I smoked for about 10 years and replaced that with vaping. Then I replaced vaping with chewing gum in January.
I chew 2 pieces of Extra 6-7 times a day and Blockheads multivitamin gum twice a day.
I also carry strips of foil I can spit into if I’m at my desk or not near a bin.
Based on what data?
We had an ad that actually said “piracy funds terrorism” here in the UK. Made me laugh my arse off.
OK, looking at this I can now understand why it may not all make immediate sense to someone who didn’t grow up here.
As much as I like electric cars this could be done with pretty much any petrol or diesel car with an inverter.
But not as much as the high seas me heartie…
Another way to say this is the master race are about to upgrade their hardware
Maybe in America. I live in the UK and my house is 150 years old. I grew up in one that’s nearly 300 years old.
“Please agree to our terms of service.”
“Read it all!”
I’m genuinely worried I’ll be watching TV and Clippy will appear: “It looks like your entire species is about to be vaporised by a coordinated drone strike. Would you like some help? Well, you gotta beg for it now, bitch!”
I spent years building a 20tb media archive. I got paranoid I might get caught so I turned my back up drives into encrypted Veracrypt volumes. Before I had a chance to transfer my stuff to them my piece of crap QNAP NAS died and I couldn’t decrypt their proprietary RAID encryption.
Go open source kids!
Or possibly Pakistani. That whole hate your neighbour thing.
Fascinating stuff. Think I’d prefer using this over most of the “alternative” OS that are about. But after reading more about this and Haiku I’m starting to think things like a modern web browser and video/ audio editing tools are probably going to keep me off them both for a long time at least.
Yea I haven’t heard of companies using BSD at all these days and it isn’t really suitable for desktop use. But I’m interested to see if Haiku progresses to be a good desktop Linux alternative https://www.haiku-os.org/about/faq/
Just follow the handy dandy Microsoft guide to installing Linux https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install
But seriously. Yes, it’s true that installing a new OS is a level of effort the average person is unlikely to want to put in. But they’re going to have to start because I believe the situation this Windows monopoly is causing is far worse than it appears on the surface.
It’s estimated that around half of PCs in the world won’t be able to run Windows 11 https://www.computerworld.com/article/3657628/more-than-half-of-pcs-cant-upgrade-to-windows-11-report.html
Sure, a good chunk of those machines probably can’t even run Windows 10. They’ll still be on earlier versions of Windows, even going back as far as XP in some cases.
Because of the “latest Windows” benchmark PCs depreciate only slightly slower than bananas. Part of the reason I got into Linux as a young and poor nerd was because it could run on much older and significantly cheaper hardware. But most people and organisations aren’t going to bother trying to resell their computers for the measly sum they’d get when they bite the bullet and upgrade, adding millions of still perfectly usable machines to the ever building toxic soup of e-waste and using more resources than necessary when creating new Windows compatible devices.
On top of that those who are unable or unwilling to upgrade end up with an OS full of more holes than swiss cheese that diminishes cyber security for everyone.
At this point, not switching to Linux (which is really the only viable Windows alternative) and getting the longest lifespan possible out of your hardware in a safe way is frankly irresponsible.
Home Assistant user here as well. I don’t think anything in the home automation space can compete with it. It’s open source, super versatile and works with most IoT devices on the market easily in a way that protects privacy.
I’m using Zigbee devices. Once I’ve been able to buy all the hardware I want and got everything set up with voice control via Bluetooth I plan to disconnect my pi with it on from my network so HA runs entirely locally.
Agreed. Also it’s likely you’ll be able to use your TV’s remote with it via CEC or if not you can still use the remote app on your phone.
Damn straight
I’d sign that!
No, but it’s only been a couple of months.
Plus I’m single right now, if you catch my drift.