Cool! Maybe I should give them another shot. I definitely like the idea.

How do updates work with WOW computers? Or does the software just never get updated? Or do you just update the computer for him every now and then? What distro is this using underneath?

I tried using Privacy a few years ago, but 1. a lot of websites block Privacy’s prepaid debit card numbers and 2. I ran into a spending limit.

But, the ease of use was nice. Not sure if things have changed since then.

Brother! 🍻

😆😂🤣 Uuuuhh… Aaaah… I normally generate a random password and use it as my username for most services. Like even my bank.

This is because I’ve realized the username is mostly useless and is just a handle for my account. It doesn’t matter to me if my username is jsmith, meow123, or kekxbek. In fact, it’s easier if I don’t have to come up with something novel or cool. Either way it goes in my password manager, so it’s not like I have to even remember it.

I’m a real boy. I promise. Not a malicious bot.

Although… If I were a malicious bot, that’s exactly what I would say! 😲

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!!

Yeah, it definitely feels out of place.

On the other hand… it is kinda nice that tasks and notes are offered in WebDAV because I don’t have to maintain yet another service for each of those.

If I weren’t the one maintaining these instances, then sure I’d say launch one service for calendars, one for tasks, and one for notes.

My use case is I want to write text and I want that text to be synced from my phone and laptop. I want to deploy the minimum number of services. I don’t care about any text editor features as long as I can write text and read it.

I’ve already deployed Radicale and I’d rather not have to maintain anything else.

I realize I can deploy something else just for notes, but I really don’t want to maintain something else.

I didn’t even realize you could install OpenOffice anymore… it’s doesn’t seem available in the Arch repos. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Apache_OpenOffice

Oh, wow. TIL https://www.openoffice.org/

Every car I’ve owned has had a way to change the speedometer from freedom units to ✨ metric ✨ .

For knowing what speed I should be going, I roughly follow these numbers. (Note, these are not equivalent.)

• 35mph -> 50km/h
• 60mph -> 100km/h
• 70mph ->110km/h

Also, very roughly 10km ≈ 5mi.

However, most of the time I just follow the flow of traffic.

I voluntarily switched to metric like 10 years ago, so meters, celsius, grams, etc make more sense to me now.

Yeah, 145km/h might be a liiitle under powered. I drive between 120km/h to 130km/h on the US interstates.

A buddy of mine got his Tacoma tailgate stolen in broad daylight during a kid’s football game… I hope any really valuable parts are secured…

not equipped for actual utility

Doesn’t that guy know?! He’s not getting any actual utility from this truck! 😱

what if cars don’t have be ridicules in size

Then you may be interested in this vehicle. It’s about as long as the Kia Niro at 4.4m.

carrying dead weight

I mean, even in a 5 seater sedan, you’re gonna be carrying dead weight. Are you suggesting everyone ride bikes or motorcycles instead?

Whoops! I did mean the Toyota Pickup. Thanks! https://www.iseecars.com/car/1985-toyota-pickup-dimensions

One thing that makes me nervous is that there are so many screws exposed. It seems like it would be really easy for thieves to just walk up with a hex key and steal your bumper or panels… 🤔

Ah, yes. I remember the summer we had Google Chome. Then Google killed it off, like they always do, and they relaunched/rebranded it as Chrome.

anti-configurable systems

Yep! This has been my experience too. Once you want to do something that the devs didn’t build, then you have to fight the OS.

Neat. I’ve been thinking of doing something similar. My parents currently use a Mac, but they mainly just use the web browser. I was thinking of switching them to VanillaOS at some point.

mother is using Opensuse Aeon and my father in law is using Fedora Silverblue

How long have they been using those distros? Do you or they have any preferences for Aeon or Silverblue?

what’s keeping YOU from switching to an atomic distro?

I tried switching to VanillaOS a month ago. I had a hell of a time getting my niche use-case to work, consisting of using Syncthing to sync my Obsidian notes to a server via Tailscale. Apparently, I had to create a custom VanillaOS image just to install Tailscale? Also, I couldn’t get wl-copy to work. Also, docs were out of date and missing.

See notes: https://lemmy.today/post/25622342/14849341

I like Arch because I have control over the system. At least with VanillaOS (not sure about other immutable distros), it seems like I’m supposed to give up control or fight with the system to let me do what I want.

I actually have accidentally bricked my Linux system in the past, but that was a long time ago and I learned from the experience. So it’s not a problem I currently have.

I still haven’t gotten to doing this, but actually, I was thinking the locked down nature of VanillaOS might be fine for my parents. They currently only use their Mac for browsing the web and not much else. Seems like VanillaOS might be a good fit for users that don’t have very demanding computing needs.