I've been on Mint Cinnamon for probably close to 10 years now after spending the first half of my career developing applications for Windows platform with MS tooling and backend. I saw the direction they were going with Win8 and made the switch and have never looked back.
My main desktop went out of support earlier this year, but it has been so stable I can't be bothered to rebuild it. I have apps for everything I need from photo and video editing and management, to gaming, to productivity and development. My newer laptops have more recent builds and likewise have worked without issue. Really the only speedbump I have are a couple of Windows only things like a Dymo label printer and some automotive tuning software, so I run a dual boot on one XPS 15.
Unfortunately at work I can't run Linux so I use a MBP as it's far better than Windows, however it still infuriates me regularly and I don't use any other Apple products. I've previously contributed to Mint and was recently thinking I need to send some more money, so thanks for the reminder!
Well my previous Mint LTS install just went out of support so guess I'll be rebuilding and might be able to try Supernova.
I hate the message list pane on the left but IIRC in the prerelease press they said you could swap the layout, so I'm hoping that remains true. I've been a happy a happy Thunderbird user for many years with no desire to move to webmail. Glad to see it getting some love!
I've been using Photoprism for perhaps 18 months, primarily as a basic way to categorize and browse my photos. Not a power user by any means but I found it easy to use and upgrade over time. I had a couple small issues like image deletion and easy sync to s3, which may have been addressed in recent builds. I actually need to get back into it to upload my recent summer vacation pics. Overall I was a happy user and the tool met my needs for a photo catalog that I control and run locally.
Mint Cinnamon has been so good to me as a daily driver since I left Windows when Win8 came along. My older watercooled i7-7770 mini-ITX 1060 GTS has been chugging along on 19.03 LTS for years, and I've adopted a complete ecosystem of Linux tools for everything from development to photo/video editing to gaming due to its stability.
Recently picked up a Dell XPS15 with a new i7 and nVidia 3050 and the latest release worked with everything out of the box.
I would prefer rolling release to avoid the situation I'm in with LTS, but otherwise I'm a very happy Mint user and financial contributor.
The proliferation of gambling is driving me away from sporting events. I won't take my child to an event where gambling is repeatedly promoted front and center. Ditto for broadcasts and the excessive ads for FanDuel and whatever. Recently visiting family in Michigan I was appalled at the nonstop gambling ads during sports broadcasts. I had to leave the room. Combined with escalating ticket costs I have completely tuned out of things I used to watch regularly. Its sad that everything is monetized to the point of ruining it.
Of course you do you. Specially when it comes to raising your kid. But I think a better approach would be to teach them about statistics and odds and why gambling is bad instead of trying to shield them from it. Reinforce the idea that casinos and betting apps and even video games are businesses that make a lot of money, and they don't make that money by giving it away. The house always wins. Always.
I live in Reno, and even though gambling is everywhere 99% of the locals I know, don't do it.
The problem with gambling isn't a lack of education. Gambling preys on people when they're vulnerable and gamifies their desperation into a death spiral of suck. I would also keep children away from it, since they're at a disadvantage even when educated as their brains are so underdeveloped.
> You can, you should teach your kid about the dangers of drugs and addiction. Still you wouldn't bring him in a crack house...
I know this is a little tongue-in-cheek, but I have a 15 year-old and we lived downtown in a major city until 5th grade. Mom and Dad definitely talked about the dangers of drugs, but I don't think any of those talks made anywhere near the impression of coming across someone passed out in the entrance to a subway station with a needle stuck in there arm. Our trip was delayed while I made sure the person was still breathing and then summoned medical help.
Learning gambling at least has some real educational merit. Risk management, understanding probabilities, statistics, and how to quickly estimate under pressure are all generally useful skills. I recall hearing that the science of probability was basically discovered by one of the Bernoullis who had a gambling patron.
I suppose someone with enough gumption could learn useful skills like sales, marketing, loss prevention, and customer retention from drug dealers too, but that’s a whole level of seedy past legal gambling.
