Lettuceeatlettuce

Lettuceeatlettuce , 4 days ago

T480 can be had on eBay for 200-300 bucks and will perform very well in modern applications. I've seen a few that are banged up pretty bad for under $200, if you're cool with a well loved laptop.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 3 days ago

Right on!

Lettuceeatlettuce , 10 days ago

I've been on 1080p since highschool, over 15 years, works perfectly for me. I value high frame rate over resolution/fidelity. Luckily for me, even mid-tier hardware is so powerful now, AAA games on ultra at 1080p can easily hit 160+

I have an AMD 6700XT and a 5800X3D with a 240Hz 1080p monitor, it's wonderful for me.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 10 days ago

Obligatory reminder:

Email is not a secure medium! If you need truly secure and/or anonymous communications, DON'T USE EMAIL!

Use a platform/protocol designed from the ground up for those things!

Lettuceeatlettuce , 9 days ago

I'm interested to try their Cosmic desktop later this year.

Overall, seems like a solid company, I've heard good things about their laptops, although I've never had one myself.

Pop_OS as a distro, heard generally good things about. The few times I've messed around with it have been fine. The folks that stick with it seem to like it.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 12 days ago

Plasma has been pretty stable for the last several years I've been using it, especially X11. Wayland is buggier, but not terribly so, and it gets better all the time.

I've switched over to Wayland with Plasma now because it is stable enough for me now, I'm on Nobara.

I don't really use Gnome, so I can't speak to that experience.

If I were to vouch for a DE that is rock stable, it would be Cinnamon. I've never had any problems with Cinnamon. It's not super pretty, and it's a bit clunky, but if I want a DE that just works and gets out of my way, Cinnamon is my first choice.

It's what I use for my business laptop, LMDE with Cinnamon, rock solid.

I should also add that I've always used fully AMD hardware, CPU and GPUs, and never brand new. Always a year or two old, so the Linux kernel has time to address bleeding edge bugs and such.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 13 days ago

Also paid integrations into your existing environment.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 16 days ago

For invoicing at my small business, I use Invoice Ninja.

Open source, self-hostable, and they offer cloud hosting. Free for the base version with less than 20 users. It has a bunch of features, you are able to create very professional invoices, define services and products, calculate taxes, fees, etc.

It's very clean, fast, and intuitive.

For accounting, I use GnuCash. It's old looking and clunky, but it has a bunch of features and works fine for everything I need.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 16 days ago

No prob! Yeah I've been super happy with Invoice Ninja particularly, it's a really solid piece of software.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 20 days ago

Thinkpad A485. If you're going used, I would grab a T460, T470, or T480. Really reliable models, all those can be had for $300 or less online, work great with Linux, and last forever. Plus they are decently repairable.

If new, I would also go with Framework laptops. Super repairable and sustainable. And very high quality laptops. My friend got one and it is super nice. Runs Fedora on it flawlessly.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 19 days ago

Not with the trackpad, but other issues yeah. For some reason, this model seems to be really finicky depending on the distro you use.

I had weird random issues with most distros I've tried on it over the years.

The two distros that have worked with almost no issues are Manjaro, and Mint Debian Edition, which is what I currently run on it.

The most frequent I had with it were random lockups when bringing it out of sleep mode.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 19 days ago

Fair point. Some folks are on an ultra tight budget or prefer the older model for various reasons.

But I agree, at $200-$300 used, you can't really go wrong with the T480. Really nice specs for most use cases, and still fairly repairable and upgradable.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 19 days ago

I've heard a lot of good stuff about the Carbons, especially the older ones as Linux machines.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 24 days ago

Thanks a bunch for this, just what I was looking for!

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

Piracy is a great example of a topic where legality and morality aren't the same.

Those kinds of topics are incredibly valuable teaching moments for children.

I would teach them when they are mature enough. Help them understand why some people think it is wrong, when/why you think it is acceptable, and how to do it safely.

You can teach them the difference between actual theft and copying. Explain how piracy has benefited humanity as a whole, explain why knowledge and cultural experiences shouldn't be gate kept by mega-corps from underprivileged people.

There are so many valuable lessons that you as parents could pass on to your kids through the topic of piracy.

And as every major platform enshitifies and information of all kinds gets locked behind more paywalls, piracy will become a more and more important skill to have.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

Lol!! Imagine if xD

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

Please download and archive your favorite channels and videos!

Host them yourself to watch them locally.

Especially do this for educational material, share it wide and far!

We are entering a very dark age of techno-dystopia, we need to fight it with everything we have. Pirate, seed, screen-record, download, archive, share, never give up.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

Kobo e-readers are known to be pretty hackable and many of their models can be used with 'KoReader' an open source e-reading OS/app

Lettuceeatlettuce , 29 days ago

I don't have one currently, but from some of the stuff I've read, the Clara HD model is one of the most popular for hacking/modding.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

I've been enjoying Codeberg a lot lately.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

Could you link/provide a list of coop dev groups? I'd love to help support them.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

I'm sure I'm missing something, but can't nmap do all of this?

