Well, imho, at least half of r/antiwork posts were escapist fiction of how one should have replied to their manager.
crunchpaste
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I'm not rrleally sure how calash clients work, but maybe you can sync them manually with something like Syncthing.
Exactly. Mate tried emulating this behaviour, but it wasn't very successful.
As far as I know Ubuntu had to patch a lot of packages to make it work properly. I guess no one has the manpower to do that for such a niche feature.
I've had more breaking updates in Ubuntu LTS releases than arch based ones. Especially when at some point you always find yourself forced to use PPAs.
To me, being "noob unfriendly" is disabling flatpak to push a (semi) proprietary broken mess.
Why not arch?
I've always wanted to run a media server (Jellyfin, not Plex), but thought you need something more capable to have a good experience. Am I wrong?
You can do plenty with any old paperweight. The difficult part is thinking if what you need it to do and if that thing is worth the higher electricity usage of older tech.
You can sqeeze plenty of use from these laptops, especially the really light ones.
My gf works as an arts teacher in a primary school and needed something very small and light that she could carry every day to school.
The usage is mostly very light browsing (the school system, some Pinterest), showing the kids some reference images and the ocasional document editing and printing.
For a piece if what essentially is e-waste it handles that admirably, and because of the atom processor it sips power, which still gives it a few hours of battery life after about 10 yeas of ownership.
Tldr: Don't underestimate how useful an old laptop running a minimal linux disto can be for a casual user.
Even if they run only a window manager 2gb of RAM is just not enough for web nowadays.
Recently resurrected a 10-ish year old Lenovo Chromebook-like with an atom CPU and 4gb RAM, running nothing but qtile as a DE and it's struggling with more than 5 tabs open.
Upgrade the RAM to at least 4gb, preferably 8 and the HDD to SSD.
Also, don't bother with "lightweight" browsers, in my experience Firefox simply runs much faster.
The riches of dbzer0 shall remain hidden for now.
Ah, I miss Unity so much. To this day I still can't get over how useful the HUD was and really don't know why no one else implemented it.
Why not name them? Personally, I'm most disappointed in r/cyberpunk. They kind of proved they are all about neon lights.