[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I'm a big fan of Mint. It's great for beginners but also for anyone who just wants to run their PC with minimal hassle. Considering those are pretty low power machines, I'd go for the Xfce editions too. Personally, I think Xfce is a bit sparse but it runs well on older hardware.

There are also a few distros specifically for older hardware, but I don't have experience with those. I'd suggest starting with Mint and seeing how that goes.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 65 points 18 hours ago

I would always start all conversations with my friends with "Hey Windows peasants!" If I had any friends. These two things have nothing whatsoever to do with each other.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours ago

Agnostic atheist. That's a pretty standard position for atheists. It means you don't believe in gods but you're not claiming that they don't exist. Proving that something doesn't exist is logically impossible so there's no point even bothering to try. So we're willing to believe in gods, if someone presents convincing evidence for their existence. Until then we don't.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago

Whatever is the cause of this, the Republicans are going to try to ban it.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

If you predict that every new trend is just a passing fad, you'll be right at least 90% of the time.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

From what I've heard that also applies to some South American countries. But in any developed country it's basically unthinkable to do something like this without getting caught.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Or she just used Facebook marketplace.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Cool. Thanks for the info.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

How much did you end up paying? Did you have to pay tax, customs fees etc? $200 sounds almost too good to be true. Do you run Linux on it? Any driver issues? I'm looking for a replacement for my NAS right now. On paper this one looks pretty good.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'd go with a corporate hand me down just for sustainability. Those tend to be in decent shape and can be had for reasonable prices. Buying second hand is always a bit of a lottery but so is buying chinesium.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

People generally recommend 8th gen or higher Intel chips for transcoding so I'd look at alternatives. I have a Dell with an 8th gen i5 and that works very well.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I'm not a scientist but that's pretty much how it goes for me.

60

While I think something like this makes sense, the pricing seems off. For $600 you can build a PC with a desktop GPU. If you want to make it easy to set up, you could just use an off the shelf mini-PC and preinstall everything so a non-technical user can get started without any hassle. I really hope we'll see more Steam machine like devices in the future.

175
148
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world to c/noncredibledefense@lemmy.world
35
submitted 1 month ago by Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I installed Pipewire a while ago to fix some audio problems. Now it's time for the 22 upgrade. Can I just run the upgrade or will the existing Pipewire installation cause problems? Has anyone done that already?

57
143

Yeah, I totally get that. Give me $46 billion or I won't be motivated any more either.

167

The future is going to be great!

936

But of course we all know that the big manufacturers don't do this not because they can't but because they don't want to. Planned obsolescence is still very much the name of the game, despite all the bullshit they spout about sustainability.

view more: next ›

Diplomjodler3

joined 8 months ago