Depends. Do we count in-app purchases of apps I've modded or obtained pre-modded? Do we count the cost of films as one-off rentals/purchases, or do we count them as subscriptions?
If we consider games as buying one-off licences for them that I kept in perpetuity, it would be in the few hundreds, probably about £400.
If we include streaming, as a subscription service that I've used for the last decade roughly, then 10×12×£10 (assuming a tenner a month), we're looking at £1,200 saved for streaming.
However, at least 20-30 films have been downloaded by me personally, so assuming a cost of about a fiver per film (idk how much films go for these days), we're looking at another ~£700.
But also, we have to include ad-free YouTube as YT Premium. And even if we're to assume that YT Premium is anywhere close to the service I provide myself with, i.e downloading things I actually keep as digital files forever, it would still cost a lot. About 5 years of YT Premium would be (according to ChatGPT because I didn't want to research price increases), just over £800.
But I've also watched both Netflix and Disney+ exclusives, namely Squid Game and The Mandalorian, so I guess streaming would've been much more expensive?
Also, we have about a year of Spotify, which ChatGPT (easier to give more accurate estimates) claims is just over £140.
Adding to that, apparently the cost of Netflix over the same period is just over £1,500, so that changes the total.
So far, £3500, not counting in-app purchases in modded games. If we count that (which is ridiculous cuz I would never spend that much money on games, even if I was a liquid trillionaire (meaning having £1T cash)), we'd probably be looking at something in the hundreds of thousands if not millions.
I meant from an idealistic perspective i.e a small and minimal, but featureful WM with a simple config and a built in bar, where all you reasonably need is covered, no useless extras. I think Pinnacle is trying to be an AwesomeWM replacement rather than a Spectrwm replacement. And that's great, because I love Awesome, but for very different reasons to Spectrwm.
Appreciate the posting on the 2nd to avoid April Fools speculay
That costume is an awesome way of presenting yourself to the community!
Sounds good and all, but seeing as he wasn't among the most active people since 2008, are we sure there wasn't a more qualified candidate? Nothing against the guy, I'm just saying that surely there must have been more natural choices than him.
I got quite lucky, as my first laptop when I switched to Linux, was all-AMD and I had zero AMD issues. So when I was looking for a new laptop a few months back, I stumbled upon a cheap recent Thinkpad, with great specs, all AMD, and got it ASAP. Again, zero issues. But because of the Nvidia horror stories I've heard, I knew that there would be no Nvidia on my new machine. That was non-negotiable.
Sober works great, and is the only method that still works from the ones I've tried. I think most of them stopped working because of Roblox's new Hyperion Anticheat which blocked WINE (unsure if they unblocked it at a later point as they promised, but I'd bet they didn't).
Side note: The creators of Sober also maintain a project called Vinegar, which allows for Roblox Studio to be installed under Linux (it used to be for both Player and Studio, until the anticheat for the Player was introduced)
Yeah, but it's not a new war. It's an eternal war, and when those on top push too much, we push back. We call those stages revolutions, and maybe it's time to remind those on top that when a revolution happens, their heads get separated from their bodies. So either give us back some freedoms, or blood will be spilt. And it won't be our blood.
There was a period where I was testing my laptop's hibernation so I got uptime to around 30 days.
But now, The highest uptime I can reach is around 2-3 days if I forget to turn it off and leave it either plugged in or on a high battery so it lasts until the next day.
I can see where you're coming from because of outdated libraries and flatpak sandboxing not really being a thing (it's an illusion, really) but you can't deny that this is the direction we're moving in, and we need to get flatpak sandboxing and permissions right, to ensure a proper base level of security.
For those unaware:
Many flatpaks use older, outdated, or end-of-life libraries
Flatpak permissions are messed up because most applications ask to bypass the sandbox at install-time
I get where you're coming from but I wish apps on GNOME could look uniform even without everyone kneeling to libadwaita, and we could just get uniform theming on all DEs.
Depends. Do we count in-app purchases of apps I've modded or obtained pre-modded? Do we count the cost of films as one-off rentals/purchases, or do we count them as subscriptions?
If we consider games as buying one-off licences for them that I kept in perpetuity, it would be in the few hundreds, probably about £400.
If we include streaming, as a subscription service that I've used for the last decade roughly, then 10×12×£10 (assuming a tenner a month), we're looking at £1,200 saved for streaming.
However, at least 20-30 films have been downloaded by me personally, so assuming a cost of about a fiver per film (idk how much films go for these days), we're looking at another ~£700.
But also, we have to include ad-free YouTube as YT Premium. And even if we're to assume that YT Premium is anywhere close to the service I provide myself with, i.e downloading things I actually keep as digital files forever, it would still cost a lot. About 5 years of YT Premium would be (according to ChatGPT because I didn't want to research price increases), just over £800.
But I've also watched both Netflix and Disney+ exclusives, namely Squid Game and The Mandalorian, so I guess streaming would've been much more expensive?
Also, we have about a year of Spotify, which ChatGPT (easier to give more accurate estimates) claims is just over £140.
Adding to that, apparently the cost of Netflix over the same period is just over £1,500, so that changes the total.
So far, £3500, not counting in-app purchases in modded games. If we count that (which is ridiculous cuz I would never spend that much money on games, even if I was a liquid trillionaire (meaning having £1T cash)), we'd probably be looking at something in the hundreds of thousands if not millions.