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sorrybookbroke, (edited ) to linux in Laptop companies: which one?

Sure do, though not for all the claims I’ll make here as that was from me obsessively watching the purism forumns and reddit over the 5 or so years this was going on. They promised a phone which most people didn’t get for five years. When it shipped the specs were not great especially for the already pricy cost they had it at. This, after quite heavily suggesting they were nearly good to go. When it came close to the end of waiting, they added a second option (no phones were in hands yet) to upgrade their order, at a cost, to skip the line and get it quicker. Suggesting that if it didn’t sell the company couldn’t ship the original either after taking money both from a crowdfunding campaign and their site. Though a few were eventually able to refund, they sneakily changed their policy to include “no refunds” when at time of purchase they stated clearly refunds would be available at request. There’s also been an issue with their laptops which were advertised as fully FOSS, etirely non-proprietary before eventually shipping with some proprietary software. All around, their customer service is terrible and their responces to allagations and critisism has been childish threats and legal attacks. All around bad group.

here’s some blog posts and an article:

jaylittle.com/…/the-sad-saga-of-purism-and-the-li… (read all 3 parts)

anarc.at/…/2020-07-13-not-recommending-purism/

pcworld.com/…/why-linux-enthusiasts-are-arguing-o…

Here’s Luis Rossman (Not always correct on what he reports, but by my memory quite good here):
Youtube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IjUryQOlgk
Piped - piped.adminforge.de/watch?v=-IjUryQOlgk

Youtube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKegmu0V75s
Piped - piped.adminforge.de/watch?v=wKegmu0V75s

sorrybookbroke, (edited ) to linux in Laptop companies: which one?

If you’re willing to import, tuxedo computers is another great choice. I can personally vouch for framework but I’d caution if you’re looking for the 16, it’ll be a bit before they’re available. 13ish batches pre-ordered, with batch one shipping in a few weeks, it may take quite a bit to get. The 13 though is in stock and shouldn’t take too long to recieve

Edit: oh sorry, 13 inch is your preference. I’d strongly vouch for framework. I’d also say stay away from purism due to their scummy history on the phone if you care about that.

sorrybookbroke, (edited ) to opensource in Fossify Contacts and Fossify SMS Messenger (Fossify is a fork of Simple Mobile Tools) are now available, joining Fossify's existing suite of Gallery, File Manager, Phone, and Calendar apps.

Never tried the simple apps but these look sick. Glad someone picking up the reigns after it died

sorrybookbroke, to linuxmemes in Linux community throught history

Not to sound condescending, but I’d like to caution against this language. Mint is a perfectly fine OS to run permanently and never look back, and you absolutely can take a bigger bite while never having to install another OS. Distros are for the most part just a jumping off point and a set of defaults.

I agree though, LMDE stronk

sorrybookbroke, (edited ) to linuxmemes in Linux community throught history

Nah, as an arch user most people don’t likely need it. Mints a great option. No matter what you do with arch (even endeavor) there’ll always be alot of setup, by design, and with how fast things move they’ll break commonly. Like the grub issue a bit back, or the kernal that could have caused screens to die, or more recently the nvidia drivers forcing many screens to be stuck at one brightness.

I love arch, it’s a testing bed for the linux ecosystem. The first place where things exit beta and interact with each other in the wild. It’s definitly not what most people want for a computer though especially not for work. That’s why I duel boot with OpenSuse tumbleweed for my contract work (also, separating work and regular life makes things easier but that’s not relevent)

sorrybookbroke, (edited ) to opensource in PLZ good PeerTube alternative

Mastadon had a similar issue before the blowup. It’s not possible to stop in a completely open source and federated service. By design, anybody can join in, and create a new instance to do with as they please

If you want to make it better we need more servers that block this trash, and who have larger user-bases than the current ones. Create quality content on reasonable instances, advertise these sites, and bring other creators in

sorrybookbroke, to linuxmemes in It happens 🤷

I was in that situation a while ago, so I booted in to try and keep it up to date. Well, in reality I booted into recovery mode as it decided to die. Anyway I’m now duel booting arch and tumbleweed

sorrybookbroke, to comicstrips in Get a millenium falcon!

Yeah, space is over-rated. Imma wish for no more wishes, for anybody. Fuck that well

sorrybookbroke, (edited ) to comicstrips in Get a millenium falcon!

Imma wish for a book describing how to build that spaceship in terms we can comprehend to spite your wish and beat you to the punch.

Or, you know, I could wish for a solution to climate change but you know, space techno dystopia sounds pretty metal

sorrybookbroke, to linuxmemes in Year of Linux on the Desktop

0.69% (nice) on windows 7 64bit. That’s 0.75% total or 0.91% including windows 8 which is also dying. This is slightly under half of the linux user base according to these statistics

sorrybookbroke, (edited ) to linux in How to Clean Electron Cache

You should delete the contents of the cache folder instead of the folder itself as sadly some apps will break pretty spectacularly if they can’t find the folder itself. Otherwise you’re entirely correct

sorrybookbroke, (edited ) to linuxmemes in Linus does not fuck around

Well, he isn’t anyone’s boss here. I agree, and so would linus nowadays, that this is toxic and should be avoided, but the anger I fully understand.

Attempting to shift blame away from yourself after making a change which breaks a large portion of user space is cause for termination at any company I’ve worked at. It’s cowardice. This action goes against one of the most important, core philosophies, of the kernal. Do not break userspace. Also, this person should know better. They are not some odd newbie who may not grasp the ideas yet.

In a world where termination is not an option harsh criticism is required. This though, I agree, was anger driven unprofessionalism

sorrybookbroke, to memes in The only FOSS browser with extensions

That’s the first one I thought of too. Way too often I click a link in app or via search without thinking and it puts me on the wrong website.

sorrybookbroke, to linuxmemes in Oh no ...

One of us, one of us, one of us, one of us

sorrybookbroke, to memes in The real truth

Oh shit, so the country of canada has done it once before denouncing it and a single member of parliament has a history of defending her grandfather, who was not only a nazi but an author for a propaganda newspaper stolen from a Jewish guy.

I stand by the “only happened once” thing though. Your second argument is a singular member, who should of course be removed along with the speaker. It also has nothing to do with the current government of Ukraine.

The first is an embarrassment to canada and an action for which we as a whole and our legislator are partially responcible. The second is just one person, who is scum.

Glad you brought this to my attention though. Nationalism in all forms is a disgrace.

Indo wish you had given me a link to that quote though. In the future, if you quote something, provide the source. It seems like you’re hiding something when you don’t, which it seems you weren’t

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