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

Fair points.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

Timeshift will save you soooooo much pain. Set it up to auto backup a daily image. You can also manually create as many snapshots as you want.

Timeshift has turned system-destroying mistakes I've made into mere 5-10 minute inconveniences. You can use it in the command line, so even if you blow up your whole desktop environment/window manager, you can still restore back to a known gold state.

I create a snapshot before any major updates or customizations.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

Glad I could help! I wish I knew about it when I first started with Linux.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

My weather app of choice for about a year now. Really nice interface and solid performance.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Nintendo brass = scumbags. Trash corpo who hates its customers except for milking their money.

It is morally good to pirate all Nintendo products, crack all their hardware, and disparage all their advertising.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

Agreed.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

Yeah, watched a few vids with this guy...not interested. He doesn't believe in FOSS, he talks about Linux, MacOS, and Windows all being dumpster fires, but his solution is to build his own OS from scratch, using Latin...and run it on a Chinese RISC-V board that he is charging people $200 and doesn't open source the hardware or software.

Has hardcore TempleOS vibes, the difference is that this guy seems to take himself and his idea way too seriously. And his defense of why he thinks all modern mainstream OSes are doomed is...nothing. He doesn't give any. He literally says in his interview that, "it should be obvious, if you can't see it, you're just blind I guess." Slight paraphrase, but you get the gist. He backs that statement up by talking about how Discord screen share crashes a bunch on his Linux distro.

Joined his Discord, saw a several people talking about how great Latin is and had a bunch of weird Roman empire theming, idk, just not great vibes.

Lettuceeatlettuce OP , 1 month ago

Lol corrected it now.

Lettuceeatlettuce OP , 1 month ago

Lol!!! Corrected it now haha.

Lettuceeatlettuce OP , 1 month ago

I've been using it for the last several weeks and I really like it!

Lettuceeatlettuce OP , 1 month ago

Not sure if it's in fdroid by default, but you can get it directly from the github repo through Obtainium.

Lettuceeatlettuce OP , 1 month ago

Yeah I know, just listing options.

Lettuceeatlettuce OP , 1 month ago

For the latest version from 1.0 going to 1.2, yes. They have a note about it. You need to uninstall 1.0 and reinstall 1.2 from Obtainium.

Just a quirk for this version only apparently.

Make sure to back up your configuration before uninstalling if you want to keep your settings.

Lettuceeatlettuce OP , 1 month ago

No prob, and yeah I agree.

Lettuceeatlettuce OP , 1 month ago

No prob! I've been really liking it so far.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

I agree. I was grew up playing lots of games like Incredible Machine, Sim City, Zoo Tycoon, Age of Empires 2, etc. They were technical and challenging mentally. Taught me a lot about money management, logistics, testing theories, and solving puzzles.

I also watched a lot of Nat Geo, Discovery and History Channel, (Before it enshitified) read lots of science encyclopedias and books, used the Encarta CD-ROM encyclopedia often.

My siblings and our friends also played outside a lot. Built forts, played paintball, explored the woods, that kind of stuff.

The medium matters much less than the content.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

Isn't that roughly the overall vision of the Free Software movement? We can all build software that's open and free, as long as that is pushed forward in perpetuity to all subsequent versions/forks.

Your compensation for providing code for free, is that you also get access to all other code for free too. I have paid for lots of FOSS software over the years, or at least donated to their projects and creators/maintainers.

I've actually paid for more FOSS software and services than proprietary software and services overall. Because I want to support the kind of ecosystem I believe should exist.

I favor a pay-what-you-can model personally. Some take for free, some pay a pittance, some pay at cost, and a few pay well over asking price. It's actually the same model that modern free-to-play games use. Most players spend little to no money on the game, just playing for free and keeping everything stock.

But a small amount of players are dolphins and whales, people who happily spend hundreds, in some cases, thousands of dollars on in-game features, items, skins, etc.

That gives me some hope that the model can work, we just need a culture of end users that believe in that sort of thing. That's the kind of pirate ethos I advocate for. Pay for stuff that deserves your money. Pay for things that respect you as a user, respect your privacy, right to repair, right to copy and remix, right to self-host and mod, etc. Those are the kinds of products and services that get my money.

Giant media conglomerates and super-rich entertainers with private yachts and jets, they don't get a cent of my money. I pirate their stuff with the wind at my back, sun on my skin, and a smile on my face.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

Thanks!

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

You're initial closing statement criticizes people for "...hiding behind word definitions..." when the OP's post is arguing that copying is not Stealing.

It's very telling that your criticisms aren't ever leveled at the system itself, but instead, the people who object to how it is structured.

