I went with the lenovo/motorola thinkphone. Kind of an oddball choice, but it has a kevlar back instead of glass, and has most of your points.

The battery is ‘only’ 5000mah, but i get multiple days of use per charge.

There were some pretty good sales on it because it didn’t sell as well as they had hoped.

Nearly identical story here, and I agree.

Habits and hardware are definitely the big ones to overcome. I still remember how absolutely lost I felt the first couple times I tried installing slackware in the 90s. I could install/set up windows in my sleep. But then slackware dropped to an unfamiliar command prompt, I can’t dir, there isn’t even a C drive, and now I’m expected to configure something called xfree86. Luckily I wasn’t told to use vi or I’d be stuck there to this day.

New users aren’t thrown into the deep end quite like that anymore, but it’s still a big change for a windows power user. So much of what you learned is not applicable or just the wrong way to do things. Mac users and Windows non-power-users seem to have a much easier time accepting the changes.

It’s definitely not for everyone (is any OS?) but it’s been ‘ready’ as a desktop OS for me since Mandrake 8 in ~2001. That’s about when I ditched windows 2000 and haven’t looked back.

For what it’s worth, I’ve found that windows and mac forums have similar issues if you approach them as an outsider.

I feel similar frustration when faced with trying to accomplish things on those OSes. Mac forums in particular are terrible about “you shouldn’t want to do that”.

It doesn’t solve your problem, just wanted to share that I’ve experienced it from the other side.

As a gentoo user, I’m always confused when people think gentoo is about multi-day compiles. Rebuilding the whole system takes a few hours (not that I ever need to do that), and binary packages are available for the big stuff if you want it. It’s basically just arch with more configuration options.

Not insisting you or anyone should run it, but it’s not as ridiculous as people seem to think.

You can if you add to playlist from the search screen.

I keep expecting them to break that workaround, but it keeps working for me

We need to find a new way to hate on stupid vehicles without body shaming.

The guys with small dicks never did anything wrong. I’m sure some of those truck drivers have massive cannons the diameter of a coke can, but that doesn’t excuse their stupid wasteful vanity machines.

Complete opposite here. Typing this on an iPhone 8, and I’ve never retired a phone sooner than 4 years. Usually I give up around 6 due to lack of updates becoming a problem.

A longer support cycle would definitely sway my purchase decision.

Edit: though I am the type to replace batteries, buttons and screens myself as necessary

The news was going to leak, so he decided to get ahead of it. He very much would have preferred to finish the investigation first

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/harjit-sajjan-hardeep-singh-nijjar-1.6971605

The cheaper option would be to set up an ad-hoc tv-to-tv network. You might not let your TV talk to the internet, but I bet your neighbour does, or if not, then their neighbour will.

Have you tried in the past few years? They basically don’t exist anymore in the consumer space.

Correction: Using NVidia GPU on openSUSE experience

Yes security updates.

Latest iOS is still available to 4 year old hardware.

Based on previous trends, GP’s mom will get another year of updates.

I guess I disagree with your assertion as to what is the ‘purpose’ of the fediverse. To me choosing associations is the point, so admins disconnecting from abusive instances fits well within that belief. If the fediverse meant accepting all input from all instances without question, I’d leave here as quickly as I did voat.

I don’t mind creating a couple accounts on different instances as need be. Though I’m also the kind of person who had a handful of reddit accounts for various purposes, so I understand my perspective isn’t likely the norm.

I agree though that based on your requirements, spinning up your instance might be the best bet.

So where does that leave me?

you could sign up for a different site which isn’t defederated from beehaw or the other instances you’re interested in. lemm.ee for instance.

If your goal is to run Linux, do some normal desktop stuff, and try some games, you will do no programming.

There’s a good chance you won’t need the command line either (at first, anyway).

Linux is a very deep lake, but you don’t need to buy scuba gear and learn underwater welding if you’re just looking to spend a sunny day at the beach.

Pop!_OS is a great place to start. I suggest just getting the ISO and having a go. If you need help, start by reading the official guide:

https://support.system76.com/articles/install-pop/

I always suggest starting with the official documentation. If you ask people on forums, it’s hard to tell who is a beach-goer, and who spends their days in scuba gear salvaging sunken ships.

I agree this would be appreciated.

And if people feel like its spammy, or you decide you don’t want to continue, you can always stop some time before the 170 days it up. :)

same. it also helped to separate interests. each hobby/interest would get a different account, local stuff another account, maybe an “engage in politics” account or three (so I can log off and not get hateful replies at random hours of the day)

If I stick around I figure I’ll do the same with lemmy. So far local content, angry debate, and niche hobbies haven’t been a ‘problem’.

Video ads will run on the primary Uber app while users wait for their drivers to arrive and during their trips, said Mark Grether, vice president and general manager of Uber Technologies’ advertising division. They will also appear on tablets installed inside certain Uber cars.

The Uber Eats app will play video ads after customers place orders and continue until their deliveries arrive; Drizly will run them in search results on its app and website as well as other areas of the site.

Why do they think anyone will leave the app open after ordering, if it just plays ads nonstop? Is the idea that each time they load it to check their order status an ad starts playing?

Audio for ads on the company’s apps will be muted by default, while users will need to manually turn off the audio and display components of the in-ride tablets, according to Grether. Ad inventory will initially be sold directly to buyers in the form of brand takeover packages, with only one company’s ads running during any single ride or transaction.

In-car tablets with audio-enabled ads for a single company on repeat. Poor poor drivers.

I bet the first thing a driver will say once a patron gets in is “you can click this button right here to disable the ad (please please please)”

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lolol. great hint. I read it in that voice