peterg75 10 months ago • 88%
Been using FF on almy devices for over a year now. Best.Browser.Ever.
peterg75 10 months ago • 100%
peterg75 10 months ago • 50%
peterg75 10 months ago • 100%
Don't know if that's an option for you, but I but laptop parts on Amazon..
peterg75 10 months ago • 100%
If you want to use desktop shortcuts, you're better off using KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, Budgie, or XFCE as your desktop environment. Good thing in Linux is that you can install several DEs alongside each other.
peterg75 10 months ago • 100%
Same! My 80+ year old dad has been using Mint for years now. All he needs is a browser to check his bank account, read news, go on Facebook. Mint just works!
peterg75 10 months ago • 100%
Also, I must add this: PopOS! Is a good product for sure, but it's based on Ubuntu LTS which itself is based on Debian. It's a release-based disto. All that means extra time to wait for updated software. While it has a bit more polish, it lacks the latest features. EndeavourOS is based on Arch which is a base rolling distribution. The main and pretty much the only thing that differentiates it from Arch is the graphical installer that makes setting it up an absolute joy. It's much more light weight than Ubuntu or it's Derivatives and, being a rolling distribution has the absolute latest releases of software. I'd suggest going with KDE plasma for a DE. While I don't have an Nvidia graphics, I do know that Arch and, by inheritance, EndeavourOS fully support it.
peterg75 10 months ago • 100%
SurfShark does work on Android as well. The speed hasn't been an issue for me either. My daughter routinely streams shows over it to get other countries' Netflix selections.
peterg75 10 months ago • 100%
I run EndeavourOS with KDE. For VPN, I use SurfShark which do we have a GUI for Linux installable via AUR (Arch User Repositories). Steam works pretty good too.
peterg75 10 months ago • 28%
Of course you can get a used of refurbished ones for less even Apple. I was referring to new devices. As an example, I use a Motorola Edge plus that I bought new for $400. It does everything my wife's iPhone 15 Pro. The camera quality is slightly lower, but perfectly adequate.
peterg75 10 months ago • 96%
You're must be joking! Look around, if you look past the bitten apple, there are plenty of perfectly capable devices out there for under $300. In fact, I see plenty of people who are on the street corners panhandling AND using a smartphone.
peterg75 10 months ago • 100%
From what I see Hexbear is pretty toxic and gets regularly defederated anyway.
peterg75 10 months ago • 100%
No other way, if you're banned.
peterg75 10 months ago • 100%
I got an off-lease dell latitude 7400. Tbh, got it for free, but you can snag one on eBay for under $400. i5, 16 Gb ram, got a 1TB drive for $50 on Amazon. Runs Linux very well! I'd go with a light weight is like EndeavourOS or Arch.
peterg75 10 months ago • 100%
Crate an account on a different instance? And oh yeah, stop being a dink?
peterg75 10 months ago • 100%
Do a search in All for the keywords for the community name. Chances are you are either not going to find some of them or find multiple ones on several Lemmy instances. If you find several, subscribe to all and see which one is the most active, if you find none, consider starting one yourself.
peterg75 10 months ago • 100%
EndeavourOS for the win! The speed of Arch Linux without the installation pain! Especially for older hardware?
peterg75 1 year ago • 100%
My rule of thumb is this: if I perceive that the IP I want, was created by an individual who must have spent their blood sweat and tears creating it, I'll pay for it to encourage that work. If, on the other hand I'm being made to pay extra for something just because there's a queue of corporations that just want to profit for providing something made by others, I pirate it as a form of protest. As an example, I'll gladly pay for an ebook being distributed through an author's website even if I'm not sure I'm going to like it. But I will not pay for a cable subscription just to be able to watch sports programs. Another example: I've paid money for mobile games when I see a lot of effort being spent in making the gameplay engaging, but I will delete or try to cheat or pirate games that I perceive as pay-to-win.
peterg75 1 year ago • 100%
A fair point. I deleted my account to reduce the statistics of active users of Reddit. On the one hand, I agree that the information that exists there is still relevant and can be helpful for some people, on the other, I don't want my account to count for some stat that Spez will use to report to investors on the continued viability of Reddit.
peterg75 1 year ago • 100%
Excellent!
peterg75 1 year ago • 100%
While I agree that getting bullied in the news cycle is not healthy, I feel like getting the information about what's going on around you from memes is also not good. It lacks context and details to enable the user from processing the news with critical thinking. I don't know what the answer is, but for people who exercise their power of a vote, I feel like they need to be as knowledgeable about the issues as possible.
peterg75 1 year ago • 92%
I dropped and deleted the account. Only time I go to Reddit now is if I am searching for something and a Reddit link is part of the search and happen to have the answer I need.
Let's resurrect SCM on Lemmy!
peterg75 1 year ago • 100%
Gimp, OpenOffice.org, VLC, Slackware, and on and on after that. Every flavor of Linux: RedHat, SuSe, Ubuntu, now on Manjaro and Endeavour.
peterg75 1 year ago • 100%
Gnome online accounts are also in Cinnamon if you like a more traditional desktop paradigm. Using it now on Manjaro. Works well.
peterg75 1 year ago • 100%
Good riddance to rotten garbage!
peterg75 1 year ago • 100%
Supposedly you will be able to use FB Lite app to chat. I got the same message, uninstalled Messenger Lite and verified that FB Lite app works for chatting.
peterg75 1 year ago • 100%
I don't know if there's any gasoline car vs electric studies, but there's been some research into, for example, carbon footprint of oil drilling vs lithium mining. Here's one of the articles that has a bunch of sources sited:
Not sure if I'm missing something, but I have changed my password on one of my accounts and couldn't find an option in Sync to update it. Is there an option? I had to remove the account and re-add it back to update the password which, IMHO, is a less than ideal way of handling this scenario.
peterg75 1 year ago • 100%
FB only sparingly, just to keep in touch with friends. Instagram, very rarely these days. I don't think I've opened the app in the last 3 months. Threads, not planning on even trying it. WhatsApp every day.
peterg75 1 year ago • 100%
Try using ITTT (If This Than That).
I have been using Lemmy for a while now and decided to "branch out" from Lemmy.world to another instance. I used lasim to migrate all of my subscriptions over to the new account on Discuss.online. What I was expecting is to have the default view which is Everything, sorted by Hot, be somewhat similar between instances, but it is completely different. Can someone explain this? Does every instance build its own statistics that are used for the "Hot" and "Active" sort?
peterg75 1 year ago • 100%
It worked as far as syncing the subscriptions. I was also hoping it would sync the profile settings like languages, display name etc. Which it didn't. Not a big deal though as I was mostly after the subscriptions.
peterg75 1 year ago • 100%
That's true, but I wanted to avoid having to do all that work. :) Just being lazy.
peterg75 1 year ago • 100%
Trying it now.
Is there an easy way to migrate from one instance to another? I’d love to be able to move my subscriptions and profile settings at the very least.