Personally only use Windows on my work laptop and even that I am questioning it, might start using my Linux VM for day to day work

And once you are using those you are probably better off using sqlite or even running a full SQL server.

It’s probably good if that is the sort of thing you are after, a laptop just isn’t something I want to spend real money on myself.

I setup my own with a bash script for backup years ago that uses rsync, feel too invested in that now to change

I doubt most people know what the difference with pop and imap is though. Generally they don’t need to know this sort of stuff.

End user doesn’t really need to know how it works. We talk about it more because most people here are tech nerds

There is a single feature I kinda wish it had, view message history. Doesn’t have to be permanent history, like last 30 minutes/messages would be fine. But using IRC on an intermittent connection isn’t great in my experience. Otherwise I would love to go back to IRC.

Can you have an instance that allows viewing other instances, but others can’t see in?

If you buy this you can’t really complain much about the price being unreasonable as you are showing its a price you will pay.

My most expensive (and best) gaming purchase of 2024 was Factorio: Space Age at £30. RimWorld - Anomaly and Enshrouded (£19.99/£22.49) were probably the next best purchases. Medieval Dynasty (£26.99) was also pretty good. Few other things under £20 at mixed quality too.

Shit like this is why I don’t have a smartphone anymore. I have a brick phone that half the time I don’t even take out with me.

Why should my OS be any of their concern?

Yeah… I did this kind of thing before as a password and found that out the hard way

As if the US government could understand this platform. It will be a shame to lose lemmy.world though

If he buys intel surely he is buying your investment in intel to do so?

Actually I have admin access to my work laptop, so while my employer pays for what ever the fuck they pay for I frequently use FOSS instead.

I do it to make a point.

Typically how close is the TDP of the CPU to the full system power draw? Can see a few refurbished on ebay that don’t look too bad

DuckDuckGo: Use us because Google is so evil they were banned in Europe

Is it fair to compare new to used though? Also how about power consumption, if it’s on for 5 years each watt costs £13, so for something that will be on a long time power is actually quite an important consideration

Can you get those as cheaply though? Can understand getting something other than a pi as you don’t need the GPIO but are there any good alternatives that are cheaper? If not may as well go for the pi

So we need to encourage locally hosted AI lovebots?