I’ve replaced a decent sized SSD with gigabit internet. Don’t need to store a bunch of huge games locally if it only takes 10 minutes to download them.
:edit: this was clearly a joke. Mostly*. Sorry for forgetting the /s _ *that is pretty much where I’m at these days, since all I have is a 250gb SSD and can’t afford a bigger one.
I used to have a Mac mini at work with two displays. I kept Thunderbird in one virtual space on the left and would switch to it as I needed. Moving to Kubuntu, it drove me mad that I had to move both desktops to get to my email.
It was extra ironic, because where macOS treats both desktops as the same in terms of the Dock and wallpaper, Plasma actually treats all desktops as spaces that require separate settings. So the panel on one screen can look completely different to another. So they’re separate in a way that makes no sense to me, but not separate in a way that also makes no sense to me.
But ultimately it doesn’t really matter, and I’ve been able to work with it just fine.
As someone who came to Linux/Plasma from macOS, the way Plasma has dealt with virtual desktops has always baffled me. So I’m glad to see that it now works much more like the way I’m used to. Bravo!
In fairness, it’s almost impossible to find a photo of a real PCB. They’re just so very rare.
I actually managed to get the system working, but under CachyOS instead. Still Arch, but I guess they’ve done the work of making sure that all the dependencies are in place.
Within half an hour of installing, I had Horizon Zero Dawn working through Steam, which was nice. Took me a while to get Red Dead Redemption 2 running because I have that one through the Rockstar Launcher, not Steam. But now that’s running really, really well through Lutris.
Dunno. Apple do what Apple do. Presumably there was a cost benefit to soldering/unsoldering components.
As for mine: it’s pretty solid. It’s a 2014/with a 3ghz i5 and 8gb of Ram, and honestly, the RAM will be the issue if I spin up much more.
It’s currently running
and constantly hovers around 6.5gb in active use.
That era of Macs were mid-SSD, so mine came with the option for a Fusion drive that wasn’t originally specced, so I bought an adapter and now it has / and /boot on a 250gb M.2 and /home on a 1tb SATA SSD. And a 2TB external HDD is where Nextcloud lives. Honestly, I almost never have any trouble with it. It falls over once every six weeks or so, but a quick reboot and its back up on rails again.
For a bit of fun I recently installed Horizon Zero Dawn on my M2 Air using Crossover, just to see how it fared.
I got a perfectly respectable 25fps, or thereabouts.
This is a three year old, fanless, entry-level laptop, playing a game that’s not even written for its architecture at a rate that’s entirely playable. It’s actually crazy how good that hardware is.
The last Intel mini from 2018 is still going for serious money because it’s the last one with upgradable RAM, albeit with soldered storage. The 2014 (which I have, running Debian as my home server) has upgradable storage, but soldered RAM.
I was on holiday on Greece when they dropped the iOS update that opened up third party app stores, so installed it over shitty wifi to see what I could install.
Nope, my account is British, so no go.
Fuckers.
lol
Imagine giving a shit what a sofa shagger thinks about anything.
Oh man, does that mean my sub to yt-dlp is going to go up as well?
Personally, I don’t really give a shit about how many users there are on the various Fediverse platforms I use.
As Mastodon is the one that gets 90% of my use, I’ll talk about that in particular.
I’ve been a regular Mastodon user since the great influx of late 2022. In those 3.5 years I’ve somehow managed to convince more people to follow me than I ever did in 15 years of using Twitter. I follow almost 700 people, so my feed always has something new to show me. Always. I don’t follow any journalists, I don’t follow any ‘celebrities’, save for one or two comedians. At no point have I ever thought that Mastodon needs more users, because - for me at least - it’s plenty busy enough, and does what I need it to do. It lets me interact with regular people talking about their regular lives and regular interests, and that’s wonderful to me.
I’m at a point where I don’t really care to understand why a platform must be the number one most popular, if what it already is is sufficient.
That said, it would be useful if more official resources had a presence on there. Local councils, government departments, etc… And companies who appear to have offloaded most of their customer service to social media, but stopped at X and Facebook.
The one thing I’ve never really understood is why that sort of thing has yet to take off. News outlets, for example, could spin up a server on their own official domain, and provide accounts to employees. So someone posting from a @news.bbc.com instance could, at a glance, be understood to be a genuine BBC reporter.
However, personally I avoid news like the plague these days, so for me that’s neither here nor there.
WAY AHEAD OF YOU MATEY
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Though in fairness, it is free.
I quite like the idea of people just not engaging with this.
Can’t play the latest AAA because I can’t afford the equipment for it? No worries, there’s literally thousands of other games out there.
More realistically though, people will end up subbing to a streaming service, which is almost certainly what the companies would prefer.
Everything in the US is legal provided you’re wealthy enough, or “Christian” enough.
I’ll never forget; 2014, iOS 8 had just come along with some huge advances in Siri. I’m driving across West London to pick up my wife, who’s just text me about something. I figured I’d reply by dictating the message to Siri.
After five attempts and absolutely zero success, I just pulled over and tapped out a text.
Apart from setting the odd timer, I don’t think I ever used Siri again after that. Not on purpose, any way.
Back when I used an iPhone, I had a few automations through Shortcuts, but nothing critical. Then I got a Pixel, put Graphene on it, and started learning how Android works. At the same time I went all in on Home Assistant over Alexa.
It’s been over a year now, so I figured I’d see what I can automate between my phone and my house.
The short answer is: nothing.
There is absolutely nothing that I need my phone to do automatically. Not a single task I need it to accomplish on my behalf.
I saw a post on Reddit a few weeks ago in the Tasker sub. A guy was talking about how one of his automations was to send a randomly selected affirmation or quote from some website to each of his loved ones at 7am. I’m still not quite over that level of psychopathy. The notion that the correct way to show affection is to have an automation randomly select a message to send them every morning.
Thinking on it, I suppose the biggest cost is in terms of my time.
Up until this point, I’ve put quite a bit of time into learning how things work, and how to deploy things I’d find useful, and that can replace paid for services. Even now things are set up and running, I still have a tendency to fiddle with things. I’ve spent far more time on my Navidrome server than I ever did on Apple Music, put it that way. The same amount of time listening, mind.
Funny enough, the other day when the Steam Machine pricing was announced, I noted that where Valve are charging £90 per 500gb for storage when upgrading from 500gb to 2tb, Apple were charging £267 per 500gb for the same upgrade in an iPad Pro.
That has now changed.
Apple are now charging £300 per 500gb when upgrading from a 500gb ipad to a 2tb iPad.
Three. Hundred. Pounds.