Why would they make a rural Chinese granny either go out and buy a new computer with preinatalled Linux or go learn how to do it herself, just so that it’s legal for her to call her relatives? Sounds a bit shortsighted to me.

Just get an oldish SFF or USFF office computer cheap somewhere. It’s generally much cheaper and allows for upgrades if ram/ssd prices ever come down. Also somewhat new Intel CPUs are quite good for transcoding.

Does it come with KDE preinstalled or is that just for the screenshot?

I’d love to give it a try on my secondary laptop as it sounds just great, but I really can’t stand KDE.

Edit: KDE is the only desktop available, but if I understand that correctly alternatives are on the roadmap?

Camera was working sometimes and when it did it had a strong green hue. Calls were working well, but the secondary microphone for noise cancellation was not used so the sound on the other side was rather bad.

As I’ve said, it a bit rough but getting very close to useable for me at least.

A bit rough around the edges in the ui/ux department. Otherwise if you don’t expect much more than Firefox and calls its certainly usable for a daily.

Definitely worth a try on a cheap phone imo.

I recently bought an OnePlus 6T in almost pristine condition for about £40. I got it mostly for playing around with postmarketOS but it handles lineage perfectly fine. CPU is fairly snappy both under lineage and postmarket and for that price you can’t buy just the OLED display, let alone anything else.

Leaving a reply as I’m very interested in that too.

Switched my parents to mint probably 10 years ago and I haven’t heard any complaints, just had to remind them to update every so often and had to upgrade once EOL came. It has been the same with my very non technical girlfriend that switched to mint probably a year ago.

If you make sure they have supported hardware (and most of it is supported these days) my bet is you won’t have to support them at all.

Why on earth would anyone willfully install ChromeOS? I haven’t followed recent developments but I’ve always thought of it as very limiting, not to mention just as bad in terms of privacy as a Windows install.

Sounds to me like they just own one of these trackers. Just like the NSA controls nodes on the tor network.

Is that just an Electron wrapper?

Edit: looking at the phoronix comments it seems to be. I really don’t get why they though this is even worth a twitter post. Just an inefficient wrapper for an even more inefficient text generator…

A few months ago I needed a lot of music (flacs in my case) and while to can find almost anything on soulseek (including some amazing vinyl rips) some niche artists were missing.

So what I did is I made a free trial account on deezer, got everything I needed during the free month using this deezer scraper and cancelled the trial before it ended.

In most countries by the age of 6 or 7 most kids would be in school and sat in a chair for most of their waking hours. What sort of Captain Fantastic utopia with with sunshine, rainbows and developing muscles do you imagine contemporary childhood to be?

If by the age of 15, as the original comment suggested, a kid has never touched a screen they would be ostracised by their classmates and most likely have lasting trauma.

Of course it’s nice to spend weekends and holidays outside, but a blanket ban on screentime is something else completely.

Then again, parents are entitled to their own opinions and as I’ve said, it’s none of my business what these opinions are.

It’s none of my business how you decide to raise your children but I firmly believe screentime is not such a big deal. Engaging with corporate apps designed to be both addictive and extremely easy to use is.

I think giving a kid their own beater laptop with some linux distro to tinker with, break, learn how to type, play a few games, draw or whatever else interests them especially at an early age would help the child to engage with tech in a creative and productive way and not be afraid of messing with it.

My bet is that the most tech illiterate people that view LLMs and computers in general as some sort of magic are the most severely affected ones.

Can’t see anyone mentioning this, but have you tried the johncena releases on 1337x?

All of them are neatly compressed, don’t need Steam and I haven’t seen a single one that doesn’t work out of the box on Manjaro.