Got a question. Kinda techyish

[betplom]

Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.
TV software is getting loaded with ads, changing what it means to own a TV set.

Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.

TV software is getting loaded with ads, changing what it means to own a TV set.

arstechnica.com

 

[roguejuror]

RIP Windows Control Panel
1996-2024

 

[betplom]

How do you navigate to the secret zone on mobile?

 

[roguejuror]

How do you navigate to the secret zone on mobile?

https://www.gamelive.com/secret/

Follow it so it gets listed on your Favorites page

 

[betplom]

Switched back to GNOME from KDE on OpenSuse Tumbleweed.

 

[betplom]

The good old days, when it took half an hour to download an MP3

 

[roguejuror]

OpenSuse Tumbleweed.

I tried it a while back, I would be running Tumbleweed if I wasn't enamored with arch/pacman

 

[betplom]

Rouge:
Looking at getting this mini pc soon.

Amazon.ca

$529.97 CAD - all in price including taxes shipping etc etc
= $390.58 USD

Beelink Mini PC SER6 ​

6900HX AMD Ryzen 9 Processor (8Cores/16Threads, up to 4.9GHz) ​

16GB DDR5 500GB SSD Radeon 680M Graphics Micro Computer ​

HDMI 2.1/USB4/WiFi6/BT 5.2​

Win 11 PRO

 

[roguejuror]

Rouge:
Looking at getting this mini pc soon.

yeah I've seen a few videos on these minis, there's another brand that makes good ones Minisforum, I don't video game or anything like that so they are perfect for me, my next pc will be one of them, just put it in the backpack and have desktop anywhere I go

 

[betplom]

yeah I've seen a few videos on these minis, there's another brand that makes good ones Minisforum, I don't video game or anything like that so they are perfect for me, my next pc will be one of them, just put it in the backpack and have desktop anywhere I go

Thanks for the reply Rouge, at least now I feel a bit less irrelevant.

 

[roguejuror]

Thanks for the reply Rouge, at least now I feel a bit less irrelevant.

I'm sure you could get it without Windows even cheaper

 

[betplom]

I'm sure you could get it without Windows even cheaper

I don't think that is an option. Regardless, I would want Win11 as well. Some things still require Windows.

 

[betplom]

So I bought this mini pc from amazon

It was easy to setup and performance seemed good BUT as soon as I connected a usb thumb drive or usb hard drive it slowed to a fucking crawl. I couldn't tolerate the slowness so I returned it and bought a refurbished 8th gen Dell that I'm much happier with. Dell is my 2nd fave PC after ASUS but ASUS are never this cheap.

For $19 CAD I added another 8GB RAM

No more dual boot, I have a main Windows11 PC (Dell) and a mini lenovo with 8GB RAM second PC and Arch Linux with LXQT

So much of the data on my usb ssd got corrupted and I had to locate all my stuff spread out over multiple locations.

We're back


Roughly $250 CAD for the Dell, I got it for $227 plus tax, not the current $257. Basically the price of two steaks.

 

[Matty]

I got an Asus Vivobook 16 last month, great little laptop for 650 bucks. 👌

 

[betplom]

I got an Asus Vivobook 16 last month, great little laptop for 650 bucks.

ASUS are the cats ass, but the Dell is so much value at a fraction of the cost.

 

[betplom]

Also, I am migrating away from Google, in the slow process of moving everything to PROTON(mail/drive/vpn) etc.

No more google for plommer, only when necessary ie on android, but I've disabled most of the google stuff on my phone.

Brave browser is ok on PC but I haven't seen anything better on a phone, Brave browser is a must for android.

 

[roguejuror]

No more dual boot

I got a new thinkpad last week, I didn't even load windows once, booted straight to an arch usb, ext4 x11 kde (fuck wayland) is my setup

 

[betplom]

Picked up a refurbished ipad today. Bit of a learning curve for a windows/linux/pc/android guy but gotta say im quite impressed by the thing. Very intuitive compared to android. Navigating around the settings is a work in progress.