So assuming you are traveling, what do you bring with you if it isn’t a mobile streaming device, a laptop, or a mobile device that you are going to stream to?

You saying you wouldn’t have those things away from home? Or a firestick.

It took a long time to switch to Firefox, but it is now my main browser. I mean I really liked the Mozilla suite and Firefox just didn’t seem ready for awhile, but eventually I made the move.

Firefox ever since.

Tailscale makes this easy if you are the only user.

“install this app on your tv and log in”, which is exactly what Plex does

Yes, but that person has to create an account. Everyone has to create an account. With Plex. Some people I know immediately say no, others are annoyed that plex would try and shake them down for money.

If you configure Jellyfin, all that goes away. THEN they can simply download the app and login.

I got concerned when people started buying Plex hats. And being excited about that purchase.

I noticed that Logo on Hats people who are willing to pay for them is often a bit concerning.

Just part?

I think you might be forgetting just how much e-waste was going on leading up to 2010. All the way back in 2003 I was using recycled computers for my Linux servers. Windows XP came out in 2001 and by about 2005 the number of Win98 machines being dumped was pretty high.

So I looked it up using the way back machine. I saw a flyer for my local computer store. You could buy a basic but complete computer NEW for under $200 in 2010. You also could spend thousands of course but you didn’t have to. You could get a netbook new for $150.

So I went to some liquidation and used computer sites and old newspapers in 2010. A dell optiplex p4 at 2.4 ghz complete with 90 days warranty: $60. And it seems used is about $50 to $100 in general. Laptops a slight premium. And those are the ones people tried to get money back from. Lots of them were just FREE. The number of garage sale listings in the newspapers offering free computers is crazy.

And I mention all of that because Linux was how you took an old win 98 machine and turned it into a functioning web host, or email server, or NAS, or whatever back in those days.

And by the way, I think I paid $25 for my sharp zaurus used in 2005. It was so cool to have an internet handheld with color that you could use in full sunlight and ran linux.

Edit: I hope you see this! If you lived in Fayette county (GA) in 2010, you could get a Dell Optiplex GX280 P4 at 2.8 ghz complete computer, monitor, mouse, keyboard for $65, with free shipping. That should tell you something right there.

If you were moving around sure. But most kids I knew by that age had something… anything. A used one for free by that point, maybe $50 at most if you paid.

It was the juxtaposition of dirt cheap computers, being able to even afford a smartphone, AND taking a shot at installing a new OS. Usually that path was a little bit of geekery beforehand maybe ability to coble together a computer or grab a second hand laptop. If that wasn’t you, thats cool.

Yeah. It just is really surprising the phone came first that late in computer history

So, everyone should be using a password manager by default.

And an email mask. Life is easier if you can reset a password and change your email after a breach and have the old email disabled and disappear.

I can’t remember if the tape drive came with a TRS-80, but I do remember using the tape drive port to get sound from games like pacman. Basically it was hack to use the save to cassette to make sounds for the computer.

This game contains programming which produces sound effects that leave the computer through the AUX plug in the cassette cable. To hear the sound follow these instructions: First, load in the game. Remove the tape from the recorder if you loaded the game from cassette. Insert the large grey plug on the cassette cable into the AUX jack on the recorder. Insert an earphone into the jack labeled EAR on the recorder. Pop open the cassette door on the top of the recorder and reach in and hold in the interlock switch that is located in the left rear corner. Now press Record & Play together and then release the interlock switch. Sound should now come through the earphone.

In 2010 it was the smartphone? Not the dozen older computers, misc laptops, or even maybe a tablet lying around?

The sharp zaurus sl5500 with full color and useful in daylight screen was all the way back in 2004 for example.

Or the Asus Eepc in 2007 and it came with Linux!

I would have thought everyone would have access to a cheap fallback computer by then.

No.

Windows XP is what made me switch to Linux.

Ubuntu is what made me stick with ANY distro as long as it was not Ubuntu. Most crashy breaky thing ever.

Lol. That’s funny.

I had no idea there was another AugustWest on Lemmy.

Got a dime? A dime for a cup of coffee?

Now I wish I had been more clever and chose AugustEast or something.

I’ve tried being nice to you. So now that you’ve rejected that, can you fuck off please?

Where did that come from? It was just a conversation, that was out of nowhere. I never was not nice.

There shouldn’t be a performance hit that you can notice in a VM.

But keeping them is like complaining about shooting yourself in the foot. Its still supporting them.

Just quit.

I have a background in graphics arts and design. But I don’t do that anymore, yet i am very familiar with the products.

I am saying the corporate practices suck, the products are OK, but it isn’t worth it. I won’t pirate it because that justifys them existing. I simply won’t use them.

And if they go away, other things will take their place.

Yeah, probably. Adobe just sucks horribly. It needs to go away. There subscription practices are nearly criminal. And for what? It isn’t that great.