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Why does nobody maintain PPAs anymore?
  • PPA's are the reason why I stopped using Debian-based distros about 8 years ago.

    For me, those have been the primary source of pain and anger. Back then, almost every dude had a PPA. Keeping track was hard. Not only that, but often those were full of other unrelated software or libs. The outcome was broken systems left and right.

  • It's Over for Fossil Smartwatches
  • I had gotten myself a hybrid and was disappointed by it pretty quickly. So it doesn't surprise me that they didn't sell well.

    IMO it didn't do good in both categories, smart features were lackluster and not well implemented. And the watch part was kinda OK but not good enough. I couldn't tell the time exactly and the hands had to calibrated often.

  • New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn’t Your Only Option
  • Yeah exactly this. Not only lacking direction but the Upstream SUSE recently decided to move away from traditional desktop. Instead, they now offer ALP, which stands for adoptable linux platform. So OpenSuse has no real dekstop products to build of, and the community has to do much more work in order to produce a stable desktop distribution. I was a happy user for a almost 2 years, but in that time the community had discussion about many "small" things, many of which were about "principles". This made ne very uncomfortable in using it, since it felt that every moment the "community" would decide something that would significantly change everything.

  • what caused you to get into Linux?
  • I was broke and my hard drive failed. I've heard/read somewhere that Linux can be booted of a live cd, something quite new back in the days(like 15 years ago?). So I made one a used my broken laptop with broken hdd for about 7 months, just from the live session without persisting anything. It was a pain to wait for everything since most things would have to be loaded from the dvd, but it worked!

  • Should I buy a Pixel or a Samsung?
  • All the nerds like to recommend the Pixel since it's "pure" and a device for tinkering. But ignore the fact that all google products are unfinished, and this is true for the pixel line. If you are OK with beta testing for google and doing workarounds for bugs, then this is fine. But not everyone has time and nerves for that.

    Yeah, samsung has bloat(most can be removed, disabled etc.) but I've never had OS bugs like when I had a Nexus or a Pixel.

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    How to use Microsoft Teams Privately?
  • I am not 100% sure, but I think you don't really need an account. I've had interviews where I got a link to a call/invite and opened it in the web browser. There was no need to sign in. Just enter a name and grant permissions for accessing cam and mic.

    Same as in Zoom, actually.

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