Yup! Here’s a helpful link in case you feel like spreading the joy.

https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-use-microsoft-defender-linux/

Microsoft Defender.

I convinced my work to let me use linux on their laptop. They sent me instructions for setup. One of them was to install Microsoft Defender, had a link to the Ubuntu package and everything. Blew my mind.

Does your pc’s mobo have 2 m.2 slots? If so, that’s a great solution. If you do decide to stick with linux, that gives you two hdds. If not, you might want to consider buying a m.2 ssd to usb enclosure too. You can use it to transfer files you want to keep or for ventoy or backups.

DACs are great, agreed. However try telling that to the guy next door. The reason ethernet got to be so popular was because of how familiar it was and similar it us to telephone wire. There were several other competing standards befofe ethernet won.

10GbE cards and switches help regular folk upgrade without needing to learn about DACs.

Right?! Most affordable 10G switches are SFP+ which requires a lot more research to make sure you get the right modules and cabling.

Still, it would be giving money to google, which I don’t want to do. Also it has a camera cutout which is annoying, ALSO in my original post I claimed whenever I talk about degoogling, someone ALWAYS suggests a google product.

No, I will NOT buy a pixel phone.

Run:

df -h

in the terminal and find out.

You’re trolling me aren’t you?

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That’s how they all start…

Dissolve the HOA.

Thank you for this! Most of those bugs wouldn’t bother me except for the no bluetooth audio. I’m going to keep tabs on this now that I know it’s almost ready.

I actually just yesterday pulled the trigger on deleting all my contacts and calendar info out of google and now they’re backed up to my webdav server.

Yea, I’ve checked LineageOS and a few others out, but my phone isn’t supported.

That’s what I get for also hating selfie camera notches/cutouts. Most of the phones I get aren’t popular models. If you know of one for the Nubia Z60 Ultra, point it out.

Google. Been trying to de-google for over a decade. Many of my random asks for alternatives have been answered with “just use google, it’s free”.

Biggest problem is phones because I hate Apple more than Google. Every 6 months or so I look into linux phones, but walk away unimpressed.

Nando’s Peri Peri sauce.

In addition some things don’t work without tinkering. Last year I told a buddy to install steam on his linux partition and give it a go. He couldn’t get steam to play any games. It was a snap, had him install the apt version and he was good. I’ve heard others debug similar issues and he likely had to pass in the gpu path like in a docker.

Also it’s super annoying with popups. Firefox updates weekly. That means weekly you get notified to restart firefox to update. Dismiss the notification? Well, it’s back after a new scan for updates in an hour.

Eventually you do close firefox to let it update. And the progress bar sits there, so you have to manually force it to run despite all the assurances it’ll happen automatically.

Honestly it’s decisions like these that are pushing people away from using Ubuntu anymore. It’s becoming more and more like windows.

Top that off with ads in the terminal and I left completely.

Not NEW, but, check out local auctions. Local universities and govt offices are frequently selling lots of newish laptops (5ish yrs old) for $10-$50 apiece.

I’m no plumber, but I’ve done a lot of DIY around the house. I wouldn’t be concerned with the ptrap, probably. I’d be concerned with brand new plumbing with nonstandard adapters hanging over a bunch of exposed electrical.

That’s why we have mice copy/paste bindings on most systems too. Highlighting text auto copies, and scroll wheel click pastes. Not all do this, but many do and have for a while.

Great, I recommend having two Adguard Home instances.