Couple of things that might be useful:

• Setup remote desktop access using VNC/RDP. It can be useful to access your PC etc while using your phone or other devices. Or accessing a raspberry pi on your main PC
• Setup a virtual machine and install Windows in it. It might be a good way to think about migrating to linux as your main OS
• Steam. See how performance on Linux compares to Windows for your games.

IT’S

COOLFILE.NAM

THERE IS ONLY 8.3 AND THERE IS ONLY UPPERCASE

I’ve got a random username if the stupid website/app allows it. Most don’t. It has to be your email address.

And a minimum random 20 char password for each website/app. Again if the stupid website/app allows it.

Secure your (I don’t mean you personally) fucking website/app and credentials storage and stop making your weaknesses my problem.

Most places, and all of my stupid financial websites/apps, only have phone/SMS as the second factor. And yet there are plenty of horror stories about people ‘losing’ their phone numbers.

Oh wait. There is one financial site that has developed its own authenticator app. I really expect that to go about as well as storing passwords in cleartext.

Then there’s all the shit websites/apps that I don’t give a fuck about that now insist on having 2FA set up. They’re not interested in the security, it’s just to get your email and phone number to onsell your data to whoever.

It’s fucking security theater.

I’m certifiably insane, have a doctorate in frustration, and many studies published of “Oh, fuck, what is this? I don’t have time for this now, I have shit to get done”.

Good luck.

2FA really stands for

2 FUCKING ANNOYING !!!

All I need is mozilla on android to be able to load local html files.

It’s the only reason I left.

It’s the only reason I will return.

I’ve been trying Organic Maps with Android Auto, and am struggling with it.

Search is hit and miss, which I can deal with, but its GPS tracking is wacky. It has Location and Precise Location permissions, but for some reason it’s not as accurate as Google Maps or Sygic - its movement tracking is jerky, it will randomly put me off the road or on another road. And when stopped, it will sometimes point me in the opposite direction or even spin me around a couple of times lol.

It makes it hard to trust ☹️

Does it support an external Bluetooth HR monitor?

Apparently, an app does that

One shop I was at had a manual process going with cash only purchases.

That blew up when I ordered 3 things and the ‘cashier’ didn’t know how to add them together. They didn’t have calculator on Windows available🤣

I told them the total and change to give me, but lent them the calculator on my phone so they could verify for themselves 🤣

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Wormsign!

• Excitedly get new machine. Install Debian.

• Not so excitedly search error messages.

• Dejectedly find need kernel/drivers that’s 18 months later than the Debian versions

• boot sysrescuecd to find next distro to write to USB drive …

• kick self for buying shiny, latest hardware without checking for linux support. Again…😡

The simple way is to dual boot or even simpler, set up a Linux distro in a Windows VM.

Let’s you play/see if the distro works for you.

TBH, I’ve got 1 machine where Windows is more problematic than the Ubuntu that is setup to dual boot… Can’t bring myself to do a fresh install of Windows lol…

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Yep, tor me it’s because it requires a Pixel. And specifically poor Pixel battery life.

I value battery life, and every Pixel I check out on gsmarena has an endurance rating < 90h.

For comparison, my current phone’s endurance rating is 113h, and this is why I ended up shopping by chipset. Everything not Snapdragon had poor battery life. (Disclaimer: haven’t looked for a couple of years)

Yeah, but did you include any biobs?

Offtopic, but what do you use for music?

Jesus Christ.

I use the calculator in Ubuntu tor very simple purposes. It was crashing on me every time I opened it.

I tracked down why.

It was trying to get a foreign currency exchange rate file - which I was horrified that you’d think about even having in a calculator.

The reason that was failing? Because I had a VPN enabled.

And it wouldn’t even fail gracefully. Nope it would poof, disappear.

The fix is to disable vpn, and disable foreign currency in the preferences.

I was so pissed off. And on the next upgrade the same thing happened, which I’d forgotten all about, so went through it AGAIN!

Every now and then I think ‘OK, this time I surely should be able to switch over to Wayland!’

And there’s always one application or use case that stops me.

Yeah, I’m on nvidia which hasn’t helped either…

All my drives are nvme* now.

I feel so much safer punching in of=/dev/sdaX