It’s too basic.

No folders, no ability to freely arrange things, so your app drawer is everything, and unorganized. Same with the home screen.

Which, I guess that might actually work for an eink device now that I think about it (just bought a poke 5 myself), particularly one that’s only going to be used as an ereader rather than a general purpose tablet with an eink screen.

There’s just a minimum degree of organization that becomes a problem when it isn’t there, and the device needs to be easy to use. But, yeah, I think you may have just countered my “useless” opinion. It might well be perfect for that use case, both in its bare minimum features, and how lightweight it is.

That’s a long way away from being useful.

Edit: opinion changed, as per the conversation below. I’d say limited use, but definitely viable for those use cases

Yeah, I gotta echo the question of just how bloody tall you are. That’s a reasonable distance from the front of that toilet to the wall for anyone in the 6 foot tall area.

But, even then, what is it that makes you lean so far forward while standing that you’d hit your head on a wall even half that distance? There are things that would make it a problem to have a wall too close, I’m just amazed that anyone under about 8 foot tall would run into trouble even if it was closer, and they had some kind if spinal fusion or disability involved. I’m not saying it isn’t possible, I’m really curious what it could be, if that’s why this is a problem.

Damn. I finally got around to reading the article. That’s a hell of a story.

I can believe either main possibility though. It’s possible the dude just has a type, and a lot of really strange coincidence in his life. Unlikely that so many perfect coincidences exist, but not totally impossible (I’ve seen some weird shit in my fifty years).

It’s also totally believable that someone would create alternate identities for any number of reasons, some of which aren’t necessarily bad, though the degree to which it went is out of line if that’s the case. But I kinda doubt it was done fully benignly if that’s what the truth is.

And, I guess there’s always the possibility of a mix of those, with one or more of the three dubious people being real, and the rest fake.

But dude nuking everything online is super suspicious.

No, we super super promise!

Windows 10.

The way they rolled it out, and everything they shoved down the throats of anyone that “upgraded”

I think 16 terabytes? Might have been twelve. I was consolidating a bunch of old drives and data into a nas for a friend. He just didn’t have the time, between working and school and brought me all the hardware and said “go” lol.

Yeah, just use an older version, don’t update, and it’ll function fine for a while.

Eh, automattic jumped into bed selling access to “ai” companies and screwed the pooch with it.

That’s a pretty big red flag. Perhaps joke wasn’t the best choice of words. Unacceptable unknown risks would be a better way of describing the issue.

Going all in vs apple.

At the time it was all going on, it seemed insane to basically be baiting one of the biggest companies in the world. And it was, except that then beeper got sold, and the guy running it got a cushy new job out of it.

In my mind, either that was the plan from the start, to go big and make a splash to make beeper valuable enough to sell, or the guy running it went all in way too soon, with no good plan for the inevitable crackdown. I err on the side of someone making an error of judgement rather than intentionally screwing up what they built, and they blew their wad.

Frankly, who cares?

I’m not ragging on you, blaze, it’s a good post :)

I’m ragging on what used to be beeper. It was a kinda sketchy good idea, then they blew their wad, and now it’s a joke.

You’re asking about the desktop environment and its default settings, which may or may not be the same on any given distro.

But I have a tie between Plasma and Cinnamon (mint’s DE). They both take only minor tweaking to get where I want them, and I can use them both out of the box with zero complaints.

Bold of them to assume I’ll use their shitty app

It isn’t hate. It’s disgust.

But it’s everything. The intrusion, the quasi monopoly, the shitty anti,consumer choices, all of it.

Since either Linux or win 7 do almost everything I need, I’ll never use anything higher than win 7

Eh, they don’t suck as much now.

They’re on par with any of the shitty chains tbh. Crust is okay, but not much more than that even with the various options for it. Sauce is acceptable, cheese is good, some of the toppings even can be called good to great for a chain pizza. Still not my top pick of the chains, but not as bad as Caesar’s at all lol. Better than freezer pizzas at least, though digiorno does a good enough stuffed crust if that’s your bag.

There was a time dominoes was worse than Caesar’s. By a big margin, depending on the store.

Gods, I hate those. I won’t watch anything that does it

Really?

Google owns Rcs. Nobody else is capable of doing what they’re doing with it, and they don’t let anyone else play.

No third party apps, no way to choose other implementations.

Nobody really gives a fuck about the standard itself being “open” if there’s no ability for an end user to have any choice is the matter. It’s Google or GTFO.

Fuck rcs until Google opens it up.

I don’t have that problem because if I can smell their product and it bothers me, I leave whatever place it is.

But, you should be aware that they may have washed their hands just fine. Probably did. A lot of soaps smell way stronger than you’d think. If the smell is on the hands, it’s more likely to have come from soap or lotion than a perfume/cologne. At least, that’s been my experience.

Cologne in particular, if it isn’t a spray, you just use a fingertip and then dab unless you intend to crop dust everywhere you go. That’s not typically enough to linger more than maybe an hour on the finger itself. Obviously, some people just douse themselves, but it isn’t the majority of adults using a decent scent because of the expense.

But, yeah, I feel you. My grandmother was the same way, and of all the things I could inherit from her genes, I got that same kind of hyper sensitivity to smells

Now, I smoked for a long time and it suppressed it. But then I quit, and holy shit, it came back worse. My wife had to change soap three times before I could sleep in the same room, after I quit smoking.

And don’t even try to get me into a mall with a bath & body works. Scented candle sections of stores can clog me up for hours.

Which is a long way of commiserating with you. I’ve had scents “taint” other things before. Often enough that I don’t bother to try and enjoy something after a scent sets off my nose. I won’t be able to taste anything but the smell for up to a couple of hours afterwards, if the scent is strong enough.