Yo I just saw a real estate listing on one of the islands near Vancouver Island for one of these. If it wasn’t a million dollars and isolated from pretty much everything, I would definitely be tempted!

How is your network handling telemetry shenanigans?

Well yes it needs to be inaugurated first, which will not happen until January.

I interpreted “it” in the post title as referring to Linux. Firefox is “just a browser,” but Linux is not.

Damn great username btw 👌

+1 for “it’s unusably slow!”

I tried this last year with Linux Mint, and I learned that a normal USB drive just doesn’t have the read/write speed to even e.g. operate Firefox smoothly. There are different ways to address that, none of which really did the trick for me, so the best bet is to just get a drive with the fastest read/write rate possible. I’ve heard that it can run tolerably well on one of those more performant drives, but I didn’t try it myself.

Same experience with my relatives. I had some family whose Macbooks were no longer able to update (for Apple forced obsolescence reasons). They run Mint now, and have never had a single problem since I first set them up.

Well, one of them called me because they couldn’t figure out how to attach a file to an email… But that problem would have been identical on Mac OS.

Barbed wire gardens. Painful to get in, painful to get out.

E x a c t l y! On Windows/Mac, you’re less inclined to be charitable, because most of the time you’re facing down artificially-imposed limitations on how you can interact with your own machine. They seem to say “You’re too dumb to be allowed to mess with that,” which is a tolerable slight if it Just Works every time… But when it doesn’t, ohhh boy…

I think they dissed “corporate cities,” which I interpreted as related to company towns, like the so-called Foxconn City or iPhone City in China. Not cities in general.

Some suburbs are nice, too.

Ah but you see, you need the blockchain version in order to be, uh… [checks notes] computationally intensive and bad for the environment…?

Mom can we have Linux?

No

sudo Mom can we have Linux?

Oh nice-- Maybe those would be better recommendation for this purpose, then. I love Resolve, but I wouldn’t want to tell a new Linux user “It doesn’t work on your distro, but you can MAKE it work if you are computers enough.”

Last time I checked, Davinci Resolve (which is fantastic, btw) is only officially supported on CentOS for some reason. There are guides/scripts that allege to make it work on other distros, but I had zero luck with them on Mint when I tried like a year ago.

No podium finish for them :(

Depending on what skills you have for the “set it up” part, it seems like it’d be pretty straightforward to throw a script around Speedtest CLI to do that. I guess LibreSpeed has a CLI version too.

Cool! Thanks for chiming in :)

Hell yeah monetized validation! 🤲

I believe it predates Lemmy and isn’t particularly associated with it. I would endorse adopting it either formally or informally, though.

Have an updoot anyway, for good vibes.