PhreakyByNature

My £30 Xiaomi MiBand used to last 12-14 days between charges and is now circa 7 data after 3.5 years of daily use. Let’s see how it fares hitting 5 years but this is the cheap option I went for and didn’t expect repairability. Spending more I’d expect more

Google Reader was my goto and when they killed that I tried a bunch of others and none quite hit the same. Gutted that one hit the Google graveyard.

Yeah my current Windows machine only gets rebooted upon updates, but previously I’ve noted needing to do it more frequently. My work laptop I shut down out of habit because they only supplied me with an 8gb ram device.

When I’m forced to move to Win 11 on my personal PC I’ll move to Linux instead.

We need dimensions from raised bit to not raised bit dammit

I have never bought an iPhone or a Mac and I agreed at first that this seems an extra step. But you surely wouldn’t have to flip it over? The device will be raised enough it appears that a finger could slide in the gap and hit that button. But maybe I don’t know shit or have slender fingers or something but feels like it could be operated without flipping.

What am I missing?

Still a daft design but yeah…

Cheers for that. I had other third party apps way back in the day but they lacked some features. Will check it out.

I went back to an old APK of Twitch and refuse to update to the current dumpster fire.

I do like the convenience of Windows and I’m still on W10, when it loses support I’ll be switching to Linux too.

Yeah I mean if you started one. If you went in with a secret chat in the first place then it wouldn’t be an issue. And so it’s one extra click vs. starting a normal chat. I hope it hasn’t inconvenienced you more than it’s taken for all these replies.

Thanks! My cousin used pop and was a fan tbf. I do like stability but also hoping, as I don’t work on my personal PC, that some instability would revitalise my enjoyment of tinkering. I have become used to the comforts of stability as I’ve aged. Haven’t really played with Linux since the Red Hat 7 days…! I used to use Unix back then for FORTRAN but yeah of late just forgotten everything.

It’s another contender for sure.

Just some performance I’ve seen people get from it and the nvidia bits. Still need to research before I decide though.

I am keeping Win 10 until I can’t safely anymore then Linux may be my next stop. Been looking at CachyOS for gaming.

As a non-user I’m now intrigued by it!

I’ve been toying with the idea of getting back into Linux for a while now. While I’m still on W10 I’m not rushing, and haven’t installed a TPM Module so Windows doesn’t force W11 on me yet, but when I have no choice that may push my hand. There’s some stuff I find easier on Windows but Linux has really caught up in the past 20 years and I reckon I could daily it in the coming years.

That’s rough :(

That’s wild, how big is your house? My monthly spend on heating is 1/4 of that during winter to keep it at 21.

Grim Fandango, Full Throttle and Normality all have vivid memories in my brain.

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I ended up getting a Stadia Premiere Edition (Controller and a Chromecast Ultra) for £20 down from £70 and tried it for essentially free (Stadia Pro 12 months free).

The got £20 refunded when they wound down - announced 3/4 of the way through my Stadia trial.

So all free and got a long cabled USB-C charger, a newer Chromecast than my old one, which ended up on the 2nd TV, and a controller I can repurpose.

Wild.