My opinion is no. They can then use it to buy drugs or alcohol, which is unfortunately likely.
Maybe you could donate to some homeless shelter?
Or maybe, you could try asking if you could buy them some food instead.
I like computers, trains, space, radio-related everything and a bunch of other tech related stuff. User of GNU+Linux.
I am also dumb and worthless.
My laptop is HP 255 G7 running Manjaro and Linux Mint.
I own RTL-SDRv3 and RSP1 clone.
SDF Unix shell username: user224
My opinion is no. They can then use it to buy drugs or alcohol, which is unfortunately likely.
Maybe you could donate to some homeless shelter?
Or maybe, you could try asking if you could buy them some food instead.
Nope, choose a charity or something else to donate to yourself.
Unless they ask if you want to round down, don’t accept the offer.
Oh, that’s how you get it. I just tried it and got the regular si link which doesn’t seem to have valid b64 data.
respect for others
But also yourself. Like this you won’t get grouped by Google with other people online.
XcQ, don’t click you.
This is not a suggestion, it’s probably fairly stupid, but it’s what I’ve been using.
I’ve been using a convertible ThinkPad L390 Yoga as eBook reader as well. I never considered a 2-in-1 laptop, but it was cheap and I heard the Yoga versions have better colors (display). I thought I’d never actually use it in tablet mode, that my touchscreen would be unused, free of smudges. Hell, I didn’t know what I was missing, it’s awesome.
I’ve been using it to read eBooks, in portrait orientation as a tablet.
Software wise, Arch Linux (btw), KDE Plasma 6, Arianna eBook program.
Not optimal to be honest, Plasma 6 has some annoying bugs, and Arianna is broken as of recently. I suspect some depency issue, but anyway, for the time being I use the Flatpak Arianna package.
But I do like the experience. If I need to check some word in dictionary I can do it on the same device. Plasma 6 has touchscreen gestures, for example I use sliding from right to switch between windows. So, Arianna and Firefox with Wiktionary open at once, reading the book, unknown word, long press it, copy, slide from right, Firefox window, paste into Wiktionary, boom!
And to save extra power I use Bluetooth for network connection rather than WiFi. 1Mbps is plenty for dictionary searches.
Oh, important to me, when turned around there’s a deactivated keyboard on the other side that I can fidget with while reading. I feel like it helps keep me from getting distracted by something else. Just mashing the keys with my right hand fingers and clicking the trackpad with left.
Disadvantages of this:
Hardware wise, it’s a 1.5kg 13.3 inch eBook, so… perhaps not your glass of water (I don’t drink coffee ¯\_(ツ)_/¯).
Software wise, well, you can choose different software, but bugs. Visual glitches like the taskbar switching to floating when using virtual keyboard or the window occasionally staying retracted from where the keyboard was (fixed by toggling affected window out and back into fullscreen) are okay.
What’s worse, inactive window translucency can get stuck, i.e.: if the window gets stuck translucent even in foreground, and you close it, it’s now permanently on screen as ghost window and you’ll have to log out and log in again.
Worst, toggling Bluetooth (usually when done quickly after log in) may crash the system partially. The GUI completely freezes, tty works, but reboot won’t fully work. It will get stuck mid-way, so I recommend logging in as root, enabling magic sysrq (echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
), issuing reboot
, let it freeze, then Alt+SysRq+REISUO (one by one while holding down Alt and SysRq keys) to shutdown.
(Bluetooth service cannot be stopped or killed, nor plasmashell)
P.S.: Use Wayland with touchscreens. X11 has no touchscreen support, it just emulates a mouse pointer which is suboptimal.
I’d rather know a lot, because nowdays that’s all I can have.
Maybe they referred to the Rust version.
Mind explaining why use the content warning for this?
I get it when it’s used in some larger text perhaps with possibly triggering content, but this seems unnecessary. These domains don’t link to anything else than cock.li and airmail.cc either.
Warnings that are overused loose value.
Removed by mod
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If you’re already using Ubuntu, I don’t think it’s worth it. They’re fairly similar. Then again, I didn’t even get to install Ubuntu in the first place, the installer kept crashing.
Unless the laptop is a potato and you don’t have a better computer, you can try Mint, or any other distro in a VM to see for yourself.
And welcome to Linux. If someone recommends you Arch Linux, Gentoo or LFS as other newbie-friendly option, it’s a joke.
Unless they’re simultaneously connected you could share the same private key in all of the configs.
Except the 5 device limit. With OVPN it means 5 connected devices, with WG it means 5 registered public keys.
Say you use the official Mullvad app and also setup some 3rd party WG client on your phone. That’s now taking up 2 devices. Or perhaps you do have 6 devices, but you never have more than 2 of them running at once. With WG, that’s still 6 devices regardless of them being connected or not, while with OVPN it will indeed be just 2 devices.
When you live with someone else who insists on you putting together and decorating the Christmas tree and gets mad at you when you won’t do it just for you to have to repack all that piece of shit into boxes mid-January.
Only if others require me to participate in that. I don’t like it myself.
What exactly do you mean by that? I don’t know who that is.
Looking at my usage, especially last Sunday, yeah.
Yes, I know, I tried both Firefox and Vivaldi, both had some things I quite didn’t like, I keep trying them like every 3 months.
Sorry, I can’t name them, I keep forgetting the specific issues.