Breakaway charge cable for my phone! They act like those old MagSafe chargers for Mac, and when I’m clumsy, instead of a busted off charge port, no damage! I also have curious cats who can test gravity without wrecking my phone.
Breakaway charge cable for my phone! They act like those old MagSafe chargers for Mac, and when I’m clumsy, instead of a busted off charge port, no damage! I also have curious cats who can test gravity without wrecking my phone.
I am in school, and make heavy use of Teams and Office, and do just fine in Linux! 365 on the web, Libre Office, and Teams in a Flatpak. My instructors can’t wrap their heads around it. I’m the only one in my program! (IT, no less.)
Amazing! 16 years with Ubuntu, and now I know!
I thought that dogs were boys and cats were girls. No idea why.
Its funny, my niece made it to like 8 thinking that aunts were adults and uncles were kids. She had one young uncle, and me. Called me “Auntie Phanto.” I still haven’t lived it down.
Wait… Someone explain things to me!
They have a web presence. They resell a lot of stuff on eBay too, and have a store.
Only, like,half. Hehe.
We have an electronics recycler in my town, and most of my stuff comes from them.
He was the worst! Zuckerberg levels of pseudo-humanity. Of course, he got promoted up and away.
I had a Pebble. It rocked, it died, nothing has ever been as good. sniff, sniff
Ugh. There’s a book about how to be a better boss, and one of the things it says is that adding a mild curse to otherwise normal speech will convince people you are being sincere. My boss read it.
“Well, this damn job isn’t going to build itself!”
“Aw shit! Lunch is over! Back to work!”
It was so awful.
This is actually a real problem… A lot of digital documents from the 90’s and early 2000’s are lost forever. Hard drives die over time, and nobody out there has come up with a good way to permanently archive all that stuff.
I am a crazy person, so I have RAID, Ceph, and JBOD in various and sundry forms. Still, drives die.
The two things that popped into my head are Immich and Nextcloud. I think Nextcloud is generally more useful, but Immich is more specifically targeted at Photos. As for how to synchronize it… Syncthing? Personally, I hate setting up Syncthing and so I don’t really use it myself anymore, but once it’s set up, it really does take care of itself. Poke the computer once a month to make sure it’s still alive, and you’re set.
You could probably host Nextcloud at one site and just have a client computer at the next site set to auto sync everything.
Been running NextCloud for a while, not for photos, but for just general Google Drive replacement.
I kid you not: My wife is making this in Lego. I showed her this post, and “Oh that makes me so happy!”
I’m not at the level where I compile packages, I’m totally dependent on you techier guys, but I grabbed a Nezha SBC a couple of years ago, downloaded their version of Debian, and… Not much. I could get a desktop, but couldn’t surf. No sound. No WiFi.
I think I may fire it up again, or grab something newer at some point in the near future. I was eyeballing the Musebook laptop, but it’s too pricey at the moment for what I expect I’ll be getting.
I’d love to know if it’s a better experience out there now!
Commenting to register my interest.
I will confess that I was tempted to throw some snarky comment about Linux, but I got over the urge.
I shouldn’t talk because I dip in and out, but I do that because I like the possibilities. Like, what if someone comes up with a concept, but no one tries it, and it turns out to really work? Like, I like immutability as a concept, so I’ve tried Silverblue, Kinoite, and Bazzite. If nobody gave it a go, then the concept would die on the vine.
Also, I like seeing different ways of thinking about technology.
I have been to exactly one MLB game in my life (Canadian), and it was at Fenway during a time when the Celtics were playing a playoffs game, and I had a very early smartphone. The fact that I could tell people the score of the Celtics game in real time made me super popular. The fact that the Red Sox were playing the blue Jays? Not so much!
It was super fun though. Boston is a great town!
My local library has a tech mentors program where you teach people how to work computers. I do it once every two weeks. It makes me feel like a rock star every time I go. If you’re on Lemmy, you’re qualified.
Changed everything for me!
Also looks good on a resume.
Does it give you anything? Can you select safe mode or nomodeset from the grub menu, or do you get no grub menu at all? I almost pulled the trigger on a used getac system a while back, but couldn’t justify the cost. If you get it working, please tell me how it goes under Linux!