Turns out most of it is bigger, but still not easily visible (I was definitely one of the people that thought it was giant heaps).

the patch is a widely dispersed area consisting primarily of suspended “fingernail-sized or smaller”—often microscopic—particles in the upper water column known as microplastics.[4]

While microplastics dominate the area by count, 92% of the mass of the patch consists of larger objects. Some of the plastic is over 50 years old, and includes items (and fragments of items) such as “plastic lighters, toothbrushes, water bottles, pens, baby bottles, cell phones, plastic bags, and nurdles”.

Wikipedia

Anyone can get it if you go find the island of it floating around in the Pacific Ocean (I think?).

🫥 Their “repository” is a OneDrive folder copied from the last guy’s laptop

Response from Israel’s president: “lol no”

found in Australia

Sounds about right

I’ve been daily driving CachyOS for a while now. It’s fast, and I like the rolling release model. It pretty much worked with my 4070 out of the box I believe, I don’t think I had to do anything special there. I started with Cinnamon as my DE, but eventually moved to Gnome (Cinnamon still uses X11 I believe, and there were things that just worked better with Wayland, and with a handful of extensions, I can get it to look the way I like).

That being said, I wouldn’t recommend it to people less comfortable with Linux. CachyOS has its own repositories (which is the whole idea, the software is compiled specifically for more modern hardware), but it can sometimes be confusing when choosing packages to install. The wiki is pretty helpful though, especially with getting games up and running.

He named his company after his forehead

How does a programming joke cause me physical pain?

I’ve used Armbian and DietPi. Currently running a magic mirror on a Rock64 and a NAS on an ODROID HC4. Of the two OSes, I think I’d recommend Armbian. Skip installing a DE and just get a basic X session with a simple web browser.

Note that MagicMirror is web based, so the setup steps for putting up a web browser would be similar.

Perhaps you’d be more interested to meet our dapper mascot…

Yeah, the original post gives a false dichotomy. It’s possible to sincerely let someone vent about Windows/iOS and also suggest Linux tactfully.

Responding “use Linux noob” on every post isn’t helpful. But chatting with a coworker and hearing them out, then sharing about your own experience (“yeah, I finally got so fed up I tried Linux. Turns out it was super easy and I’m glad I switched!”) is helpful and adding something.

If you want something more capable that will handle more experimentation, go for the mini PC. If you know exactly what you want to host and you want to prioritize low power consumption, the pi might be a better choice.

No

I run CachyOS, it works great for me. It’s not the easiest one, but I like the rolling release style and it’s by far the fastest distro I’ve used (cold boots to gnome desktop in maybe 10 seconds).

I wish I could have more hope that Android will ever decouple itself enough from Google to be useful/practical as free software. Unfortunately, it looks like it’ll end up going the other way, and freedom-respecting Android ROMs will likely be niche and only supported on a narrow range of hardware.

I imagine the Linux phone has better long-term potential, as it’s not tied to a proprietary ecosystem.

Can confirm, I have an EQ12 I’m using as an HTPC. Performance is great and sound is minimal (aside from coming out of suspend, the fans fire up for a moment).

I see Google is amply funding their fun-ruiner division.

• Low coupling, high cohesion
• Sometimes it’s better to use a less optimized solution for clarity or simplicity
• A simple solution is usually better than a “clever” one
• Allot time for refactoring during development, don’t assume it will be done later (spoiler: it won’t)

I’m using VoIP.ms and yeah, they do SMS and MMS ($0.0075 per SMS, $0.02 per MMS). They have both an online portal and an Android app. There are a few limitations, but it seems to work pretty well overall.