Gentoo does not have always the latest builds, not by default.

Updates depend on your amount of packages, hardware, and willingness to utilize that hardware for compiling.

I don’t use DE, just dwm+dmenu, so my biggest packages are Firefox and LibreOffice, which can take 3+ hours with dependencies. KDE or Gnome would most likely add more.

But you can put number of cores for compiling into config. If you have your PC on most of the day, you can set it to 1 or 2 and you most likely won’t even know about it.

Or, if you have 16 core CPU, let 14 do the compiling and you can browse the web with the remaining two.

This all assumes you have enough RAM as well. It’s not as bad, but you should have at least 32GB.

The distro is smooth, way more than anything I’ve ever tried, and I’m not switching from it.

I will own my self-hosted open-sourced software and data.

Fuck digital overlords.

Wow, what an amazing reply, thank you very much. Those images help a lot.

What does focal length means?

I forgot to thank you for your war story. It’s a hell of a good one, too, so thanks.

If you ever want to share more, I’m here for it.

Microsoft, Tesla, Twitter, Nvidia, Nestle…

… in fact, forget buying altogether.

I was not aware there were RFID CCs. That’s hilarious.

It’s like cheques. I’ve been in the US for half a year, I did experience getting a cheque and cashing it in an ATM.

The most ridiculous thing for someone who lives in Europe and knows SEPA.

How in the fuck did US ever get to become the world police. I would guess WW2.

I want to hear those war stories.

Dunno about you, but I use every key on larger layouts, so this is definitely a hard no for me.

As long as there are other options, this is a straight up downgrade for no benefit. So absolutely no.

I’ve been using it exclusively (later along with self-hosted Jitsi) since 2017.

There’s tens of millions of messages, doing just fine.

I mean, it has enough RAM to handle some workloads.

But yes, laptop (ideally without a dedicated graphics card) would be better, if you want to do more than gaming.

Though for gaming it’s more than enough, unless you’re into RTS.

It takes up space you can’t use.

Specially in laptops, that’s very bad.

You can buy a USB dock and plug every peripheral into the Deck.

You can use desktop mode, too.

There is nothing the Deck can’t do. It has weaker hardware, but you can game on it just fine.

I have mine plugged into a projector, for watching movies or playing games.

So what are the alternatives, when it happens to us?

Meshtastic? Or what?

There is a clear path of redemption: sink Putin and Trump, and put all that money into making the poor people lives better.

But like most traffic is SSL encrypted, how is he going to read any of it?

They WANT you to use Ai so they can cater the answers sell you ads and stop you from using the internet.

VR headset streaming video from PC without cables.

Exactly.

I also imagine access points in every room.

Can’t wait.