I don’t have days of free time anymore to mess with Linux as my main OS.

I get paid to deploy and troubleshoot Windows. I use Linux at home. Do I do this because after spending hours forcing Windows to behave as desired I want to come home and do the same to my Linux box? No, I do it because Linux is reliable and easy, and it’s not built on a premise that someone else knows how I want my computer to work better than I do.

Having to fight against what MS wants (or throw up your hands and accept it) is now baked into Windows. Even if I had to spend hours to use something else, I would.

I don’t intend this to disparage you, I say this because comments like quoted always ruffle my feathers. As if everyone who uses Linux has said, “Welp, I know this takes hours a day of my time to use, but dammit I’m just stubborn.”

NO, this is not what using Linux is like for the majority of people who choose to use it, even for gaming. If it’s like that for you, then you need a different distro, or different hardware, or you aren’t actually as comfortable with Linux as you think you are.

And it’s OK not to be comfortable with it, no one sprang from the womb knowing Linux - but to imply that Linux requires hours of time to use vs Windows is IME very false. Yes, it requires people to learn new things, but no one came from the womb knowing Windows either - most of us have just been exposed to it continuously and have invested that learning time without even realizing it since we’ve always been “forced” (to one degree or another) to use it.

I use a modified Windows 11 OS that debloats the shit out of it, and disables all non critical MS garbage.

This is it. Everything “just works” on windows.

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I support .world defederating from whoever they wish, same as I support .ml running their own instance the way they want to run it.

Thank you this looks interesting!

I don’t even want admit who it was. (It wasn’t Rush or Hannity, more stealth than those guys but I should have known better anyway.) 😬

Fair! 🙂

As someone living in the UK, I almost want him to get in to see what happens.

This was a reasonable 2016 viewpoint. I’d prefer not to hasten my country’s descent into an authoritarian nightmare, please.

No D next to his name, and they are pretty sure he’ll hurt only the right people, so they are cool with it.

Take an article from a reputable publisher, an article for a subject that you are expert in.

Read it and make note of facts they got right and got wrong.

This is what got me to shake free of some podcasters I placed far too much faith in at one point in the past. When I realized how slanted and fucked their opinion was on things I knew about, it put all their other opinions in a much different light.

It’s almost like they are trying to shoehorn AI into anything and everything regardless of whether it is a good fit, and regardless of whether the technology is ready, and regardless of the outcome. Like blockchain. And IoT. And Angry Birds. (j/k on that last one. Kinda.)

But that’s none of my business, I’m just a puppet frog drinking tea.

I wish I could just go 10 minutes without using terminal.

As someone who prefers using the terminal for many common tasks, it’s hard for me to imagine what is forcing you to the terminal that often.

In reply to the same comment you replied to: https://lemmy.ml/post/16506777/11480556

I guess that’s technically accountability. Doesn’t sound like much of a punishment.

And this is damn near a unicorn. (and likely would have been swept under the rug without cam footage - just like every other case where cops see justice) Just like one black president didn’t signal the end of racism, a small percentage of cases where someone OTHER THAN taxpayers are on the hook for police misbehavior doesn’t signal the end of a need for reform, it signals a nearly imperceptible change to the status quo. I’m grateful for the change, but it’s barely a start.

I’ve got a bad feeling that a Governor’s pardon doesn’t have a legal avenue for being reversed. I hope I’m wrong, and IANAL, but I have a suspicion that even though this was absolute horseshit we’re going to be stuck with it.

This looks like one of those cases where being a country of written laws can lead to weird outcomes. Yes, the right to vote should be universal. But, if the law, as written, doesn’t say that, then that’s not really the law.

Without looking deeper I all but guarantee that these are relics of Jim Crow or earlier. They are a disgusting stain on our country, but not nearly as disgusting as those who would try to leverage them in the modern era for the sake of dragging us back to that era.

Wow. I wish this was my friend. :D

Why would they ever stop with their ridiculous bullshit? As far as I can tell they get no pushback from users because the masses just roll blissfully along, and the tech-knowledgeable who still use Windows just find out how to disable the things they don’t like, shrug, and move along.

It’s really clear by now that you are nothing but a datamine for MS if you are a home user, right?

Plus WOS is just better than tizen, hands down.

It’s changed a lot since I moved off my Huawei then. And the primary reasons I went Tizen when I did were the glacial pace of software improvements and the shitty “upgrade” they announced to the SoC all the WearOS devices were using at the time. I don’t recall the details of the crappy qualcomm “upgrade” aside from remembering that it really wasn’t one in practice, and solved neither the battery life nor performance problems of WearOS at the time. (not even sure they were calling it WearOS then, IIRC they changed it from the original name around that time)

A used watch 5 pro (or just buy a new one) can be had for like $160. I can leave all my stuff turned on and I always get over 48 hours.

I’m not surprised a watch several gens newer is going to get better battery life than my original GW, but I don’t find I’m fussed enough about anything about it to spend money on an upgrade currently.

To a degree it depends on settings. But consider that I’ve been using this watch for 5 years or so, and I have all my settings more or less “maxed out” regarding consumption. I don’t even have auto-brightness on because I always found it annoying for it to adjust when I flicked my wrist - I just have it locked at about 80%.

But yeah, most smartwatches that I’ve ever been familiar with are getting a couple days when new unless you turn off features. (Bear in mind the newest thing I have first-hand experience with is my original Galaxy Watch, and which I am currently still wearing) I want to say I was making it 48h + when new, but that was so long ago…

For typical smartwatches when I see impressive claims regarding battery life much longer than that, it usually turns out that the person has turned off one thing or another that I don’t want to turn off.

Look at Hybrid smartwatches in general, and in particular some of the Garmin models (pack a lunch, there are a LOT of Garmin models, some very similar to each other) for super long battery life, I think.

All this is just IME, and I don’t pay really close attention to smartwatch tech except peeking every couple years to see if there’s anything that might convince me to move on from my Galaxy Watch. I do like some of the Garmin hybrid models, but I’m not sure I’d like them longterm.

46MM Galaxy Watch here and I can get 24H or sometimes a bit more provided I switch it to night mode when I’m sleeping. Still using AOD, cont HR monitor etc. Yeah, this old thing is getting long in the tooth, but I came to it from WearOS, really don’t want to go back.

Not a lot is appealing to me in the smartwatch market currently. Good for my wallet, I suppose.