Yep, been driving it for like 2 years on my study laptops. Only ever ran into a single issue that made the laptop unusable which was Tailscale DNS conflicting with the system’s DNS (been a while so don’t remember the exact details).

If you don’t need the latest stuff, aren’t doing anything needing the latest drivers and don’t really mess around with the shipped packages, it’s excellent for just working and being reliable.

Don’t knock it 'til you try it!

sudo apt install * -y

I mean, they absolutely could and it would be absolutely trivial to compare a database of crime rates to your departure location. The question should really be “Are they checking if I’m in a shady neighborhood?”

I skimmed through Lunduke’s video (tried to find an article from him) but it doesn’t seem he gave any source and I only remain skeptical of him for discussions on Lemmy about him usually being unfavorable, so I did some quick searching to try and confirm his claims.

I did find Jeremy Bicha is a registered offender. I couldn’t source the claim of thousands before 18 or defacing a wiki, but also didn’t anything to the contrary.

I suppose my opinion just from all this is that I probably wouldn’t think it wise to have him even attending that event given (I presume) it’s open to the public, and I’d like to know how long ago he was defacing wiki’s and if he’s had a clean track record [for contributions] since his conviction before I’d have an opinion on whether he should even be maintaining Debian or other open source projects, and what risk there would be should he try to sneak spyware into a package.

I probably should have clarified that the 14m number was the estimated number of Californian residents that have Android phones as per the article, but my comment was moreso me overanalysing a joke.

Even if it were split evenly across the estimated 14m residents, it only comes to a grand total of $22.47

Part of the reason why I take good care of my little 24" dumb TV. It’s on the lower end (poor viewing angles, absolutely no adjustment on the legs) but I still have a use for it, so I won’t be replacing it.

The other concern I have with smart TVs is because manufacturers basically install a smartphone SoC, the TV’s lifecycle is now the same as a smartphone. Most people probably won’t connect a new smart TV box to their discontinued, laggy (thanks to bloated apps) smart TV, the completely functional unit just gets replaced.

We need regulation to be able to unlock these devices and make available the firmware drivers so that after the manufacturer stops support, the community can continue it (and obviously for us hackers, we would strip the system of all telemetry)

For desktop I’ve been getting playlists I like from the web Spotify UI, then using spotdl to download them.

On mobile I’ve been trying out Kreate (YouTube Music frontend) and so far it’s not bad. It doesn’t have a real algorithm but I tend to browse by genre until I land on a playlist, or go to a song I feel like and hit Song Radio. UI is still a bit clunky in my opinion but it has worked so far for me otherwise.

And what’s the insinuation here, given that being told the instance admin is a woman your response was “That explains a lot”

Open source Windows activation scripts

Enshittification truly is a shame, because my old school GPS actually does this already (Turn left past the McDonald’s) and while I have no idea whether it’s paid promotion or not on my device, I like that feature. If that feature is equally applied to any known business as a landmark (heck, even other services like police stations, fire stations, etc.) it would be appreciated by users.

Instead, and here we are beating this drum again, capitalism gets its grubby fingers in this pie too and uses it for further advertising, turning a good feature into a bad one.

I had to do a double take between this comment and the one by @davidgro@lemmy.world