Engywuck

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[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Tons and cheaper alternatives to Amazon, if one can invest a bit of time in looking around for stuff.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

No problem, man ;-) I didn't take it as an offense. Have a nice day!

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I just made a mistake, sorry :-P English us not my first language.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Glad to have helped :-)

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

Dunno, during 8ish years I have only hada couple of minimal problems due to updates (and the solution was promptly available on Arch homepage). Can't speak for other, though.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (12 children)

Arch. Minimal, fast, rolling and it doesn't break. Plus, the AUR and the Wiki are unvaluable.

Had been on: RedHat (199something), Mandrake, Slackware, Ubuntu and Debian before.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

FOSS replacement for GBoard, with multilanguage typing. Swype can be achieved by sideloading a lib directly from the app itself (read app description).

I didn't find it significantly worse than GBoard.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Unless I'm missing something, magnets in headphones only emit very weak, static fields, that have 0 effect on you.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

People don't switch just because of some minor inconvenience (as if Linux didn't have any...) and outside of Lemmy/the Fediverse echo chamber very few people are concerned about privacy. They will switch (maybe) if the new tool works better for them than thge previous one. Otherwise, why should they bother? Linux is my primary OS since many years, but it isn't everybody's cup of tea.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Hey, just keep doing whatever you want. Just rest assured that virtually everybody is going to plainly and silently ignore you.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 108 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (36 children)

Switch to Linux!

As a Linux user myself, let me tell you that telling people what they should/must do this is how you make people plainly ignore you and think you're just an annoying person.

People will keep using what works for them, be it Windows/Linux/MacOS even if with minor inconveniences. Same goes for browsers/services/etc...

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Ditto. FF/Mozilla community (especially the /r/firefox mods), along with the nonsense changes to FF, are a big reason why I decided to leave FF after 20 years and use something else. At the moment, I couldn't care less about Mozilla future.

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