Yup, they already buy their phone on a payment plan for double the price, and get locked into a carrier at inflated rates. Eventually though, they could actually own their phone.
But they’ll just see a lower monthly price tag, and trade in the ability to eventually own the phone.
I could make any de do what I want, but gnome is closest to what I’d build out of the box. And that’s a very simple interface. I particularly like the finger gestures on my laptop touchpad. Once you train your brain, you zoom between desktops and programs on a single screen laptop equivalent to multiple monitors.
Additionally, I’ve found a few simple extensions that I’m sure have kde equivalents, but I’m a creature of habit. Grid is awesome, makes window tiling and snapping awesome. Caffeine for keeping things alive. And a few others. Mostly though it’s just speed of use - especially on the laptop.
One thing though I hate about gnome though is its high dpi monitor scaling support with Wayland when gaming. There’s four or five really dumb things it does. Sometimes it’s easiest to just change the resolution to what you want prior to launching the game.
I mean, it’s always been this way on the internet. Somewhere in the mid to late 90’s, a language and communication program (http and web browsers) became very popular and synonymous with “the internet.” But us old farts remember when Usenet, gopher, ftp, fsp, irc, etc. were all used daily. As the World Wide Web enshittifies, people will either stay or move elsewhere, just like they always did.
The real question in my mind is more akin to the movement between physical networks - such as when we moved away from bbs, to college proprietary connections, and ultimately to the internet. I often wonder why - with all of the portable WiFi radios we all own - why hasn’t anyone created an encrypted protocol and software where we all join our personal hardware into one big giant mesh network? I don’t even live in a city in an apartment and I can pick up 4 neighbor’s WiFi signals, never mind all the cell phones and whatnot passing by my house. You’d think we could have an encrypted and robust way of sending packets to each other by now over our personal private hardware (albeit slow and probably prone to buffering as nodes move in and out of connection range).
Define cheap? Laser printers are expensive but last forever and toner is way cheaper than ink. Short term expensive, long term cheap?
Anyways I have an HL-L8360CDW color laser and it works perfectly with every distro I’ve ever distro hopped to. I’ve changed the black toner exactly twice and I’ve had the printer for almost 9 years now.
There’s newer models and whatnot, but that one works like a champ, is bulletproof, and costs very little per sheet in ink costs. It’s got the bells and whistles too, WiFi Apple AirPrint and whatnot.
Maybe you can find one of those used? Mine seems to be built like a tank, as good as the day I got it new. I’ll probably have it till the day I die.
Edit: and another point I wanted to make, the black only models are much cheaper as well. Color laser is where the cost is. You might be able to find a black only laser printer similar to that model for practically free…
No secret technique. I go to bed when I’m tired, I’m asleep as soon as I hit the pillow. Literally-sometimes I fall asleep on the way down to the pillow. Just how I’ve always been. /shrug
Wow, I got waitlisted and thought because the price wasn’t so hot, that I’d get an opportunity to buy relatively soon. Maybe not. Good for steam, not so much for me :)
I’m not sure why my prior comment is getting downvoted, people are weird on the internet. I was confused because you need some level of expertise to install Linux or any operating system for that matter - ie it’s not something my grandma or my parents can do… your questions seem overly cautious (probably not a bad thing)
I think you’re fine based on what you say you’re comfortable with. You totally can install windows right on your existing drive, but people have been having issues doing that (no fault of their own). First, you’d have to shrink your Linux partitions - this is a little tricker than just straight up nuking a drive and repartitioning. Many Linux installers can do this for you on a drive running windows, I don’t believe the windows installer can do it the other way around (at least not with a pretty gui that’s right in your face when installing windows). So you’d kind of be doing it backwards - usually you’d install windows and then let linux fix it all up nice nice. The other problem is that people don’t trust Microsoft software to do this these days. There’s been issues with windows taking over the boot partitions and making the Linux partition unbootable. This is why so many people recommend dual physical drives when dual booting - windows does its thing “over there” and Linux does its thing “over here”. Worst case it’s malicious, best case, the errors in the past have been Microsoft incompetence.
First choice? Get the game working in Linux - but it sounds like that’s just not going to be an option and you’ve researched that.
2nd choice: I’d use two drives, one with windows and one with Linux. Also the most expensive and if the only thing you do on the windows drive is play that one game - kind of a huge waste of a resource. But easiest least risky setup from both a “oops I screwed up the install” and a “windows is playing nice in the sandbox”
3rd choice? Dual boot off a single hard drive. If I were doing it, I’d probably nuke the whole drive after a backup, and make all the final partitions. Then I’d install windows and make sure it landed where it was supposed to. Then I’d install Linux.
