This is generally not true. If you are using your laptop as a home server chances are it’s going to be idling 99% of the time and laptops are generally pretty good in terms of idle power draw if you manage to disable the screen (or just disconnect it, take it off and find a way to repurpose it)

And in terms of environmental impact saving a laptop from landfill is definitely better since the majority of a computers impact is from the co2 emmissions from the manufacturing process. And this isn’t taking into account the likely ethical considerations such as supporting terrible mining practices for resources like cobalt.

The construction cite issue is a fair point. If you really need traffic maybe you should try using magic earth. It’s not FOSS but the privacy would still be leagues better than Waze (which is owned by Google)

Your right, I’m sorry about that I made an edit to correct it.

Thanks for asking i’ve been wondering myself actually. I looked it up and organic maps doesn’t actually do traffic, although magic earth does (another not foss but apparenty privacy respecting map app that uses osm) It says it’s just crowdsourced from the general public who uses magic earth (in an anonimous way, I guess there are enough magic earth uses for it to work since Some people say it works really well. (although others say it doesn’t you should probably try it for yourself.)

On another note that I also found from my research just then, traffic knowing apps don’t actually improve travel times but they do make previously congested places more congested. sources:

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Edit: Magic earth is not foss so there is no way to varify that the app is actually respecting your privacy like it says it is, i’m sorry for any confusion.

Organic maps has traffic, osmand doesn’t. I feel osmand is better in pretty much every other situation but organic maps has traffic.

Maybe because his distro of choice still hasn’t changed.

I heard that somewhere too. It might have been a while ago but he has said publicly a few times that he doesn’t care much about which distro he uses doesn’t switch very often.

I have a very similar problem activity monitor says 13.6gb of ram used while btop says around 6.9gb.

(activity monitor top)

(btop bottom)

Probably nothing. I’m currently in the process of starting to distrohop a lot. I want to try out lots of distros, for fun and in order to recommend distros to other people. I will probably eventually settle on arch or nixos though, the customization seams really awesome.

I half the point of package managers was so you could easily uninstall them. Do package managers usually not fully uninstall?

I don’t use reddit, but I’ve always wondered why lemmy is any different. I trust the lemmy devs don’t scrape for data but since everything here is public whats stopping some malicious person from scraping every lemmy comment ever?

Piracy isn’t the only alternative to streaming! Please consider putting a side a certain amount of money each month to buy physical disks, making films isn’t free and buying disks is the best way to suport them. Then you can pirate the rest.

Ok, thank you!

There will still be just as many free as in beer linux apps and they will be just as easy to find since you can just turn on the filter for “free and open source” when your searching for an app in flathub or whatever repo and package manager you use, sure more proprietary apps may be developed but the open source ones will be here to stay and could get much more funding from donations if more people joined.

And I don’t think it’s about hardware development as that is already here, there are plenty options for hardware on linux and that is not a limiting factor.

What is a limiting factor (at least for me) is software support and it is the reason I still dual boot windows and linux. I need adobe for my work I know, I hate it too I wish I could use davinci resolve and other alternatives instead but I can’t. I am also a gamer and I play with my friends who run windows, I want to have fun with my friends and if a game doesn’t run on linux I still want to play the game even if it means using windows.

If the market share of linux increases then for profit developers will start optimizing applications for it since it will become a major target demographic.

In terms of viruses and regulation they are both fare points which I agree with you on, but I don’t think they outweigh the benifets of having higher user adoption (for me at least)

I would be interested to know, is software support is ever a boundary to you?

Wait what? I thought the EU could be my future salvation! If the EU regulations are too harsh, and the US regulations are so slack that billion dollar monopolistic tech companies can thrive, Australia is just America lite but with mining instead of big tech, and developing nations are still developing and don’t have good amenities and the communist nations are largely dictators where do I go?

I first started Ubuntu as a minecraft server, then last year I actually started using it as a desktop.

The year of the Linux desktop: any year now for the past 10 years.

I’m waiting for the day someone who isn’t a nerd and regularly uses Linux.

That’s a real showcase of how linux actually cares about its users over other companies. It’s great to see that hardware I buy now will be supported on linux for a long long time into the future.

I 100% agree. I’m still relatively new but this helped me become much more confident.

You might be right I searched it up and found that protonmail doesn’t encrypt header lines which isn’t great. The f-droid point is also valid. But unfortunately there is no decentralised email providers, even tuta is still centralised. I would be interested if there are any options for decentralised mail.

On another note regardless of whether I’m using proton or tuta it’s hardly ever end to end encrypted since everyone I’m sending the mail to uses Gmail.