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It's time to stop thinking plastic phones can't be premium
  • I went with the lenovo/motorola thinkphone. Kind of an oddball choice, but it has a kevlar back instead of glass, and has most of your points.

    The battery is 'only' 5000mah, but i get multiple days of use per charge.

    There were some pretty good sales on it because it didn't sell as well as they had hoped.

  • Noble rule
  • The purpose of a guillotine is to deliver energy

  • Plastic-Free Vegan Leather that Dyes Itself Grown from Bacteria
  • How much plastic is used in the raising of a cow? In either case the full lifecycle needs to be considered.

    But TBH veganism isn't necessarily an environmental movement. There's often overlap, but nothing about being ethically opposed to farming and killing animals means one is more environmentally conscious.

  • From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services
  • I run a couple small mailservers. It's still possible.

  • What's your favorite terminal?
  • I like terminology

    It’s quick, gpu accelerated, can natively display images, and I’m not sure what else.

    I don’t use the rest of enlightenment de but have stuck with terminology for years

  • Is gentoo Linux really worth it?
  • If you don't care about the benefits of Gentoo, such as the excellent use flags system, then no it's very much not worth it.

    If you'd rather that every program comes compiled with every possible option, and requires every possible dependency because of this, then you'd be better suited by a binary distro.

    If, however, you're the kind of person that wonders "why does my torrent client support sound, which pulls in these five audio dependencies? I don't ever need it to make noise, can't I just disable the ability for torrents to go 'bing' when they're done and forego installing those dependencies?", then gentoo might be for you.

  • Antimemes rule
  • K&R has always seemed like home to me, but I agree that Allman is pretty alright

  • Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown
  • Til driving a 14 year old Hyundai makes me rich.

    I think I’ll have caviar for lunch today

  • Jellyfin - The free media system
  • kodi's pseudotv does this well and you can use jellyfin as a backend

    but I'm also curious if there's a more direct way to do this with jellyfin

  • What I want to become Vs What I do
  • The company that under-promises won't win the bid, though. Unfortunately the norm now is to overpromise, and then squeeze as many extra fees and concessions out of the project as possible.

    There's also a culture of contractors vs engineers where limits willingness to work together to find solutions. "not my fault".

  • Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too
  • Nearly identical story here, and I agree.

    Habits and hardware are definitely the big ones to overcome. I still remember how absolutely lost I felt the first couple times I tried installing slackware in the 90s. I could install/set up windows in my sleep. But then slackware dropped to an unfamiliar command prompt, I can't dir, there isn't even a C drive, and now I'm expected to configure something called xfree86. Luckily I wasn't told to use vi or I'd be stuck there to this day.

    New users aren't thrown into the deep end quite like that anymore, but it's still a big change for a windows power user. So much of what you learned is not applicable or just the wrong way to do things. Mac users and Windows non-power-users seem to have a much easier time accepting the changes.

    It's definitely not for everyone (is any OS?) but it's been 'ready' as a desktop OS for me since Mandrake 8 in ~2001. That's about when I ditched windows 2000 and haven't looked back.

  • Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too
  • For what it's worth, I've found that windows and mac forums have similar issues if you approach them as an outsider.

    I feel similar frustration when faced with trying to accomplish things on those OSes. Mac forums in particular are terrible about "you shouldn't want to do that".

    It doesn't solve your problem, just wanted to share that I've experienced it from the other side.

  • Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too
  • As a gentoo user, I'm always confused when people think gentoo is about multi-day compiles. Rebuilding the whole system takes a few hours (not that I ever need to do that), and binary packages are available for the big stuff if you want it. It's basically just arch with more configuration options.

    Not insisting you or anyone should run it, but it's not as ridiculous as people seem to think.

  • Why has nobody ever heard of Distrobox? Let me tell you why everyone should take a look at it!
  • Unrelated but also kind of related: check out bedrock Linux. It’s a trip.

    It lets you ‘hijack’ a Linux install and then you can use package managers and packages from other distros. It’s magical how well it works.

  • Their Songs Were Stolen by Phantom Artists. They Couldn’t Get Them Back.
  • You can if you add to playlist from the search screen.

    I keep expecting them to break that workaround, but it keeps working for me

  • New in Fedora Asahi Remix - Asahi Linux
  • Definitely worth a try for anyone curious.

    I’ve been dual booting it since their earlier releases and things are surprisingly smooth now.

  • I hope this ship holds together!
  • My car does this automatically. If you floor it, the vents start blowing hot air.

    It does make me wonder how much it really helps.

  • I hope this ship holds together!
  • Not important, but in case you didn't know -- In that usage the word is 'eke'. 'Eek!' is the sound you make when someone jumps out from a closet wearing a spider mask.

  • Profile rule
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  • Running old operating systems using 86Box

    I've seen a couple conversations about older or more esoteric operating systems, so I thought I'd make a post about 86Box and why I like the project.

    86Box (a fork of PCem) is a low-level emulator for a wide variety of hardware from old PCs. Unlike most modern emulators which prioritize speed, it prioritizes accuracy of hardware emulation. This means it has all the quirks and features (and bios screens) you'd expect in old hardware.

    It can emulate a variety of systems from the first IBM PC up to the Pentium era. It has a surprisingly large variety of motherboards, storage controllers, disk drive models, network cards, graphics cards, etc.

    To test it out, I set up something close to my first PC:

    • 486 DX2 66
    • ASUS PVI-486SP3C Motherboard
    • S3 Trio64V+
    • 234MB 4500RPM HDD
    • Novell NE2000 ISA network card

    I set it up with Dos 6.22, Windows 3.1, network drivers, mTCP, winpacket, trumpet winsock, and I'm on the internet in both dos and windows.

    While something very similar could be accomplished with dosbox, virtualbox or qemu, I enjoyed the experience of using the 'actual' hardware. I also imagine it will support old quirky software more reliably than the alternatives.

    I think a Windows 9x system with a 3dfx Voodoo card will be my next build.

    So, Anyone else used 86Box or a similar emulator? What for? How did it go?

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