Last choice? I’d try to resize the existing partitions and install Linux. I would definitely find a guide for that and follow it, (sorry I don’t know of one to recommend but I’m sure there’s plenty of good ones). My guess is you’ll end up back at 3rd choice ;)
And I’ll reiterate my prior point - good time for a solid backup! :)
There’s no such thing? You’ll have to install windows just like you installed Linux. I’m confused how you got Linux on your machine yet you’re asking this question-did someone else install it for you? If so, best to not mess around with repartitioning your drive. High likelihood of you screwing up your boot partition. Best to jam in another hard drive, unplug your Linux drive and go to town. Or heck, do what you want and learn :) breaking things is the best way to learn…
Just please back up all your files before you go crazy. You can’t permanently damage or break anything on your computer, but you CAN permanently delete files you cared about :)
Congratulations! Even though they are overpriced, they are the right size and wife approved aesthetically. They are also more functional than a console. I still want one. But I got waitlisted hardcore. I hope you enjoy yours. Do write up your first impressions and a detailed review after you’ve had some runtime with it. It’ll help us less fortunate souls decide to wait out the waitlist, or go build something on our own cheaper but less slick looking :)
Ya, I think it’s much better to be honest. I hate all the interpolation post processing crap too, but it just turn it all off. I found the old tv has a lot more light bleed from the back panel, and the newer tvs have blacker blacks and more contrast. I do think they are significant upgrades. But everything else is a major downgrade from the number of ports, the durability, the extra crap shoved down my throat, etc.
But if you use it just like a dumb monitor, it’s a great cheap tv.
I’ve been rocking a 46 inch Sony xbr 1080p tv for like 22 years. It just broke last week :(
That thing was awesome. It had nine types of inputs, DisplayPort, hdmi, super video, dvi, rca. It even had optical audio in and out. It was a $10,000 tv when it came out and I watched it for a while until it was something like $3300 and I bought it.
I replaced it with a 55inch Samsung for $300. The picture is 22years better :) but the rest of it is throw away junk. It will never get connected to the internet and it will never get a software update. I think this is the logical conclusion to cheap tvs, they just become 100% enshittified.
Interesting, the interwebs just taught me that redshift does occur like the Doppler effect. Similarity blueshift in the other direction. I always thought it was just from space expanding.
Right, I was thinking of redshift. But now I’m even more intrigued. How does a thing moving toward me shift light blue? It’s not like the space inbetween us is shrinking…. And the speed of light is constant…
What the heck is blue shift? I need to go hit Google/wikipedia/something smarter than me ;)
Yup, they already buy their phone on a payment plan for double the price, and get locked into a carrier at inflated rates. Eventually though, they could actually own their phone.
But they’ll just see a lower monthly price tag, and trade in the ability to eventually own the phone.
I could make any de do what I want, but gnome is closest to what I’d build out of the box. And that’s a very simple interface. I particularly like the finger gestures on my laptop touchpad. Once you train your brain, you zoom between desktops and programs on a single screen laptop equivalent to multiple monitors.
Additionally, I’ve found a few simple extensions that I’m sure have kde equivalents, but I’m a creature of habit. Grid is awesome, makes window tiling and snapping awesome. Caffeine for keeping things alive. And a few others. Mostly though it’s just speed of use - especially on the laptop.
One thing though I hate about gnome though is its high dpi monitor scaling support with Wayland when gaming. There’s four or five really dumb things it does. Sometimes it’s easiest to just change the resolution to what you want prior to launching the game.
Agreed. Fedora is great. Although I do prefer gnome.
I mean, it’s always been this way on the internet. Somewhere in the mid to late 90’s, a language and communication program (http and web browsers) became very popular and synonymous with “the internet.” But us old farts remember when Usenet, gopher, ftp, fsp, irc, etc. were all used daily. As the World Wide Web enshittifies, people will either stay or move elsewhere, just like they always did.
The real question in my mind is more akin to the movement between physical networks - such as when we moved away from bbs, to college proprietary connections, and ultimately to the internet. I often wonder why - with all of the portable WiFi radios we all own - why hasn’t anyone created an encrypted protocol and software where we all join our personal hardware into one big giant mesh network? I don’t even live in a city in an apartment and I can pick up 4 neighbor’s WiFi signals, never mind all the cell phones and whatnot passing by my house. You’d think we could have an encrypted and robust way of sending packets to each other by now over our personal private hardware (albeit slow and probably prone to buffering as nodes move in and out of connection range).
Oftentimes I think that’s the next frontier.
Define cheap? Laser printers are expensive but last forever and toner is way cheaper than ink. Short term expensive, long term cheap?
Anyways I have an HL-L8360CDW color laser and it works perfectly with every distro I’ve ever distro hopped to. I’ve changed the black toner exactly twice and I’ve had the printer for almost 9 years now.
There’s newer models and whatnot, but that one works like a champ, is bulletproof, and costs very little per sheet in ink costs. It’s got the bells and whistles too, WiFi Apple AirPrint and whatnot.
Maybe you can find one of those used? Mine seems to be built like a tank, as good as the day I got it new. I’ll probably have it till the day I die.
