“We believe in an open internet… as long as you use these specific services.”

This really sucks. So we’re looking at a future where search engines are like streaming services now. “Hmmm now which search engine was <insert website here> on?”

I was entering my teens in the early 2000’s. My memory is terrible but my family got a pentium 3 desktop PC and I remember I had some versions of SuSE, Ubuntu and Mandrake (or was it Mandriva by then) on that PC at one time or another. My family never knew how to use it because it was different all the time. Heck I didn’t know how to use it.

When I built my first PC, a pentium 4, I dual booted windows and some flavour of Linux for a time, but I got into PC gaming so I only casually checked out new releases of Ubuntu over the years. Once Proton arrived though it was finally time to make the switch.

I’m not a developer, I made a pong clone with python once because I wanted to learn for the sake of it, but I support a few projects financially that I enjoy, I try to submit bug reports best I can. For the most part the community is great, and yes I use Arch btw.

Pretty much what I do too. If the game goes on sale, and I still find it hard to pull the trigger I just take it off my list.

They work in a pinch but even on windows they always end up causing more trouble than it’s worth. I recently got a client business, a lawyer’s office, where their previous IT got them all Startech displaylink docks. After I replaced a couple of them where the users had some lower end i3 laptops, searches they ran in their document management system finished in maybe 50% of the time.

Good processors like the M1 you maybe can’t notice but they cripple the lower end systems.

Does anyone have a quick ELI5 for the AMD P-state or a link to some good info around it? Seems people are excited about and I’ve been out of the news cycle loop lately.

I miss the early days of android. When the next phone, or next software release was game changing. Now all we have to get excited about is 200mAh spec bumps and the inclusion of new types of data that will be harvested from us.

I organize by game release year. Not when it was released on steam or even PC but whenever that game was initially released on any platform. From 1997 to 2023.

When it comes to copies, 1 is none, 2 is one, and 3 is a backup!

This is really great! Tried it out and it’s already earned the coveted “pin” on the taskbar. Thank you for your work on this.

I think I was around 13 years old, our home family computer had Windows ME on it. It broke all the time. I think I may have tried Ubuntu first on that PC but then came across SUSE and decided to replace windows with that because the KDE interface at the time (was horrendously 90’s looking) but felt more like windows. I think I ran that on the computer for a year or so before my father made me put XP on it when that was released.

It was my first real foray into Linux and it would be many moons until I ran it full time as an adult but I have a soft spot for it.

Edit: I think my memory is off because Ubuntu wouldn’t have been around back then… Must have tried Ubuntu later or maybe I was a bit older. In any case it was SUSE that sparked my interest in alternative operating systems, and probably why I still prefer KDE.

Amazing! Thanks for bringing infinity to Lemmy. It was my go-to app for Reddit.

They’ll probably go the way other big subscription services like MS and Adobe are. Annual commitment with monthly payments of x.99 or no commitment with monthly pricing of y + x.99

I dislike that even more.

I’m still there as well, so much to complete still. I want to finish it so I can go back and finish Hogwarts legacy so that I can go back to my regular scheduled program of FFXIV.

Yeah it’s a little odd using it on android due to the iOS design, and for some reason the framerate of navigating around is very low/choppy for me. Not sure if webapps have limitations that way but otherwise it’s a great app.

I migrated back to android a few months ago from about 5 years on iOS and watchOS. I generally “switch teams” every few years and both platforms have their strengths.

I have a pixel watch now and there are a couple of compromises coming from an apple watch in my use case. Battery is no where near as good. The Stocard app where you can store many of your retail store loyalty cards is handy on a watch to load up the bar code to scan at stores, the pixel watch loads up a very small bar code that many scanners have trouble with so I just pull out my phone for that.

But on the other hand having a watch face that is not just one of apples approved 15 faces is nice. I like the circular design more.