EngineerGaming

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

IDK, only times when I broke things on Debian were when I made the unwise decisions to do things I don't fully understand (that doesn't really happen now). And my elderly mom uses Mint with less problems than she did Windows.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Gen Z here, most of my online life is on IRC. Learned about its existence a couple years ago. It is very much alive, although most people left there are at least semi-technical, and I miss the non-technical crowd.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

As a Gen Z - cursive is very much still taught in first grade, and not like you can forget it either because most school assignments are required in paper form, same for lecture notes. You're not writing this much and this fast without cursive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

As a Gen Z, I just don't get it. One-off message, note or comment is fine. But have you never happened to have a long-ish conversation while on your phone? You get tired soon and want to go for a normal-sized physical keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Your supermarket accepts payments in cash, which is better anyway.

(I say as someone who pays for certain services in Monero)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

My homeserver is a one-person Conduit installation, and slowness is not something I have encountered. However, in groupchats that happened to be encrypted there were moments when my messages failed to decrypt for others. That might've been due to my own carelessness with the VPS though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

In the case of GOS in particular, it is made ridiculously easy by the web installer though.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

But X is bad, as proved by Elon Musk - so it should be the other way around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for explaining your point of view! Would you consider reselling those if the space becomes an issue?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I am concerned about the trend of "ripping disks instead of just downloading" because it's either wasteful (throwing out a perfectly good disk feels wrong) or take up unnecessary space. Plus, this is not universal because relatively obscure media may be out of print and thus scarce. So if I were paying for my media and it was not available DRMless, I would do like how I did with Steam games - buy and then download a corresponding DRMless copy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

But they need darkness, a relatively large room and a whole spare wall... Wouldn't really fit a projector screen in the little corner between the fridge and the cupboard where our TV hangs from an arm, even the smallest ones aren't small enough. And where would you keep the projector itself, on your lap?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't subscribe to anyone, but have donated to the authors I like, just as I did to the FOSS projects I use. One blogger even has a site where you can tie your donation to a specific video of his.

And for Youtube Music - RiMusic does just what you described but does not require a Google account or a recurring payment.

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