DSC is lossless compression.

Privacy and social media don’t go together. Logs of your IP are the least of your worries.

Defederating the community just gets rid of the posts. Defederating the entire instance gets rid of the posts AND the users.

Don’t waste your money, stick with fluoridated toothpaste. You don’t have to watch the full video just the first 6 minutes.

https://youtu.be/GefwcsrChHk

Ima be honest. I just don’t fuck with pronouns. I’ll typically use they even if I know what their preferred ones are. That or whatever feels better for what I’m talking about.

I agree with my mom. 25 years is good.

For context she said that when I wasn’t 25 yet.

What “merits” needing a CPU upgrade? I upgraded from a core i9 11950h to a 13900h machine because I needed more performance. That 11th gen machine still looks pristine besides one spot where a cat bit the corner of the lid. Even my piddling around machine wasn’t up to snuff and upgraded from a 10th gen i5 to a 12th gen system. That machine’s keyboard was a bit worn when I first got it, but it’s not (appreciably) worse now. Besides that and maybe the palm rest the chassis is in pretty good condition. Why does it matter if the keycaps are a little smooth? Or there’s a small scuff on one corner. Or a cat punctured the bezel of the display and somehow didn’t break anything.

You’re worried about the screen being worn out? How does a screen wear out (excluding maybe oled burn in, but this aint oled). And a good chassis shouldn’t show that much wear after a few years.

They’re still far better than everything else on the market.

IdeaPads also aren’t ThinkPads. Those are the consumer grade garbage you’d want to stay away from.

That’s cool. Performance per dollar isn’t the only factor for a laptop.

Size

Weight

Durability

Battery life

I/O and other features.

A not dogshit network card

An actually usuable trackpad

I’m sure I could list more. But those are all things that are important on a laptop and you can’t change after you buy it.

Windows Hello (and presumably modern Linux equivalents) use the camera + IR transmitters to work at least similarly to how apples Face ID works. In theory they should both be secure, but in practice who knows what they fucked up.

DWM

Is there anyone on the internet who doesn’t lie about those things?

Forking splits the community, development resources, etc and ensures Linux will stay irreverent to the home user.

If everyone switches over to the fork that’s great. But let’s be honest. Ubuntu isn’t going anywhere any time soon.

Ubuntu?

Just because it’s open source and anyone could theoretically fork it doesn’t mean it can’t be enshitified.

Phone? Some apps on iOS (and probably android) default to a scaled down version of the image when it’s really large (or just tall in this case). On desktop it’s legible but god damn has it been jpeged to hell.

Install it in a VM. Create snapshots. When you fuck it up then revert the snapshot.

Once you’re decent at figuring out what to and not to do then try to get proficient at file system snapshots so you can do the same thing more or less on bare metal.

And there’s a ton of tools to remove the bloat from regular windows. Honestly the biggest problem with those is they tend to go hog wild and remove too many things so you have to be careful with them and not just blindly click “remove everything possible”.

The major H2 updates do legitimately add a lot of features that people would actually want, that LTSC and IoT don’t get. If you’re mostly playing older games that’s not a problem. But if you’re trying to play games that just recently came out it can be. Windows 10 stopping at 22H2 has kinda put a pause on that, but I’m sure once it goes EOL Microsoft games will resume the “march of progress” and start requiring new features.

I’ll want to make use of a lot of Windows features like virtualization, the ability to run Android apps, and the Linux subsystem.

Just stick with regular windows 11. Windows updates don’t come out that often, and feature updates can be ignored for 6+ months.