The last computer I built for my dad before he passed ran Xubuntu LTS exclusively for about half a decade. No problems. He did updates himself.
SeikoAlpinist
joined 5 months ago
Endeavour sway edition was great at this.
Mess with the best, Die like the rest.
Debian.
If you want to try something different, maybe LMDE.
It's funny that we buy these metal and glass phones and then protect them with rubber and plastic cases.
New phones are made to show wear so that they lose resale value.
- MS-DOS 6.22 / Windows for Workgroups 3.11
- Red Hat Linux 5.2
- Slackware Linux 3.5
- FreeBSD 3.2 -> FreeBSD 6.0
- Kubuntu 6.06
- Linux Mint Darnya
- Arch Linux with KDEmod and oss4, later with awesome window manager
- Fedora Leonidas, Constantine
- Microsoft Windows 7
- Fedora Goddard, Lovelock (this time with KDE)
- OpenBSD 4.9 -> OpenBSD 7.0
- Debian stable (buster, then bullseye, now bookworm)
I left OpenBSD reluctantly when I found that it wasn't meeting my needs anymore. I needed an iPad Pro and an iPhone to fill in the missing functionality and they don't play nice with OpenBSD for things like transferring files, photos, etc.
I've since converted the family to Debian stable. Backports and flatpak make it incredibly reliable. We can do everything from here and its well documented for every use case. Video chats, zoom conference calls, file sync/sharing, bluetooth music through Spotify, etc. Started with buster when it was the stable distro; jumped early to bullseye during the freeze; and now holding onto bookworm.
Exactly. Getting rid of the lawn altogether is the first step. Plant more trees, grow a garden, plant native plants for pollinators.
Having a big yard full of grass that you need an ICE powered by fossil fuels to maintain is soulless insanity.
I like the design and wish manufacturers in general were a little more flashy with their phones. This photo is reminiscent of the last days of Nokia.
But if this is anything like the days of HMD Nokia partnership/branding, it is pure trash. I owned the X20, XR20, and T10 tablets since new and none of them work anymore, and the XR20 never got the updates it was promised.
Thanks, I see it now; it was user error as I had not enabled JavaScript for that site.
Thanks for sharing. So the US is not competitive on price and scale when it comes to EVs and solar panels, and therefore the powers that be argue that we need to actively harm US consumers through protectionist measures in order to protect business. How is that even remotely responsible?
Also, the article is critical of Chinese factories for mass producing solar panels in large quantities all the time instead of laying off employees when demand is low. I mean, this helps deliver a solution to a problem that the US fails to acknowledge. If only the US had that kind of ambition....
I don't have access to read the full article, but how is this a bad thing?
It seems, from the first couple of paragraphs I read, that China is flooding the market with lower cost products that are better for the environment than status quo.
Why does it matter where the come from? Is this not a net positive? Is the USA so afraid of China that they would rather have everyone spending more money, and using traditional ICE vehicles?
Again, I don't have the full article but I don't see this as a worry.
I used to prefer ThinkPads but I've moved on. I have had lots of reliability problems with them over the past few years. I had keys fall off a newer ThinkPad keyboard (which wasn't user replaceable) and another new ThinkPad just die under warranty and the repair person damaged it further when trying to fix it.
I am on System76 now and have no issues and they do good things like right to repair and Coreboot.
If I had to choose a single laptop for everything, it would be the Toughbook 40. I have one for work and it has a 1200 nit display. It runs Ubuntu LTS perfectly. It costs several thousand dollars new but has swapable components, multiple batteries, and part availability is measured in decades. You can get an older CF-31 or CF-54 for a few hundred dollars and still find new components for it.