peterg75

joined 11 months ago
[–] peterg75@discuss.online 7 points 7 months ago

Been using FF on almy devices for over a year now. Best.Browser.Ever.

[–] peterg75@discuss.online -3 points 7 months ago

Of course you can get a used of refurbished ones for less even Apple. I was referring to new devices. As an example, I use a Motorola Edge plus that I bought new for $400. It does everything my wife's iPhone 15 Pro. The camera quality is slightly lower, but perfectly adequate.

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 75 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

You're must be joking! Look around, if you look past the bitten apple, there are plenty of perfectly capable devices out there for under $300. In fact, I see plenty of people who are on the street corners panhandling AND using a smartphone.

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 2 points 7 months ago

From what I see Hexbear is pretty toxic and gets regularly defederated anyway.

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 1 points 7 months ago

No other way, if you're banned.

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 4 points 7 months ago

I got an off-lease dell latitude 7400. Tbh, got it for free, but you can snag one on eBay for under $400. i5, 16 Gb ram, got a 1TB drive for $50 on Amazon. Runs Linux very well! I'd go with a light weight is like EndeavourOS or Arch.

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Crate an account on a different instance? And oh yeah, stop being a dink?

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 1 points 7 months ago

Do a search in All for the keywords for the community name. Chances are you are either not going to find some of them or find multiple ones on several Lemmy instances. If you find several, subscribe to all and see which one is the most active, if you find none, consider starting one yourself.

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 2 points 7 months ago

EndeavourOS for the win! The speed of Arch Linux without the installation pain! Especially for older hardware?

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 7 points 9 months ago

My rule of thumb is this: if I perceive that the IP I want, was created by an individual who must have spent their blood sweat and tears creating it, I'll pay for it to encourage that work. If, on the other hand I'm being made to pay extra for something just because there's a queue of corporations that just want to profit for providing something made by others, I pirate it as a form of protest. As an example, I'll gladly pay for an ebook being distributed through an author's website even if I'm not sure I'm going to like it. But I will not pay for a cable subscription just to be able to watch sports programs. Another example: I've paid money for mobile games when I see a lot of effort being spent in making the gameplay engaging, but I will delete or try to cheat or pirate games that I perceive as pay-to-win.

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 1 points 9 months ago
[–] peterg75@discuss.online 7 points 10 months ago

Gimp, OpenOffice.org, VLC, Slackware, and on and on after that. Every flavor of Linux: RedHat, SuSe, Ubuntu, now on Manjaro and Endeavour.

 

Not sure if I'm missing something, but I have changed my password on one of my accounts and couldn't find an option in Sync to update it. Is there an option? I had to remove the account and re-add it back to update the password which, IMHO, is a less than ideal way of handling this scenario.

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