there’s the electric car startups like rivian or whatever

Specs aren’t too important. I like my distros lightweight, and a web browser will be the most demanding thing it’ll run.

web browsers are pretty fucking heavy these days, I think the minimum spec for an “ok” experience is a 3rd gen quad core “mobile” chip like the 3612qm or an 8th gen quad core “ultrabook” chip like the 8650u

the Chinese supplier had remote access for software updates and diagnostics to the vehicles’ control systems

this feels like what every tech company is doing nowadays?

main selling point being that it’s purple

Next they’re going to ban CR2032 button cells

(I was gonna put a /s at the end but I can vividly imagine that happening now :/ )

adults these days are also fucking stupid and incompetent

god I fucking love generalisations

It’s true that since the Tide Pod Challenge began, the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPC) has received 86 reports of teenagers intentionally ingesting laundry detergent. Yet at the end of last year, the AAPC reported that over 10,500 children under the age of five were exposed to laundry pods in 2017 (for example ingesting, inhaling, or absorbing the detergent). If we are going to have a mass panic about poisonings, ten thousand children are clearly in greater danger than less than a hundred teens. So why was it that only the Tide Pod Challenge that made pearl-clutching headlines across the globe?

I think the bigger problem is that adults focus on issues that are marketed to us than the issues that actually exist

bro how do you comfortably use $, ^ and 0 for navigation??

that’s completely fine :)

I think the biggest part of learning Linux is learning where to get help. Most programs have a help dialog with --help or -h, or man pages you can find somewhere. Even the terminal has a help dialog if you just type “help”, most things are more user friendly than they seem!

If man pages are difficult to read, I recommend installing tealdeer (tldr). it shows a short summary of example command usages and it’s great (e.g. tldr ls shows the different ways you can use ls)

i found sway to be more performant than i3 on my core 2 duo machine, though tbf i prefer the default config of i3

depends a lot on your actual hardware. some 2014 computers can run kde just fine, some will struggle with it. what actual components do you have?

I have arch + kde plasma running on a i5 3320m among other things and it’s completely fine. Your 4gb ram is not an issue.

The biggest issue around this generation would be if you have a spinning hard drive, you’d want to replace that even with the cheapest used ssd you can find anywhere asap.

Arch is fun and you should try it at some point but it’s not “faster” than Debian or mint or whatever, it mostly just comes down to your desktop environment and web browser.

or firefox --help

does China not have uranium? if this is non enriched I don’t really get the point

pretty sure it’s a joke

it’s crazy that the most reliable laptop I own is more than 10 years old

kde is pretty enough, it’s not exactly trendy but I feel they’re going the best they could do while keeping information density

is that on x11 or wayland? that works fine for me in wayland

tbf reddit prolly tracks more data through their app (post view time, view count, cancelled posts, etc)

so that they can express ideas without a profit motive?

there’s lots of devices it runs on iirc, something like the pixel 3a can be had for less than a new rpi3b+ where I live