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  • Ubuntu and Docker.

    Really? Netplan alone disqualifies Ubuntu as a “friendly stable starter distro”, and I can guarantee you that your guide will somehow become outdated with a single new Ubuntu release, or some poor soul who accidentally selected an LTS release.

    Docker doesn’t matter as much, but there’s a reason beyond just FOSS licensing why podman exists.

    Would highly recommend Debian instead.

    I started on Ubuntu similar to this many years ago and both the server and desktop experience was not fun at all.




  • First time ever I’ve seen someone complain about Pokemon on lemmy. Only other time I saw Nintendo complaints was a couple of posts about Mario Kart during the Switch 2 launch.

    I’m so damn sick of the bitching about fun games I’m trying to enjoy.

    Most of us here aren’t braindead consumers who throw money at even subpar media, much less Game Freak slop. Could probably guarantee you most people on lemmy probably haven’t touched a Pokemon game since they were a kid.

    It’s like a McDonald’s Happy Meal. It’s a targeted cheap product designed to make money.






  • Both. WIndows 8 added a ton of unnecessary operations, part in due to the horrendous new PWA system they made to replace all the proven software.

    NTFS meanwhile functionally reflects FAT32. It has no proper block allocation algorithm, so files get fragmented and placed in poor locations all over the physical disk. Tools like defraggler became super popular because they provided serious and visible IO gains from defragging your drives.

    Compare that to ext4 which only begins to fragment once you hit something like 95%+ capacity.





  • The funny thing is even though it has been done, there’s not even that much of an incentive to do it because Windows on consumer side has so little defense that most attackers opt for lazy premade viruses sold on the darkweb, and Windows on enterprise side is so insanely insecure that the only groups that make high end rootkit level software are usually government backed APTs.

    Microsoft also very conveniently avoided making a new filesystem from old ass NTFS because SSDs started popping up around the time Window’s IO operations were clogging every old machine with HDDs.

    I remember upgrading from 7 to 8 and the disk IO just sat at a solid 100% at idle lol.






  • A lot already have actually, writing was on the wall back when they dropped the version names which was also around the time a lot of the original Android hardware OEMs gave in which left us with carriers giving you the option between Samsung, Google, and Motorola.

    Then they abused Trump’s first term to ban Huawei for spyware since it was competing too well.

    The frontend UI sucks, the backend ART sucks, the process pausing system can’t hold most of your app views because reasons, Samsung removed OEM unlocking, Google has a stranglehold on decade old RCS with only google messages supporting such a protocol (wtf???), AOSP is functionally dead, Gapps has been eating the left side of your homepage for years, etc etc.

    I’m thinking about getting some handheld and making it into a PDA, like those upcoming DS-like consoles, and then maybe just get a pocket modem for phone/internet.