BenPranklin

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[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Don't put all your eggs in one basket again, that's what makes degoogling such a difficult thing. There's several proton services I intentionally avoid and use alternatives for so I don't have to uproot my entire digital life to leave them if they start being shitty. If you go from using all google services to all proton you're setting yourself up to need the same sort of big migration down the road. 15 years ago google was also an awesome company that kept making incredibly useful things for users just because they could and look at them now.

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah man, that's the point of the article. Its asking the question "should everyone who isnt using them already move to them". Its not saying everyone already does.

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I had to switch back to an x11 session because a lot of stuff is broken in Wayland for me. I was having a lot of flickering in slack and odd mouse issues in games.

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

A big part of why the tesla plug was chosen as the north american standard plug is the lack of infrastructure upgrades needed. Apparently it uses exactly 1 phase of a commercial electric line so it needs far less infrastructure to add charging if there is commercial electric already. For example they'd be able to install just an outlet on every streetlight.

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also forced to use windows for work. That wasn't the windows terminal program being slow, that was git bash.

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

How long ago did you try it? I gave the first iteration of wsl a chance and had the same experience, it was super slow especially for things like ls. Its a lot better since wsl2. Probably 90% or more the performance of bare metal install of linux

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

A semester of programming is more than you need. The hardest part would be installing the OS on the raspberry pi. https://pi-hole.net/

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (16 children)

At least 50% of NY's population lives within 50 miles of NYC and I wouldn't be surprised to find out its closer to 65% or 70%. Of course it gets the most attention. I get why people living outside that area would be upset but they cant be surprised.

You see the same thing in every state with a large metro area. There's always griping from western and central MA but the fact is 75% of the population lives in the Boston metro area.

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Its like how red cars get more speeding tickets.

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Its not competing against cable or fiber, its competing against satellite internet and DSL. My family has a place in rural Maine and we used to have Hughesnet satellite internet and starlink is half the price and like 50x the speed.