crunchpaste @ crunchpaste @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I've had more breaking updates in Ubuntu LTS releases than arch based ones. Especially when at some point you always find yourself forced to use PPAs.

To me, being "noob unfriendly" is disabling flatpak to push a (semi) proprietary broken mess.

Why not arch?

I've always wanted to run a media server (Jellyfin, not Plex), but thought you need something more capable to have a good experience. Am I wrong?

You can do plenty with any old paperweight. The difficult part is thinking if what you need it to do and if that thing is worth the higher electricity usage of older tech.

A pihole then? my bad, it can't.

You can sqeeze plenty of use from these laptops, especially the really light ones.

My gf works as an arts teacher in a primary school and needed something very small and light that she could carry every day to school.

The usage is mostly very light browsing (the school system, some Pinterest), showing the kids some reference images and the ocasional document editing and printing.

For a piece if what essentially is e-waste it handles that admirably, and because of the atom processor it sips power, which still gives it a few hours of battery life after about 10 yeas of ownership.

Tldr: Don't underestimate how useful an old laptop running a minimal linux disto can be for a casual user.

Even if they run only a window manager 2gb of RAM is just not enough for web nowadays.

Recently resurrected a 10-ish year old Lenovo Chromebook-like with an atom CPU and 4gb RAM, running nothing but qtile as a DE and it's struggling with more than 5 tabs open.

Upgrade the RAM to at least 4gb, preferably 8 and the HDD to SSD.

Also, don't bother with "lightweight" browsers, in my experience Firefox simply runs much faster.

For one, the LEDs mess with your sleep. Some wavelength of light make your body think it's day therefore inhibiting melatonin production (the hormone that makes you sleepy).

Furhermore, a general advice for better sleep is to keep electronics outside if the bedroom, as they are too psychologically engaging (e.g. "I'll just check one more post on Lemmy").

I don't seem to find it mentioned: LEDs at night are terrible for your sleep, especially the blue ones. Among other things they suppress the melatonin release.

An article that goes into more detail and provides a citations for further research.

Thanks a lot.

That being said, does anyone know where can said torrents be found, and how big are they?

It was definitely much better than Facebook at the time. Especially the concept of circles that they implemented.

The riches of dbzer0 shall remain hidden for now.

Ah, I miss Unity so much. To this day I still can't get over how useful the HUD was and really don't know why no one else implemented it.

Is that even legal?

Edit: to clarify, is it even legal for a company to block access to a website based on the browser the user chooses, even if there are no apparent technical reasons.

That's really cool. Thank you for explaining.

So I guess that it only works for pictures directly hosted on Lemmy instances? Or does it work with third party image hosts like imgur?

I'm sorry about the stupid question, but how does connect compress the images? Is it on a server somewhere that compresses them remotely and sends you the smaller file, as that is the only way I can think of to reduce network usage.

If you setup a community for pulsar, you have a guaranteed subscriber in me. And if you're one of the devs I can't thank you enough for your work.

I missed Atom a lot when it was discontinued. Recently found Pulsar which is a community continuation of Atom, and it seems to be quite active.