Thanks. I’m giving it a try.

Are there any particular messaging apps fitting this description that you’d recommend?

It looks slightly prettier than the Graphene app. But functionally they seem about the same.

I have not seen any FOSS apps that can do this, or many apps at all. Certainly nothing that looks like an app you’d want to use. I don’t know what the technical reason is for this. Does Google make it deliberately difficult for third-party apps to do RCS?

That hasn’t been my experience on the Play Store.

I’ve been using it. It’s decent and basic. The only enhancement is that it doesn’t do anything annoying.

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They’re offering a helpful guide so others don’t have to spend ages figuring it out for themselves. There’s no need to react so negatively.

Yes, I think that’s reasonable. The midrange CPU in the Beelink you linked is already significantly more capable than the Intel N150 etc., though it has a TDP of 15W compared to the N150’s 6W. I haven’t dug into which specialized features they support (hardware codec support etc.) but for a general-purpose computer I’d definitely prefer the one you linked to those N100/N150 minis, even if it uses a little more power. Others might have a different opinion but that would be my choice.

I’ve found that you don’t need to go that far above the $200 cost of an Intel N100/150 system to get a mini PC with a significantly more powerful AMD processor. It won’t be the latest generation but it will be capable of a lot more than those low-power Intels, and from my measurements many AMD processors of the last three generations or so are good at saving power when they’re idle, so it won’t use a ton more electricity. Sometimes you find used ones on eBay at a decent price because someone upgraded.

I’ve not noticed Cinnamon being any faster than KDE. I’d recommend KDE for someone coming from Windows.

I like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed: everything’s up to date and it’s very stable for a rolling distro. Very occasionally an update is problematic but there are easy rollbacks thanks to btrfs. KDE Plasma is an easy desktop environment for a former Windows user too. One weirdness is you’ll have to get used to using the command line to update native packages and Flatpaks (“sudo zypper dup” and “sudo flatpak update”), because the GUI updater apparently isn’t really intended for the rolling distro.

Israel only agrees to ceasefires when they think it will be useful to recover prisoners and so get domestic opposition off their backs, to extract one-sided concessions from Hamas before proceeding with killing them, or to buy time to plan the next attack. Israel wants to finish the genocide and doesn’t care about ceasefires.

Apparently they were never meant to be taken seriously. Dyson’s article was satirical. Techbros, unfortunately, don’t pick up on this.

Dyson spheres are a joke - Angela Collier

They’re not talking about the language of the Fox presenters. They’re talking about the journalists who report on what the Fox presenters said.

Went there to update my password but got reminded what a horrible experience Plex is these days, so deleted my account instead.

I’ve had good luck with Antix on very old machines.

It’s fascist eugenics and they all see themselves as the Übermensch. They’re really ignorant but too ignorant to see it, and their wealth and the way they surround themselves with like-minded people and ass-kissers ensures they’ll never learn.

Also, their whole sense of self-worth ties in with the story that they got where they are through merit, not luck. And the willingness of society to listen to success stories of the wealthy and ignore stories of the non-wealthy means they benefit from its myth-making and financial survivorship bias.

Epstein clearly had other deeply messed up shit going on too though.

Leaked emails show that Epstein was using Barak to seek out opportunities in the surveillance industry and build connections with powerful figures around the globe, including American businessman Peter Thiel, the former director of Israeli signals intelligence, and two people in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s circle.

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Meanwhile, he invested his wealth in bizarre projects, including a ranch to breed women with his DNA and “efforts to identify a mysterious particle that might trigger the feeling that someone is watching you,” according to The New York Times.

Whole new dimensions of creepiness from Trump’s best friend.