AugustWest

2000 Websites? WTF why?

Defining characteristics of a cult: inside information and ritual, seperation from others and non believers, words and speech that are internalized and often only understood by cult members, heiradchy - often to one person or small group, loss of self, loss of independence, removal of physical items or required clothing, and generally there is an eventuality that those in power will begin abuse that is often sexual.

Now, the actual beliefs have nothing to do with it. Where a religion ranks in the scheme is debatable.

I agree dishwashers are efficient. It also sounds like you are talking about a home model. A commercial model in a kitchen is about 2 to 4 times more efficient. We are talking like maybe a gallon per 100 dishes kind of thing.

Out to eat… Bag and wrapper? Straws and cups? That’s not going out to eat.

Got any stats on the battery thing? Plasma is fairly low resources, my laptop is equal if bit better than gnome in that regard. Certainly better than windows.

I am not using Mint though.

One laptop Arch the other Fedora.

I get your point, but I gotta say: I do want to buy my ketchup in a glass bottle. And I do, mostly because the ketchup is 10 times better than then generic crap that is Heinz or whatever major name.

But I don’t mind shaking the bottle, it’s not hard.

Most things I don’t want plastics for, and in the case of viscous fluids, why not jars?

It would be nice to drop off the jar with the local mustard maker and get a fresh one. Standardizing on glass sizes would help a lot, but then of course we gave water issues for cleaning all of them.

So assuming you are traveling, what do you bring with you if it isn’t a mobile streaming device, a laptop, or a mobile device that you are going to stream to?

You saying you wouldn’t have those things away from home? Or a firestick.

It took a long time to switch to Firefox, but it is now my main browser. I mean I really liked the Mozilla suite and Firefox just didn’t seem ready for awhile, but eventually I made the move.

Firefox ever since.

Tailscale makes this easy if you are the only user.

“install this app on your tv and log in”, which is exactly what Plex does

Yes, but that person has to create an account. Everyone has to create an account. With Plex. Some people I know immediately say no, others are annoyed that plex would try and shake them down for money.

If you configure Jellyfin, all that goes away. THEN they can simply download the app and login.

I got concerned when people started buying Plex hats. And being excited about that purchase.

I noticed that Logo on Hats people who are willing to pay for them is often a bit concerning.

Just part?

I think you might be forgetting just how much e-waste was going on leading up to 2010. All the way back in 2003 I was using recycled computers for my Linux servers. Windows XP came out in 2001 and by about 2005 the number of Win98 machines being dumped was pretty high.

So I looked it up using the way back machine. I saw a flyer for my local computer store. You could buy a basic but complete computer NEW for under $200 in 2010. You also could spend thousands of course but you didn’t have to. You could get a netbook new for $150.

So I went to some liquidation and used computer sites and old newspapers in 2010. A dell optiplex p4 at 2.4 ghz complete with 90 days warranty: $60. And it seems used is about $50 to $100 in general. Laptops a slight premium. And those are the ones people tried to get money back from. Lots of them were just FREE. The number of garage sale listings in the newspapers offering free computers is crazy.

And I mention all of that because Linux was how you took an old win 98 machine and turned it into a functioning web host, or email server, or NAS, or whatever back in those days.

And by the way, I think I paid $25 for my sharp zaurus used in 2005. It was so cool to have an internet handheld with color that you could use in full sunlight and ran linux.

Edit: I hope you see this! If you lived in Fayette county (GA) in 2010, you could get a Dell Optiplex GX280 P4 at 2.8 ghz complete computer, monitor, mouse, keyboard for $65, with free shipping. That should tell you something right there.

If you were moving around sure. But most kids I knew by that age had something… anything. A used one for free by that point, maybe $50 at most if you paid.

It was the juxtaposition of dirt cheap computers, being able to even afford a smartphone, AND taking a shot at installing a new OS. Usually that path was a little bit of geekery beforehand maybe ability to coble together a computer or grab a second hand laptop. If that wasn’t you, thats cool.

Yeah. It just is really surprising the phone came first that late in computer history

In 2010 it was the smartphone? Not the dozen older computers, misc laptops, or even maybe a tablet lying around?

The sharp zaurus sl5500 with full color and useful in daylight screen was all the way back in 2004 for example.

Or the Asus Eepc in 2007 and it came with Linux!

I would have thought everyone would have access to a cheap fallback computer by then.

Lol. That’s funny.

I had no idea there was another AugustWest on Lemmy.

Got a dime? A dime for a cup of coffee?

Now I wish I had been more clever and chose AugustEast or something.

I’ve tried being nice to you. So now that you’ve rejected that, can you fuck off please?

Where did that come from? It was just a conversation, that was out of nowhere. I never was not nice.

There shouldn’t be a performance hit that you can notice in a VM.

But keeping them is like complaining about shooting yourself in the foot. Its still supporting them.

Just quit.