Weird. I already feel like my phone is out of my control & I have to wrestle control back with 3rd party OSs, open source apps, etc. Surrendering the last bit of control I still have to black box LLMs (& LAMs) seems opposite to the direction I want to go.
(The teenage engineering design is cool though)
I use Linux at the office. I'm the only employee at my company who does.
I haven't had many issues collaborating with others using libreoffice while they use MS office. I do keep a Windows VM running for those somewhat rare instances where I need Windows for something though. I also needed to invest quite some time to figure out Linux alternatives for everything (how to use company VPN, how to get MS Teams working, how to connect to network drives, etc).
But so far so good. Been 100% Linux at work for maybe ~1.5 years?
I sneak up behind her and give her "tiger rubs", which is aggressive up & down motion on the ribs & side meat.
She loves it x20 years
Super cool (except the Instagram link)
Yup, power supplies and batteries are also usually the first components to die. All the more reason to avoid cheap ones.
Very good suggestion. Alternativeto.net is a great resource that I return to often. Eased the transition greatly when I originally left the "mainstream apps".
I use Gmaps WV when OrganicMaps can't find an address. Then I copy/paste the latitude-longitude into OrganicMaps for navigation.
Annoying, yes. But better than using Google.
"Mathom" - A trinket or piece of bric-a-brac; a knick-knack, often used in regifting. Term coined by J.R.R. Tolkien
"Tchotchkes: A knickknack or trinket; a decorative item or souvenir of little value." <-- This isn't bad
Tried GPT for help with code writing. 10% of the time it was super helpful and saved me time. 90% of the time it gave garbage dressed up as good ideas (which I'd pursue awhile before I realized they were garbage).
When my workflow began to include checking GPT's answer before continuing, I realized it was adding as much (or more) time than it was saving. So I don't use it anymore.
Can't speak for Google, but I have close ties to Intel where I promise they work people to the bone.
But then again, Intel makes something. So it's probably not relevant to compare them to Google.
Deeply skeptical.