I really don’t get it either. Like it’s some impossible task to just stop using certain apps or some shit.

I don’t use social media(except Lemmy, I guess, if you count that(I don’t)). The only notifications I get on my phone are from texts. I haven’t touched Tiktok since 2019. I don’t scroll YouTube shorts 24/7.

Everyone’s acting like this is some drug or addiction. And maybe it is to some, but again it goes right back to self control.

For iOS, from my understanding, Apple refuses any custom browsers. So all browsers on iOS are just forks/skins of Safari.

You will never see ublock or anything else on iOS unless side loading takes off

I bought my FW13 a couple months ago.

It’s been rock solid, yeah battery life could be better, but I don’t want to drop $300-$500 USD on chassis parts, keyboard, and whatever else just to upgrade my battery.

Plus I want to see real world comparisons/reviews of the Ryzen 300 vs latest Intel. Like, would I get better battery life just buying the Intel board? Is there even a reasonable performance uplift to upgrade?

Personally I might just buy the new input cover to get the new haptic trackpad, but I see zero reason to upgrade anything else, unless something just breaks. But the laptop has been solid! Zero regrets.

Read the article, just a bunch of morons who have zero self control.

Isaacs specifically pointed to the 1990s as a time with “a lack of phones, more personal experience, but also still some of the ease of modern technology.”

Just this alone shows they have no idea what the 90s were like.

“Waaah my phone does too much, I just want an iPod!”

Delete social media, download Spotify and boom, your phone is an iPod again. Or turn off all notifications on your phone and buy one of those iPod clones.

“Gen Z” acting like the world was better before social media but they have no idea how to function without social media. If they went in the theoretical time machine back to the 90s they’d have a mental breakdown trying to find their way to the local McDonald’s.

Just a bad title. It’s “Ubuntu Certified”, as Canonical has added it to their certified program.

Framework, the company, has stated that Ubuntu and Fedora work well on their devices and that Fedora is(was?) recommended.

I got my Framework 13 in early 2026 and been running CachyOS on it since day one. Haven’t had any incompatibility issues at all.

The “Ubuntu Certified” label is supposed to help schools and businesses use it for purchasing power to say “oh these repairable laptops are also officially supported by Ubuntu” if they wanted to use Ubuntu in the workplace.

So prohibition 2.0? How’d that work out again?

Pretty sure I’m going to buy at least 2. But would want 3 or 4. I feel like it’s gonna be limited per customer and there’s not going to be enough…

That’s why I buy clothes made with polyester! No plastic here! In fact I don’t think I’ve ever seen clothes with “plastic” as a material before…

I mean I get where you’re going with this, but I still don’t see how this effects Linux. Oh no I can’t access reddit without a government ID…cool I don’t use it anyway?

And if Lemmy or whatever else requires one then oh well, I’ll find the dozen or so forums that don’t care then

Ah just looked up EX mode. Didn’t know capital Q entered a different mode, I just wrote “Q” to emphasize the key in general not capital Q specifically lol.

Personally I love vim, it’s just powerful enough for me for my bash scripts. Anything more complicated then I’m using a proper IDE or something more simple I’m using Kate or whatever graphical editor for my DE.

Nah, just looked it up. Recording mode is activated by pressing “q” and allows you to record your inputs for a macro. So if you forget to do “:” and just press “q” you’ll enter Recording mode and have to press “q” again to exit Recording and then you can do “:q” or whatever you needed.

But if you don’t know what you pressed and don’t know how to exit Recording mode then you’ll be stuck. I’ve seen coworkers get stuck in this from time to time.

We’re a RHEL shop so our vim version may be different, but Recording mode doesn’t let us exit vim directly, we have to exit Recording mode and then exit vim. Again, might just be our setup.

Just had a conversation at work about using Linux full time. Coworkers asking me what issues I have and what games I can play.

I mean it’s not all sunshine and rainbows…but I told them my Start Menu opens every time I need it. I don’t have explorer.exe randomly crashing. I can search in my Start Menu for things and they actually come up properly. Oh and with btrfs snapshots I can update whenever and if it breaks I just rollback and wait for a fix. Which has happened…once in the last 5 months of using Cachy+Plasma.

I feel like I can actually use my computer now. With Windows I dreaded doing updates. With Linux I update whenever I want and it doesn’t fucking bother me at all.

Yeah what kind of cake is that any way? A Tres Leches? Flan?

As a parent, I have zero faith in any system like this. I’m all for more parental controls(like what Gnome 50 just implemented), but I don’t want anything(program, web browser, video game, etc) to be able to query any kind of “age” field on an account on my system.

I don’t want ANYONE to know if my child is using a device. And if that means I have to create an adult account for them, then so be it. I don’t want my child’s information being scraped and imported into some random database that gets leaked or sold to nefarious actors.

I guess jury duty is optional where you live?

Could be in recording mode, which usually needs a couple ESC or a Q then you can :wq

Idk who’s spending $200 on it. It’s $100 for the basic, but it goes on sale often. Same with Ancestry’s test. They always go on sale.

I dumped it when it went from $5 to $10 a month for PC gamepass.

$120 a year gets me A LOT of games on Steam sales.

I know I’m not the target audience, but it was pretty nice playing tons of games for $5 a month.

At $30 I don’t think I could even justify that. It’s absurd. Even as a one off to play everything I could…I’d rather use that $30 for literally anything else.

You can buy appliances without smart features still?

Best Buy has dozens, if not hundreds, of fridges without smart features. I can buy a 18cu top freezer fridge for $450 right now.

That same type of fridge back in the 1970s cost $300-$400. Adjusted for inflation that’s $2,000

So I don’t get this post. You can buy cheap fridges still and it’ll probably last a long time if you take care of it. Read repair reports or Google random problems for a fridge you’re looking to buy to see the most common failure points and see what the repair cost would be to factor in future costs.

Stupid post.

Yeah, just a tiny 4000+ line script doesn’t count as one command, I agree!