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Sure, AI can do anything, but can it tell us why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch™️?
Sure, AI can do anything, but can it tell us why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch™️?
Yeah, Veronica Explains is great. She seems to do things in good faith, and not a money grab. She just really loves this stuff. I think she’s trying to do youtube full time, and I hope she’s successful.
I do want to try peppermint, but I am concerned that it may still be too “heavy” of a distro for the dell 11. I just run a window manager only (Sway).
Oh, that’s right, I forget about that. But also, I don’t know much about musl and glibc. But of course, Alpine is a distro meant for servers, so some desktop/laptop stuff I’m trying to do may not work so well.
Since Artix is like Arch but without Systemd, I’m hoping it may be comparable to using Alpine. I’m using Artix Linux with Runit on my main desktop, and it’s been great so far.
I was thinking about getting an ARM chromebook to do this, cuz the Pinebook seemed like a good idea, but seemed underpowered. There are some nice ones like the Acer Chromebook 14 with the Kompanio ARM chip, but unfortunately no one is making custom firmware for ARM based chromebooks right now. Hopefully someone will at some point. Would be nice to have a power efficient passively cooled laptop. I think some of AMD laptops with their U series chips are pretty efficient.
I’ve done this with a DELL chromebook similar to the one she has. It worked out great! Shout out to Mrchomebox for his awesome work on custom firmware.
I initially installed Gallium OS since it was supposed to be a lightweight distro. My chromebook was fairly low spec with duo core intel at 2.0ghz with 4GB RAM. Gallium OS worked much better than chrome OS for this machine. Later on, I learned about Arch, and thought that would be better cuz it’s barebones and lightweight. And yes, Arch made a big difference. And later on, I heard about Alpine Linux, which is even more lightweight than Arch. Shoutout to Trafotin for his video on using Alpine as a desktop OS. Alpine was even better for this machine than Arch. It is noticeable since, it’s such a low powered machine.
Yes, I’m being a dirty distro hopper. :P
I may jump to Artix Linux since, some things I need don’t seem to work on Alpine. My hypothesis is that Alpine was faster than Arch because Alpine uses OpenRC instead of Systemd. Just a guess.
Yeah, I mean, dealing with issues like this is still better than being on a corporate monarchy like twitter or fb 🤷♂️
dang, I didn’t know that. But like someone in the above comments has said, maybe the use a different index?
If I’m reading correctly, they’re saying that google is much better that filtering out SEO spam. I’m no expert, but maybe some of the supposed “spam” may have some actual relevant content, and that they are just good at gaming SEO. However, this doesn’t excuse google from blatantly placing advertised links as top search results, even if they aren’t relevant at all.
I’m okay with ads, but I find it misleading when they appear as the top search results. I’d be okay with them if they were placed after the top 3 actual relevant results. Even better if ads were on a side bar area.
So far, for most of the random things I search, ddg has given me more relevant and useful results than google (just casual testing over a month), even if they are better at filtering out SEO spam. I may check out google again for some searches, but so far, ddg has been working well for me.
Yeah, Google search is useless now. I’ve switched to ddg , and it’s much better. Just not having all those sponsored links helps a lot .
Maybe a searx instance would be even better, but I haven’t found one that works consistently for me.
Oh no…so anyway…
I only have two words. Womp womp
When will these eLon simps finally admit to themselves that the person they’ve been idolizing is a dumb bitch?
Is this an episode of Sick Sad World? 🤭
“Sir, this is a lemmy instance.” 😛
For me, it’s about using the right tool for the job. Sometimes, using full GUI file manager is overkill, especially for copying just one file, and you know exactly where you want to copy it from and to.
And a TUI file manager like mc, ranger, nnn are a good in between level of ui, and is great for browsing files distraction free from the visual clutter of a full GUI file manager. That may seem like not a big deal, but I think it’s nice to be able to see things simply and straight to the point. For me, it just feels nice and less frustrating.
What I like about Linux is choice. And in this case, choice in file management. Pick the right tool, and you’ll get things done more efficiently, and with less annoyance.
What about DOOM 2016? I thought it was great. I’ll admit, I didn’t play much of original DOOM, but 2016 feels like what I wanted DOOM to be if there was better graphics tech available.
I can see how some people can get trapped in a bubble of Google and FB. I hope they can realize that Google, FB, Reddit, and Twitter are not “the internet”.
I stopped using FB when the timeline became useless (it was hard to filter to a specific friend or family member), and also that I no longer wanted to see updates from people I didn’t even want to hear from. I have since switched to smaller and more personally curated social media platforms like a group chat or a discord server.
Sure google is a common homepage for a lot of people, but there are other alternatives that work well. TBH, a few years ago, I wanted to switch to DuckDuckGo, but their search results were lacking compared to google, but fast forward to now, DDG gives more accurate and useful results than Google’s ad driven and AI driven “search results”.
I’ve enjoyed my “internet experience” much better after switching from Reddit to Lemmy. Just the fact that it’s not driven by profit, and policy changes are not a the whim of a monolithic corporation, makes the experience much better. I generally don’t see people trying to grift on lemmy. I really appreciate the useful and well thought out comments/posts on lemmy compared to other platforms.
Also, Mastodon is so much more enjoyable to use than Twitter (deadnaming it, I don’t care).
I recently switched my main desktop from windows to linux, and now my download speeds are much faster. I guess now I know why. 😬
Oh, so telling advertisers to go fuck themselves DIDN’T help Twitter make money? 🤔