Notices by Acesabe (acesabe@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft
The real issue is that by the time you would need to upgrade the RAM (who would want or expect to upgrade GPU/CPU on a non desktop Mac?), the model will long be outside of macOS security update support, thus rendering it a brick

@nixCraft It's partly down to their "Vippy" virtualization software according to them
https://www.ssdnodes.com/vippy-virtualization-software/
Never used them myself

@nixCraft I seem to recall that you can also use the hosts file to send your junk IPs to dev/null or localhost or similar, can't find much online about this right now though...

@aral
According to this post https://community.frame.work/t/solved-disable-touchpad-while-typing-ubuntu-linux/26477/6
touchpad is auto disabled while typing by default in Ubuntu 22.04 (and newer presumably) I don't know what flavour distro you are using but it's a pretty popular query/request but I'm not seeing a lot of extensions/apps etc to manage this behaviour (messing with lib configs yes, gui not so much)
@bitnik @linuxgnome

@nixCraft If it's just the ads you want to block then I've found YouTube in Brave browser is fine. You may need to be logged in to view some content however, but as already mentioned, Freetube (desktop) or Newpipe (Android) got you covered if you want better anonymity 👍

@nixCraft when I got my new Lenovo laptop a couple of years back, I saw the ZFS option during install (Ubuntu 20.04), iirc I was able to reboot once then the hard drive borked and I had to RMA it. I don't know it was ZFS or Ubuntu's fault, but I've been avoiding that SSD firmware update Snap that has been presenting itself to me ever since 😝 I shall pluck up the courage to try again next opportunity I get!

@nixCraft
BASIC first and last! BBC micros at school

@nixCraft erm... laptop? Car? 😆

@nixCraft Sheesh... people still use Dropbox?!

@nixCraft
My one and only viral video was a screencast demo of this! And now coming up to 20 years ago! #Compiz #Beryl

@nixCraft That's some pretty militant publishing right there, and a rather Sovietesk style feature on Linus Torvalds

@Mastodon I predict instant sell out of all 1000, rendering these to be highly collectable and no doubt re-sell on the open market at far higher prices, hopefully some profits can be channelled back into running Mastodon

@nixCraft sadly many companies will always go for cheap and inexperienced then when dealing with the fallout of hiring cheap and inexperienced, throw more cheap and inexperienced at the ensuing dumpster fire. HR teams often have no idea about hiring IT, senior management little more and expectations seems to be 1 person to handle _all_ aspects of the IT/dev ops where a team of 5+ would really be bare minimum...

@nixCraft
I like it, active development too so if something isn't working now or missing, chances are it'll soon be fixed/there.
It is a bit of a fiddle logging in in the desktop app as you need to extract session cress via page inspection but nothing too advanced.
However, open.spotify in Brave is still a great experience for me, and add free (with free account)

@aral #Wayland or #Xorg? Wayland would be my prime suspect if you are using that?
I often have quirky screen resolution issues when swapping between monitors although not directly Gnome Settings crapping out, also I'm not on Fedora... Swapped back to X recently (after trying to run some old game) and things a tad more stable..

@nixCraft
For many of us living abroad it's mandatory to keep your original number plus your local number.
The prospect of using a virtual SIM seems to be the way forward here anyway, then presumably you can have as many numbers/tariffs as you like

@nixCraft
Oh, and there is this that FF has to contend with now too
https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2023/11/firefox-brink/

@nixCraft alas Firefox is late to the party
https://www.ghacks.net/2022/09/28/brave-has-a-new-copy-clean-link-feature/

@nixCraft
Well I hope they can update it to be suitable for email usage in 2023 and beyond...Still there's now #SnappyMail - the recent fork of #Rainloop so there's always that as an option

@nixCraft
If you only have top rather than htop, open top then hit 1 - this will list all the cores available with stats.