Printers these days tend to be driverless, so that’s pretty much a solved problem.
Printers these days tend to be driverless, so that’s pretty much a solved problem.
And back at that time if you installed any flavor of Linux you were lucky if the OS install didn’t fuck itself over
I was using Linux religiously back then, and this is false. As long as there’s a driver for all of your hardware, it generally worked fine.
But that “as long as” is doing some heavy lifting. The usual suspects were pretty much the same as now: Broadcom, NeoMagic, and NVIDIA. Some cheap printers and modems were problematic as well, but if you paid for good hardware, it would probably work.
The wireless kind, presumably. Those always need their own firmware and therefore their own driver.
Which is not a desktop.
Since when did Bethesda have QA?
If you can’t afford Starfield, how can you afford a computer capable of running it?
What’s the issue with Liberapay? I’ve never used it.
Even if it’s utterly pointless I prefer the anonymity
Cryptocurrency proponents are quick to remind me that cryptocurrency transactions are not anonymous, and are in fact highly traceable by virtue of being stored in a public ledger.
and some sites default to reoccurring donations and emails when using a card
Meaning, they try to mislead you into donating more than you intend to? Doesn’t that make them crooks, unworthy of your donations?
Is there a reason you didn’t use your credit or debit card?
There’s also that desktop web browsers generally request that their title bar not be shown.
Those have the excuse that they’re basically several windows in one, and the tabs are the title bar-equivalents. Very few apps have that excuse, though.
Side note: KDE’s tabbed windows feature was pretty neat. Too bad it’s gone.
As far as I can see, the only application of cryptocurrency is to facilitate crime: money laundering, ransom, paying for contraband, etc.
I take it you don’t already have a desktop you can use?
Why not use a full-size computer for all that stuff?
I haven’t had any of that, but I do notice that F-Droid can’t seem to automatically update itself without erroring. Something about failing to parse the package; I forget the exact error message. I wonder what the problem is…
Play’s reputation for being full of malware stands directly at odds with your assessment.
Hobbyists are rarely incompetent. They actually take pride in their work, and aren’t just trying to quickly slap something together for a quick buck.
Not sure what gave you the impression that most phone apps have gone through professional QA, but I very seriously doubt that they have.
As for mishandling user data, it’s a lot easier to avoid doing that when user data never leaves the user’s device in the first place. Proprietary apps collect user data for profit; free and open source apps often don’t.
Wait, that’s illegal.
Because the “simpler life” involves allowing spooks and marketers to read your conversations and use the data to brainwash and/or Minority Report you.
You are under attack. Defend yourself.
And you’re running Xfce ≥4.14? Pretty impressive that they kept it lightweight despite switching to GTK3.
That would be useful on a tablet, where right-clicking is impossible.
Printers should probably be connected by USB for security reasons anyway.