Don’t listen to them, I installed Linux multiple times and I‘m still a fat nerd

Yea. Used it for four things. To keep up to date with creators I like, to keep up to date with friends, to keep up to date with a bunch of webcomics and to randomly rant into the void when I felt like it.

Yea, that’s pretty much the reason I always go for mint, when I need something that just works

Yep. I’ve been on iPhone for years and the tininess of the mini just sealed the deal for the next 3-5 years (or however long it‘ll last)

At the moment asus really is the last noteworthy manufacturer of phones that can be considered as small and even there were rumours they might stop…

Makes me glad I bought my iPhone 13 mini when I did. It’s the perfect size but sadly also the last of its kind.

Bluetooth is not really made for transferring large amounts of data. While the current WiFi standard, WiFi 6e, supports theoretical data rates of up to 9.6Gbps, the current Bluetooth standard, 5.1, only supports up to 50mbps.

This is because Bluetooth is focussing on low energy data transmission and in fact, the LE profile of Bluetooth 5 only supports up to 2mbps. For the kinds of devices it is made for (headphones, smartwatches, etc) that is plenty and the advantage to battery life has priority.

WiFi on the other hand is purpose built for a higher data throughput. Bluetooth was never really meant for transferring large files, it just happens to be capable of doing so. There’s a reason Apple for example implemented their AirDrop feature years ago because making the handshake via Bluetooth yet sending the actual data via WiFi is a much better solution.

The distance to the other device doesn’t matter so much for speed as long as it’s not too far away and not blocked. You can imagine it like that: if you take a 10km hike from place A to B, that is the shorter distance. But if you get into your car and drive to town C that’s 30km away from either A and B and then on town B, all on a highway, you’ll be in town B 4x as fast as on foot but you‘ll have burnt 5 litres of gasoline.

In general, you just tell them to use your new address, change your online accounts, etc. and for the transition phase, you either forward or, like I did, just have both accounts in your mail app until you’ve reached everyone who needs the new address

Voyager definitely has. I don’t remember it being mentioned in TNG or TOS though and Voyager is a newer ship than the Defiant…

Universities usually have contracts with many journals to provide access for their students/employees. The paywall to access research does not necessarily get paid by the individual.

In my old Uni, as long as you were connected to the internet from inside the Uni or via proxy from outside, it would automatically give free access to the web versions of lots of (although far from all) journals.

I can very much live with that. Love me some suse

What distro would a moka pot be?

Sadly. Although, admittedly, feature selection does rank higher than that for me, so most services are already out of the question for me, based on that, even if they‘d pay the artists better

The extra money is probably going into server upkeep, software development, etc., not to artists.

If you want to support artists, Spotify definitely is among the worst choices, while Deezer isn’t great but not horrible either. A little while ago I compiled the most official numbers I could find for any service that I could find. Now mind you, they are a little older (2-ish years) and I cannot remember the source, so take those numbers with a grain of salt but here they go:

Per 1000 streams an Artist gets on average:

• $4.02 on Amazon Music

• $4.37 on Spotify

• $6.76 on both Deezer and YouTube Music

• $7.35 on Apple Music

• $12.50 on Tidal

• $19.00 on Napster

• $38.16 on Quobuz

As I said, the numbers are most likely not the most accurate anymore, the process for these services have changed a little since. However, they might still be interesting enough to know. Maybe someone is bored enough to search the web for more up to date data.

For consumers it might also be interesting to add, that Spotify and YouTube Music, while costing the same as most of the other services (excluding Tidal HiFi Plus and Quobuz), offer a significantly worse audio quality than any other service (aka no lossless audio) and that Tidal‘s expensive HiRes audio tier uses a codec (MQA), that is proven to be terrible and mostly snake oil.

In short: If you want to support artists, stay away from Spotify or amazon. If you want the best audio quality, stay away from Spotify, YouTube Music or Tidal and maybe Deezer (no support for HiRes lossless. Although to be fair, CD-Quality is enough for almost anyone). If you want both and don’t mind paying a little more: use Quobuz

People are used to google as a search engine and depending on their search habits, it can still produce the best results. And for a while, Chrome was the best mainstream browser. People are used to that, too.

And, most importantly, most people don’t really care. They use what they have. That’s the only reason bing is still a thing. And also the reason Google pays billions to Apple just so they’re the standard search engine. For a little while, Siri‘s standard search was bing. But now, Google just pays better, I guess.

I personally use Safari on Apple devices and Firefox on everything else and DuckDuckGo on all of them but that’s not the best solution for everyone and be it only because it takes some amount of effort.

So it’s not useful for that. But having a decent search is defs a pro.

Noted. Does it also start programs?

I guess it depends on individual preferences and experiences

That I‘d love to replace my Windows with Linux but QEMU is not a solution for my problems.

Doesn’t solve the negative scanner and HDR issues though… The scanner has a solution, in theory, however I’m not ready to spend 100€ on scanner software for Linux, when the 20 y/o free software works just fine…

I mean, some of those are preference things. I like the menu bar on top because it’s easy to home in on it. It’s always up there. For every program. No searching.

I cannot complain about stability, either. I had a hackintosh running macOS on PC hardware, that was more stable than Windows on the same machine…

And I also rarely do things in the terminal besides ssh-ing into my Linux server…

I’d agree though, that Windows is easier to maintain. It’s just a pain in the ass to daily drive, because, at least in my experience, something will always refuse to work for no apparent reason, even though it’s supposed to.