Check b stock.

Typically its scratch & dent, sometimes demo or trade show use.

Still gets a warranty (which is better on commercial in most cases), and usually a pretty sizable discount. If you can find a local distributor, they will sometimes sell off prior year stock for a really good price.

Just to mention, a used or refurb M1 or M2. I don’t believe anything newer is supported, so save some cash IMO.

I use cirrus for radar and the radar widget, breezy for everything else.

Debian. For decades.

My first installation was slack and from then until now has been a mix of more things than I care to list, but includes things like freebsd on a DEC multia, a sparcstation pizza box with a 2.6ish kernel maybe?, along with things like Ubuntu, suse, fedora, centos, gentoo, ive built from scratch, I ever remember the days of configuring x with fvwm95 because I thought it would be easier for my parents.

I always go back to Debian. Though I’m happy with arch when I want something ‘current’.

Eh, early Dolby is where they made real progress.

Modern Dolby is more about licensing than actually doing anything for the industry. Not limited to the codec discussion.

I’m going to call this another vote for Debian

Ugh

Fuck Dolby. I mean fuck Snap too, but with this case, in specific, fuck Dolby.

What would your ultimate distro be like?

… Debian.

The comments on x have a disturbing amount of reality-defying insanity…

It drives me nuts.

At least provide a transcript somewhere. Thats all I ask.

RTFM long predates videos in the internet; at this point I’d actually call it inclusive of videos and guides.

I actually get pretty pissed off when the only guide for a feature beyond a couple lines of “here’s what this can do” with no elaboration is just a video. I don’t want a video. I want a damn manual with working examples.

But if its all there is, I’ll watch it before asking questions. The same should go for people who prefer videos, they should at least try the manual first, or looking at some guides or videos.

What’s frustrating for people (generically speaking) is when zero attempt is made in advance of posting questions, and from what I see, is the majority of “RTFM” responses.

Haven’t used that feature to be able to say how that interaction works, or used it with a tobii or anything unfortunately.

The only other thing I can think of to check out would be Jitsi, but I don’t think it does annotation. Iirc, they were adding in something for a laser pointer, but I don’t know where thats at in development or that it would be enough for you use.

The other person can use it still, it doesnt take away local control

Its not exactly call software, so its be a second app, but I think rustdesk supports a whiteboard thats transparent - so basically annotation.

I’m thinking gold and those colorful European dollarydoos.

My favorite solution is to take my laptop from work being decommissioned, drop Linux on it, and have it last for years to come.

My wife is using my laptop from ~9 years ago. I’m using my work laptop from ~5 years ago, and my current work laptop is about to get decommissioned. My oldest will probably get the one my wife is using.

They all work great.

“paint.net”

Pinta is paint.net gtk clone

https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta

I think we have different definitions of “improvement”.

99% arsenic is an improvement over 100%

Same results, so effectively no different. I would not call “kills you exactly as horribly” an improvement.

To each their own I suppose.

You called it an improvement.

Noem did exactly what he wanted. The next one will do the same. Trump hasn’t had any repercussions, and Noem is being put onto a new board. Whether its called being fired or not, there is no apparent change or any real consequences here. Her not being the face still? What actual consequence is she receiving? Still being paid by the federal government, now with a new, probably more horrifying organization to be supposedly announced today?

Its hard to call a parallel move a “consequence”, or the same approach to the people living in the US an “improvement”.

it’s an improvement over the alternative, where ICE murders people and calls them domestic terrorists with literally no consequence.

You’ve got a lot more confidence than I do that any of that will change in the slightest.