Interesting! I’ve been a longtime Linux user mostly with debian-based systems (Debian, Ubuntu, Pop!) And it’s been interesting to me how one small thing or another will do that.

For me it is usually Kerberos / domain authentication things that are unnecessarily tough to set up in one distro or another.

What caused you to abandon Bazzite?

I’ll keep that in mind in case I ever shower inside a boiler.

Not one of those but XMPP (once upon a time called Jabber) is available worldwide.

So is Matrix.

It’s great… if you love Office 2007. But it has too many weird quirks and refuses to make any interesting changes to move forward past that.

I meant more for the layman who is more comfortable with a wysiwyg system. For me it is great, and I think LyX’s “WYSIWYM” concept is wonderful. But I’d never ask a non-IT co worker to consider those.

I adore latex but the barrier to entry is a little too high. LyX is kinda-sorta there but not really.

No; the expansion slots were ISA. PCI is a different kind of bus entirely.

The IBM PC did not have PCI expansion slots.

Remember the old days before /dev was its own virtual filesystem?

Add clarinet reeds to that. That feeling of wood against teeth… great, now I’ll have shivers down my spine all day from thinking about it.

They’re pricy but not beyond the pale for an obscure theme and very overproduced components.

A lot of licensed board games are kinda shit but I’ll hold out a bit of hope.

Yeah that’s true of Google as well I believe. I think Archive is more careful, but I’m sure some books get damaged in the process there as well.

Digitized for private consumption.

Nobody cares when Google did this or when archive.org does this, because they’re sharing the results with the world. (Idiotic shortsighted lawsuits from the authors guild notwithstanding)

That sounds right.

I’m also mostly familiar with the business lines: Dell Latitude and slightly less with HP ProBook.

Given the context that we were talking about laptop chargers rather than generic power bricks, I think it’s fair to consider standard laptop power supplies. (HP has the same connectors even though their protocol is different, and I’m not familiar with other brands but I expect they are much the same).

Unfortunately, barrel plugs tell you zilch about the power supply they’re connected to. They’re a dumb connector with no data capability whatsoever, and I’ve seen the same size of plug on power supplies with output anywhere from 3V to 24V.

That’s definitely not true: Dell laptop chargers and desktop power supplies do communicate what wattage they are able to supply.

Are you saying his mother is stupid?

Also good luck with firmware updates, since most of them are extremely inconvenient to install with Linux, and also few vendors actually update their firmware any more than they need to.

Yup.

Although I’d expand texting to “messenger apps” specifically Signal for me.

Fuck SMS.