happyhippo @ happyhippo @feddit.it

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This guy Levenshtein distances

Indeed I have placed a pre order today and noticed that disclaimer as well.

It's not super complex, it only reinstalls a bunch of apps via zypper and flatpak, opi codecs, some python app I need for OCR'ing stuff I scan, some minor firewall config (to allow Chromecast) and some bashrc/oh my bash config.

I think that's all

Same here 😅

Well for me it's gonna be a 13, but it's still expected to be delivered during Q4

Personally, I'm more of an

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Report post. Block user. My job here's done.

I literally reinstalled my Linux distro yesterday and was up&running with the same apps within half an hour, tops.

Just launched a script and it took care of everything. And half an hour is a long time, only cause my DSL is crap.

OP I would drop the "spoiled" part and keep only the "too used to it" 😉

Barrel

Another one who knows the real deal 🤝

Have you considered a parcel forwarding service?

Sure you may need to shovel an extra 50, but might be worth it. They're on sale in Germany and France, for example.

I have put my dad on Kubuntu. Don't like anything *buntu, personally, but I have to admit it's quite stable and with sane defaults. He hasn't complained ever since and support calls dropped considerably. He spends most of the time in Firefox anyways, where I've added ublock.

The problem with Windows was, he'd occasionally browse the web with Edge by mistake (or because MS forces it down your throat), and as soon as an 80+ y.o. browses the web without ad blocking, getting a virus is just a matter of time.

All this is to say that I agree with the fact that preinstalled is key. I wish that more effort was focused on fewer distros and I feel that so much talent and energies are being lost in marginal projects.

But many people do this for passion and it's of course their choice to decide where to contribute, or whether to spin up a brand new distro entirely, can't judge them for that. I'm just observing that those energies could be better used to smoothen some rough edges on more popular distros to make them even more appealing to OEMs and convince them to ship those on their hardware.

Advice? Sure, setup timeshift backups.

Or if possible, switch to btrfs and install snapper + the grub integration. Will make it possible to go back to a previous state even from grub.

Not if you mess up grub tho, then you're screwed.

Absolutely not

Please don't be it Wifi or cellular.

The Simpsons and Friends

This resonates so much with me.

I had a similar experience with dongles, but also with some hardware like screwdriver kits.

It seems like the amount of choice we get nowadays is inversely proportional to the quality of the products.

It can become excruciating to shop for the most basic items on Amazon, because most of them are just cheap shit.

That's the price you pay for relocating so much stuff.

Not just the past few years, OP.

I remember when I was a kid in the late 90s, the standard duration for any movie was about 1h40ish. Which was plenty.

I think this trend started in the 2000s/late 2000s and it kept getting worse.

to an Italian mother

FTFY

I kept a CSV of all of my comments and posts via PowerDelete.

Then I messed up running the tool to update all my posts with a helpful message saying to reach out on Lemmy if needed. But I also kept the "delete" checkbox enabled. Ouch.

So eventually the whole script took much longer to run, edited all my posts with that useful text, only to delete them later on. I felt sorry for that case I had the best intentions, but there was no way of going back at that point.

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