It’s a completely different launcher, I just like the way they list the apps that are not in your home screen (very similar to windows phone). I still prefer smart launcher for its categories but sometimes for the apps I rarely use I liked Niagara’s list.

My ideal launcher would be a mix of Smart Launcher with the addition of the app list from Niagara.

Depends on your point of view. It’s better than chatgpt, but still bad.

Dropped Ubuntu because of snaps.

Dropped Manjaro because updating anything on it was too annoying and potentially destructive if you didn’t read through every changelog.

Currently on bluefin because everything is working smoothly on it. Also have a Bazzite setup which I’m not as happy with as I am with bluefin but not to the point of thinking of dropping it.

Yeah just heard about Clicks from the other reply and instantly tried to buy one, but for some reason their shipping partners do not ship to Brazil specifically.

Ah fuck, hundreds of countries and mine isn’t one of them.

I love you. I’m buying one right now.

Well I would definitely buy a phone with a physical keyboard if I had any available around me. Years ago I even bought that moto Z phone that allowed attachable devices because they said there would be a keyboard for it - but they never released any.

The AI stuff I don’t mind as much as long as long as it remains being just software that I can disable.

So 7 hours on that battery would be approximately 5 hours on the deck.

I’ll download dead cells here to see how long the deck can run it in one charge, but I doubt it’ll reach anywhere close to five hours with the default settings.

Edit: I was wrong. Got six hours out of it even.

How big is the battery on the legion go? The deck’s battery drains so quickly I wouldn’t be surprised if it couldn’t last 7 hours even in the home screen.

Search WAS good when it was a simple search. Sites were indexed by the search engine and if you searched for the words you wanted to find, the results would be exactly that. In that context, it worked perfectly.

But the problem was that most people used search engines in a different way. They weren’t searching for specific content, but searching for answers to questions. And for that, search engines would only show results that had that same question and then you’d need to hope that the question had been answered.

Over time, search engines kept shifting into trying to better support the questions and answers format, making the basic content search worse as a result. Where we are now, neither or them works too well. Google is now better at understanding what people are trying to search, but worse at finding it.

AI is just expanding this with yet another layer: it might make Google better at understanding what you search and maybe even might be better at finding it than the engine is now, but it’ll add the ability to misinterpret the results too.

Honestly I’d be pretty happy if I had a simple indexed search again.

This is mostly so they can auto close support threads from “can’t get Autocad to run on it” to “system rebooted in the middle of a work presentation and I got fired, I demand compensation”

Yet another “bookmarks, but with a different UX” feature like half of the stuff that browsers have these days.

(I may sound like I’m mocking it, but I appreciate that we’re not stuck manually saving bookmarks for everything and get to choose how we want things to be saved)

I would try finding some de-bloated windows iso and try the VM route anyway. If your pc can run windows directly without much trouble, it should be able to run a lighter version of it on a VM too. You can dedicate most of your hardware resources to the VM and just no run anything else alongside it when you are working on an iPhone.

• Can my coffee maker make tea instead?

That is a very good question and good on you for looking for healthier options for hot drinks. In short: yes, your coffee maker can make tea. For that you need to turn it upside down and toggle on the “use herbs” button.

• I don’t see such a button.

Ah, that’s a classic case of coffee makers not showing their buttons on the external side. You’ll need to open up the equipment and press the internal button with a screwdriver. Would you like some help opening it? I can make you a detailed guide about how to turn screws if you want.

• I’ve opened it. There’s no button. There’s no sort of control of anything for different types of drinks.

Ah, that narrows it down quite a bit. What you’ll need to do is buy several pieces of equipment and install a custom built module for turning coffee into tea. I can help you build a list of the most efficient parts to acquire for this. Would you like to start this project now?

We already have too few options to pick from and these days it’s often the case that we don’t even get to choose for ourselves.

The company I work for has a new device security policy that states you need direct approval from the CTO to use anything other than a Mac for work - and even with the approval you’re restricted to Windows or three specific Debian distros.

I tried looking for a new job and from the first three companies I spoke to, two of them also mandated the use of Macs.

And I never understood how to use it. If I click on a Google result from Pinterest I’m always taken to something completely different.

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Some times you may need to install a few extra stuff to get a game to run properly, other times you may see a few visual glitches like a pop-up menu not rendering properly, but you’re unlikely to find any game that just can’t run on Linux unless the devs intentionally don’t want people to play it on Linux.

Check protondb for general compatibility of any games you play.

Sadly most times I needed one, I either didn’t know enough to be able to use it properly, or the PC was under too heavy a load that even the TTY was not responding.