i’ll do it later

famous last words

there’s no extra markup involved here for what is essentially a marketing thing.

they’re $35. which is also the price the ‘normal’ (not ‘collab’ edition) ones sell for direct on ka’s web site or at retailers like rei.

yea a lot of them do report linux, if they report an os at all. however, in a survey of “desktop” visitors, one would expect visits determined to not be ‘interactively human’ to be omitted entirely from the counts.

putting osx and macos on separate lines was dumb af. the ‘drop’ of osx over the last ~ 18 months is entirely offset by the debut (and thus, an ‘increase’ from zero) of the name change to macos. it’s a wash there.

linux gains are almost entirely windows’ loss, but whether it’s a legitimate trend or not will take time to determine.

remember these?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_book_exam

when the $ numbers start getting big and scary, just extend the length some more to make it look ‘cheaper’… like 8 year car loans and 50 year mortgages.

that’s a lot of chocolate.

usmobile.com does a cellular-based ‘home phone’ (base station you connect a traditional POTS phone to) for about the same ($9.99/mo, $99/yr), plus hardware at about $100. walmart does the same (via ‘straight talk’) at $15/mo and about $50 for the hardware. no internet needed for the service as they use cellular.

that is an odd layout, even for a windows system with linux added later.

what’s the actual order of the partitions on disk?

i’m sure that the site’s acquisition was always about user tracking data and never about it being ‘profitable’ itself.

another one bites the dust.

https://killedbygoogle.com/

306 entries now.

very surprised at the efficiency

i remember hooking ours up to a 10th gen celeron desktop (supposedly 58w cpu).

the whole box doesn’t even hit 20w at the wall under a full load, and it idles awake at about 5w.

i immediately set that one aside for future use to feed media to a tv or run a dietpi or something.

and how does the default breeze without the eye candy and widgets behave?

just replace the old ‘punch the monkey’ with certain other faces…

and you’d get clicks like crazy.

they all pull this shit… three different providers besides tm here, just in the last 2-3 years.

and they get away with it, so it continues…

akonadi is a dependency of some applications that are bundled in a default kde desktop, such as is installed using the kde-standard metapackage in debian.

these applications include kmail, korganizer, kaddressbook, and akregator. removing those four items from a default debian trixie kde install also removes any installed packages with ‘akonadi’ in the name.

on ssd upgrades:

upgrade usually costs less than 30 dollars for a 256GB SATA drive.

how much for the time machine to go back to last summer?

blowing the budget is their own damn fault. they put up a leaderboard, ffs.

even ranked their internal usage competitively on internal leader boards,

the same goes for any distribution not just debian. installers and upgrade processes cannot possibly account for the infinite number of unexpected things they could encounter. the more you go ‘off book’ with third-party repositories, backports, manual configuration changes, manual package installs and what-not, the greater the chance for having ‘issues’ with version upgrades.

debian has been my first choice since the 90s, but i use arch’s excellent wiki all the time.