux land?

Tell you what, Pew, maybe you should come to the real world where most of us don't have time to play with our asses to get standard hardware, like Logitech mice to work.

And I use Linux every day, as servers. But I'll be damned if I ever use, or recommend it, as a desktop. There are tools I need (like excel) that simply must work, as-is. Unless you want to pay to redevelop all the systems that have automation to output/input excel formats that have been operating for a decade or more.

If Pew was "tortured by windows", then I seriously doubt his technical creds, , frankly.

Why? Why would you do this?

And to quote Gwen on Galaxy Quest:

Well fuck that!

Nah, your partner started the whole thing by belittling your needs. Full stop.

Move on, don't waste your time with someone this selfish. You may not be perfect, but by God, your partner thinks it's always all about them.

It's pretty simple, the candidate didn't meet the requirements.

Not sure why you're involved, this is an HR and legal issue. If HR said they don't have docs showing eligibility, then that needs to be reported to the recruiter, otherwise they're going to recommend this person to somewhere else, and run into the same issue. How would you feel if you were in their shoes?

Whether someone can legally work somewhere is not your problem to solve, unless you can actually do something, like help them submit appropriate paperwork (I've done this for employees who were temps, to help them get more permanent status).