looks easy enough, will try, thank you.

tbh, looked at the thing some while back and noped out when I saw “java” in there; absolutely irrational, I know - just can’t stand the thing. cool that there’s an alternative.

I would like nothing more (well, there’s a few things I’d like more, but for the purposes of this we’ll let it stand) than for this fucker to get hurt and for this shit business to implode.

but nothing close to that is happening. sales that are lower than before indicate that there are still sales, nazi sled image notwithstanding. the P/E multiple is still through the roof. there aren’t liquidity issues apparent.

this might be an indication that things might be moving the right way, but at present, nothing is “collapsing”.

and even if alla that somehow materializes, this doesn’t even touch the fucker in the slightest, it is inconceivable how much he’s got.

so, this is a cope article.

the true value is in discarded laptops, skylake or newer. a quick search in my local marketplace finds double-digits of those under $40, with busted screens and other failings, which aren’t important for e.g. headless deployment.

they got low-power, capable CPUs to boot, you get a shitton of connectivity, storage options, etc. power brick included (gotta buy one for a raspi) and you don’t dick around with arm64 packages and SD cards. if you don’t need video decoding, you can go even older.

woudn’t put too much trust in recommendations from dudes that rely on you constantly buying new shit, as their income depends on it.

yeah, this is a “cope” article from dudes I’ve never heard of before. nothing is collapsing, the shit is still worth insane multiples of P/E, they still sell HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of model 3s (close to 400K per annum) and this joke of a “journalist” conflates the unpopularity of the (higly impractical and niche) cybertruck with “teslas”.

to each his own, but I can’t stand this clown. he desperately wants to come off as this wise, cranky, tell-it-like-it-is one-of-the-guys, but the often cretinous takes permeating his works are off-putting. the evil elites in charge of opensource not thinking about people with mech drives in 2024, the abject “horror” that’s systemd, his “helpful” notes on bugs in five year old software, for my money the dude can get bent.

so when he likes something it immediately prompts me to do the inverse; not that it’s needed in the case of MX.

thank you, very thorough. are them messages public somewhere, on my or their profile or whathaveyou?

guess I’m fucking stupid, no understando how to do that. help please?

so there are still sales.

dude, I mean come on - which lenovo tablet? woulda taken you like two seconds to include the model. intel? arm? config?

lol get bent. telemetry galore, from the dudes that brought you “battery has limited charge cycles via firmware, afterwards it’s dead”, just how their toner division does it.

don’t know about that latitude, but for the thinkpad you’d do well to disable the nvidia graphics in BIOS setup. intel graphics is adequate for daily stuff and you can actually use the thing as a mobile device i.e. on battery,

it’s a false dichotomy. the issue is not whether you have something to hide, as this “hiding” implies something sinister, the issue is you deciding what you share.

when I’m not blasting the contents of my morning’s bowel movements across all my social profiles, that don’t mean I’m hiding it, it means I haven’t decided to share it. and I won’t allow my government, service provider, software or hardware to do it for me.

dios mio, the prices… horror! for a corporation to choose between this and thinkpads, OK. for an end-user, get bent!

I’m quad-lingual and it’s a mess inside my head. every so often a sentence pops up in my audio output buffer formed from different languages and normalizing it takes a while, so sometime I come off as an idiot.

mint uses X11 which should be considered legacy at this point. wayland (Gnome, Plasma) has all the touch and dock/undock and rotate and pen etc goodies. try it out from a liveUSB and decide for yourself.

this one, OP. no need to introduce the horror that’s a:

• hosted app (why?!)
• client app is electron crapware
• the client app doesn’t even have full functionality, you have to use the web UI for some tasks

edit: I’m obviously speaking about the bitwarden/vaultwarden horror. keepassXC is none of them things.

I used enpass for years and was a happy user. one day it prompted me for some re-authentication bullshit security theater. although in that instant it was an easy task, took me all of 10 seconds, it demonstrated a scary amount of power they had as I couldn’t bypass it and access my data. from that point on, its days were numbered.

the second issue is the export functionality that was seriously lacking and I had to resort to 3rd party converter tools to convert it to keepassXC; no way that flew by their QC, it had to be intentional.

it’s by design, those are harassment tactics. there is no way that you can add a correspondent as “safe” and someone you want to receive comms from, even if you’ve communicated before and/or you have them in your address book. they want you to use gmail, not email.

so this person is someone I come across frequently on mastodon, has occasionally interesting takes and every so often I think about following them.

but a quick glance at their frequency of posting is astounding, like if I added their output to my feed, this would be like 80% of my daily intake; “overwhelming” would be an understatement.

along with the above, to me, this post doesn’t signal “hey here’s a healthy and balanced individual”, it’s more like a manifestation of a mental health crisis.

you’re fine using lineageOS with microG and utilising it for cloud messaging, i.e. notifications. the actual content of the notfication doesn’t go through google (or apple), a push message just signals the telegram client there’s activity. then the telegram client wakes up, fetches the message from telegram servers, constructs the notification in-app and then displays it.

google doesn’t have access to the contents of it, but harvests lotsa metadata that microG (as opposed to full-featured play store services) somewhat ameliorates.

having said that, you should make every effort to ditch telegram as well, for a buncha reasons.