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Im running Ubuntu on a Surface Pro 5 (i5 7300u, 8GB) with the linux-surface-kernel.

Generally, things pretty much worked out of the box, the only tinkering I had to do was to optimize battery life / cpu power usage when not plugged in. Theres packages that will limit your CPU frequency depending on the status of your battery. I dont remember the exact name, but it was pretty much the first hit I googled “linux limit cpu power” or something like that. Without that, the battery life wasnt great, especially when watching YouTube, but with some tweaking and the proper h264/h265 drivers, my surface achieves some 3-4 hours of video playback right now.

Other than that it’s smooth sailing all the way.

It’s simple: Either the project management team keeps the customer away from my time tracking or I’ll keep my time away from that customer

Chinese companies steal your data

Try Pixel

lol

Putting GrapheneOS on the Pixel is good advice though

Just go the last step and call it Jesus OS

Even if Fedora has a spin with the same DE, from my experience, Mint/Ubuntu still has a higher chance just work on a given system.

I love Fedora and use it pretty much exclusively, but the out of the box experience of Mint and Ubuntu is still a bit better for the average user imho.

While I agree with the general sentiment, it’s absurd to compare dried pasta to foods that dont need to soak up water.

Pasta will pick up about 100% of it’s volume in water when cooking and has about half the density of water from what I could find right now, so your 100g of dry pasta would be 300g of cooked pasta, so the effective protein density is 1/3 of that displayed on the chart

Mate thats Ireland

If this was posted on reddit, it’d take a maximum of 15 minutes for some half-brain to crosspost it to r/peterexplainsthejoke

No i write some spaghetti with a lot of bools

Autocomplete and Clippy havent translated a script from one language into another for me without major errors yet.

I use it to browse products and content that I dont want in my ad profiles. Like, sometimes I’d like to take a look at what my resident right wing nut case posted, but without having the ad brokers think that I need an AR15 and a Trump bible.

It might just be local network traffic or a dev env. Not to mention that https is just unnecessary overhead for some usecases, especially when only GETting data.

Right in the linuxy

Counterpoint: be consequential and go from most generic to most specific with year-month-day.

If something is obviously in the current year, just leave the year part.

Interested in Linux? Getting a degree in Cyber Security?

A used ThinkPad. The older the better

Dont forget that Spotify abuses its market position by basically milking smaller artists dry.

Does anybody know of a good alternative that doesnt involve either storing hundreds of albums on CD or piracy?

Counter point: Nobody knows how to operate printers and scanners because they are not build by people that are tech literate.

Give a printer or scanner a proper UI using the design principles that modern apps use and see how easy newer generations pick things up

I mean, why not? If you’re not necessarily a gamer or need computing power for dev stuff, why buy the latest and greatest?

In the end, buying new hardware every other release is also just consumerism. The performance of a modern day mid range CPU is absolutely overkill for everyday use

Pixel Dungeon! Great rogue like mobile game

You’re only using punctuation because you’ve been brainwashed

Was not a take I was expecting in this thread