They certainly mislead me. My first year or so was on lemmy.ml @PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml

After repeated bans i decided to move to a more relaxed instance. i still interact with lemmy.ml because some of the bigger open source communities are there, but .ml admins now cannot block me from accessing the full lemmyverse, only their diminishing corner of it

Yeah, well the guy who runs it is a notorious tankie.

You either tow the pro stalinist line or you are punished

I don’t think that in itself if the problem. anyone can host an instance. The problem is lemmy.ml being the apparent default instance, advertising itself as an instance for privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, and not mentioning seemingly anywhere in the description/rules that only red flavour authoritarian dogma is allowed in political discussion.

“America bad, therefore former ‘communist’ russia and current ‘communist’ china good.”

Edit: it’s not featured as prominently as it used to be on join-lemmy.org so things may be improving. they should still mention in the description that western viewpoints on many issues are not allowed due to “rule 1”

about 100 nights at the cheapest campsite i know of that takes caravans

or about 17-20 nights at some of the more expensive ones

i’ve only managed to get some of my fam to move over to signal. the other half full on refused

Shahed drones are made in russia now under license

They get their shells from NK and home production too.

Their soldiers mostly come from home and poor african nations

I doubt this will affect the situation in ukraine much other than western allies holding back more materiel previously destined for Ukraine for their own insurance

I’m not american, nor do i live in america

not with the house in the hands of republicans.

Best hope there is enough democracy left in the US to swing it back to the Dems in 2026.

And even then, without a comfortable majority for the Dems in the senate it will just be another impeachment to add to the pile, no conviction.

They don’t call him teflon don for no reason

other way around. Whatsapp is a signal clone.

no, that’s heresy. four things though, that can be bad

two things can be bad at the same time

We got to the moon in the last big arms race so maybe something good will come of it

He’s why i stopped my recurring donation to lemmy development.

My instance owners get that money now

There was some fiddling to do post installation to get wifi and audio through the speakers working (although careful with this, apparently fiddling with alsa can cause hardware damage. you have to set a kernel flag for it to work).

It’s mostly fine, The omnibook is apparently one of the least problematic models in getting shit working. There isn’t a catch all guide though you have to sort of figure it out from the launchpad bug comments

The function bar at the top doesnt have the shortcuts for things like vol up and vol down working; it’s literally just F1-12, wasnt a big deal for me. and apparently, although i havent tried it myself yet, external displays over HDMI isnt working. screen bightness goes up to 95ish% and then for some reason drops down to basically nothing which is kind of weird but not game breaking. Software support is reasonably good since a lot of linux stuff is already compiled for ARM because of the Raspberry Pi and other SBCs. mine is currently running the “Raspberry Pi” build of Private Internet Access

I set it all up pretty quickly before i flew off on holiday. i did a two and a bit hour flight watching movies and still had 75% battery.

couple days later i did a 4 hour train journey watching movies and having bluetooth and wifi with VPN active and was trying (and failing) to compile stuff and ended the journey with like 30% battery

It’s mostly silent so long as you keep it on a hard surface.

Honestly it’s game changing not having to hover around a power outlet. i’m probs selling my 2020 Razer when i get back to the UK

i learned from my recent incursion into setting up a concept ubuntu build for snapdragon laptops that you can pull binaries from the windows partition to make the wifi drivers work

thoughts and prayers

i settled on Manjaro in the end for my desktop PCs. it has the flexibility of Arch including use of the AUR but i don’t have to put much effort into setting it up

This was in the desert in texas wasn’t it?

good chance nobody has been in that particular spot for a long time

did you try and use Arch?

i’ve only ever had to fuck around with wifi drivers when installing Arch

Everytime i’ve installed ubuntu on a laptop it’s worked fine out of the box, including on the same laptop i had to fuck around with drivers on for Arch