cmnybo @ cmnybo @discuss.tchncs.de

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what happens when Little Timmy spends $9000 for Nlartbux in a mobile game’s external store?

That's why you don't put your credit card info in a phone or tablet and let kids play with it.

Play around in a virtual machine so you don't have to worry about messing anything up. Start with the basics such as navigating through directories and creating, editing, and moving files. If you break something, just restore a snapshot.

It was dead to me after microsoft bought it.

Big tech is our enemy. It doesn't matter if it's facebook or tiktok.

You typically only have issues if you want to use a newly released card with a distro that doesn't run a recent kernel or if you want to use GPU compute.

It should be able to run games that support ARM. That means you are pretty much limited to open source games. The CPU clock speed is fairly low, so don't expect great performance. These systems are intended for heavily multithreaded workloads.

The Steam Deck is the only decent console because it's not locked down.

That lets a USB C port function as a DisplayPort output so you can connect the phone to a monitor without using some laggy wireless streaming crap.

Keeping data centers cool is hard enough on earth. It would be completely impractical in space.

It's probably best to try that with a live CD.

A Thinkpad T480 would meet those requirements. Stick with the i5 version with integrated graphics to avoid overheating issues.

I would love to have a phone that I could just plug into a USB C dock and use as a normal computer. They've got plenty of processing power for that now. Every single program I use except for games could run on a phone if it used normal GNU/Linux.

If you're using windows, make sure you set it to show file extensions. Watch out for files with a double extension such as "mkv.exe". That's guaranteed to be malware. Don't open any link, bat or com files either.

They shouldn't have made it so bloated then. The 2003 version opened fairly quickly, even on a late 90's computer.

Yes, they still make USB floppy drives.

Minecraft runs natively on Linux, so it won't take them long to figure that out.

Android also shows an indicator when any app is accessing the microphone or camera now.

I'm sure someone will release an addon or some custom CSS to fix it.

Wow, I didn't realize the windows tax was that high. I thought the bulk OEM licensing was significantly cheaper than the retail price.

It could be a game issue. I remember a lot of games had issues with alt-tabbing back when I used windows. It could also be a Wine issue. I had one game that started freezing when alt-tabbing after a Wine update a couple months ago. Rolling back to the previous version fixed it.