Got my parents a new computer for Christmas. I didn’t feel like acting as their 24/7 tech support so I let it with the Windows 11 that it came with. Yesterday they couldn’t get their webcam and microphone to work at all for our weekly family videocall. We ended up having the videocall on Signal. I believe they would face less troubles with Debian at this point.

Cool 😎

I never had problems with banking apps on GrapheneOS, 3 different apps, all work totally fine.

I haven’t encountered this problem myself.

This isn’t exactly what I recommend. Only in the case the hardware is bleeding edge, as in, it was released less than 6 month ago, then check in which Kernel version it starts to be supported, as well as check the Kernel version shipping with the distribution you are interested in installing. Distro Kernel version >= Kernel version where the driver starts to be included, no problems. Otherwise, check a distro that has more frequent upgrades.

Things to check: GPU, CPU, WiFi chip, Ethernet chip. In windows you can find the information in the device manager. On Linux (e.g: test with a live USB) the command lspci with display the information.

A common case would be: I am interested in Debian because I heard it’s the most stable, will my AMD 5070XT work with that ? Probably not very well, better Check Ubuntu non-LTS or Fedora.

I am not recommending op to modify the Kernel from the Linux distro, just consider this point in choosing the distro.

Beautiful work !

[email protected] is supporting your argument.

A Web browser is a complex piece of SW that needs to provide many, many, features and work with great performance. Therefore you need a large team of experienced developers (full-time and maybe volunteers) collaborating on the development and testing. This is cost in labor and infrastructures (servers, storage, internet connection, hosting of platforms, etc)

One such feature that is a must-have is playing videos, from YouTube, Netflix, Prime, Twitch and what have you. Most widely spread video codecs are proprietary, you need a license to implement the decoder and these licenses are expensive. H.264 is one such codec, very widely spread across many content and platforms. You wouldn’t want a web browser that lacks the ability to decode H.264 videos. There are many such codecs that are considered essential, and this cost a lot of money in total.

In conclusion, this is an argument as why developing a web browser costs money and requires a sustainable financial plan, even though it is open-source and developed mostly by volunteers.

My personal opinion: advertisement sucks. I don’t want it anywhere in my life. I would prefer to pay upfront for my web browser if it come to this.

Don’t know if it’s underrated: margherita. Simple, delicious.

Not sure what you mean by “collaboration”. If your are talking about working on documents, spreadsheets, calendar, slides, with your coworkers, sharing, manage access, etc. Google does that pretty well. My company uses everything Google for many years and it’s very good from this perspective. It works absolutely the same from any operating system, Google Chrome is the OS at this point. I am not saying that Google is better than Microsoft as a corporation, just saying that Microsoft has legitimate competitors on the office collaboration market.

A gamer and a musician, nice

Function over form, I suppose. I am pretty sure it’s mostly made of titanium and silicone.

It does seems like that sometimes tho, that surgeons are the mechanics of the human body, fixing you up in the most crude ways, as long as it gets the job done.

Thank you for the nice write-up!

I want to buy a new PC this year, but I will probably stick to my current 5700xt for the time being and get my hands on a 9070xt in a couple of years when they find their way to the used market.

This 5700xt is the first GPU I bought second hand, I repasted it 1 year after purchase and never gave me issue overall.

Ok, thank you for the explanation. Probably not a project I would use, but it’s very cool that you share your project!

I am not sure to understand the goals of this project. Is it only to interact with radarr and sonarr via CLI instead of accessing the web interface? Am I missing something?

I thought she had 2 pairs of eyebrows, lol. Nope it’s her hairstyle.

I think the point here is to have a part stronger than a 100% infill part. But you are right, 3D printing filament is very expensive. I have recently posted a project where I use plaster as a fill material.

That sounds… Scarry. I hope my pizza looks more appealing up close 😅

Grilled eggplant with olive oil and Parmesan is top notch ! This time I didn’t have Parmesan. The pizza was delicious, the eggplant gave some freshness and texture to a pizza that is otherwise a bit oily because of the cheese. I should adjust my cheese combination with something leaner for next time.