provomeister

joined 2 years ago
[–] provomeister@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'd say lack of marketing and higher price tags. Money / Performance ratio is also better with a decent Thinkpad.

Some of these options can't (or not without high markups) be bought and shipped to Canada.

Because it use common hardware and bought "en masse" by enterprises; they tend to be more supported with FOSS than other options.

I've been happy with my used T480 so far.

[–] provomeister@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago

...and no one is surprised. [KilledByGoogle]

[–] provomeister@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Recently used Porkbun for a .xyz domain for reverse proxy / DNS challenge. Price was about 2-3CAD$ for the first year, renewal at +/-10CAD$/year. My usage is pretty simple, but it's been great so far.

[–] provomeister@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

"Do you want a PC with your fans?"

[–] provomeister@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Bought a second drive to run Linux on my gaming PC. It's been a month and I haven't had the need to boot into Windows yet. I had some initial troubles during installation but it's smooth sailing since. After owning the Steam Deck for 1+ year and already running Linux on my laptop, it was the last step towards ditching Windows entirely.

[–] provomeister@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I paid for Tilla, it's a great app to manage subscriptions. I get notifications when the next payment is due. Pretty simple UI but that's what I like about it. You can check how much you spend per week/month/year.

[–] provomeister@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You could use LimeWire to get LimeWire Pro. Good times.

[–] provomeister@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 years ago

Go build a gaming PC.

Don't forget the table and to use a Swiss Army knife that hopefully has a screwdriver in it.

[–] provomeister@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Saving this post for later! I got started yesterday with Miniflux and didn't know where to look for good RSS feeds. Can't have a better timing than this haha!

[–] provomeister@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 years ago

No registry edit necessary. Just use the email no[at]thankyou.com, write any password. Windows will throw an error, press continue and voilà, you can create your local account.

Rufus also has an option for local accounts and for removing TPM/SecureBoot requirements.

[–] provomeister@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not really bad per se, it's the default on most Android devices these days. The problem is that almost all modern browsers are Chromium-based which give Google a lot of power to implement changes (see manifest v3 & web DRM). Personally, I'm trying to slowly reduce my usage of Google products. I'm using Firefox on desktop and a mix of DDG+Fennec on my phone.

[–] provomeister@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Another one bites the dust. Sad to see Mojang digging their grave like every other company these past few weeks... I keep seeing MineTest poping up, might have to give it a try soon enough.

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