Linus Torvalds pointed a gun at my head and said “give up Windows, or else…”

Fuck smart TVs, I have a 13" CRT that I’m happy with and doesn’t need a damn internet connection

I’m 40 and my only TV is a 13" CRT that I’m rocking for movies and games

Awwwoooooooo!

Personally I love the quicknote tab. I use it to make fast notes for whatever I have to do or need for groceries etc

Oh it is a fantastic little hidden niche of the internet. If you haven’t got a chance already look at Gemini:/midnight.pub

Great little forum-like community

Librera is hands down the best ebook reader.

The only thing that sucks is Buran, or any Gemini browser for that matter, haven’t been updated in years which makes for some frustrating issues browing Gemini sometimes.

Eh, I don’t think it has a bad design, it’s just very utilitarian which I like. Markor is my favorite app for notes and text files on the fly.

ArwwWwoOoOoo

“Well, Steve [Jobs]… I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbour named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”

Some are talking about power consumption in this thread and I’ve had similar ideas. Gone are the days where I can run a beefy spec’d desktop in good conscience, it’s just such a resource hog. I have a laptop that stays in hibernate mostly. My other idea for a low power consumption home computer was to get a Le Potato single board and pair that with an e-ink monitor (there’s some really nice ones out there) which I think was sitting at maaaaybe ~5kwh. I think the more we can limit our power consumption, the better, all that electricty directy translates into coal being burned and additional CO2 being created. I’m no luddite, but it has impacted how I consume media which is now very mindful of the impact watching a few episodes/playing a couple hours of games versus just one or two hours of content on any given day.

Ah, nice. Yeah, I just looked on Synaptic and there’s no package for i2p.

Ah, so for in-house networks to remain secure from others on their network?

Hey, it’s my house! How’d you get a picture of it?!

So, it sounds like you’d be better off just running Tor or a vpn unless you have a specific use-case for i2p. I looked briefly at the install instructions, but it seemed to be like it would be a hassle to initially setup on my linux build.

What about NixOS? It seems to be doing something very different from most distros. I used it briefly and it was a refreshing experience to just update the config file to add and remove programs, I know that a lot of people share their configs and it makes it easy to keep programs consistent from different installs. I would have installed it on this laptop if the installer wasn’t giving me so many issues, so I ended up with MXLinux instead, but I still look on my NixOS days fondly.

That’s what I came here to say. What’s the point in making an unnecessarily complex “hack” to circumvent what shift-control-c and v does? I’ve never had a problem with it. And there’s something to be said for not making it super easy to paste text to a terminal, especially from places online…

Ah, is it considered more secure, or is it just different?

It’s easy, just don’t have any friends or family! /sad panda