I don’t disagree, but it’s not the issue being discussed? 🤷‍♂️

That’s a fair point, it’s also not the issue at hand 🤷‍♂️

I’d rather not disclose my age on this account, but, let’s just say we’re not newly married.

I will admit my statement about location sharing only being a problem if you’ve already got problems was a bit too binary. The issue is more nuanced.

I see you’re focusing on the cheating aspect, which to your credit is what the OP is all about. But from our perspective, that’s not even an issue or a use case for the technology. We have full trust in each other. The technology is simply useful for other reasons.

Did she make it to work in the snowstorm or rainstorm?

Huh she’s usually home by now, is she unconscious in a ditch or just stopped at the store?

Dinner is almost ready, I just need to put this in the oven so it’s ready to come out the second she walks in the door, let me make sure she’s actually on her way home. Oh, she must have gotten held up at work, I’ll wait a few more minutes.

Stuff like that. Yeah there’s other ways of solving those problems, and that’s fine too, we just prefer the convenience.

We don’t share locations because we don’t trust each other, we share because it’s convenient. I guess you could say we trust each other not to go crazy with it 🤷‍♂️

We have married friends who won’t share with each other, and that’s fine too.

I’ll retract my earlier statement. Location sharing is a sensitive subject, with lots of facets. Sharing or not is a personal choice. And while there can be practical benefits, I think most people would agree that using it for cheating prevention is… Unhealthy.

Never went to work in a snowstorm? Or heavy rain?

I’m not OP, but my wife and I share locations, it’s endlessly convenient for coordinating. Never abused.

Been sharing with select friends and family for years now, zero issues. And if we did have an issue? I’m turning it off for you 🤷‍♂️ pretty simple. Frequently extremely convenient.

A friend of a friend of mine is sharing with a friend of theirs. And it’s a crap show like you said, coming over, inviting themselves to events, why were you there, etc. Everything you said. And it’s still a problem, to the point where they leave their phone at home if they are doing anything sensitive, because they are afraid of hurting the person’s feelings by turning it off 🙄

I think the key is having a backbone, and also not having crap friends 🤷‍♂️

Same. For this to be a problem, you must first have other problems.

I don’t know any of the law for sure, but isn’t that a different argument entirely?

In one case, an EU resident buys a product in the EU, decides to use it while in the US for a week/month whatever. The argument is that he’s protected.

You’re saying that’s not true, because if he buys it in the USA, then he’s not protected.

But, that wasn’t the argument, was it? It’s different?

I’m constantly trying to touch the screen on my work provided laptop, and my FW13. I spent a long time with a fancy Chromebook for my couch computing needs, when away from the desktop.

Another vote here for framework 13. Love mine.

I’ve had mine about 4 months, minimal issues. I got a 7840U slightly on sale when the new AI 300 series came out.

I’m also running fedora 42, but it’s Bluefin, based on silverblue. Everything works out of the box.

My biggest complaint is the sleep battery drain, iirc it’s something like a few percent per hour, so I just get in the habit of turning it completely off if I’m not home with it plugged in. Otherwise it’s dead when I need it, which sucks.

Also the fan can be a little loud and overzealous under barely moderate load, though I’ve found keeping it in power saving mode helps keep things cooler. Though I’ve been using it for note taking during some schooling this week, and it’s been stone cold and silent, lasts all day on a single charge. So it definitely depends on your load. I appreciate having the power available when I need it, but wish it was better at keeping itself underclocked (or whatever it needs to do).

And finally the stock Wi-Fi 6 card in it gives some people problems with certain routers. Though I’ve only ever had problems with my parents starlink router 🤷‍♂️ That’s a quick $20 upgrade though, to Wi-Fi 7, I just haven’t needed to 🤷‍♂️

But still I’d buy another in a heartbeat.

Keyboard is great. Screen (2.8k) looks great to my eyes, though others say it has issues. No flex in the body. Touchpad is a little funky, but still great.

Plus when I want to upgrade the platform in a few years, or any component breaks before then, I can just fix it or upgrade it.

Highly recommend.

I’m on silverblue, well, bluefin, specifically.

So far so happy 🤷‍♂️

Is this different from !localllama@sh.itjust.works?

That community is quite active already, and helped me get up and running and interested in local LLMs.

Why don’t you just get one beefy computer, then use something like Nucleus Co-op to split screen multiple sessions of the game on one TV?

Or if you’ve already got multiple copies of the game on multiple devices, you can use something like a multiviewer to split it up.

No need for a special TV in either case 😉

I’ve definitely pulled my hair out with docker too. Banged my head against the wall for a couple days before finally giving up.

I’m not ridiculously tech savvy, but I’ve tinkered with Linux since I was young, daily drive it on my laptop. I’m not afraid of the command line, and I’m smart enough to search for help and guides when I need it.

But something about docker just breaks my brain. Maybe I’m too old and there’s too much abstract thought required, I don’t know. But I can’t figure it out.

I was thinking more like using an immutable or atomic os instead, like bazzite or bluefin. At least then you get regular updates, and core functionality is safely protected.

Nice! All the more reason to go with a distro that’s already suited to your needs. Just my opinion, obviously 🤷‍♂️

It’s more stable. But as I understand, it doesn’t come with any proprietary drivers or blobs, so you’ve got to do an amount of tinkering and configuring to get it running for gaming. Especially if you’ve got Nvidia GPU.

Whereas with nobara or bazzite, those features are baked in already, by professionals.

You need them either way, so my question is, who do you trust more? Yourself? Or the developers behind the gaming oriented flavors of Fedora?

I went with Bluefin, based on silverblue, based on Fedora. It has all the gaming stuff I need, plus like bazzite, it’s immutable (ish), so while it’s harder to do some stuff the normal Linux way, it’s also significantly more stable, because nothing I do or install ever touches the core operating system files. I can’t break anything, and this makes me happy 😁

Thanks!

That’s fair, wrong word used. The idea is that someone casually looking at it will not know how to read it.

Thanks 👍

Kind reminder that words have meaning, and your tone, to me at least, is coming across very combative. I’m just trying to have a conversation 🤷‍♂️

I’m sorry that $100 is out of your reach. The economy isn’t getting any better, it seems.

Truly it seems to me that based on your requirements for hobbies, this is one you may have to pass up. Which stinks, but sometimes that’s how it goes.

For a lot of people, $100 is still a lot of money, but not out of the realm of possibility for a hobby startup. If they were interested, that is.

All that said, going to a club and hanging out with people who have the equipment and would love to share and teach you, is completely free, and a valid option. My club’s radio room is open every Saturday for anyone who wants to warm some clouds with RF. If you’re not licensed, someone will sit with you so you can use their callsign.

There are some crusty old curmudgeony farts in this hobby, sure. But if you only ever look at the negative, you’ll never see the positive. Lot of chill people, some normal, some weird, all harmless, who want to help you 🤷‍♂️

City living is tough for ham activities, that’s fair. I’m in an apartment myself. But I go hiking and bring the radio, set up a hammock and vibe. But that’s not for everyone either.

I agree wholeheartedly, local repeaters don’t really have much of a place anymore. My buddies and I used to chat on our respective drives to work every day, and home. That was a fun way to keep in touch. But we kind of drifted out of the habit.

You have a transmitting SDR? That’s basically a ham radio, which is cool! And also technically illegal to transmit anywhere without a license as it’s not type certified. Maybe the ISM bands are ok? I can’t remember. Anywho I’m no snitch, just letting you know 🤷‍♂️

Bottom line I guess is yeah, sometimes it’s just not for everyone. And that’s ok.