My office desktop computer is 8 years old, and has run Ubuntu always. I have yet to notice that it's that old. Works excellently; and I do quite a bit of number crunching and image processing. Has a single CPU with only 4 cores, a smallish GPU, and 64 GB of RAM. It's even fanless, for zero noise, except for when the GPU is engaged (has its own fan). Like you, I credit open source software, and the absence of any spyware-like subscription nonsense.
@ferrous
Both are in working condition and both were popular models so it's easy to get refills and I think even parts for them — although I never had to.
@ferrous
I have two: old Epson dot-matrix one and also old, but much less so, HP Laser Jet. For the former I even have a standalone print server, but I don't have a good permanent place for it so it's mostly not used, cartridges for it are dirt-cheap and I have a few — so if I have a lot to print, I can always use it, and the latter is connected to a machine that is always on, so it's also kinda networked.
@lain
Does it work well with screenshots and memes?
@ZySoua @metallcorn
Энергосберегающий стелс-режим 😹
@gnarley_boot
They have gods' phone numbers 🤭
@kirby
The backend is equally terrible — I mean… it's fucking Node.js!
Except for that fork that aims for a complete rewrite of it in C# — as bad as it is, it's still better than Node.js — a whole ecosystem built on top of GoogleShit™, what can possibly go wrong? 😏
@meduza_unshackled
Ха-ха-ха-ха! Но слоган — это пять!
«Сначала была буква, потом было слово»,— это олицетворение прогресса, движение от простого к более сложному, стало быть тут — обратный прогресс, или, выражаясь проще — деградация 🤣
@khm @drewdevault@fosstodon.org
Exactly! The movie gave me the feel that intellect became socially ostracised and considered useless and maybe even harmful, the protagonist gets into trouble because acting logically gets him somehow rejected by the system, those who become his allies also feel that something is off, but they don't have the *skill* to figure out what exactly — and they are soft of social outcasts in this system themselves, they have never made it high up.
@Hyolobrika @dwarf
Perfect for my favourite bulgur dish 😋
@neural_meduza
Да я и сам в чём-то учёный 😉
@neural_meduza
Вечер субботы? 🥴
@feld @sun
> at least when you're emailing your friends/family you don't have random people replying with nonsense
If it's about friends and family-only (same as it's with e-mail), fire up an instance just for them, turn off the federation, close the registration and make the timelines non-public — problem solved.
If you keep the federation on — you're like inviting outside people yourself, and yes — some of those might be idiots 🤷
@Zergling_man @sun
Took me a few seconds to realize that the third silhouette is Twitter bird upside down, not some cool creature with a beak and a fancy haircut 😂
@cek @randahl
I feel conflicted here. On the one hand, complying with demands of Russian authorities is bad, on the other — if they don't, it would just get them blocked. Russia is too far gone, language learning application protesting won't change a thing, but if they keep working, they might enable people to learn languages so they can leave Russia and start living normal lives.
None
Just in case: DMs/PMs simply don't exist on this instance as concept — don't use them, use the other instance if you absolutely have to, or send an email to any address at m0xEE.Net or .Com or .Org, but I prefer keep most communication public.