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Excel already makes it easy to create shit that's absolutely unmaintaimable, this will just make that much worse.

Microsoft is stupid, but not too stupid to realize that Excel users are generally tech-illiterate and most of them will produce garbage code.

Because python wasn't slow enough already.

At this point microsoft is actively hurting technological progress all around the world by doing stupid shit like this. I don't see how anyone could actually support stuff like this.

Oh yeah, I learned about snap the hard way with docker as well.

I'd highly recommend using a different distro for that.

They are definitely pushing it there too, but not as hard. There isn't a way to disable this shitty behaviour, you need to manually set apt up to not pull snaps for every package individually.

Yes, that happens a lot after updates to the nvidia packages. If you have nvidia GPUs, log in directly on a tty without a GUI session and roll them back to the version you had before.

Same, the wiki and forum are just too good to use anything else.

That's exactly my point. They shouldn't have to worry about it and if you pick a distro without snaps, they don't have to.

Back in the day when mobile data was multiple euros per megabyte, I had an ipod 4G as my first 'smartphone'. The UI was unbelievably smooth for the time but I found the OS very limited, so I jailbroke it and tinkered a lot with it. After the release of the iphone 6, apple shipped an update to my ipod that made it super slow. Most games that would run perfectly before became unplayable over night.

That day I made a decision to not buy or recommend any apple devices. Android was great back then, so I never looked back.

A couple of months ago, my dad got an iphone for work and after playing around with it for 20 minutes, I wondered how anyone uses this. The UI is very slow and glitchy compared to my oneplus 8 (which is a 3 year old phone at this point) even when I switch my phone to 60hz to make it fair.

It always just seemed like I'm fighting against the system. Never did I have that "it just works" moment, until I've got my first Android, and realize I have the freedom to do whatever I want with it, and I can install what I want, and if there's a problem, I can look things up and fix it myself.

I very much agree with that statement and find myself in the exact same position with windows, so I've switched to linux. It's genuinely incredible how much better it is after gaining a few dozen hours of experience with it.

Normal users do care about whether their browser takes 1 or 5 seconds to start up. That's the difference between a new device and one from 3 years ago.

And for those that aren't comfortable with the terminal, snaps are an even bigger issue. All their apps will be slow and glitchy and they won't have any idea why.

Interesting idea, but why depend on such unreliable things as mental arithmetic and your eyesight when you can just have OSMAnd+ scream at you to go slower?

I went about it the other way around. I switched to linux because I was tired of windows and found alternatives to the software I was used to along the way.

The video missed one small, but very important thing: You need to disable fast boot in windows before mounting your windows partition in linux, otherwise it will get corrupted.

The reason for that is that windows doesn't actually shut down if you tell it to by default and it leaves the drive in a dirty state. Windows itself can pick that back up and boot off of it, but linux won't detect it. If you leave fast boot on, windows will run chkdsk on the next boot after using linux.

I found that out the hard way and got to not use my computer while it ran chkdsk on my 4TB HDD. It took 15 hours.

I'd try to install qpwgraph and see if anything changes when you plug in/unplug the headphones. If not, that means the switching is done by the firmware or the driver itself and not exposed to the OS, so you won't be able to change it.

If you do see change, it'll help you find a solution.

I'd recommend against any lenovo laptop after the T580 and T490. My company switched to dell since the lenovo laptops had so many failures and weird issues that we'd have to keep an extra one in stock for every 10 in use.

But if the older stuff suits your needs, go for it. Lenovo used to make great laptops.

When I played a little chess in my childhood, I thought the only special move was moving pawns by two.

I'm confident I'll know all of them within about 10 more years of using the internet and seeing some random chess posts.

On the distros: Go with mint. ubuntu has snaps which are the perfect way to scare new users away. They make everything super slow to launch and cause errors that make no sense if you don't know how snaps work.

And worst of all, if you type "sudo apt install firefox", hit enter and press Y, you won't get what you asked for. You'll get the snap version of firefox and the only way to know that is if you read and understand the output of apt.

Qualcomm needs to maintain their drivers to make updates easy, but they usually do that for just a few years. Once they stop, updates usually stop as well because the smartphone manufacturers don't want to do qualcomm's work in addition to their own.

It's a major issue that hurts android as a whole and unfortunately there isn't an easy solution because qualcomm basically has a monopoly for high-end SoCs.

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