Yeah, that was the same thing with me and my windows machines for years (i think I remember it working properly at one point though). I heard they recently fixed it though.

Hmmm… I have a Samsung (and using the default phone app), and it doesn’t do that. Maybe only when using Google phone app?

The thing with winget, i believe, I that when installing non-MS store programs, you still have to go through the program’s installer.

Whereas you don’t need to look at an installer with apt or similar

I second this sentiment. I would love to know more!

From experience (this was a few years ago, but still holds up even today), yes. The GUI installer is very easy to use (there’s lots of visual stuff to). The one thing that the installer does better that the Debian installer, in my opinion, is partitioning (there’s more visual aids (a slider you can move around, I believe) (a disclaimer: this is basedoff of materials that i read online, not any personal experience)).

If you want images and stuff, you can always look up ‘Calamares installer’ (which I believe is the installer Mint uses)

Wish you the best of luck on your linux journey!

E: disclaimer

he would be in jail if he didn’t get the idea to run for president a second time.

Let’s just hope that we see the whole trials thing re-emerge once he is done, that has the best chances of locking him up (dare I say 100% ?). Though I do feel that he deserves worse, whatever that may be.

Yea, would’ve canceled prime if not for the rapid delivery. I do notice that the delivery times have stretched out to 2 days.

can’t comment on Prime video, since i don’t use it much, but i don think the ads in a paid service is a pretty scummy thing to do.

The main driving force for me to cancel is mostly the way they treat their workers, but the sad thing is that it seems that dependency on amazon is gone up nowadays, with most malls/ stores closing (Fry’s Electronics is one that I can name off the top of my head)

Thanks for the reply! I found it very informative, also with regards to the blocking.

I do think it’s stupid that there’s no complete block feature in Lemmy. Also just found out that it apparently has a slower development speed compared to PieFed (with regards to features). This, and the founders of lemmy, are some factors making me consider switching to PieFed. I also heard that there were more features, but also stability concerns. Also most of those extra features are not there on mobile clients yet i believe.

I also checked, and Lemmy login does not work on PieFed.

do you still have to block the other two (hexbear and the other one, can’t remember the name rn.)? I have .ml blocked, but I thought the other 2 got de-federated so blocking them wouldn’t be necessary?

I find that KeePassXC works great for if you don’t mind not being able to sync passwords that easily. You don’t have to pay a subscription for it.

Zero rn, but might be getting Amazon Prime soon.

True. But at the very least, get a dongle or wired earphones that directly connect to the phone (usb-c earphones exist, not sure about lighting connector). They are also not too expensive, compared to wireless earphones.

Used Saily while on vacation. Loved it. Switched on thee same day (where I was going there is a 3 day wait on SIM activation I believe), and the connection was pretty good.

there is also ydotool for Wayland

for Windows and Linux, pair the Linux machine from Windows, or Windows will pair it as an audio device and you won’t be able to share files.

if you have the app/feature on both devices, QuickShare.

on Linux, there’s RQuickShare, which lets you use QuickShare on Linux

bluetooth would obv. be slower, but it’s fine for small files imo. you definately start to feel the slowness on large files or a large amount of files (each one is its own transfer, and from experience, I feel that it would have gone faster on WiFi.)

Ahhh. That clears some things up. Thank you! :)

I thought the Imgur thing on reddit was optional? like, you could upload directly. Do they use it as a backend or something? Am I missing something?

l was browsing around on r/kde sometimes, and there was a banner-thing Saying that KDE Supported open platforms like Lemmy. I took a look at Lemmy’s Wikipedia, and browsed around a few days later. I liked the stuff on c/programmerhumour, So I joined.

Also my Reddit account got banned (i think, might be deactivated, idk) due to inactivity (I wasn’t on for 2-3 years), and I didn’t care to do anything about it.

Also, as a bit of context for the above, it did take a while from hearing about Lemmy and browsing and joining.