My top pick for a Linux laptop would be the Dell XPS 13 9310. It’s old I guess, from 2020. But the build quality and Linux support is excellent. You could get a used one from eBay for around 400USD.

Alternatively, maybe you could look for a used Thinkpad X1 Carbon. I’ve purchased several of those in the past and have had really good experiences with them. The hardware is great and the software support is excellent.

I would avoid Framework. I actually just switched back to the Dell XPS 13 9310 after a year of using the Framework. Linux support on the Framework is just not as good as some other laptops. The biggest con of Framework is the HiDPI display. You will never get the display to look good. You’ll have to do a ton of tweaking and debugging—and you’ll still have some apps that are blurry or have weirdly sized icons or text. See: https://lemmy.today/post/22761155/13770242

I mean, the R1 was $200, came with a year of Perplexity, and didn’t require a subscription.

The Pin started at $500 and required a subscription, along with a new phone number.

Not that surprised.

HP, which is buying the company’s intellectual property for $116 million… Humane was seeking a $1 billion buyout

🤣 🤣 🤣

Oooh, interesting. Thanks!

Yeah, they were definitely down again: https://lemmy.today/post/23792488

And they definitely got spammed again.

Lol! Not sure what message you got, but if it’s anything like mine, let’s test this.

Post the message you got in your company’s general Slack channel.

If you get fired, it’s a hate message. Else, it’s spam.

Not for Lidarr, but I’ve had good luck finding music I like Soulseek.

Grammy has been giving farmers baths

What’s a farmer bath?

Because … well … wait, not a bad idea. Although, this would get rid of comments. Which in my case, I didn’t have too many, so I could have manually added them back.

Enjoying this again: Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us

Yeah, I’ve definitely grown to like TOML, especially after spending hours trying to edit a giant (nested) YAML file…

I didn’t realize the indentation in TOML was purely aesthetic.

This

[servers]
  [servers.alpha]
  ip = "10.0.0.1"
  dc = "eqdc10"

  [servers.beta]
  ip = "10.0.0.2"
  dc = "eqdc10"

equals this

[servers]
[servers.alpha]
ip = "10.0.0.1"
dc = "eqdc10"

[servers.beta]
ip = "10.0.0.2"
dc = "eqdc10"

which equals this

{
  "servers": {
    "alpha": {
      "ip": "10.0.0.1",
      "dc": "eqdc10"
    },
    "beta": {
      "ip": "10.0.0.2",
      "dc": "eqdc10"
    }
  }
}

Ooooh, related: https://www.piki.nyc/

Using Piki data, we find that while the like rate increases monotonically with artist popularity on Spotify, this does not hold true for superlike rates

This company’s product seems to be music recommendations. We need something like this, but open source and federated.

Being able to direct my own reccomender system, in order for it to be alligned with my goals and not with my addictive tendencies

AGREE! There are options for controlling the data side of things, Lemmy, Mastodon, Jellyfin, torrents, but I’ve definitely noticed the recommendation side of things is basically non-existent. What I miss the most from Spotify or Netflix isn’t the music or movies, it’s the recommendations. There’s a ton of content outside the megacorps, but we don’t have a good way to find it.

It would be awesome if we had an algorithm that we could control. We could tune it to whatever we want, instead of letting these giant megacorps shove their shit in front of us.

ägg!

I like that Migadu gives you a ton of control over your email experience. You can create unlimited users, have unlimited domains, create unlimited aliases, sending identities, they have custom routing features, etc. The backend/management panel seems like it was made with techies in mind. The actual email users don’t have to worry about any of those knobs though.

two guys running email?

Is it? I can’t tell from the about me. It says “In 2014, two of us, Michael Bruderer and Dejan Strbac, started…”, but nothing else on the page talks about the size of the company. It started as two people, but is it currently two people? Anyone know?

no 2FA support

The webmail client does have 2FA, but when connecting via client there is no 2FA. Although, not sure what this would look like. Would you enter a TOTP every time you want to connect to the IMAP server? Or do you mean more like an OAuth2 flow, like Gmail, and that asks for your TOTP?

I actually haven’t gotten around to playing with purelymail. Not sure if they handle this differently. What service are you thinking about?

purelymail, or if one guy running email by himself makes you feel uncomfortable, migadu

To be fair, OP didn’t say he wanted to work more.

How many novel experiences could I have had during that time? How many thought-provoking books could I have read? How many interesting people could I have met?

YouTube stole his time that he wanted to use for more fulfilling activities for him.

If YouTube is fulfilling for you, that’s ok. However, OP wanted to do other fun things.

I also don’t like the grip YouTube has on me. I found it really hard to break because sometimes there are legitimate reasons to be watching videos on YouTube, such as for home repairs. Still, most of my time there is wasted.

I’ve tried installing Leechblock and that has helped for a lot of other sites.

Although, since YouTube is special (tutorials), Leechblock gets too much in the way and I end up disabling it.

Instead, I found Unhook is a better fit. It doesn’t block the website like Leechblock. It just removes the addictive parts of the websites, like feeds and recommendations.

(Also works on Firefox mobile!)

This has been great because I can still watch YouTube for repairs, tutorials, etc for as long as necessary, but I don’t get pulled into a rabbit hole with all the addictive crap.

I’ve been using LibreOffice more these days for writing, slides, and spreadsheets. I can’t remember now the last time I used a Google app for this.