Polar

joined 1 year ago
[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Realistically probably not getting one for less than $160CAD.

At that point, might as well just buy a used Dell optiplex or something. These boards are absurdly priced, and you'll never get it for MSRP.

Even with the added power consumption of the Dell you'll pull out ahead lol

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or pay the dude a couple dollars to disable any tracking and remove ads for life?

Why are you FOSS nerds so against paying people for their work?

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Don't be cheap and pay a few bucks. Disables all the tracking.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] Polar@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 year ago

I have 120 and do not have it. Weird that it's only enabled on an older version.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Just checked. All of the "cheap" ones require you to order 2+, and then have insane shipping costs. The rest are $100-120 CAD.

I don't think these things will ever be affordable. People who want one badly, will pay the money, and everyone knows it. No need to sell them at MSRP.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Most average people are afraid of the command line, and really want a GUI for everything. Many of these people’s first exposure to Linux could scare them away depending on the distro they happened to choose, I think.

Or it's the fact the community is so toxic?

Every computer, doesn't matter brand or hardware, never works 100% out of the box on Linux. Doesn't matter which distro.

You ask online, and people scream at you to run terminal commands or go back to Windows.

You run a terminal command that breaks your system, and people blame you for running random terminal commands..

You go back to Windows, and people say "Linux is so friendly, you don't even have to touch the terminal anymore if you really don't want to!"

Rinse and repeat.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Linux - I can't run that software.

Linux - I can't run that hardware, the drivers are for Windows/Mac only.

Linux mobile - I have the performance and depth of a diaper full of shit. (cough, cough²)

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't buy any pis because they are $100+ in Canada.

Remember when it was supposed to be a cheap computer? Ya..

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh not even that. Back when I used Tinder in 2019, and you were a guy, you pretty much had to buy Tinder gold or whatever it was.

Tinder limit your swipes, intentionally showed you dead profiles, and some other shit I forget.

Same with older people. If you're older, Tinder costs more.

Tinder is a predatory app. They benefit from you NOT finding a match.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't just work for me. When I'm playing a podcast on Android auto, leave the car, come back, there's no way to resume the podcast.

On every other app, there's a little floating icon in the bottom right of the screen that you tap to get to the now playing, so you can resume, but antenna pod doesn't have that.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca -5 points 1 year ago
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