southsamurai

It might make some kind of sense if there was anything close to feature parity, but at this stage in development, it just isn’t worth paying for at all.

Matrix doesn’t measure up to discord, signal, or telegram in terms of what you can do with it. If it’s going to be paid, it damn well needs to offer something useful for the money, not just lifting arbitrary limits.

Horse shit, there’s a few regular commentors that do their best with every question they can, and even more that contribute irregularly but in good faith, even if they fall short of accuracy.

Yeah, thunderbird is solid as an email client. Can’t really think of anything I need to do with email that it can’t do

That was my thought too. If it had that, it would have everything I want a phone to have. On paper at least, things don’t always match spec lists

Much appreciated!

Tbh, I don’t use actual Firefox often any more it’s usually forks, and I’m not hyper worried about updating them as soon as a new version rolls out, I’m fine waiting a few weeks.

But I have noticed the sidebar thing on my laptop. Not sure which version it’s on, but it can’t have been much more than two weeks since I updated Firefox on it, since that’s when I did a version update to mint. Maybe three weeks at most.

Ook?

I hope to fuck not.

You know, there can come a point where a lifetime appointment ceases to be a certainty of power and becomes a threat.

This is unacceptable.

I have now bitten three different devices hard enough to ruin their screen

Please, no.

He is such a douche bag, and a lot of his fan base is too.

Ngl, that’s a damn good piece.

Jfc, I can’t even calculate.

Music, if we say 10 bucks a CD, at least 10k. Probably closer to 20k, and maybe more because I haven’t actually counted in years because I didn’t see the point in trying to keep up. However, I just went and looked at the folder on my nas and it has 1k+ albums on it, and that’s way less than is on my main drive on my media PC. So even the 20k estimate is a lot lower than what’s actually there. Likely closer to the $50k mark if my memory is right. I tend to grab whole albums rather than individual tracks only, and I’m prone to grabbing an entire discography when I discover a new band. My music collection is around 2tb total, I know that without looking.

Movies, even at the same price, it would be around the 8k mark somewhere, though they aren’t all in one place, so I cant be certain. There’s a little over 1k files on the nas, but that’s only the ones that everyone wanted available on there.

Books, I’m fucked. Call it 5 bucks for a cheap paperback, and I’m close to 10k, if not over. Hard to be sure because I do have duplicates in multiple formats. I’ve whittled down to only “borrowing” epub files and converting on my own if someone borrows an ebook from me and wants a different format, but I’ve never gone through and deleted mobis and whatnot. But it’s around 3k files on my boox reader, plus more on my nas drive that I really only keep because I like having access to some reference materials but don’t use them often enough to justify keeping them on devices. So 15k there, at that price.

I just checked because I was curious. Almost 18k files of ebooks. That, however, does include classics that I only read occasionally, copies in multiple formats, stuff that isn’t for me (kid, wife, etc), and probably some stuff that I read once and never will again, but didn’t delete. So, over 50,000 bucks at 5 bucks each.

Comics, that’s easier because a scanned version doesn’t really have a monetary value at all, and most of my collection is of OOP stuff. So, depending on how you look at what a price should be, it’s $0, maybe 600 bucks at $1 each, or you’d have to track cover prices on all of it, and I ain’t doing that lol.

Tbh, I can’t think of the last time I pirated a game. I just don’t game that much on my desktop any more, and I know I haven’t in the 10 odd years I’ve had that specific hard drive.

If I tried to factor in stuff that was higher priced at some point (and CDs used to be pretty expensive), numbers would go up.

Shit. Even if I wiped out the stuff I have physical copies of, it would still be in the 100k range I think.

Alas, no. You could hypothetically replace the board though, which would allow you to continue using the rest of the hardware. But you have to source the part, and switch it out, which isn’t always possible

Nah, man, it was working in both directions for a while. I wanna say at least as far back as 2019 for sure, because I got blocked by accident by someone I know irl, and couldn’t see their stuff when logged in, nor could they see mine

That’s still a benefit of Android. As long as you have the apk of an app, there’s usually a good chance it’ll keep working.

There’s even a patched version on xda of Swype that lets it work on most devices, even though it no longer matches minimum android versions in the last official apk. It’s kinda funny, my phone still runs it fine, and it’s on 14, but I have a tablet on 13 that it won’t allow it without jumping though hoops that are a pain in the ass (but that’s Samsung, and they’re dicks about a lot of stuff).

When possible, I use Swype. I have the apk, and it works on most things.

When that’s not possible, florisboard or heliboard. Both can do swipe typing, though neither is as good at it as swype.

If you’re already dual booting, your windows install should still be safe. I’m not saying it will be, just that going to a paid version of Linux shouldn’t change anything about either install.

Afaik, zorin just uses a key to “unlock” things, so you won’t be changing anything at all.

That’s my exact distro/de combo. Never had any issues with trackpad use that weren’t also there with the win10 that came on the thinkpad. Which was just that it’s prone to detecting even the lightest accidental taps and over reacting. Maybe it’s device specific?

Edit: by device specific, I mean that it isn’t every touchpad w/Libreoffice’s issue, rather something that’s wonky with some range of hardware and not others

Really specific here, but font control.

Us folks with dyslexia in its various expressions have trouble with command line. If you can’t read a specific command, good luck ever getting comfortable with it. You can’t error check yourself, so until you build up memory, you’re kinda screwed if you can’t use the fonts that are available.