Is it truly that hard to be a halfway decent human being in these times?

You could try Windows 10 IoT LTSC from masgrave

No fucking way it installed Windows 11, that’s diabolical

heeeell yeah

I was actually excited to read this because I thought if it was open source, you could just un-Microsoft the code but yeah, that was naive of me. Fucking clowns.

Boo fucking hoo, whoever buys these absolutely deserves every invasion of their own privacy for the harm they cause to the privacy of others.

Yes, ten years ago when I already spoke/wrote perfect English on paper but didn’t have much experience talking to actual people (CS GO voice chat doesn’t count) I often had times where what I wrote in English would have been a perfectly reasonable way to express an emotion in German, but the other person found it odd. Of course I didn’t literally translate a German expression 1:1, that would not be the yellow of the egg (ha). Instead I struggled to for example with a general way to acknowledge the feelings of the other person, I always got confused responses since the words in isolation were grammatically correct and in German would have been empathic enough, but the, I wanna say, “social weight” of the words was actually way off. Again, I was already speaking perfect English back then, but with no real-world experience. Societal differences may have also played a role, as Germans are generally regarded to be more cold than the English or the inhabitants of the FSA (Facistic States of America) plus me having autism didn’t exactly provide for a good basis of understanding the weight or intended emotion of the words I chose back then. Now I think I have a good understanding, but I have to conciously “translate the emotion” as well as the actual language. So yeah, I completely get you.

Since noone else said it so far I want to kindly push back and ask why you would want to use an app in the first place. We have gotten too used to just download an app for every single thing and granting it all the permissions in the world. Sure the Lemmy apps are going to be open-source but still, I feel like we need to push the habit to just use a browser instead of an app more.

Just gonna shamelessly leave these two paragraphs out of the website of my own distro here.

menacing

Same here, I got a Gen 1 X13 for 120€, it’s not powerful by any means but perfect for running Linux and browsing, coding, writing and so on.

Search for used 8a, 9a or 10a, the regular or flagship models are a waste of money. I got my 9a new for 350€

Yeah, you have a point, but still, twice in three years? I don’t know how representative it really is, ESPECIALLY when you see 50-100% ups and downs in the Linux user base. 5 to 3 percent and back cannot be the actual stat, that has to be unreliable selection of users.

I still don’t get why I can’t opt in to participate in the survey every month, I’ve only been asked twice in the last three years on Arch

“We value your privacy” above 1032 partners and no disagree button is unhinged