What does this have to do with cars?

Necessary and unavailable?

Have you used Koreader? That’s one reason I would get a kobo. As well as their new partnership with ifixit.

I also like the idea (which apparently doesn’t work with koreader) of syncing with Pocket. I don’t use Pocket, but would start if it meant I had a nice read it later ereader.

Wife: why is my computer not how I remember it being?

Me: it’s my love language!

My understanding is that M4 is very efficient, and I would imagine that its energy use on sleep is negligible.

And as for affordability, I think the M4 Mac mini is supposed to be a terrific deal, no? As long as you use the base specs.

What does kobo do that kindle doesn’t? I’ve been thinking about switching since I damaged my kindle, but calibre works great and I love the kindle hardware.

https://itsfoss.com/install-ubuntu/

The best advice I’ve heard is to not overthink the distribution. There are so many, and the differences are actually a lot smaller than people let on. Most of the differences are cosmetic, and the differences that are not cosmetic are things a beginner wouldn’t notice, like package management policies.

Ubuntu, while not perfect, probably has the most straightforward installation process and is widely used so you can get lots of help online.

Once you get a little more comfortable with Linux, check out the Arch Linux Wiki. It is filled with lots and lots of really good info that usually pertains to all Linux distributions, not just Arch.

Start following different Linux communities on Lemmy and Mastadon, there are many great communities.

Also, there will always be assholes who gate keep - this is not unique to Linux. So ignore the few haters out there, there is an overwhelming majority of super helpful and kind people out there.

It’s actually incredible how good Linux is, and it’s entirely free. No ads, no bullshit, just a rock solid OS. It’s staggering how small a proportion of people use it.

I thought Spotify gave shite royalties.

I ran arch on it for about a year - it’s a gen 9 i5. During that time I had a desktop that ran W10 on a gen 3 i5 and was quite a competent machine. Then with W11 and the TPM requirement that perfectly good windows box became ewaste.

The laptop is fine. Windows 11 is just garbage.

Yeah they transferred all of our network files held on our own private servers over to Teams. I didn’t even know that teams did file storage. I guess through one drive.

I can’t even change the length of time before the screen locks.

No, I can’t.

Can you imagine if someone pulled this nonsense in the states???

I’m a teacher and I have a USB stick full of textbook PDFs. It wouldn’t be cool to email them on my professional account but sneakernet is the ultimate VPN lol

I have a collection of music videos organized by artist. I have absolutely no idea where I got them from… I forget how I did it and it kills me. I wish I could remember how I set it up - they seem to be better quality than YouTube and only recently got into ytdlp.

If I remember then I’ll post it on here.

Do you have a charger?

Yeah, Android or iPhone?

That’s how I hear it the most.

Anyone who has had to troubleshoot anything Windows related knows just how useless anything from a Microsoft website is.

Are you joking or are there really psychopaths on this board?

As a 36 year old who smoked almost daily from the age of 13 until 33, I can tell you that there are a lot of benefits to not smoking.