A casino is needed for none of that. Quick or slow estimation always shows that betting at a casino is a bad bet, unless you are an extremely gifted "hacker".
We all know sugar and processed food is bad for us but obesity is rocketing. We have to get away from "personal education and responsibility is the answer", because while correct to actually a pretty decent extent it's plainly not sufficient at a societal level and across domains such as diet, investing, gambling, smoking, drinking, etc.
"Place limits on availability of toxic stuff" is a better answer IMO, albeit again not perfect (see abuse of illegal drugs).
But yeah, unchecked promotion of gambling is really not good and should absolutely be curbed.
I grew up low-stakes gambling; euchre, dice, outcomes of various events. I had a lot of fun and never shielded my kids from it. My view is basically if the house isn't involved, and you can exercise self-restraint, it's ok in my book.
But dear Lord, the incessant ads and the flashing lights in bars and rest stops. I always took a moment to express my disapproval of people that prey on others addictions.
> Its sad that everything is monetized to the point of ruining it.
I'm with you on this. I stopped watching television, following sports, and listening to the radio many years ago.
I use UniFi devices throughout my home but the cameras (G3 specifically) are buggy and frequently disconnect, and don't auto reconnect. Basically useless.
Over the year end holidays I was traveling and set one up to monitor my front yard. There was actually an incident while I was gone and I remoted in to find the camera offline, totally missed it when it should have had perfect perspective. The police asked me for video and in this case I would have shared it, but alas could not. Sucks as I have the CloudKey box for video storage, but its very undependable in my experience.
This has not been my experience with mostly G4 pro hardwired PoE cameras. I have their G4 doorbell and did have similar problems until I upgraded its transformer and pointed an access point directly at it. Been smooth sailing ever since.
Appreciate the feedback, glad to hear that I am an anomaly. The camera is on WiFi and I have a mesh network with multiple UniFi APs. Both get good signal where the camera is located. Even in the same room as the AP my max uptime is about 1 day before it disconnects.
I ended up making a dedicated 2.4GHz-only SSID for my wifi cameras, which seems to have helped. I think forcing them to 2.4GHz, at least for my house RF situation, was the thing that helped the most.
I have a smallish Protect system (UNVR, four G4 Pros, one doorbell, two G3 Instants).
The positives are that it pretty much just works. The mobile app is excellent, the web app on the UNVR is fine, and it has full spousal approval factor.
I have had very few issues with the system, primarily just the doorbell was unreliable until I upgraded the transformer and put an access point right next to it. I had an issue with the NVR right before it went out of warranty and I fixed it by replacing the internal USB drive with an SSD.
The negatives are that it's more costly than other options, Ubiquiti has had perennial stock problems over the last few years, and you're locked into their ecosystem. The NVR won't work with generic cameras and you can't run the software on your own hardware.
It's also possible that, if you have their remote access proxy set up (required for mobile app), you could be subject to the same warrant issues as with Ring.
The Access Points, PoE switch, and firewall work fine. My only dissatisfaction has been the G3 camera. As others have stated its a big investment so not moving off the ecosystem today. However when its time to upgrade everything I will certainly shop around.
I had a similar issue and ended up deplatformed by FB. I hadn't logged in for a couple of years, but some friends had tagged me in an event photo. Figured I might go checkout what was posted over time.
When attempting to log in, my password was not recognized. I successfully reset my password, but upon logging in I was presented with a validation prompt demanding I get several people to vouch for me, from a selection of 6. Only problem was I only knew one of those people.
At that point my entire profile vanished from FB. Friends and family no longer see me in their lists, even my wife. There's no way to contest this or get support, so I vanished.
Later I found out an astroturf profile of me was created, but its not me (I have a globally unique name). There's no way I will ever use a Meta product or account in the future based on this experience.
