Yes, while its generally common on this platform, we are early adopters for tech so we understand it first. The general public gets exposure much slower, especially when there is efforts to subvert it for profit.

Attention and time are limited, those that focus on tech know things first. Its the same as a chef knowing about food more than the average person.

I’d caveat that if you didnt know the new choice would result in the same thing as the first choice, you still gained new knowledge by trying it out. We also can’t know all the answers all the time.

The problem really is when people assume there’s only two choices. If you dont like the choices, be creative and come up with something else.

Can you do this with a single GPU?

I’m not dependant on plex, it serves my needs best. If plex goes down I’ll use something else, like jellyfin. Jellyfin just isn’t better than plex for me.

Well, see, if I used jellyfin I’d have to be at my mothers more often to fix her shit…and I really dont want to be at her house more than I have to.

Your recommendation should change depending on the needs of the person you are recommending too. If you recommended I change to jellyfin you would be wrong, for example.

You dont know enough about plex to be able to accurately criticize it, which is undermining your point.

The same proportion will be given but the total revenue overall should shrink with less viewers, so less for each creator.

I agree, people forget how fake the internet is.

I like Olauncher a lot but I can’t do like a feature comparison with Nova, I never used it. Hope you find something good to replace it with though!

The type of person that cares will bring it up when you talk about what they use their computer for.

Graphene OS is the closest you can get to this type of experience on a phone I think. Feels like having a cell phone 20 years ago before everything was tracked.

Because you can’t really ban someone from a lemmy instance. The userbase is the type of people to get around rules like that if they want.

All good advice! I was mostly commenting on the price of it being absurd, I haven’t purchased a copy since XP possibly back in the day.

Try 150$ :(

I found popos to also be beginner friendly, and I believe at the time it was specifically for people with nvidia cards but I’m not sure that makes a difference anymore.

Either way I liked that popos was being supported as a product by a company selling hardware, it seemed more reliable at the time.

Mint is great too, I believe both have windows style desktops you can choose, and also have app stores you can install programs through instead of using command line.

I’d recommend downloading both and then load them up but dont install them as you can test them out before going through the installation wizard.

Last thing is to make sure you know the category your OS is. You will need to web search for the more general category sometimes, for example with popos it would be Ubuntu. Popos and mint both have great documentation online though and forums and such.

Corporate art will always be underwhelming.

We banned it because it was mindless nonsense and everything tried to sell you something. Had no idea about all this child safety stuff.

I think the shared experience there is gaining most of your social interactions through an video game for a period of time during childhood. Its not always the same game and it doesnt even have to be online, but its the shared focal point among a group of people. Sort of like a coffee shop or park.