absentbird

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[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hell, use the waste heat to power hot water heaters or something. It blows my mind that we don't do more cloud computing in cold environments. The servers produce heat, the people need heat, solve one problem with another. Instead we seem to be putting them in the driest and hottest climates available.

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

Also sometimes their spouses, like a lot more than the average amount.

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Xiaomi Pad 6 is a good price and is compatible with plenty of custom roms. Some people don't trust them because it's a Chinese brand, but I figure the odds are about the same that it's got hardware level spying as a Google or Microsoft tablet. At least it's easy to root or reformat.

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

Be nice, can't you see they're only able to afford red pixels?

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

RDP has some nice defaults that make things easy. VNC can operate pretty much the same, but it takes a bit more configuration.

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

To each their own. Personally I can't stand MS Office, I think Google Docs is easier for most nontechnical people these days anyway. For the rare cases when Office is needed, the web version works fine on Linux.

LibreOffice works great, and WPS Office is proprietary but at least it's free.

Personally I write my documents in markdown and use pandoc to convert them into PDF or docx or whatever. It's like writing the source code and then compiling, I like it.

I'm sure you've looked into all that, but for anyone else who is interested in alternatives those are my recommendations.

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

Pfft, proprietary propaganda. How hard is it to let go of every app you're familiar with, learn half a dozen scripting languages, and memorize a hundred different commands in vim?

What you say is true, though I've become so jaded with Microsoft that I don't think there's any software or situation I'd use Windows for; I'd sooner switch to Mac.

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (5 children)

What do you have against Linux?

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

A 3.5" cartridge slot with a hard drive reader in it sounds kinda awesome, not gonna lie.

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

'we let' women have rights? Women fought tooth and nail for years to get those rights, and assholes are still trying to claw them away; fuck, there's places in the US right now where women are dying because their access to healthcare has been sabotaged by a supreme court that reinterpreted the constitution to remove their rights.

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