I tried Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and AAAAXY, but they had file permissions problems. But Lona is great

Anyone knows this person?

I personally don’t see the benefit over regular Mint since it removes snaps anyways. And the newer software from Ubuntu is nice

I remember a few years ago I activated and used Office 2008 from an old CD. What does it even mean that old versions are getting killed? That you can’t use them anymore?

tl:dr it’s not

Your computer has dozens of computers in it!

For the casual user, they Just Work™. The famous ones like Stean, at least (I tried it sometime ago, it’s better than the flatpak version nowadays). If you never change your cursor, never check out your partitions, etc. snap’s problems aren’t as visible

This is why I love flatpak and sandboxing in general

Pardon, I remembered it so from a graph I saw a few months ago. Perhaps I misremembered, or perhaps things changed since then

Arguably the biggest contributor to the Linux ecosystem is Red Hat, a for-profit company that offers its technologies to the Israeli military among other things. The biggest contributor to the Linux kernel is Red Hat, while the second biggest is Meta. The Linux ecosystem is not inherently nonprofit!

If any sensible regulation was put on generative AI, they would quickly go out of order

For real. You can grab a cheap used phone for 80 bucks, put lineage on it, and never install any apps except for the very basic preinstalled ones. Boom, dumb phone

Have you considered a monitor? If your country has internet TV services it could be a viable alternative

AMD has better Linux support if you plan on using it

Commodore’s phone is also a smart device, despite what its form factor would suggest

This phone is probably aimed at countried where Whatsapp is legitimately mandatory if you want a social life and a job (e.g. much of Europe and South America)

Android flip phones have existed for years. E.g. Saiet Link 4, as well as Cat phones (yes, it’s the same company that makes Caterpillars)

The price is unfeasible lmao. You could get an old phone for like 50$ used, put lineage on it, don’t install any app or store and be done with it

great reference

The reason why I disagree is that commenters don’t always have the full picture. When I already know exactly what I need, receiving many comments, but none helpful, is exhausting. Sometimes it’d be nice to have help on a specific problem without having to convince strangers of every other choice I made in the path.

An example: I’ve seen people on Reddit ask for help with Linux drivers and be told to buy new hardware entirely. Or ask if a dumbphone supports Whatsapp, and be told to ditch it by Americans who think it’s just another social network that you can opt out of.