No BTW in that post. I call fake.

That was my first CD burner. I’ve actually punched cards, programmed on a PDP11 on a tty, loaded programs from a cassette and still have a handful of 8" floppies somewhere, but thank you for the “young one” 😊

12x! DVDs!!?

My first recorder was a 1X caddy unit.

Get off my lawn.

Doesn’t having WSL under the hood negate Linux’s inherent security?

I’d much rather have Windows shit containerized within Linux.

Winboat looks nice. I’m planning to play with it today. I’m also going to try distro box etc. Wish me a happy Virt-day. (yeah, yeah, I know where thee door is.)

I’ve had several French cars, starting with an R4. That one was good, did exactly what it was designed to do. Next I had Talbot Horizon, an american (Chrysler) car with a very good diesel engine. Then I had a Peugeot 505, that had a good engine that was over complicated to the extreme, to the point that the oli overflow pipe litrelly crossed over from one side of the engine to the other, a truly brain dead design. Also the electrics in the back were literally routed under the rear light seals, so a seal failure meant that the electrical system shorted when it rained, the central locking and windows actuators had similar design flaws.

I also had a Xara, which had several secondary ecus, which had to be progressively eliminated , until I sent the thing to the scrap yard, out of despair, despite having a sound body and engine.

I’m in Europe, and I sometimes play the game of observing how many old cars (15+ years) I spot by nationality. Plenty of German, Spanish, Czech, Japanese and Korean. Very few Italian or French.

My daily driver now is a 26 year old Skoda. I do all maintenance. In nearly 500.000 km, it has had zero major failures. A few minor things, starter (Bosch), two window regulators, a CV joint, and the usual, belts, clutch, brake pads… Consumables. I love how logical the engine bay is.

Why didn’t they pour money on Jitsi?

European, mature, FOSS…

I fear grift is there somewhere.

Also, French engineering has a habit of turning sound concepts into messy overengineerd but underbuilt results.

Heh, neither. Voyager had saved text from an earlier unsent reply, and on the phone it was above the fold, so I didn’t see it.

I don’t know why you are being downvoted.

The general populace is uneducated/dumb, that’s why safeguards are implemented.

I’m all for the idea of freedom, but making the exercise of that freedom informed.

I do onsite IT support, and much of my job is preventing and undoing user fuckups.

How many apps do you need to install per day? How many of those are sideloaded? I think that

If you look into fauna before each major extintion events, things get weirder and weirder, so weird that Hollywood would have a hard time selling a movie with that shit

17 years is prehistory in IT years. Basing your comments on experiences from nearly 2 decades ago is just plain useless

I’ve used random Linux based video editors in the past, like 15-17 years ago. They were… Not great.

Would you mind rereading your first sentence?

Random? 17 years ago?

No. We wete at my restaurant.

You may want to check your assumptions before posting.

A couple of years back, my sister and I were talking of buying some seeds for my mom, who’s an avid gardener. Neither of us had looked anything up. Next things we browsed on our phones, unrelated to the subject, we were served a bunch of gardening ads.

Pretty damning evidence, if you ask me.

Us nerds don’t buy laptops?

I don’t either, but there are many in my family and friends I will gladly support.

Wit

Toilet

Brother, brother.

Why would you use third party inks in an ecotank? Genuine epson inks in bottles for the ecotank are super cheap. I follow the opposite route. Refillable epson compatible cartridges with ecotank inks. Epson quality with third party costs.

I’m a fight simmer, and have used Flight gear. The main top options now are MS flight simulator, with incredible vusuals, and Laminar’s Xplane, better flight model, so good in fact, that Laminar has a version which is FAA approved for simulator hours for pilots certification, and still great graphics. Both are way, way better than Flight gear (which is truly amazing for a FOSS flight Sim.)

If flight Sims are key to your decision making, I would pay for X Plane, a pay once model, that runs natively in Linux, Windows, and Mac, then spec around that. Next decision for me would be the GPU. In Linux most people seem to recommend AMD. I haven’t delved into the issue, since I’ve had AMD for a while.

My usual decision process is:

1- analyze needs (programs and stuff that are important).

2- budget.

3- decide general specs.

4- get the best power supply I can afford within budget, gold, active PFC, modular, etc. Spec for at least 20% more wattage than maximum projected consumption Do a bit of research, googling etc. Be wary of ranked lists from established publications, as they are often influenced by manufacturers. So many people don’t understand that the PS is the single most important component to ensure that everything else works correctly. Forum/reddit threads are better.

5- a good case. Fractal is my current go to.

6- GPU

7- processor.

8- board, Ram, memory, SSD, cooling

9- yoke, joystick (hotas), and pedals. 10 - everything else.