theshatterstone54 @ theshatterstone54 @feddit.uk

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Something ironic here:

Pixel Pass was a program that allowed users to pay a monthly charge for their Pixel phone and upgrade immediately after two years. It was almost 2 years old.

Also some cool stuff here like Youtube Originals, Google Domains, etc.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Angular is dead? Or at least this release announcement from 3 months ago seems to suggest alive-ness: https://blog.angular.dev/angular-v18-is-now-available-e79d5ac0affe

At this point, it seems the only safe projects at Google are Search, Youtube, Gmail, Android, Google Maps, maybe Pixel phones, and Google Cloud.

I'm as shocked as you are. I mean, I knew it will happen eventually but seeing people casually recommending Chromecast here and there, as recently as a few weeks ago, made me think it still had at least a few yeats of life ahead of him.

Ironically enough, it was gaming performance.

What makes this ironic was that this was months before the Steam Deck came out and I was not familiar with Wine and/or Proton in the slightest. I just thought, "If there are people running it as a daily driver, then it must be good enough at those things".

I'd say my transition over to Linux took years. I first learned of it when I had a laptop with 4GB RAM and 64GB Storage. When you're working with something that weak, you want to minimise wherever you can and it got to the point where the only way to reduce storage use to make this machine useful for some lighter games (also to reduce RAM usage to make the machine snappier than it was with Windows 10), waa to install Linux Mint, as it seemed like the best option. Later, when I got a new laptop of my own, I really got into digital privacy and running a Custom ROM on my phone (a practice that has continued to this day), which led me to the old familiar (well, not so familiar at the time because I was a noob who knew nothing), Linux. I played with Ubuntu, Mint and PopOS in Virtualbox and about 2 months after that (if I'm not mistaken), I bit the bullet and installed Mint. Now why didn't I do it earlier? I was busy with college. Why didn't I do it on the old machine, or over Christmas instead of 3 months later in March (2022)? Because I was scared I was going to mess up the partitioning, as I wanted to dual boot. So in March 2022, I switch, and proceed to use my Windows partition.... 2 times, until I completely wiped it because it was making my life more complicated than it needed to be and I wanted all 512 GB instead of the 128GB I managed to free from Windows' grasp. Now I had to set up temporary Windows partitions twice, where one time was about Excel (my machine wasn't powerful enough to do it in a VM, and I needed to use advanced features for college, that weren't available on Libreoffice or OnlyOffice. I don't remember the reasons for the second time anymore. I almost had to do that another 3rd time because under the same teacher in college, we had to use VS. Not Code, but Visual Studio. It is not available for Linux, and I didn't have my Windows partition at the time, so I ended up doing it in class on the college computers out of spite for Windows. These 2 scenarios really made me almost hate that teacher (her attitude and some people's dislike of her were not doing her any favours in my eye) but once I got to know her properly, she didn't match the perception of her that I was left with. Anyways, that's the story of how I switched to Linux.

I'm on Fedora now (With Hyprland). Though distros (mostly) don't matter. Peace,

They're the same phones. And use the same Android distro/ROM.

In my experience, it really depends. Like, for the Arch Linux iso it's basically the same, but for some more niche distros, there might not be many seeds so direct download from a local mirror might be faster.

Mostly Steam and Minecraft

You can literally run both on Linux and it's just amazing.

I was just about to say: "Yeah, I don't need a desktop" and then I read what you said. I can see myself going to a "dumbphone" aka a phone-only phone, but this is a bit too much for me tbh.

80GB, it was 8 hours of (supposedly) 4k content in the MP4 format. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF5JWdaJlvc Here's the link (hoping for the piped bot to appear).

There is actually decent shit on Aliexpress if you know where to look. The same can't be said for Temu. I got a trackball mouse from Ali for 20 quid, and it's running great! There's also a lot of cheap Chinese watch brands that sell on Aliexpress and some of them like Pagani Design and especially San Martin, provide incredible quality for the price.

Can I just say, I'm incredibly pissed off at Xiaomi (and at the redmi sub brand by extension) at how difficult unlocking the bootloader is on newer devices. Like, you have to make an account with them, log in, and then wait 7 days, to unlock the bootloader, like WHAT? Why? I kinda understand the account, cuz spyware, but why the 7 day wait? So you're forced to use their crappy bloated and spyware-and-ad-ridden system? It's just really frustrating. Left a bad taste in my mouth to the point where I'm considering a switch to another brand for my next phone.

Honestly, I still fucking hate them for it. The irony of one of the Big Five (Facebook) providing an open source model while OPEN ai, a supposed non-profit, not doing that, is obvious.

Agreed. Both are true.

As others have said, discrete math is one of the obvious missing pieces. My uni also has C as the first language students learn as a part of their degree, and follows up with Java and Haskell to teach students about OOP and FP as paradigms. It's useful to have something like C so students can learn about memory management. I'm also not seeing anything on Networking and Cyber Security (aside from Cryptography), which my university also taught.

And nobody is questioning why M$ has SIX zerodays to patch in a single month? If that's just for a month, how many more zerodays and other exploits are hiding there? I mean, I've seen the lists of all the (publicly known) remote code execution vulnerabilities for Windows (and there's a lot of them), but still. 6 zerodays for a month? Holy hell.

Yeah, Erik Dubois and his YT channel were probably the main reasons I stuck with ArcoLinux for as long as I did, even if I did some hopping and eventually ended up on Fedora (I needed a static release)

Piracy, of course. Maybe archive.org?

I'm trying to create Workspaces support for Qutebrowser via a custimsed config file that uses session saving and loading to essentially create Workspaces that one can switch between but it's a PITA.

I'm afraid it is still super useful for finding a quick answer to obscure Linux support questions.

Es-es-eych

Zed-es-eych

sue-dough

slash-et-see

user-bin-env

Can confirm. My first tiling setup used one of these themes with a few custom keybinds: https://github.com/4ban/awesome-pro

though these are also very good: https://github.com/lcpz/awesome-copycats

And there's also: https://github.com/atsepkov/awesome-awesome-wm