That's what emulation is for!
JustARegularNerd
joined 1 year ago
Until you need a third running an entirely different distribution or OS
I had two laptops both set up very similarly, both Thinkpads on LMDE and running Tailscale.
Something broke my network setup on both of these laptops within the same day and it turned out to be Tailscale DNS conflicting with some other Linux network service, but I only learned that after using my phone to look online
Had my server set up with encrypted drives and getting the root key from a flash drive. Cloned a drive and replaced the old one, somehow it was crypttab that just stopped working with me. Took like 4 hours solid to get it actually back up.
Bricked a laptop by trying to flash Coreboot onto it and forgetting to put my original BIOS in the build..
I had a spare parts laptop and reused the motherboard but still, big oopsies on my part.
Goddamn it, here I was thinking the person was playing good old classic Bejewelled.. I should've known better than to think my childhood games would be relevant
Yeah I completely agree when you put it that way. I've been doing this for the desktop web apps that I used to have installed (Discord, Spotify, Teams) accessing them via a browser instead.
I've been meaning to tidy up my phone anyway so I'll give the mobile Web UI a good go.
Why is it that you don't use 3rd party apps? I have no issue with Jerboa and have used it extensively, but I'm mainly wondering if there's something I'm missing with 3rd party Lemmy clients.
For desktop I've been getting playlists I like from the web Spotify UI, then using spotdl to download them.
On mobile I've been trying out Kreate (YouTube Music frontend) and so far it's not bad. It doesn't have a real algorithm but I tend to browse by genre until I land on a playlist, or go to a song I feel like and hit Song Radio. UI is still a bit clunky in my opinion but it has worked so far for me otherwise.
From my subscriptions, I don't have anyone who deals with racecars, but I enjoy Flexiny and Aging Wheels for old car content.
Maybe for the positions you may have been in; had I used Linux at any of those other jobs there would constantly be document compatibility issues between LibreOffice and Word, and in an IT position I wouldn't be able to replicate issues a user is facing, unable to read Windows memory dumps or event logs on my own machine, the RMM doesn't have a client for a tech to use on Linux, and that's just scratching the surface.
The benefits of Linux for me (no ads, no telemetry, familiarity of the terminal and config files, open source, privacy, sticking it to big tech, etc.) just don't translate into things that would make me more productive at work.
None of my desk jobs have ever allowed a personal computer because of the risk of data leaking.
Was cautioned about an employee at our competitor who used a personal device, it was stolen and it had client data on it including some of their IP, and when that client took legal action, because the employee acted out of company policy they were on the hook for it.
I paid an extra $20 to extend the warranty of my $150AUD gaming headphones from 1 to 3 years.
Just over a year of owning them and the microphone boom broke. I never used the detachable microphone but the arm itself was rattling in the headset, so got it replaced at the retailer.
It's been about 12 months since then, and I may need to take them back at some point again soon as the plastic has fractured right where the headphone cup attaches to the band. It's not completely broken but its not far off