joel @ joel @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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My first impression was that they were Korean

I had a friend like that too, he was Sri Lankan and took offense that he was somehow not included in the blanket term of Asian. I've since learnt it's possible to be more specific and say South Asian for countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka etc, and south-east Asian for countries like Thailand, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines etc

Maybe you should read the manual on how to reply to a Lemmy comment

Preach!

Yes exactly! Linux has its pitfalls, but the pitfalls of Linux are far more tolerable for me than the shortcomings of windows.

Macs I can't speak for because I've never tried, but they seem overpriced

I started using Usenet about a year ago and much prefer it. Once you have you it set up it's very straight forward to use, and means you don't have to worry about maintaining your ratio, or making sure your vpn doesn't drop out, or piratebay going down etc etc

When I discovered soulseek and could stop paying $20-$30 per CD. Incidentally, I bought an iPod round the same time and couldn't copy my mp3s over, and that's the last time i ever bought an apple product

Ironically I've tried installing Ubuntu a couple of times in the past, but for whatever reason it didn't work. I'm currently using Debian instead just because the install worked. No idea why, maybe my laptop is just weird.

I used Arch for years because I wanted to learn more about how linux works and it was a good way to push myself. I think it worked because I am better at problem solving now - I even read the error messages lol

Umm I don't think New Guinea is part of the Australian continent. I live in Australia and they definitely didn't teach us that in school

For some reason New Guinea is included with Australia, even though the western half is owned by Indonesia, and the eastern half is its own country. Either way with the civil war going on there at the moment I'd much rather be living in Australia!

it must depend on your location cos I can still use it

My laptop is 6 years old and has been running arch Linux with xfce for most of that time. I got tired of maintaining it and changed to an "easy" Linux mint distro. It takes much longer to boot up now and feels generally sluggish in comparison to a minimal arch install. So from experience, in older hardware having a bloated distro can really slow down your system.

I'm not gonna say I know much about his history, but I am surprised so many people are jumping to take his side in this debacle. I would've thought in this day and age that people would be a bit more sceptical of CEOs.

Without knowing the real reasons behind it, it's very difficult to hold an opinion on the board's decisions

It's how people have been talking for, like, 20 years now at least

Yeah I didn't think disabling features for Firefox users would make sense. The user would have to know you're punishing them for it to be effective at incentivising them to switch to chrome.

I personally don't trust Google anyway and mainly just use duckduckgo.

Australia

What's with the "Ha ha ha ha" cartoon figure at the bottom

I think so, I only really looked at the cheapest one

Try Usenet, you don't need to worry about a VPN that way