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    [–] CallMeAl@piefed.zip 76 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    My work gave me a choice of a chromebook or a windows laptop when I started since the company uses the Google stack for everything.

    I asked if I could get a high end chromebook and it was approved. Its easy to install linux apps in the dev container and they run seamlessly with the the chrome apps on the desktop and the window manager has multiple desktops (which is how I like to do things). Since I have to use Gmail and Google Docs for work anyway, the chromebook is really not bad and much better than having to use Windows.

    [–] 4grams@awful.systems 26 points 1 month ago

    I’m sure it works great but it’s like curing a toothache by breaking another one out on the other side of your mouth. My problem with windows isn’t how difficult to use it is, it’s how restricted and how connected it must be. I don’t have full control of the system and I’m required to have external accounts for it to work. Same with chrome.

    My data is mine, I don’t want it accessed, owned and controlled by a faceless internet corporation.

    So, professionally I do not care what system I am expected to use, they are all functional. If the person signing my paycheck is comfortable with it, so be it (in fact, I’m a big proponent of externalizing risk in a corporate setting). Personally though, I’ll keep up my greybeard routine :).

    [–] a14o@feddit.org 68 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Image refuses to load over my VPN. Well played, consider me thoroughly annoyed.

    [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

    Then your VPN provider is blocking catbox. You should switch to a different VPN.

    https://catbox.moe/faq.php

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    [–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

    Images refused to load and I’m not on a VPN.

    Using Voyager on iOS.

    [–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Considering chromeOS "freedom" is wild.

    [–] Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    It's only truly free when the write protection screw is removed

    [–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 9 points 1 month ago

    Annnnnd in my case, running very complicated scripts provided by genius level volunteers to overwrite the bootloader (to Libreboot I think?) so it could accept a Linux OS because Chrome OS told my mother in law:

    "We decided we're done caring. Throw this device out and buy a brand new one."

    She's been happily running Mint and getting her browser and security updates ever since.

    Chromebooks and ChromeOS were an e-waste generating scheme from the start.

    [–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Chromeos is actually more Linux than normal Linux, because it has three different types of Linux packed into one.

    [–] M137@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

    Add to that all the tracking and supporting an evil megacorp!

    I feel like it kinda stops being Linux in a way once that's done.

    [–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It's funny how my opinion of this really is:

    Linux > Only using a smartphone (GrapheneOS) > Only using a smartphone (LineageOS) > Only using a smartphone (ARM Linux) > Literally not having a computer at all > Returning to the woods and living completely off-grid for the rest of my sorry days > Screaming into the void hoping it claims me > Chromebook > Mac > Windows

    I just did Linux/Chromebook(derogatory)/Mac/Windows but it really didn't capture my disdain for the last 3 enough

    [–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

    I’d swap the chromebook and mac at the end there. The ewaste that is a chromebook is at best a glorified netbook, the macs at least have some decent hardware options that can be leveraged.

    To be fair, part of this is my own experience. I've owned a Chromebook (still have it... Somewhere?), and know how it works. I've never once touched a Mac xD

    [–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Returning to the woods and living completely off-grid for the rest of my sorry days Screaming into the void hoping it claims me

    To be fair, these are great options…

    [–] riskable@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

    The Void already has claims to all of us. The Void actually enjoys and needs the screaming, so it'll be patient and wait until your warranty runs out; when your particular version stops getting patches and reaches EOL.

    When that happens, it'll welcome you, and you'll get sent to /dev/random instead of the recycle bin or the trash can.

    Note: You'll have to wait for enough entropy in order to get to your next destination. How long that takes depends on how many people are screaming into the void at that time 🀷

    [–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

    my list is:

    linux>windows>Screaming into the void hoping it claims me>>>Android(one of the better ROMs)>Android(one of the worse ROMs)>IOS>"Smart" TVs

    [–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Stallman: Android-shmadroid. That's why I always insist on "GNU/Linux" name, not just Linux.

    [–] flamingos@feddit.uk 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Given Ubuntu is testing replacing the GNU coreuitils with uutils, we might have to start unironically calling it systemd/Linux.

    [–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I prefer the "shit" term regarding Ubuntu :)

    [–] lauha@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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    [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

    Given Ubuntu is testing replacing the GNU coreuitils with uutils, we might have to start unironically calling it systemd/Linux.

    The differentiator is glibc. That's what defines binary compatibility. Ubuntu still used glibc, Android uses Bionic.

    [–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago

    "New Linux? But nobody's really adopted the old one!"

    [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    There is only one piece of software named Linux and that's the kernel. Android is as much a legitimate distribution of Linux as is Alpine Linux.

    [–] bastion@feddit.nl 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    You don't sound annoyed. You're failing OP.

    [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
    [–] bastion@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago

    doubt Surely OP's post was purely informational..

    [–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Android so good they made installing software sound cool and hacker-y like β€žuuuh I’m not supposed to be doing this :3β€œ as you install a fucking weather app or sumn (sideloading)

    [–] mudkip@lemdro.id 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    It's sad that something as simple as installing a third-party app has become challenging in modern computing.

    [–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

    Companies really said β€œyou are a criminal for tampering with our device” and we just let it happen

    [–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago

    I have to admit, this bugs me a little.

    [–] pat277@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

    Still enjoying the lenovo chromebook I got running Fedora, with 0 problems

    [–] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

    I'll be honest, I think the grammar and way the post was written is what's annoying me most. I'm reading it with at least 3 different possible meanings.

    [–] bryndos@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)
    [–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Real men use Hannah Montana linux

    [–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
    [–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

    Just write your own updates.

    [–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
    [–] bastion@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

    Yeah, yeah.

    [–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)
    [–] fleton@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

    Just need to take it off the top of your lap and put it on top of the desk.

    [–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    The term "desktop" has more than one meaning and in the context of which operating systems are used on desktops, it certainly includes laptops. πŸ˜‰

    [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    The term β€œdesktop” has more than one meaning and in the context of which operating systems are used on desktops, it certainly includes laptops. πŸ˜‰

    Samsung DeX = desktop Linux. You heard it here first, folks.

    [–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Yes, you are quite right: I heard about the existence of "Samsung DeX" here first. It's such an obscure thing that I (a Samsung smartphone user for more than half a decade) hadn't heard of it before. I had certainly heard of Chrome OS before even though I've never used it.

    [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

    DeX is more often used on Samsung tablets with attached keyboard. I didn't check but I assume it's being merged with Android's upstream desktop mode.

    [–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    (Gigantic megacorp titan dumps billions into forcing a cheap thing on mass culture for further control of everything, selling at a massive loss to artificially inflate adoption rates)

    "Wow! So many people use this thing now that an ultramegasupercorp did it to exploit countless masses of normies before their competition did! How did that happen!? I guess this must be the winning 'linux' of the future!"

    No wonder it annoys Linux evangelists: We just want a world where we use computers, not the other way around.

    [–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

    The android model is the windows model

    [–] ragas@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

    Thankfully chromebooks are not a thing where I live.

    [–] YourMomsTrashman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
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