Still, it would be giving money to google, which I don’t want to do. Also it has a camera cutout which is annoying, ALSO in my original post I claimed whenever I talk about degoogling, someone ALWAYS suggests a google product.

No, I will NOT buy a pixel phone.

Run:

df -h

in the terminal and find out.

You’re trolling me aren’t you?

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That’s how they all start…

Dissolve the HOA.

Thank you for this! Most of those bugs wouldn’t bother me except for the no bluetooth audio. I’m going to keep tabs on this now that I know it’s almost ready.

I actually just yesterday pulled the trigger on deleting all my contacts and calendar info out of google and now they’re backed up to my webdav server.

Yea, I’ve checked LineageOS and a few others out, but my phone isn’t supported.

That’s what I get for also hating selfie camera notches/cutouts. Most of the phones I get aren’t popular models. If you know of one for the Nubia Z60 Ultra, point it out.

Google. Been trying to de-google for over a decade. Many of my random asks for alternatives have been answered with “just use google, it’s free”.

Biggest problem is phones because I hate Apple more than Google. Every 6 months or so I look into linux phones, but walk away unimpressed.

Nando’s Peri Peri sauce.

In addition some things don’t work without tinkering. Last year I told a buddy to install steam on his linux partition and give it a go. He couldn’t get steam to play any games. It was a snap, had him install the apt version and he was good. I’ve heard others debug similar issues and he likely had to pass in the gpu path like in a docker.

Also it’s super annoying with popups. Firefox updates weekly. That means weekly you get notified to restart firefox to update. Dismiss the notification? Well, it’s back after a new scan for updates in an hour.

Eventually you do close firefox to let it update. And the progress bar sits there, so you have to manually force it to run despite all the assurances it’ll happen automatically.

Honestly it’s decisions like these that are pushing people away from using Ubuntu anymore. It’s becoming more and more like windows.

Top that off with ads in the terminal and I left completely.

Not NEW, but, check out local auctions. Local universities and govt offices are frequently selling lots of newish laptops (5ish yrs old) for $10-$50 apiece.

I’m no plumber, but I’ve done a lot of DIY around the house. I wouldn’t be concerned with the ptrap, probably. I’d be concerned with brand new plumbing with nonstandard adapters hanging over a bunch of exposed electrical.

That’s why we have mice copy/paste bindings on most systems too. Highlighting text auto copies, and scroll wheel click pastes. Not all do this, but many do and have for a while.

QA Automation, but recently transfered to the CI/CD team. In both positions I ‘write code’, but rarely have anything in common professionally with my wife’s friend’s husbands when they try to put us together to be friends.

Windows 10 Home

Just checked my wife’s laptop. Local account, secure boot off, windows 10. It had a message telling me to setup a microsoft account to ‘finish encrypting the device’. I clicked turn off, and it’s currently decrypting the hard drive. Blech.

Cloud-based. If a product won’t work if my internet dies, or I can’t access my data without internet or a subscription, I won’t buy it.

You can add overseer for jellyfin, emby, plex based on your preferance, and it connects to sonarr and radarr. Overseer is good for finding recommendations and adding them to your queue. The reason I’m talking about it is you can specify your language and your region for recommendations to help you find good content. As for downloading it, in prowlarr when you search for an indexer to add (public or private) you can filter based on language. Unfortunately when I did it just now for de-DE the 30 or so indexers that popped up are all private. I don’t know their quality, but that is at least a list to start with investigating how to join.

I do know the BIG english ones have a lot of content including content in other languages or dubbed and marked as multi-language or multi-subs. My recommendation is to google around for big public indexers reguardless of language, add them and search for the content you want while also working to get added to the local private ones.

Garuda - because like endeavor it’s arch for lazy people, plus I got sold on the gaming edition by how much I like the theme and the latest drivers. But that’s just what got me to try it, what sold me on it is when I had a vm of it that ran out of hdd space mid kernel update. I shut it down to expand the drive, booted it back up and no kernels present. Fiddling around in grub in a panic made me realize snappertools auto snapshots btrfs before updating. I think only once in my life (out of dozens of tries) has Microsoft’s restorepoints actually worked for me. Booting to the snapshot was effortless, clicking through to recover to that snapshot was a breeze. I rebooted again just to make sure it was working and it did. Re-updated and I was back in action.

That experience made me love garuda. I highly recommend snappertools+btrfs from now on and use it whenever I can. Yes, preventative tools and warnings would have stopped it from happening, but you can’t stop everything, and it’s a comfort to have.