I did this. I installed it just like usual. I did remove my existing SSD during the install so it wouldn’t install grub on my Windows SSD.

My only complaint was that USB was too slow for everyday use. I can’t keep track of the USB versions anymore, but it was one of the 3.1s or 3.2s. Not sure what Gen or whatever. The connector was USB type C.

Wow, that sounds really cool. I don’t have a tablet, but if I did, I’d definitely try this out.

Not sure what you mean, but I just meant that because I use about a quarter of the electricity in the winter while still generating about 90% as much electricity, I end up selling a ton of electricity back to the grid, building up credits that I can use for cloudy days in the spring.

I live relatively close to the equator (Texas), so it’s actually better for me in the winter because I don’t need to run the AC.

I had a spare computer that I installed Linux on a while back, but wasn’t using it for much at the time. If set up like that, all you would pay for is the electricity, which is very low if you’re only running Lemmy, probably only a couple of US dollars a month. You could probably run it on a raspberry pi, tbh.

Personally, I have solar panels that power my whole house. So it’s free for me.

I made my own instance for this reason.

Unfortunately, unless you have a good lawyer, they’re probably just going to ignore you anyway, even if they legally can’t.

Congratulations! This might be the worst advice ever posted to on the internet!

Here in Texas it’s not irregular for Christmas to be 80°F (26.5°C).

And even though its 72°F (22°C) today, it looks like tomorrow will be 57°F (14°C)

As long as it’s possible to turn off the shake and do it with a button. Motion controls are not accessibility friendly.

I had a roommate who would play games while skipping all the dialog and cutscenes, and then complain about how bad the story was. And when I would call him out on it, he would say, “well, I watched a YouTube video recapping the story.” I asked him to show me a recap video that he watched. It was literally a guy talking over all of the cutscenes and dialogue and saying all the things that he didn’t like about it.

I have my Steam Deck attached to my TV. It’s great for watching pirated sports streams via web browser.

And that’s fine, because no one uses it here. So they wouldn’t be messaging anyone.

It does suck that Google gave themselves a monopoly on it on Android. But I personally find it much better than Signal as far as features go. I think Signal tries too hard to be secure at the expense of features. My old phone broke and I lost all my messages. Nothing I can do to get them back. Luckily I only used it when my parents were out of the country, but if I had old messages and photos from a friend that passed, I would have been heartbroken. Signal was basically dead to me after I realized that sometimes I can lose messages.

I still have my texts from when my wife and I started dating almost 15 years ago.

I think there is a bias here we need to be aware of. If you saw it before the meme, you may have just disregarded it and moved on with your life. If you saw it after the meme, you would make a mental note of it.

I guess it depends on how you define “worse”. With RCS, you have SMS fallback, so anyone with a phone number can get your message when you send it. There’s a lot of value in that. Even with dedicated IM services having more features, if everyone I know can’t agree on one of those, I dont want to have 5 messaging apps on my phone and have to check them all every day. Very few people that I know even use one of those, and those people are all using different ones.

It’s great for Europeans where WhatsApp is ubiquitous, but here in the US, I don’t know a single person who uses WhatsApp. I’d someone asked me to use it, I would just tell them to text me because I don’t want to use a product owned by Facebook.

The closest thing we have here that most people use is Discord, but the older people I know can’t figure it out.

What do you not like about it? It seems like a huge improvement over SMS/MMS to me.

They said they are messaging them on Matrix, a separate app.

There are other renditions of the song that I think are fine, but the original makes me want to burst my eardrums. That synth it’s so grating.

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