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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • They work in a pinch but even on windows they always end up causing more trouble than it’s worth. I recently got a client business, a lawyer’s office, where their previous IT got them all Startech displaylink docks. After I replaced a couple of them where the users had some lower end i3 laptops, searches they ran in their document management system finished in maybe 50% of the time.

    Good processors like the M1 you maybe can’t notice but they cripple the lower end systems.








  • I think I was around 13 years old, our home family computer had Windows ME on it. It broke all the time. I think I may have tried Ubuntu first on that PC but then came across SUSE and decided to replace windows with that because the KDE interface at the time (was horrendously 90’s looking) but felt more like windows. I think I ran that on the computer for a year or so before my father made me put XP on it when that was released.

    It was my first real foray into Linux and it would be many moons until I ran it full time as an adult but I have a soft spot for it.

    Edit: I think my memory is off because Ubuntu wouldn’t have been around back then… Must have tried Ubuntu later or maybe I was a bit older. In any case it was SUSE that sparked my interest in alternative operating systems, and probably why I still prefer KDE.









  • I migrated back to android a few months ago from about 5 years on iOS and watchOS. I generally “switch teams” every few years and both platforms have their strengths.

    I have a pixel watch now and there are a couple of compromises coming from an apple watch in my use case. Battery is no where near as good. The Stocard app where you can store many of your retail store loyalty cards is handy on a watch to load up the bar code to scan at stores, the pixel watch loads up a very small bar code that many scanners have trouble with so I just pull out my phone for that.

    But on the other hand having a watch face that is not just one of apples approved 15 faces is nice. I like the circular design more.