The part that gets me is that the unlock is not automatic. I don’t like the fact that it is now for a year but now also Verizon has the upper hand to just refuse the unlock to anyone they don’t like.

At least it lets me reboot on my own time… But it is seemingly required to update some packages.

Not quite true on my Ubuntu system. It offers to update stuff every 2 weeks (slowest time that isn’t “never”), and then wants a reboot at the end…

This is a cool fun fact, but it’s not really an interesting picture. Should’ve been posted in Today I Learned or something instead of Pics.

This reminds me of my “Linux island” city in Cities Skylines! I can get screenshots later, but basically there’s the main island of the Linux distros/districts, where the outer parts are more noob friendly and the inner parts are more “advanced”, with the nearby, considerably more crowded and poorer Android island consisting of various Android ROMs.

I’ve done that and it’s significantly better because of that feature. Speaking of, is it possible to migrate blocklists from one account to another?

This just sounds like Factorio with Angel’s mods…

I’ve been using Lemmy less because it’s so depressing. It feels like a majority of the engagement is with depressing US politics and a strong left bias (to be clear, I also hate the current government). Unlike most, I really like most of the nerdy tech content.

Which is why I’ve been lurking more on Hacker News lately, it’s tech minded forums with an appropriate level of politics and more nuanced takes. And as a bonus the interface even less bloated (in terms of resource usage) than any Lemmy frontend I’ve tried.

GPUs will get more expensive as the VRAM will be diverted to much more profitable datacenter GPUs during the RAM shortage.

How do I do this?

Here’s an idea that won’t cost anything: Browser games! There are tons of great Incremental games playable for free on a browser, and plenty of other games too.

Depends. Reasonable volume? Easily ignored. Blasting at max volume? Very inconsiderate, just use headphones!

I hope I didn’t spam the crash records, because a week ago I kept running into errors with Prism launcher. Turns out that my Microsoft account somehow got disconnected, found through digging and running the app through the terminal. It was reported in the GUI as an “unknown error.” Please, tell me if it’s the Microsoft component that’s failing! (Maybe I should make a PR for that…)

Could you provide a link to the documentation? It’s strange that it’s so barebones.

I work for a company developing software for Windows and deal with COM all the time. How do you communicate across dynamic libraries and languages in Linux?

If you can get away with being car-free and using the bike for the longer trips around town, it’s cheaper than a car. However, since I have a 20+ mile commute to my job currently in an area where it rains a lot and can get cold, that’s a no-go.

If it takes so much effort to move the taskbar, why did it need to be fully rewritten in react native when everything worked before?

Same with motorcycling, unless you get paid $13/hr to be an MSF instructor.

I know I’m gonna get a lot of flack for suggesting this, but Vivaldi feels like what Firefox should have been. More customizability, less AI and sponsored crap. They are the only major browser offering an option for a small, reasonably sized tab bar rather than the tab bars with 3 layers of padding and more whitespace than text.

Additionally, Vivaldi doesn’t pester you with twice-a-day update pop-ups or worse, the dreaded “Restart to keep using Firefox,” it just gets out of your way like a good browser should.

And nobody is selling the basic no frills subcompact cars in the US anymore