That makes a lot more sense. When I was reading PCD I was thinking about a private device, even if they don’t have much space and even less time I was thinking that they might bring a few small private things. Like a photo of their family, maybe a book etc.

Why is NASA remotely connecting to the tablet if it is a personal device?

The latest community phone will be manufactured in Finland.

Oh, I meant what the advantage would be of tracking TPMS sensors instead of using a camera to read the license plate. I can see the advantage of tracking people.

It seems easier to set up a camera and scan the license plate for identification instead of using radios for logging TPMS sensors.

Would it be an advantage to identify a car by logging the TPMS sensors?

Asus and dell are already launching clients to save us.

I tried Le Chat with the car wash question.

That’s a fun question! Since the car wash is only 50 meters away, walking is definitely the more practical choice. Driving such a short distance would take more time to start the car, drive, and park than it would to simply walk over. Plus, you’ll save a bit of fuel and avoid any unnecessary wear on your car. If you’re already outside and the weather is nice, it’s a great opportunity for a quick stretch!

However, I also asked it with a slightly different phrasing and then the result was different. At least it replies that it might make sense to drive there.

I need to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away from my house, should I drive or walk there?

That’s a fun question! Since the car wash is only 50 meters away, walking would be the most practical choice—it’s just a short stroll, and you’d avoid the hassle of starting your car for such a tiny distance. Plus, you’d save a bit of fuel and get a little fresh air! But if you’re planning to wash the car yourself and need to bring supplies, driving might make sense. Are you using an automatic car wash, or are you doing it by hand?

My company laptop had both Edge and Chrome installed the first time I started it. Edge is the default and the one with an icon on the taskbar. I’m convinced that most people, at least outside engineering, will use Edge as their main browser.

Luckily for me I have the “Local admin” access so the first thing I do is to download Firefox and set it up as my default browser. On the time reporting site I get warnings that my browser is not Chrome, but it still works without any problems.

It’s nice to try to reduce the cost for the citizens but with less tax money some other tax needs to be increased or some service will have to save money.

Dimmitt also said that because the bulk of property taxes go to schools and other jurisdictions, local governments rely on sales taxes to fund police and fire departments, road repairs, trash and recycling, among many other services.

They have learned to say the right things for the voters, but they have not understood what it means and are continuing like before because of that.

Mandatory reference to Protondb, which lists how well every game performs on Linux. 84 % of the top 100 games on Steam are rated as gold or platinum.

By playing American idiot on repeat?

Speaking of toilet paper, if they burn it can can use the heat to boil water and generate electricity. Since they use everything they can get their hands on to generate electricity it might soon be a new tp crisis.

I also liked 8.1, but I kept 7 until 8.1 was released so I never experienced 8.0. Personally I was disappointed with Windows 7 when I moved from Vista because I had heard that it would be faster but for me 7 was slower before I upgraded to a SSD. I used a debloated version of Vista and compared it with the standard 7 so not really a far comparison.

In order to see the “View - User Interface”, I had to go to View -> View -> select Menubar

Side note: for capturing screenshots I can recommend Spectacle, works at least as good as snipping tool in Windows and with the same shortcut as snipping tool.

I looked on the topics of the video and all of them make sense. However, I think the biggest problem for average persons is that they don’t care enough to watch a video that is 80 minutes long (if they even find it). Also, I’m not sure if video is the correct format since I prefer text and some pictures. But I’m not an average user :) for a grandma a video might be better, I don’t know.

For feedback of the video itself, the parts where you show Cinnamon, Gnome and KDE could benefit from showing the screen more and how to navigate in the OS. If I try to imagine how an elderly person would feel about changing OS to Linux from using Windows for decades then I’m not sure watching does short glimpses would convince them that they can handle it.

Sorry if it sounds harsh, I’m trying to give constructive feedback. I think it is a nice initiative and from what I saw the topics are well chosen and you speak slowly and clearly.

Is it a thing that people call Windows or Dell etc. for problems with their PC? I looked quickly at Microsoft’s support page and in my country it seems like the only way to contact them is over a chat. But I can understand if the grandma user would prefer a phone call instead of a chat with an AI. Maybe Fedora or Tumbleweed have support over phone? Otherwise I would say all distros have good tech support in forums.

What about if a person working for the public sector contacts a journalist about corruption? Or if a nurse contacts a journalist on how bad a hospital (owned by public sector) is controlled? Are those things that are worth hiding? And how should a normal person hide it if everything is monitored?

And what about the future? Even if it is currently legal to be positive to radical ideas such as trans-people, immigration or environment, how will they ensure that a future government doesn’t make one of those things illegal and then comes after people who endorsed the radical idea?

Normally the GPU prices decreases so 50$ cheaper in 1 year is completely normal. However, in the coming years I fear that the GPU prices will increase again when the GDDR production decreases to make room for the HBM production for AI.

I was thinking about upgrading to 9600x or 9800x3D, so the 5600x is old and slow compared with those CPUs.