

Please, provide the link to the article.
Mereo is a sociologist who is also a nerd. He believes in open-source software.
I switched from: https://lemmy.ca/u/Mereo


Please, provide the link to the article.


Yup. install the Orion Browser. It has adblocking built in. Then install the Piefed Web application from Orion.
Or, if you wanted phone wide, configure adguard dns: https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html


Wait, you don’t use an adblocker?!?!?!?!?!
It’s console like pc like the Playstation for the average gamer that just want to connect and play.
I will not call it overpriced because the current PC market is crazy because of AI. Even Valve isn’t happy with the price.
Overpriced would mean that Valve would be making a significant profit. They will not.


With such high number of unknowns, I don’t think we can trust the stats.


And it doesn’t support different refresh rates. The refresh rates needs to be the minimum that the monitor supports.


You do you. You’ve been advised.


So, basically, Microsoft products. I know you can access the web versions of these products, but I don’t recommend relying solely on them because the document formatting often doesn’t appear correctly in the web versions. I usually have to open them on the desktop version.
In that case, I recommend not going forward.


One concern I have is she uses her personal laptop for work.
I will never agree to use my personal laptop for work. When I finish work, I hide my work laptop under the sofa so that I don’t think about it. I need to physically separate work and my personal life.
If, for any reason, she cannot get a work laptop, I would not recommend installing a Linux distro because her livelihood depends on it.
The ISO is big because it contains programs that you can install only if you choose to. You can opt for a minimal installation.
Give us some examples of boats. My laptop runs Ubuntu 24.04, and it has been running smoothly, using only 1.2 GB of RAM after booting.


Perhaps this Firefox addon can help: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/
The ones that come to my mind that you can install from APT are:


I think nowadays it might be best to use your personal account as new account can be suspected as bots.


To be honest. Downloading Flatpaks from Flathub is the way to go.
And don’t believe the stories that take too much disk space. Libraries that Flatpaks depend on are only downloaded once and are shared with all the Flatpaks.


I guess it’s about AI being shaved down throat for financial reasons. I use AI as I perceive it as a tool among other tools, but I also I switched to Linux because I don’t want AI to be shoved down my throat.


In what way?
Indeed I hate this. I asked so that the OP can do his job and post the article so that we can we can deeply understand the problem.