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Linux laptop recommendation thread🐧💻 (lemmy.world)

I’m on the market to buy a new laptop, and Lemmy has successfully coaxed and goaded me to give Linux a serious try....

How do y'all deal with programs not supported on Linux?

I’ve been seeing all these posts about Linux lately, and looking at them, I can honestly see the appeal. I’d love having so much autonomy over the OS I use, and customize it however I like, even having so many options to choose from when it comes to distros. The only thing holding me back, however, is incompatibility issues....

Which books have the worst video adaptation?

For me it’s definitely the Dark Tower, but the Golden Compas was also a huge letdown.

I'm so good at time management that I hardly work at all (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

ummm not this time... (lemmy.ca)

I didn’t plan this far ahead (lemmy.world)

Downvotes = “I disagree” or “this is bad and you should feel bad”?

I think I’ve settled on the latter. Disagreement is maybe best communicated by the absence of an upvote? And downvotes work best when they signal something that is just off base, and while not reportable, is not appreciated at a broad cultural level.

Looks like DRM prevented to watch movies in many theaters yesterday (www.theverge.com)

From the article:...

What's your favorite instrument that really gets through to you?

Mine’s a bit of a strange one…...

It's like everyday (lemmy.world)

But it's all about convenience (teacup.social)

What's the benefit of using Kbin over Lemmy?

I see a very small minority of people using Kbin, but I don’t understand why....

Sorry guys, we had a good run (lemmy.zip)

People who work in food service or customer service: What’s the dumbest thing a customer ever insisted was “the law” or “illegal”?

Brought to you by my discovery that some people think that “the customer is always right” isn’t the slogan of a long-dead department store, but rather it’s an actual call the cops law.

I don’t understand people who say they can’t figure out Lemmy or KBin

Does federation have a bit of a learning curve? No doubt....

I've been robbed! (startrek.website)

alias 2024='echo "YEAR OF THE DESKTOP"' (lemmy.ml)

Edit: Enough money as in buying a PC supporting windows 11

My PC is hacked

I just received a call from an indian microsoft technician. He informed me that my PC is sending a ton of error messages to microsoft. Most likely it has been hacked, and he would help me by remoting in and fixing the problem for me. I just wonder… Is it my PopOs or my Manjaro PC that sends all this info to microsoft?

Does mountain dew taste better than black tea? Yes. Does it also cost 30 times as much to get the caffeine fix? Yes. (lemmy.world)

What has been the best thing that has happened to you so far?

Either by choice or sheer luck. What is something that has happened to you that made your life actively better?...

What search engine do you recommend that isn't Google or Bing?

I’m still trying to de-Google my life, little by little. I don’t trust Bing for similar reasons. DDG is feeling shady of late. What’s the search engine you all recommend that I can inject into my daily life? Is there perhaps a search engine that is focused on code, or have we just all moved on to AI for searching?...

Is Ubuntu deserving the hate? (lemmy.ml)

Long story short, I have a desktop with Fedora, lovely, fast, sleek and surprisingly reliable for a near rolling distro (it failed me only once back around Fedora 34 or something where it nuked Grub). Tried to install on a 2012 i7 MacBook Air… what a slog!!! Surprisingly Ubuntu runs very smooth on it. I have been bothering all...