I would say the majority of objections to systemd pertain to perceived overreaches of the project (perceptions I generally share). So in that sense, it is kind of on brand.

Syncthing.

I also will make a copy on a usb drive if I’m traveling and keep it in my luggage. Lesson I learned when I broke my phone during a recent trip and didn’t have any way to add a new device to syncthing to retrieve my keepass database. Which was a real pain in the ass.

I imagine a good number of people will fall for this. Tech illiteracy is the norm.

I don’t use iOS, so I can’t speak to it directly, but some quick searching tells me it supports IMAP, caldav, and carddav. If so, you could just use native apps.

Most of the privacy respecting email services require a paid plan for this, but they are inexpensive.

This doesn’t solve your Google calendar ask, but I pointedly don’t have my work calendar on my phone. I just check each calendar separately when needed, it’s not much extra work.

For those who were a little concerned about the “breakup” phrasing in the title, I didn’t see any indication in the article indicating those payment methods would stop being accepted. Just moving away from being reliant on them.

Perhaps there are local classifieds or marketplaces you could use? For example, one of the local news services in my area runs one that’s well known and active.

I can recommend Debian or Fedora. They are both mature distros that are pretty easy to install and generally work well with minimal fuss and are easy to maintain. I often see Linux Mint recommend, including in this thread. I’ve never used it so I can’t speak to it. But I have every reason to believe it’s a solid choice.

As for transfer process, since you mention using spare disks, NTFS filesystems are supported and you may be able to just copy files off of them. I don’t know if bitlocker is supported.

I quite like this idea, thanks! If I did this I could adblock all the rest of my network, which might help with blocking ads on things like smart TV’s. I could also DMZ that wireless network. I would consider their devices untrusted (not malicious, just not careful), and they wouldn’t notice the difference.

Also this. On some unremarkable HP office PC that’s probably about a decade old. No ad filtering or anything as it interferes with others in the house. I’ve thought about trying a second unbound service with adblocking for me, but haven’t gotten around to it.

I love Linux, but I admit these are valid. I’ve had some of these same issues.

Sleep mode that doesn’t work consistently,

I haven’t had any issues with sleep on my devices, but I have in the recent past on previous hardware.

WiFi driver issues, printer driver issues, touchpad driver issues,

My WiFi doesn’t work at all on my desktop. Though it’s worked on a live image from another distro so seems likely to be an issue with the distro’s distributed kernel, not a Linux one. I run a rolling release distro so won’t be that the kernel is too old. But don’t care so haven’t troubleshot it much. My printer requires the use of vendor provided drivers, which are only available for some distros. It works, but not a solution I’m happy with. Never had touchpad issues.

several different wonky ways to install programs instead of just double-clicking an .exe and pressing “next-next-OK”,

I think package repos > collecting and installing your software piecemeal from all over the place. But having to deal with repos, flatpaks, appimages, etc. can be daunting.

random shutdown of programs for no reason or error codes

Sounds like an OOM process kill maybe? That’ll show in your kernel logs if so. But no immediate visual feedback.

…the list goes on. And on topnof that, all the stuff that people are used to using that just doesn’t run on Linux at all.

If there’s proprietary software that doesn’t run on Linux that someone wants/needs to run and there aren’t any viable alternatives then yeah, probably a non-starter. There’s wine of course but it can be a crapshoot. No shade intended towards the project. It’s amazing what it can do, even if it can’t do everything.

Best I can tell post blur, those posts are marked NSFW. You can choose to hide those posts. Assuming you’re signed in anyway, I’m not familiar enough with that interface to tell.

For now. (Probably for later, too.)

Probably this is all very reactionary, NVIDIA’s stock will recover and they’ll remain a big player in the LLM space.

But I’m uninterested in LLM’s and would love to see price drops on GPU’s, so i hope there is a longer term moderate market loss for them in this space.

+1 for installing Arch. If you have enough knowledge of Linux to understand what Arch is and why it is, comparatively, a more involved installation. Then you’re probably ready to install it. As was mentioned in another content, long as you know the basics, it’s not as hard as you might think. Also as suggested in another comment installing in a VM or spare hardware is good practice.

As for learning, take the time to understand the commands you’re copy/pasting. Read the man page, see what the flags you’re pasting in to. That might sound daunting at first, and you might not always be able to completely wrap you’re head around it. But you’ll learn more and more over time.

Assuming it becomes a viable product, I wonder how it’ll impact veganism? Since there’s no animal cruelty.

I’d love to see something like this in a tower format, and with regular 5.25" bays with faceplates rather than these faux floppy drives.

I’d pay a somewhat unreasonable amount for that.

Or just a pun that went over my head. Either way, thanks for the answer!

I’m guessing there’s some story with spa sex? “Elon Spa Sex” isn’t a search term I’m willing to enter.

I’ve heard of one of them and consumed content from none of them.

According to the plan linked in the article https://mailchi.mp/press.kamalaharris.com/vice-president-harris-lays-out-agenda-to-lower-costs-for-american-families this tax credit would be for low and middle class families. Which I agree with and like. Help those that need it.

Edit: copy/pasta of the relevant bit: “Vice President Harris is proposing a new plan to get tax relief to more than 100 million Americans. Her plan will expand the Child Tax Credit to provide a $6,000 tax cut to families with newborn children. Unlike Trump and Vance, Vice President Harris is committed to ensuring no one earning less than $400,000 a year will pay more in new taxes.”