Not on my work computer, the only place I use windows, I can’t. A workaround is never a complete fix.

Well, I’d say the start menu peaked in Windows 7, where it only showed good local results, but it is still the best way to open something I know the name of.

I run Debian with zfs. Really simple to set up and has been rock solid for it too. As far as I can tell all the issues I’ve had have been my fault.

ZFS looks like it uses a lot of RAM, but you can get away without it if you need too. It’s basically extra caching. I was thrilled to use it as an excuse to upgrade my ram instead.

Mdadm has a little more setup then zfs, as far as I’m concerned. You need to set your own scrubbing up whereas zfs schedules it’s own for you. You need to add monitoring stuff for both though.

I’ve considered looking into the various operating systems designsd for this, but they just don’t seem to be worth the effort of switching to me.

I choose socks and sandals over proper footwear in order to demonstrate this. It keeps people’s expectations lower and makes life easier.

Automatic updates were added about six months ago. https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore/-/issues/719

They’ve been working well enough for me.

Because everything’s a trade-off, people optimize different systems for different things

And microsoft has chosen to optimize windows 11 for online advertisers above or equal to the user experience.

Datas is more fun to read.

I try to adjust my budget for things based on how much time i spend using them. My glasses, bed, phones, and shoes have very little (relative to my budget) expenses spared. My most recent purchase was a pixel 8, back when it was relatively new around at around 700$. I plan on putting grapheneos on it at some point and keeping it for as long as i can reasonably get away with.

Before that, it was the samsung s20fe 5g, also at around seven or eight hundred. I used it without a case for two years and the screen broke too early for me to be entirely happy with it. Im treating my pixel a lot better in hopes that doesnt happen again.

You’re missing a pretty key fact; any good repack is going to disable everything trying to connect outwards. Otherwise the methods for pirating that content will be easier to detect and block.

It’s also really easy to just check for yourself when a program is phoning home. https://superuser.com/questions/99039/any-good-utility-to-track-outgoing-traffic-and-requests-from-win-pc

since there’s pretty much no useful content on TikTok

Just like any other major social platform, it has been used to pretty good effect in organizing protests against various issues. https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/14/starbucks-why-everyone-boycotting-controversies-explained/71885557007/

I don’t personally use it though. Too scared i wont be able to put it down.

Yeah, autoscroll just isnt as good as manually moving rhe mousewheel, and i use paste way more than i ever want to scroll through a 10+ page document.

Nah. Metric should have just been base twelve.

I’ve been using noscript for years.

Yeah, it took me about that long to get my regular websites working right too. And then i had to reinstall for unrelated reasons and all that customisation was gone.

I love the idea of that feature, but it is not at all reliable in my experience.

Your best bet is the nvidia sheild. Osmc does not do well with DRMed streaming services at all. I struggled to make youtube work on it.

Craft computing has been chasing this for several years now. His most recent attempt being the most successful one. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RvpAF77G8_8

They’ve changed their error message. Now they’re just fucking with us.

Assuming you’re based in the US.

Anything on usajobs.gov that you can message your resume into matching will do a good job of having good benefits, relatively low stress, and average pay.

Don’t use the builder on the website; it breaks and makes your resume illegible sometimes. Do look into what a federal resume has to look like in order to work.

I like / use fitotrack (on the rare days i go out for runs). It has altitude / height of my runs, as well as custom exercise setups, and local exercise data backups. I’m quite happy with it as a tool for tracking cardio.

Used latitude.