FriendBesto

joined 2 years ago
[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I do not use Google products or use FB or most social media and family looks at me as if I am from Mars. Some do not even know what Linux even is. If I installed it on their machine and didn't tell them what it was, they would just think it is "another" Windows.

Once a non-tech guy asked how I find stuff if I did not use Google Search. Another thought that I used Terminal, not because I need it but because I wanted to look Retro.

To plenty computers or tech in general are not their thing.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Gradually? By 10's launch, it was already adware/spyware. 11 is not even attempting to hide it, if you look at it objectively past the PR.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

On my laptop, I update my bashrc on Excel, in Wine, then export it as a PDF, OCR to .md, Pandoc it to an .Org, and then finally, write it down on paper and re-type it on my phone's Termux's Emacs instance, then TRAMP it to my PC, in the other room.

I use biebian, btw.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Been curious to try. How is your RAM usage on it? Like that it uses runit. Like my systems to be minimalistic and with little bloat.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Ha. Was about to say the same. Running EasyOS on one ofy extra partitions for testing, and I end up using it as semi-daily driver often due to how light it is. Great on a USB key, too.

It is also somewhat unique, on top of other Puppy distros.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

What are ads? I saw one back in 2009, but cannot be sure.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

The vast majority of users did not use or even really know much about adblockers in general until recently, when Google/YT shot themselves in the foot by Barbara Straisand-ing adblockers into the general public's consciousness.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago

Arch is you know how to use Arch. If lazy then something like Bhodi or Q4OS. I put the latter on a couple of friend's laptops who recently jumped from Windows. Since it is very Windows-like but it uses less than 400mb of RAM to run on a cold boot.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

By statistics alone, we know that if not her then at least many other people think this way these days.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

You know, people can actually stop using most of these apps if they really wanted to. At will.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Maybe he learned from what happened to uBO before the "Origin" label was needed.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Doesn't he also allow Far-Right Activists, too?

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