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just keep the system up to date…
The idea that downloading gigabytes of packages every week is a normal and required aspect of using a computer is part of why I left Windows…
just keep the system up to date…
The idea that downloading gigabytes of packages every week is a normal and required aspect of using a computer is part of why I left Windows…
Some day most people are going to understand that “I want to post something visible to everyone in the world EXCEPT these specific people” is not a viable or reasonable or even possible approach to communication, and any attempts to make it work are doomed to failure.
I switched to Arch[-based distros] when I realized I had been getting 90% of my support from the Arch wiki for years
most applications on Linux are design / depend on [GNOME’s] components
[[citation needed]]
And, since we don’t own or use any Haier appliances, we aren’t subject to their TOS.
I just did an OS reinstall for the first time in about 4 years. Moving from Manjaro back to Arch. Happy New Year!
You’re no more stuck with Windows than a Mac user is stuck on a Mac.
Most people who “self host” things are still doing it on a server somewhere outside their home. Could be a VPS, a cloud instance, colocated bare metal, …
I used Mattermost for a community project, but had trouble getting people to install/use/learn yet another client.
You should be able to share a significant fraction of your home directory.
Web of trust solves this problem, until people start intentionally trusting AIs as much as they do other humans, at which point it’s no longer a problem.
2-3 minutes on what kind of internet connection? How long at 10Mbps?