Thanks for pointing this out. Its been a while since I’ve been to alternativeto.net and thought that’s what OP was linking to, even visiting the site I just figured ‘oh they did a redesign since last time I was here’ totally didn’t dawn on me it was a completely difference site.
True, I guess not. But piracy was big at that age group because we were kids who didn’t have our own money, so if our parents didn’t buy the games we wanted, people would try to download them instead. So I fell into learning this detail by necesssity instead of out of pure curiosity or desire to learn more about the computer. I wanted to download Neverwinter Nights or whatever game, and fat32 was standing in my way, haha
Haha at some point it did matter to regular folks though. I remember in Junior high when I would try to pirate games or software on Windows, I learned the big difference between fat32 and the new filesystem Microsoft released, NTFS because I couldn’t download files larger than 4GB on fat32.
Alpine is an interesting choice for hosting, really curious what situation you’re hosting in that would require that level or lightness for a distro?
I don’t have a Lenovo, but a Dell Latitude that i use like a desktop, mostly plugged in next to my couch. In the bios you can set it to optimize the battery and charging for ‘primarily AC usage’, as well as set a percentage to limit charging, I think I have it set to 85%, I would assume you can do the same on a Lenovo.
I wouldn’t worry too much about it past that, if leaving it plugged in all the time is convenient, just do that. You could also probably buy a new battery on eBay and replace it if your battery is actually shot and you want better life.
Kinda seems like he does the opposite, but I haven’t been personally checking when his cronies sell. He seems to say some bullshit to tank a market then buy cheap knowing it’ll go back up, because taco.
A dump and pump, if you will. Which is very fitting for 'ol Donnie.
My favorite story about best buy is in the early 2000’s, a family member gifted me a $20 gift card to best buy, which unbeknownst to them, I had stopped shopping at because it got too expensive and I started buying from newegg instead. Anyway, I walk in and am thinking 'well I don’t really need anything big right now, like a full PC, laptop, etc. Maybe I’ll just get a DVD or something."
Even with a $20 gift card, Best buy prices were so marked up, they were either still more expensive, or the same price as other stores. I think other stores were selling DVD’s at like $15 (not new-releases) and best buy was $35. I walked out and never ended up buying anything. I’m shocked they’re still around to be honest.
wicked sense of humor
“my cock is stuck in the door!”
Uh-huh…
God damn it, there’s so much on there I had no idea, and I’ve been hating nestle since the early 2000’s…
Just a few I was buying, unaware:
Carnation
Cheerios
Coffeemate
DiGiorno pizza
Most people around me, (in a social context, not work context) seem to be just sticking their heads in the sand for productivity reasons so they can focus on life stuff, and are shocked when we finally have a conversation where I mention something topically thats going on in politics. Then follow the shock up with telling me following that stuff too much is bad for your health and advise me to take breaks. Lol. Yup good times.
So yeah, most people around me have no idea the latest horrible stuff going on and won’t know about it until someone else tells them. Thats part of the reason we’re not seeing the level of protesting needed to start fighting this stuff. (Yes I know protesting by itself won’t stop this, but the protesting usually leads to over reaction and too much violence from the authoritarians, helping to tip more people on the fence, in the protests’ favor)