I’ve got Ubuntu on my 2015 MacBook that worked out of the box except dedicated/integrated graphics switcher and the webcam. I also installed Windows which Apple puts out official drivers for. It’s just a computer, you can plug in a USB drive and install other operating systems just the same as any other laptop.

It still runs decently, I often forget it’s a 10 year old machine. I boot Ubuntu on it for work though, and boot Windows on it for the occasional game. It’s a useful machine.

I use Debian as the daily and Mint on my server haha

It’s J. K. Simmons, he was in a lot of stuff so probably.

Is printing cumbersome and difficult on Linux? Yes, it can be. Is it better than Windows? Also yes.

They are the Activator. They need to complete their duty before any of us can use LibreOffice

I used a program called Spotiflyer which also pulled from questionable sources. I was downloading a playlist to play at a party and I got the Plankton (from Spongebob) AI cover of “Dear Maria” which absolutely cracked me up when I found it.

The popping sound is a feature, not a bug. How else can you tell if your toast is ready when you’re doing something else when getting ready in the morning?

It’s not piracy but the Internet Archive also has many books and textbooks. It’s legal and free. It saved me from buying a few books in university.

I stuck Oracular Spectacular by MGMT into the CD player of my Miata (second car) when I bought it. I bought it in the winter when I couldn’t drive it so the album always brings me back to working on it.

I was in for computer science major but took lots of other electives. The only course I needed Windows for was Windows App Programming. The rest I was fine with on Linux.

It’s better than on Reddit, which was usually justified by “it’s an American site”, but it’s definitely still here and annoying on Lemmy.world.

Piper is a GUI wrapper for libratbag which supports a bunch of gaming mice that is great for customizing button mapping. It doesn’t do per-app basis but once you map the mouse buttons to regular keys/commands you could use another application to do the mapping per application.

But who uses that? I recall using a gnome plugin a few years ago that required an Open weather API key that you could use any location for.

I just chose a number haha. That makes it much more feasible then.

Once a minute, and only if the screen contents change. I imagine there’s something lightweight enough.

That’s not the worst idea ever. Say a screenshot is 10 mb. 10x60x 8 hours =4800mb per work day. 30 days is 150gb worst case scenario. I suppose you could check the previous screenshot and if it’s the same, then don’t write a new file. Combine that with OCR and a utility to scroll forward and backward through time, it might be a useful tool.

It’s an error, since no amounts of zeros, even infinite, would make it equal 10.

Not so much broken as change of focus. Their focus now is money, and it’s hard to turn down hundreds of millions of dollars.

Ubuntu has had all three of those things. Amazon ads in the search bar was awhile back. Not sure but I assume they still hijack installing Firefox using apt and instead install it using snap. And Ubuntu Pro popups are a new thing.