So making access to information free is helping scientific progress? Wow, who could have imagined that!
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Aggravationstation@feddit.ukto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the longest you've gone without a shower/bath. Why?3·13 days ago4 days, music festival.
Aggravationstation@feddit.ukto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?2·15 days agoI left Reddit at the start of the APIocalypse. Lemmy is the only social media I use unless you count Youtube which I watch through Newpipe and Smarttube. Tried Mastodon but its not for me.
Would have been 1998 at school. Can’t remember what the very first thing I accessed was, probably something educational we were instructed to. We got it at home the following year. I remember downloading my first MP3s from Slipknot’s website around then and spending time in its chatroom. Then I read about Napster in a magazine and gave it a go. We only had the internet at home for a year or two. I had to use it at school and later college or the library after that. But I did have my own website from 2002 - 2005. I remember switching between both Google video and YouTube when they first started. Didn’t get the internet at home again until 2006, first smartphone in 2010.
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Redreader, but thanks
Or brown
Aggravationstation@feddit.ukto Android@lemmy.world•Review of F(x)tec Pro1 X after 3 months of useEnglish1·2 months agoPhysical smartphone keyboards?
Aggravationstation@feddit.ukto Android@lemmy.world•Review of F(x)tec Pro1 X after 3 months of useEnglish3·2 months agoYes but I still found it slower than typing with one hand with an on screen keyboard and I use the Fossify keyboard with no auto correct.
Aggravationstation@feddit.ukto Android@lemmy.world•Review of F(x)tec Pro1 X after 3 months of useEnglish6·2 months agoI found the physical keyboard unusable, too small for my fingers and I don’t have particularly big hands.
Aggravationstation@feddit.ukto Linux@programming.dev•End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?9·2 months agoYou’re preaching to the choir with this one.
Aggravationstation@feddit.ukto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course materialEnglish1·2 months agoWow, I laughed far too much after reading this comment. Thank you kind stranger.
I did a similar thing. I was talking to my friend through my headphones as I was getting ready to leave the house and put my phone in my hoodie pocket. Then I put my rain coat over my hoodie and left. 5 minutes later I freaked out when I couldn’t find my phone in my rain coat pocket. My friend reassured me that I must have it because I was still talking to her but I didn’t remember what I’d done until I took my rain coat off. Was a weird experience and one that made me realise how dependent I was on my phone.
First attempt was Slackware, installed from a CD that came with a magazine because we didn’t have the internet in about 2001 or 2002. It worked for one glorious afternoon but I’d tried to dual boot with Windows and nuked that partition. Got into big trouble and was banned from the family computer for the rest of the summer. Couldn’t try again until a couple of years later when I got my very own laptop and paid my friend £5 to leave his PC on overnight downloading an ISO of dynebolic over dial up and burn it to a CD for me.
That was great but then I got my hands on a beefier PC and used Ubuntu thanks to the free CDs you could get in the mail. When I finally got a job and a broadband connection I switched to Mandriva, then Ubuntu again for a few years with most of that being Xubuntu and for like the last 10 years mostly Debian. I switched to Fedora a couple of times and tried a few others like MX Linux and Qubes. I also had a Pinebook Pro for a while running Manjaro ARM. I just always ended up going back to Debian. I can’t see myself ever changing distros again.
I’ve tried PopOS as I have a machine with an Nvidia card but every tine I’ve done the first apt upgrade it nukes grub and won’t boot again. Probably something I’m doing wrong and it has been a couple of years since I last tried.
Debian, on servers and a desktop. I spent a long time using Ubuntu so I’m used to APT and Debian is suitably lightweight for my not amazing hardware. I also like the non rolling nature of it.
Aggravationstation@feddit.ukto Linux Memes@sopuli.xyz•Open-source is always better in the long run!English1·3 months agoGood point, thank you. I’ll bear that in mind.
Aggravationstation@feddit.ukto Linux Memes@sopuli.xyz•Open-source is always better in the long run!English2·3 months agoProbably, anything out of the ordinary and most banking apps freak out. I use Graphene OS and can’t install my bank’s app. I just use the website. Been thinking about setting up VNC server on an old phone I have with a broken screen and using the client from my Graphene phone to use my banking app and others like Amazon and Just Eat and keep my Graphene device totally clean.
Actually use Home and End keys to get to the start and end of text.
Ctrl + F for searching text. Very useful.
Alt + Tab for window switching.
Linux + USB drive to switch away from Windows.