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Just like the good old days of running Windows 3.1 on an Intel 386sx. We’ve come full circle.

Also avoid handling black holes without appropriate protection.

Just like the bad old days, when entire sites were made in Flash and Linux users were shafted. Ridiculous.

My newish Xiaomi has an IR diode which is very useful to switch the AC on or off when I can’t be bothered to find the remote, and to mute TVs in restaurants.

It has a 3.5mm audio jack too.

Honest question: which euro alternatives do you recommend for mail, cloud?

the only people who like manjaro haven’t tried anything else and haven’t really thought about their distros philosophies at all, or just got really unlucky with other distros.

Look, I’ve used more different OSes than I can remember. I used everything from CP/M to Solaris. I’ve used Microsoft Xenix, HP-UX, OS/2, Haiku, BSDs, you name it. I’ve used Slackware, Knoppix, Tom’s RootBoot, Puppy Linux, Debian, RedHat Linux (not RHEL, the original), Corel Linux, Mandrake, Caldera.

I love weird OSes and their history. I think I have enough knowledge to jump ship when a distro is giving me a hard time. I use Debian on all servers, Xubuntu or Kubuntu (de-SNAPed, of course) on desktops. But my personal laptop is running Manjaro for years now because it works, stays fresh, and gets out of my way.

At some point Linux desktops bought into that whole ‘less is more’ religion that plagues Windows, and started to hide crucial things like file paths in the name of esthetics and to not confront the poor simple users with the ugliness of the Unix file system tree. This is the result.

Congratulations, this announcement really does ticks all the boxes.

Enhance your calm, I agree with you.

It’s one of those things that sounds great in sci-fi, like flying cars, until you realise that the world is full of awful people that immediately repurpose any new tech for filthy lucre / inflicting suffering / power grabbing.

Or you can just use your common sense and save yourself the cost of this ugly piece of junk.

People tend to avoid you less if you don’t look like a sneaky perv, so that’s another bonus.

Plus, you’ll not be funding Meta and you’ll have one less piece of rubbish in a drawer somewhere that needs recycling after one month of use.

We tasted some of that self regulating ‘free market’ a while ago. Banks were having huge profits from the housing bubble until the subprime crisis hit, banks went into default, and the losses were picked up by public money.

My profit. Our losses.

Customers don’t make good good communities.

You try to develop a Linux filesystem and see what that does to your mental stability. The interactions on the Linux Kernel Mailing List alone are enough to push most people off the deep end.

It’s a peaceful life.

I seem to have a tendency, a skill, a knack to choose and buy that specific hardware model that is not supported by these cool open source projects.

Same thing happened with PostmarketOS, I have a box full of old phones that are specifically not supported.

It’s a really shitty superpower.