sibloure @ sibloure @beehaw.org

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I got a used ThinkPad T480s and installed 40 GB of RAM in it for Qubes OS. It's modern enough to charge over USB-C, so one plug for everything. I also have a MacBook I use for school and both are solid.

This is a good question. What will the new bar be once the current "old people" are gone?

Maybe the trope would be people who are too busy to fiddle with settings, like a super busy CEO or something.

I thought you meant using any distro other than Qubes was "playing games." Then I remembered actual computer games exist.

I had backed it up to an external drive. If I remeber correctly, there may be an option to remotely connect to google cloud from within the kopia app, but you don't need to create any VM. I don't have access to Windows to test it now, but you can always download the all the explore it.

I've used Kopia before and liked it. It's cross platform and allows you to browse back through folders on a timeline like macOS Time Machine.

Yes. I think you might like this article and other musings of this guy https://robertsaltzman.substack.com/p/im-a-different-person-now

I've been using Silverblue as my main computer for a couple years now and love it. It just always works and is super solid. I layered on distrobox for any other software so I can pretty much run any Linux software ever needed and it's cleanly organized in containers.

Nextcloud News I like for RSS since it fetches the full text article. Obtainium lkke others mentioned is a must have for me.

This is amazing. Did not realize it existed. Thank you for sharing

I have had good results with Tesseract. I had to export the PDF to individual jpegs, then batch OCR'd them with tesseract, then merged the individual pages back into a single PDF. If you don't want to use command line and are okay with it not being open source, PDF24.org does a good job and does not charge.

All of that info is already available for anyone who has a government ID or census record

My mom has several cats and I tried to tell her this but she insists "this is just what cats do" and it is the natural order for cats to roam free outdoors. She thinks people who say cats belong indoors are out of touch with reality.

I guess Triangles. Most of them are too complicated but I guess they suit the KDE experience

The only reason I got Signal to catch on with friends & family was that it made group chats between Android and iPhone just work for everybody. Although if they had already been using Whatsapp it may have been a harder sell. But Signal was easy to use to figure out.

I do like the little chat bubbles in the letters d

Sorry I don't understand what this means. I am not a computer whiz but just like the simplicity of typing things versus navigating menus.

15 stories high in the air over a concrete street.

I liked East of Eden by Steinback. And Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.

I would love to only use the computer in tty but would be hard to edit images in GIMP. Or do you still launch GUI apps directly from tty? Most websites are an abomination viewed through lynx or similar.

I use this one: https://github.com/erkserkserks/openboard