Edit: and another point I wanted to make, the black only models are much cheaper as well. Color laser is where the cost is. You might be able to find a black only laser printer similar to that model for practically free…
No secret technique. I go to bed when I’m tired, I’m asleep as soon as I hit the pillow. Literally-sometimes I fall asleep on the way down to the pillow. Just how I’ve always been. /shrug
Wow, I got waitlisted and thought because the price wasn’t so hot, that I’d get an opportunity to buy relatively soon. Maybe not. Good for steam, not so much for me :)
Touché
:)
Dumb people gonna dumb.
What’s crazy to me are all the smart bootlickers in government riding his coattails. Zero conscience.
Unpopular opinion but I’m dying on this hill. Secure boot creates more problems than it solves.
I’m not sure why my prior comment is getting downvoted, people are weird on the internet. I was confused because you need some level of expertise to install Linux or any operating system for that matter - ie it’s not something my grandma or my parents can do… your questions seem overly cautious (probably not a bad thing)
I think you’re fine based on what you say you’re comfortable with. You totally can install windows right on your existing drive, but people have been having issues doing that (no fault of their own). First, you’d have to shrink your Linux partitions - this is a little tricker than just straight up nuking a drive and repartitioning. Many Linux installers can do this for you on a drive running windows, I don’t believe the windows installer can do it the other way around (at least not with a pretty gui that’s right in your face when installing windows). So you’d kind of be doing it backwards - usually you’d install windows and then let linux fix it all up nice nice. The other problem is that people don’t trust Microsoft software to do this these days. There’s been issues with windows taking over the boot partitions and making the Linux partition unbootable. This is why so many people recommend dual physical drives when dual booting - windows does its thing “over there” and Linux does its thing “over here”. Worst case it’s malicious, best case, the errors in the past have been Microsoft incompetence.
First choice? Get the game working in Linux - but it sounds like that’s just not going to be an option and you’ve researched that.
2nd choice: I’d use two drives, one with windows and one with Linux. Also the most expensive and if the only thing you do on the windows drive is play that one game - kind of a huge waste of a resource. But easiest least risky setup from both a “oops I screwed up the install” and a “windows is playing nice in the sandbox”
3rd choice? Dual boot off a single hard drive. If I were doing it, I’d probably nuke the whole drive after a backup, and make all the final partitions. Then I’d install windows and make sure it landed where it was supposed to. Then I’d install Linux.
Last choice? I’d try to resize the existing partitions and install Linux. I would definitely find a guide for that and follow it, (sorry I don’t know of one to recommend but I’m sure there’s plenty of good ones). My guess is you’ll end up back at 3rd choice ;)
And I’ll reiterate my prior point - good time for a solid backup! :)
Good luck! You’ll be fine :)
There’s no such thing? You’ll have to install windows just like you installed Linux. I’m confused how you got Linux on your machine yet you’re asking this question-did someone else install it for you? If so, best to not mess around with repartitioning your drive. High likelihood of you screwing up your boot partition. Best to jam in another hard drive, unplug your Linux drive and go to town. Or heck, do what you want and learn :) breaking things is the best way to learn…
Just please back up all your files before you go crazy. You can’t permanently damage or break anything on your computer, but you CAN permanently delete files you cared about :)
Congratulations! Even though they are overpriced, they are the right size and wife approved aesthetically. They are also more functional than a console. I still want one. But I got waitlisted hardcore. I hope you enjoy yours. Do write up your first impressions and a detailed review after you’ve had some runtime with it. It’ll help us less fortunate souls decide to wait out the waitlist, or go build something on our own cheaper but less slick looking :)
Ya, I think it’s much better to be honest. I hate all the interpolation post processing crap too, but it just turn it all off. I found the old tv has a lot more light bleed from the back panel, and the newer tvs have blacker blacks and more contrast. I do think they are significant upgrades. But everything else is a major downgrade from the number of ports, the durability, the extra crap shoved down my throat, etc.
But if you use it just like a dumb monitor, it’s a great cheap tv.
I’ve been rocking a 46 inch Sony xbr 1080p tv for like 22 years. It just broke last week :(
That thing was awesome. It had nine types of inputs, DisplayPort, hdmi, super video, dvi, rca. It even had optical audio in and out. It was a $10,000 tv when it came out and I watched it for a while until it was something like $3300 and I bought it.
I replaced it with a 55inch Samsung for $300. The picture is 22years better :) but the rest of it is throw away junk. It will never get connected to the internet and it will never get a software update. I think this is the logical conclusion to cheap tvs, they just become 100% enshittified.
Thanks! I just learned this - makes sense at fast speeds. Just never thought it was from anything other than space expanding :)
Interesting, the interwebs just taught me that redshift does occur like the Doppler effect. Similarity blueshift in the other direction. I always thought it was just from space expanding.
You learn something new everyday!
Right, I was thinking of redshift. But now I’m even more intrigued. How does a thing moving toward me shift light blue? It’s not like the space inbetween us is shrinking…. And the speed of light is constant…
What the heck is blue shift? I need to go hit Google/wikipedia/something smarter than me ;)
I mean that’s cute but not quite correct right? Depends on their distance from you I think. A very very long distance.