My Dad has a cheap laptop he uses just for banking, and he asked me to put Linux on it so he wouldn't have to upgrade to Windows 10. It's not much - for my Dad, or for the greater Linux market share - but it's something!
NotAnArdvark
joined 2 years ago
If there's one lesson my wife has taught me it's that telling someone to "calm down" is a sure fire way to not have them calm down.
Threads for Fairphone often fill up with "it's not going to work if they don't X." Lots of people don't seem to understand that their personal viewpoint can be quite different from other's.
There are people who are aware of the trade-offs of a Fairphone, but still choose to get one.
It's roughly the same size as the Fairphone 4, isn't it? Like 1mm less thick.
I wish there was a way to avoid all the fruit and vegetable packaging. That stuff is by far the number one thing we recycle.
I could imagine everyone having their own protective something they could use to take fruit/veggies home in. Or maybe even a deposit-and-return system like with bottles.
They're talking debt-to-disposable income ratio, which ChatGPT tells me means "Debt over in income after tax." I don't think this is necessarily descriptive of someone's financial situation. I'm over 400% debt-to-disposable income, but I could pay off my mortgage in a week if that made financial sense.
If you've got investments returning more than your loan rate costs you, I don't know why you'd pay down your loan any sooner than you had to.
Something I worry about, but haven't seen anyone mention yet, is that a long-after-the-fact apology seems a little self-serving. I'm the one who feels bad, so I'm going to bring something up again hoping that I feel better about the situation afterwards.
There are people I didn't treat very well when I was young. When I think about reaching out to apologize I imagine the interaction ending with me feeling better and them feeling shitty again.
Reading this thread, however, it doesn't look like that's how this usually goes. So, maybe I should rethink it.
This is a little overly simplistic. They exist because of us, and they can't survive without us. So, it's not like we can just swing open the gates and tell them to be free.
I'm not saying "and therefore, let's keep breeding them", just that "all cattle are stolen" doesn't make a lot of sense.
Can you say more about this? The video card you're passing through is on the Proxmox server, yes? Then you're booting VMs and connecting via a thin client?
No lag issues? Are you connecting local USB devices to your thin client? What about video conferencing?
A sticking point I encountered - the drop in efficiency as the weather gets colder means you need a unit sized to heat your home on the coldest days you expect to encounter. So you need to buy a heat pump that's larger than you need for 98% of the year just so you don't freeze that other 2%. In addition to higher cost an oversized unit is less efficient because it's cycling more.
So this is where "heating strips" or "backup heating" come in, and then I get we've come full-circle.