my laptop has better battery life on qubes than it did on windows.

you know ten years ago you might’ve had a point.

but windows is fucking unusable garbage now, and if theres a windows feature you can’t bear ti go without, your only option is hope somebody makes it on Linux, because its not sticking around on windows.

Make them spend that money at least.

and never will

Dude have you been in a coma this past decade?

I dunno, 80 for a Hitachi seems a little low, but not too good.

Not sure I’d buy one used tho.

Then why are they enshittifying so hard?

In the 90s this was hacker shit. You’d do this shit to, like, break into the pentagon or something.

Fucking cringe cyberpunk; everybody’s a hacker, because theres no other way to see your fucking calendar.

Yeah, maybe a few delusional shit heads making insane decisions for absurd reasons completely insulated from reality by a thousand layers of abstraction isnt good and we should just count anything run this way as already dead?

Debian is the slow reliable. Go with mint for easy, Debian for completely foss, pop! OS for eaay nvidia drivers, or Ubuntu for… Uh… Ubuntu.

Two categories, broadly: any professional software, with deep features and professional quality.

I know theres audacity, but that’s really not an acceptable saw.

I know theres a few cad apps, but no professional I’ve ever met finds the good enough.

I know gimp, and I use it, but no artist I know does; they all pirate Photoshop. Literally every one.

I like having audacity to record audio. I like having gimp to fuck with shit. I like having various cad apps to bang out organizational tools to print. These things do generally fit my use case. But I still have to help people pirate everything else and god the DRM is do fucking annoying.

Abd here’s the more esoteric ask:

Not so much programs as features; Why aren’t we really going all in on shit we can do that they can’t? Features capitalists would never add, never support? Instead I find open source software always playing catch-up, and theres no reason it has to.

more taxes from billionaires

Okay so look up the name of the guy who was point man for the business plot.

Look up his son’s and grandson’s names.

And then, after doing that; explain how that’s ever gonna happen.

And every penny of it used to fund fresh boots for your neck.

No; your appropriation of the revolution weird-linux-install-murder-plot has convinced me that you are a cop and I must now flee underground.

steps you’re missing

Nope, the plan is perfect and only a counter-revolutionary would suggest otherwise. straight to the gulag.

maybe a psychotic serial killer nurse would be better

Know any?

conflict of interest

Well you wouldn’t be stealing it for yourself, and its not like there isn’t already a massive conflict of interest between execs who like money and staff who like treating patients.

Musicians (at least in studio) tend to use wired for the quality, which just does not exist in wireless. Less a latency thing. Live performers tend to use a monitor (speaker pointed back at them) AFAIK.

Its absolutely in the scope of your practice!

Nurses make great serial killers, I can only assume they would make equally good political assassins!

So first you call for tech support, just any bullshit issue, but word it ambiguously so they have to talk to you to figure out what you meant. drop a comment to provoke a response, measure their opinion. Designate them target, nonentity, or potential comrade to recruit to the cause. Keep going until you find either a target you can turn to an asset until its time to dispose of them, or a comrade who might genuinely assist. IT get you the information from personnel records and department meetings. Boom. Linux on the whole system within a year, and you’re skimming license fees to build that concentration camp for landlords.

Oh. Oh god ive never even tried that. That sounds horrible.

My experience of Bluetooth has always been settings that I can’t change, security issues, and devices that run different implementations on both ends. See ‘barely a standard’, even when the box for each reads the same standard number.

Which is why I’m so reluctant to call it a standard; it isnt standardized.

epic is one of the critical programs

Okay but they… It… At least the back end works on Linux? Or did twenty two years ago, since before some of your younger staff were probably born, according to the first result of my single web search? I think the front end does too? You know computers with different operating systems can talk to each other, right? Yeah you should be sure, and that’s why you set up a test computer in a back room somewhere to be absolutely personally sure.

I understand that its not your decision, I, um, can’t refute that part (I’d like to argue it though? For fun?)

Maybe the entire regime of ‘ownership’ especially of such an important public utility so many people rely on, like a fucking hospital cannot, in real terms, be privately owned? It is the property of the people, of the community it is in, and as such, and as that it is the year of the Linux desktop, you should be conducting a covert assassination campaign against windows partisans on the IT staff and gradually reclaiming that department for the people while making absolutely no other changes to things like billing or scheduling or policy regarding unhoused patients.

Then, when the unbelievers are purged, quietly install Linux with cinnamon on people’s computers, until it has finished, and you are victorious. Reap the software licensing fees you would have paid to Microsoft and 5% efficiency gains in one hospital to jump start the revolution from there. Use it to build a concentration camp for landlords, then…

Ah, I keep seeing different labels on both those numbers.