happyhippo

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[–] happyhippo@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

My experience is the complete opposite.

I pre-ordered a 13 inch DIY Ryzen 7840u with 32 gigs and it cost me 1600€. I will spend another 50 on an SSD. Not sure you can get that kind of hardware for less, elsewhere.

A similarly specced XPS for example is easily a couple hundred more.

Edit: just checked again, at least Dell Italy only sells the 13 XPS with a 13th (or 12th) gen Intel. Fine, I don't really mind it. But it sells for 2100€ (with 32GB, a 1TB drive and an OLED display). I guess that the OLED alone might be worth the price difference.

The point tho is that even at the same price, I'd still take framework's repairability any day.

Funny thing is, I'm gonna replace my current XPS 13 with an 11th gen Intel just because the RAM is not upgradable and I'm stuck with 16gigs.

I'm sick and tired of having to get rid of perfectly fine hardware just because it's not upgradable.

With framework I can spend another 100-150 down the road and bump my config's 32 to 64.

[–] happyhippo@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

Almost 2nd spot! Keep going!

[–] happyhippo@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kubuntu is great for out of the box printer detection, as are Fedora and Mint, in my experience.

Some distros may force you through some obstacles though, and in my experience (opensuse) you may have to allow mdns/ipp protocols in your firewall rules for local device discovery and communication.

Apart from that I'd argue that setting up a modern printer on Linux is pretty much plug n play nowadays, since most should support driverless printing at this point.

[–] happyhippo@feddit.it 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No offense, but that's a really stupid reason not to try it out.

[–] happyhippo@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me it was the 2XL.

That camera was just 5 years ahead of everything else, fruit included.

Got a 5 after that, but the selfie cam was crap. And to some extent, it still is on current models. I wish Google did something about it, I can't be the only one noticing.

[–] happyhippo@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have a git repo for it, needless to say. And so README.md plus a network diagram from https://app.diagrams.net/

[–] happyhippo@feddit.it 7 points 1 year ago

8MB for an entire thing running a web server.

Mind: blown

[–] happyhippo@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

Vorta + borgbase

The yearly subscription is cheap and fits my storage needs by quite some margin. Gives me peace of mind to have an off-site back up.

I also store my documents on Google Drive.

[–] happyhippo@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have now and I'm loving podman desktop! All I wanted was a quick and easy way to stop/start/delete running compose clusters, and podman desktop detected all my running docker compose containers and displayed them with the familiar tree-like UI with individual or global controls to play/stop or delete.

Thanks! :)

[–] happyhippo@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

Indeed this is the description I find on Discover:

Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux using Electron. It uses the Web App and wraps it as a standalone application using Electron.

The advantage compared to teams.microsoft.com (at least when I load it in Firefox), is that it has many more features, since I guess it's using an "Edge" user agent, which unlocks stuff that is not enabled for FF. For example, I can have 1:1 calls (yeah, I know...) and blur my background or even set a background pic, all things I can't really do on FF.

On the other hand, screen sharing works unreliably (at least in a Wayland session, X11 is fine). I've reported a bug to KDE since I assumed it's a kwin issue, but I should test it with a gnome wayland live medium as well...

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472471

[–] happyhippo@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For a personal PC I love it, never had any issues, package selection is great and bleeding edge.

You may raise your eyebrow since this is in contrast with my previous comment, but I've rephrased the final sentence since then (I was rather annoyed by the lack of some official apps on Linux, rather than packages for my specific distro. And that's 100 on Microsoft/Docker).

To be honest I'm not sure TW is the best choice for a workstation because of its rolling nature, but I just recently turned my personal PC into my (also) work PC, therefore I sticked with what I already had.

An LTS kernel would probably be the safest option, but with snapshots out of the box (if you use btrfs), I still feel quite safe right now. If an update should break something crucial for my work, I'd just roll it back.

Transitioning from debian based shouldn't be hard, zypper is quite intuitive and fast. You also get OBS which is kinda like pacman user packages.

If you need some obscure app which was packaged years ago in binary for Linux, you'll probably have much more luck with Debian based since apparently .deb is the first package you wanna target.

But it hasn't happened in a while now that I needed to download such obscure binaries, typically I could find a repackaged version or an alternative app all together, so...

[–] happyhippo@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

If any of those can be used with docker, I'm sold!

I cannot move to podman because our projects are shared and the rest of me team is on Windows or MacOs and they all use docker desktop. We also use docker compose files.

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