peterg75

joined 2 years ago
[–] peterg75@discuss.online 1 points 2 years ago

SurfShark does work on Android as well. The speed hasn't been an issue for me either. My daughter routinely streams shows over it to get other countries' Netflix selections.

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I run EndeavourOS with KDE. For VPN, I use SurfShark which do we have a GUI for Linux installable via AUR (Arch User Repositories). Steam works pretty good too.

[–] peterg75@discuss.online -3 points 2 years ago

Of course you can get a used of refurbished ones for less even Apple. I was referring to new devices. As an example, I use a Motorola Edge plus that I bought new for $400. It does everything my wife's iPhone 15 Pro. The camera quality is slightly lower, but perfectly adequate.

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 68 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

You're must be joking! Look around, if you look past the bitten apple, there are plenty of perfectly capable devices out there for under $300. In fact, I see plenty of people who are on the street corners panhandling AND using a smartphone.

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 2 points 2 years ago

From what I see Hexbear is pretty toxic and gets regularly defederated anyway.

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 1 points 2 years ago

No other way, if you're banned.

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 4 points 2 years ago

I got an off-lease dell latitude 7400. Tbh, got it for free, but you can snag one on eBay for under $400. i5, 16 Gb ram, got a 1TB drive for $50 on Amazon. Runs Linux very well! I'd go with a light weight is like EndeavourOS or Arch.

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Crate an account on a different instance? And oh yeah, stop being a dink?

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 1 points 2 years ago

Do a search in All for the keywords for the community name. Chances are you are either not going to find some of them or find multiple ones on several Lemmy instances. If you find several, subscribe to all and see which one is the most active, if you find none, consider starting one yourself.

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 2 points 2 years ago

EndeavourOS for the win! The speed of Arch Linux without the installation pain! Especially for older hardware?

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 6 points 2 years ago

My rule of thumb is this: if I perceive that the IP I want, was created by an individual who must have spent their blood sweat and tears creating it, I'll pay for it to encourage that work. If, on the other hand I'm being made to pay extra for something just because there's a queue of corporations that just want to profit for providing something made by others, I pirate it as a form of protest. As an example, I'll gladly pay for an ebook being distributed through an author's website even if I'm not sure I'm going to like it. But I will not pay for a cable subscription just to be able to watch sports programs. Another example: I've paid money for mobile games when I see a lot of effort being spent in making the gameplay engaging, but I will delete or try to cheat or pirate games that I perceive as pay-to-win.

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 2 points 2 years ago

A fair point. I deleted my account to reduce the statistics of active users of Reddit. On the one hand, I agree that the information that exists there is still relevant and can be helpful for some people, on the other, I don't want my account to count for some stat that Spez will use to report to investors on the continued viability of Reddit.

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