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alonely0 , 6 months ago to technology in Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them

You might enjoy more Fedora KDE or Linux Mint.

alonely0 , 7 months ago to android in I'm amazed that Android doesn't have a built in way to connect to a network drive like iOS/iPadOS has

Iirc material files has it.

alonely0 , 7 months ago to linux in What Tweak, Program, ... changes a Desktop Environment from unusable to great for you?

Oh, true, you don’t get previews of the windows inside. However, that shouldn’t be very hard to implement, so you might have luck if you ask for it to be in Plasma 6.

alonely0 , 7 months ago to linux in What Tweak, Program, ... changes a Desktop Environment from unusable to great for you?

KDE plasma has it natively.

alonely0 , 7 months ago to linux in Overheating laptop, should I try a lighweight distro - which one?

What you need to do is clean the dust off of your fans and ventilation filters (check guides or figure it as you go, but make sure to disconnect the battery and the fans from the mobo as soon as you open it). Then, repaste it with good thermal paste or some liquid metal if you’re feeling confident. I have liquid metal (thermal grizzly condoctonaut) on both of my laptops, and one of them which had overheated since day one, doesn’t anymore.

alonely0 , 7 months ago to linux in Looking for a "couch laptop"

I prefer the T480 series (imo Thinkpad went downhill from there onwards). The non-s is a great off-road laptop, but for what OP is asking, the T480s seems like a more sensible choice.

alonely0 , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to linux in Looking for a "couch laptop"

I have a second-hand Thinkpad T480s that I love, I bought it for 250$ on ebay and replaced its battery because it was fried (+40$). I use it for school and it works flawlessly, around 8h of battery life in a well-configured OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. According to the specs sheet it shouldn’t be, but for some reason it is noticeably lighter than a friend of mine’s MacBook Air 2021.

What I really love about it is the ThinkDock Ultra (iirc 30$ on ebay), which lets me place the laptop on my table, and by just sliding a piece of plastic, it connects all of my peripherals in a second. I love this laptop so much that I’ll use it until it dies so hard that it can’t be fixed at all.

laptop, coverlaptop, opendock, no laptopdock, I/Olaptop + dock

alonely0 , 7 months ago to android in Xiaomi won't give Android updates if you unlock your bootloader

Just sideload the ota, no need to go through so much trouble.

alonely0 , 7 months ago to technology in Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media

Gen Z, I mourned Reddit for 30 seconds. Now I’m here.

alonely0 , 7 months ago to android in Google Pixel 8 users are reporting poor battery life on mobile data

Can you try grapheneOS as a last resort? I get almost 2-day battery life on it in my 6a.

alonely0 , 7 months ago to android in GrapheneOS Parental Controls

Família link (which does all that and more) won’t work unless it has privileged access. Life360 is even worse than google, so no talking about that. I don’t know what to say, if he’s just into location stalking; then you can just use google maps to share the location, but elsewhere, you’ll need to find some trustworthy MDM service.

alonely0 , 8 months ago to technology in Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business

A publicly traded company is legally obligated to be evil.

alonely0 , 8 months ago to android in Highly recommended note taking apps

I use noteshelf on my tablet for quick n’ dirty notes, and then I write them down on obsidian so they’re tidy.

alonely0 , 8 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Ok Lemmy Rorschach test time. Tell me what you see.

One of eevees’ evolutions (glaceon, the fairy one, or the grass one) in a symmetry axis.

alonely0 , 8 months ago to programmerhumor in PHP is dead?

I personally like Axum over Actix, less macros and more clever trait magic.