Oh my god, who could have expected that??

I have a used ThinkPad T460, I found a really nice deal for on eBay (90€).

It serverves me pretty well I mostly watch videos on it (works pretty well up to 1080p on Youtube), but it’s fine for most things, web browsing, editing documents and even coding.

I used it during a game jam with my friends, we were making a 2d game in Godot and it was good enough for that. I am running Linux Mint on it, it is a miracle what Linux can do for your old machines.

Other than that, old surface pros are pretty good nowadays and the 5th/ 6th generation can be found for 150€ if you are lucky. They also have excellent Linux support if you get the right kernel patches .

But I would probably recommend you try out Linux on your existing Laptop and see how it works for you. M2 support is pretty good nowadays for Asahi Linux. Maybe get an external drive for that money.

I think both statements are true at the same time

I don’t think it’s an insult to be honest

This seems a bit sketchy to me. How am I getting paid for participating when it’s completely free?

That was an awesome read, thank you!

Are the investors really stupid enough to not notice how like half of Microsofts “Copilot usage” is made up?

Probably

Oh, that worked, thank you!

Maybe you could implement the search suggestions URL into the OpenSearch (because at least when I added it via right click add search engine, it only added the search URL), but that could be an error on my part.

Also, I am just curious, where do you get the search suggestions from? Do you just query one of the engines?

I’ve installed this on my home server and I must say, I am quite impressed!

It just feels so much snappier than SearXNG, I think the loading “animation” helps with that a lot. I also love the whole plugin system, there is already a lot available, maybe in the future, if I have a good idea, I will make one myself.
I was a bit skeptical about the AI thing at first, but at least you are transparent about it and your stance seems to be reasonable.

If you want some suggestions on what to work on in the future, it would be cool, if there was a search suggestion api URL, I could add to Firefox to have search suggestions in my address bar. Also maybe bangs to only search with a certain engine, like in SearXNG.

Thank you for all the work you already put into this, looking forward to future updates!

They are talking about the file explorer Dolphin, which is available on Linux and Windows.

But it is a core app for the KDE desktop environment, so it is primarily optimized for Linux.

Yeah, not really.

Especially because this is FOSS. We love our insanely long discussions about formalities.

The great thing about git is, that it is pretty decentralized in principle (everyone has a full copy of all source code and commits on their machines), so it is pretty easy to move your whole repository to an alternative git hoster, like Codeberg.

Damm, that is a long thread, I spent like 25 minutes reading it and only got half way through it

That’s really cool, and thanks for taking the communities input on this!

You could also just not use these services. You don’t need them. They were a stupid idea to begin with.

I would recommend you buy a Pixel phone and install GrapheneOS on it, if you want to continue to be able to do what you want with your phone.

It’s in Googles best interest to lock this down even further, so we should try to just not rely on their software anymore

You could try Colabora

Reddit was a centralized vc-funded social media from the start. That always was and still is the problem with reddit (enshitification etc.)

The Fediverse is none of those things. We have the power. As long as there are good people in the Fediverse, that want and are willing to do great things with it, the Fediverse (or at least a portion of it will be great.

Think of the Fediverse like E-Mail. Shure, there are shitty E-Mail providers. But if you are unhappy, you can just switch your provider and still talk to anyone that has E-Mail. There is no way for a single bad actor to ruin E-Mail for everyone, because there is no one fully in control over E-Mail.

There is a guide for this here, but I don’t think it’s really possible or a good idea to build it for unsupported devices.

At that point it would be better to install Linuage (or a fork of it), because they support devices for way longer or look into PostmarketOS

What’s your budget?

You can still geht really good deals on older used mini pcs