Yeah Denmark is very relaxed about bodies and public nudity in general. Denmark was the world’s first country (in the modern world) to legalize porn. However, consent matters and consenting to one type of exposure doesn’t mean consenting to everything.

I installed it on my gaming laptop. The OS is solid, probably one of the best distros for laptops out-of-the-box and COSMIC is pretty good but have some rough edges like problems with tray icons and games, so I also did a quick “apt install gnome-session”. I’ll switch over to Plasma 6 in a little while when it’s ready, never was a GNOME fan but it’s ok for a couple of months.

When playing with COSMIC I use Nautilus as COSMIC Files is still missing features like adding smb shares and file compress/extract. I’ll probably be able to use the DE full time later this year.

They also have port forwarding without static IP, but you have to renew the port every 7 days. Which is what I use, I don’t mind changing port once a week.

It’s very exciting. It fixes a number of bugs that exist on Intel and AMD as well and has a lot of polishing and features. It’ll be the defining Wayland experience for DEs and gaming.

Was a student, couldn’t afford CDs.

Nowadays I

1. don’t want to subscribe to too many streaming services, each just having a few things I want to watch. Also I broke my neck and I’m now on disability, there’s no budget to waste, at all.
2. Like to watch old shows and “rare” movies that aren’t available anywhere.

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I’ve been using Haruna for a while instead of VLC because it works with Wayland. Menus can be hidden, lots of options: configurable hotkeys, VAAPI enabled, allow multiple instances, etc. It remembers position in last video when reopened, overall it’s very nice.

reinstall

Recommendation is simply to create a new user account.

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A few decades ago I got a letter (snail-mail even) that my domain was expiring soon and asking if I wanted to continue. I signed into the link given and paid a small amount, only to realize I hadn’t even registered my domain with that registrar in the first place. I locked my domain to prevent a transfer, but obviously the money were lost.

150Mbps advertised, 170Mbps in reality. 15Mbps up @CAD50/mo.

I had 1Gbps before but I monitored my usage: playing MMOs (<1Mbps, latency is important not bandwidth), watching Netflix (<10Mbps in HD, ~25Mbps if 4K) and minor stuff like Skype. iOS or Linux SW updates run in the background anyway and many servers were limited in their end. Only things that could very rarely max it out were bittorrent which I usually am not in any hurry with anyway, my BT machine runs 24/7. Most of the time my connection was almost idle.

So I downgraded and saved money for more important things. My building is getting a second fiber provider soon but it still starts at CAD70 for 500Mbps, so I’ll pass.

I’m surprised you didn’t face issues like dead battery or damaged tires.

I don’t have a mac but I do know some of the history as I used to: macOS used to be around $130 but macOS Snow Leopard (2009), Lion (2011) and Mountain Lion (2012) were around $20-$30. Since Mavericks (2013) onwards it has been free.

Libreoffice is available, you can install any application you want on a mac provided it’s built for macOS, just like you can on Windows and Linux. You don’t have to install it through the Store either, you can just download it from wherever it is available and install it.

Business model for the mac is that Apple sells hardware, they also have a few applications one can buy such as Final Cut Pro.

The business model for application developers is up to them.

There are tools/package managers for compiling, installing, and upgrading open-source software on a mac, MacPorts and Homebrew.

You can’t run AMD64 Windows applications but there are both free and paid virtual machines (Parallels, UTM) that can run Ubuntu for Aarch64 and Windows Aarch64 in a VM. Funny enough ARM Windows has a translation layer so it can run AMD64 applications. Don’t expect great graphical performance running Windows in a VM. You might also be able to run older AMD64 operating systems (Windows 7) within UTM but it’ll be slow.

Hassleback potatoes with butter.

I’m a bit confused, OS upgrades are free… I’ve been back and forth between iOS and Android a few times, I avoid lock-in to either ecosystem by using 3rd party cloud services like Bitwarden, Signal, Dropbox free (10GB), etc. I can switch over in half an hour. Most recently they started supporting the open standard Matter so they can use same smart home things as Google or Home Assistant.

As for “bloat”, well there’s a few apps I don’t use, most can be uninstalled, if not it only takes up a bit of disk space, not RAM/CPU so they don’t impact performance and I keep my phones for many years. Right now I got an iPhone 13, it runs like new, it’ll last for a long time.

Are we upset about what they call support staff? All companies do weird marketing stuff, it matters not.

I don’t use a Mac, I run Linux on my gaming PC. If I didn’t game I’d be equally happy with a Mac, the new hardware is great and the OS doesnt get in my way. In contrast with Windows where one feels like a hand-puppet.

Wait I though it was Windows that had a KDEy feel? Anyway it shouldn’t matter whether UI’s have some common features if they’re good, only whether we like one regardless. You enjoy GNOME, great, that’s a very slick desktop too.

Plasma has a lot of things that puts it above Windows in my book.

I loved that period where WWW was buzzing with naive excitement and USENET was still popular for having conversations, it was a good time.

And I frequently find that items with Prime shipping cost a bit more. At least on the amazon.ca site I use.

I’d say Le Gruyère, Comté, Fontina, Manchego and Gamle Ole. Honorable mentions to Jarlsberg.

I never look at the local feed, only my subscribed. But what you subscribe is very human, we tend to gravitate towards a tribe.