You frame yourself as a pragmatist who just operates honestly, never raising issue with the exploitative and often abusive practices of these corpos, record labels, executives. I never said piracy doesn't hurt anyone, I said it isn't theft.

Piracy hurts exploitative corpos the most, which is a good thing. It's good to cause harm to evil structures and subvert their authority and power. That's literally the point of social activism.

The fact that some well-meaning and innocent folks are going to get caught in the crossfire is sad, but such is the cost of subverting abusive power structures. Remember, pirates never created those structures, the corpos, billionaires, and corrupt politicians did.

I respect some pirates, I despise others. I tip or buy merch from small time artists whenever I can, often far more than they would have gotten from me buying their art, and far far more than if I streamed their song a few times of Spotify, YT Music, or dutifully watched an ad that played on their channel.

Piracy can be done in an ethical way, or an unethical way, but it's certainly not, "at best, morally grey."

You better go out and buy fast food at every drive-thru you can find, you not buying food from them might contribute to lower sales for that chain, which could lose those workers their jobs. Obviously that's ridiculous, but that argument uses the same reasoning you just used. If your argument is true, then you're a morally grey person at best if you aren't spending as much money as possible on fast food every month, or any other good/service in existence for that matter.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

Nice thoughtful response to my comment, really compelling points!

Oh wait, you couldn't think of any refutations to my arguments, so you just resorted to an ad hominem.

Weak and disappointing. Go somberly stare at your torrenting client, thinking of all the people you're putting out on the streets by "stealing" from them, your darkened and evil soul too corrupted by piracy to ever be redeemed. Lol get over yourself.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

Yeahhh, obvious you don't have anything left to say.

1. You disputed the OP's post where they stated that piracy wasn't stealing by claiming that people like them "needed to hide behind word definitions"

2. Corpos are bad, Capitalism is bad...yes, I stand by those statements because they are true.

3. Yes, it would be better for society at large if everybody pirated from the corpos and stopped funding their monopolistic, anti-consumer, anti-repair, privacy-violating practices. Again, yes this is true, I stand by that, that's the definition of "greater good."

4. Never hand waved the moral implications away of innocent people getting hurt by piracy. What I actually did was contrast the moral bad of that harm, against the moral good of harming the corpos that abuse society at large. I determined that the overall moral good of harming the corpos outweighed the moral bad of harming innocents. I also pointed out the fact that the real harm has been perpetrated by the Capitalists, billionaires, and big media conglomerates, not the pirates.

5. You obviously lack the ability or at least the willingness to address my counterexample about what your philosophy entails. The fact that you thought that was an analogy instead of what it actually was, (a reductio ad absurdum) demonstrates that.

6. I don't need to try, you clearly haven't thought very hard or deep about your position, it's shallow and filled with knee-jerk argumentation.

I suspect strongly that you feel very guilty about your actions, and instead of addressing those feelings, you project them onto others.

I think you do this because you cannot stand the idea that other people pirate things guilt-free, you are jealous of them, so you project your own feelings of shame onto those other people and claim (without any compelling reasons), that those people aren't actually guilt-free, they are just lying to themselves to deal with the shame.

You rage and seethe at those with a clear sense of purpose and vision because you lack those things in your own endeavors, and it galls you.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

Go confess to a priest for being a naughty little pirate lol.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

Not a wall of text, I spent quite a bit of time carefully breaking down all of my points by numbered section.

If it's too much work for you to go through my post and address each point like I have been doing for yours, then I don't think we have much else to discuss.

One last question: Is it wrong for you to go to a bookstore, read a book, and put it back on the shelf without buying it? What about reading just 75% of it? 50%? How about just the first chapter to see if you like it? Or do you think it would be wrong to even skim the first page without buying it?

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

To each their own I guess.

So if you think the book example is fine even reading the whole thing and never paying for it, how is that any different from any other piracy examples? You consumed media that the artist created in its entirety without giving them any compensation.

I agree that physical goods are totally different, but in my magical wizard example, I don't think there is anything wrong with that.

A real life example is if I take a digital scan of a 3D figurine, turn it into a 3D model, and let other people on the web download it and 3D print it.

Did I "steal" anything? Of course not. Nobody is being deprived of anything at all.

Lettuceeatlettuce , 1 month ago

This is one of the few actually interesting counterpoints to piracy. The rights of the artist for the use of their work is a very nuanced topic. For instance, most people would say that parody and satire are very important forms of expression that ought to be protected. But those often dance the line of "infringement" in the eyes of the courts.

On the other hand, it feels wrong to say that an artist has to accept their work being used for evil purposes, like a group of neo-nazis using an open source font in their propaganda materials, or a group of religious extremists using a musician's backing track in their efforts to convert people.

I lean pretty strongly for the rights of the consumers of art to do with it what they want, but I admit it gives me pause on some of the edge cases. Very complicated issue.