Without the Meta layer (which you can just not install), the basic smart RayBans are actually pretty nice. The audio is pretty good and it works with any other assistant you may have configured. I wish they had a version without the camera.

Tbf, this holds true for any accessory, from chairs to computer cases: Anything branded as “gaming” is usually mid quality at a premium price.

Mobile phones and apps did it. They let boomers poke and swipe their way into platforms while taking a dump in a volume that Apple alone could never have managed.

Honestly: “Journalist discovers Apple product still functions properly after 10 years” sounds like a headline to me.

It’s not even about missing a piece anymore as much as wilfully holding it upside down.

Linux is like the Star Citizen of operating systems: There are people who see the potential and trust things will be fixed. And there’s the people who have been around for a while.

TRaFKAP

Nah, that’s America. Children as young as five and two years old, some sick and all without parents, have been abducted for months all over the US and all comments were mostly about hurrdurr-conservative-values. Things only got really heated when two white people got shot. People are only in it for themselves.

Someone inside law enforcement called it “An exodus of morality” that was going on across all agencies.

Ah, the good ol’ “Why are they not doing anything about this”.

Meanwhile my laser Kyocera prints full color full duplex and doesn’t try any funny business.

Shit like this is why we as a species are doomed.

Reminds me of the videos of the metro flooding in China two years ago. Really nasty stuff.

VirtualBox :) There are some tweaks, like committing more memory to a box through a command line than is possible through the UI. And if I need performance, I boot into W10.

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (basically the newest regular Ubuntu release). It has native support for my Geforce 1080 gtx and every USB device I have tossed at it so far. I you install on a desktop I recommend setting up a W10 VM just to broaden your options.

I had the same experience as you did: I’ve tried Linux every few years ever since someone brought it to my attention in the nineties. And it always felt like a hobby instead of an invisible layer that just makes my computer tick. After Microsoft tried to ram W11 up my arse for the umpteenth time, I tried again recently. And it was amazing. Absolutely zero driver issues and it is FAST and CLEAN. No pop-ups or sneaky ads or any of the other things that make me feel like a tenant on my own computer. I now have a dual boot setup Ubuntu/W10, where I really only still use the W10 boot for games. And I have my office and audio software living in separate VM’s that I can use regardless of which OS I booted into at the start.

It’s awesome.