I have been using Thunderbird for so many years across a variety of platforms. Happy to see continued development while maintaining my ability to customize. I appreciate the ability to hide tags and local folders in the new interface. I look forward to trying Supernova.
I hope the Unified view remains, as it would be very difficult for me to use TB without it.
I spend 95% of my time in TB working with one of my email inboxes (rather than Sent/Archives) etc. And Unified view, puts them as a list right at the top of the Folder Pane.
I use a Dymo to print bar code labels for inventory. With my current printer the Dymo labels are significantly marked up with no difference in quality. I've used thousands of third party labels with zero issues.
I read about this recently when trying to download the driver package. In one brief act, Dymo ensured I will not buy their products again. The 'value' of this feature is zero to me, its just capture.
I would never buy a Keurig product nor a HP printer for this reason. Guess the list keeps getting longer.
The value is actually negative because it locks you into a vendor, increases the price of the consumables to do so to you, and increases the failure rate of the equipment by making the whole use more complex and adding elements that can fail that don't contribute to the utility of the device.
I thankfully kn ew about their business practices before I started buying lable printers. I use zebra, and buy used or gray market imports of their cheaper models. They are affordable and just keep going.
Penny for your thoughts? HP has a permanent place on mine. I'll also reluctantly add Canon to my list, as I have a MP280-series printer that I very much enjoy using.
Truth is I haven't set up many printers (thank the Lord) but I have been struggling with one of these newfangled smart web HP printers which is basically a giant billboard for their new old 'Smart' app.
I've been suffering with it because I refuse to use the app, so it's either printing locally over USB (which has been utterly impossible) or a CUPS-based setup. I just about managed to set up cups and get it working (PPD files, etc.) and then it wouldn't print black. An hour later I thought of printing something in colour, worked fine, so the ink cartridge dried up. Great. Something else is wrong with it. This isn't including the fact that the software absolutely sucks, especially on Windows. I spent hours and hours trying to get it to work on Windows, with HP constantly begging me to install either a mobile application or some sort of weird DRM'd desktop program that'd send data to HP.
Even if I did want to put it on WiFi (I don't!), it's impossible to even do that (you'd think they'd make it easy, considering the data it sends to HQ). I tried my best to connect it with the WPS tomfoolery but it just wouldn't work. What did the manufacturer say? Oh, download the app of course.
Oh, and to top it all off: this WiFi printer does not have Ethernet, so it's situated right next to the router interfering on the 2.4GHz band with its useless WiFi Direct thing. I have no idea how to turn that off. It's one problem after another.
On the other hand, this Canon Pixma MP280 I have is one of the best printers I have ever had the joy of using. On Linux, you plug it in and it's no bother, aside from the ocassional glitch. I mostly use it for scanning, but have also done some printing on it a while back and it was totally fine with it. You just turn the printer on, open the Document Scanner app on the computer, and click Scan. No fucking apps plastered all over the manufacturer's website, no WiFi nonsense which completely falls apart. Just standard protocols. You don't even need a driver to use it on the computer, much less a full suite of programs like HP forces on you.
The only reason I'm suffering with the HP printer is because I bought a surplus of ink for it (thinking it was a good printer) and, bearing in mind the insane prices of these things (£10 a pop!), I don't really want to waste the ink.
I don't feel comfortable downloading apps. Maybe I should just get old printers. Oh, we have been thinking of getting an EcoTank. They look pretty good.
> Oh, and to top it all off: this WiFi printer does not have Ethernet, so it's situated right next to the router interfering on the 2.4GHz band with its useless WiFi Direct thing. I have no idea how to turn that off. It's one problem after another.
disassemble it and cut off the antenna. or ground it with a piece of a wire. or both.
They quickly backpedaled, but that could have just been because it was easy to defeat (you could cut the top off one of their pods and tape it in-front of the sensor). I would not be surprised if they tried RFID next.
So... you're being fucked by all their other products, and the one mentioned is one firmware upgrade away from fucking you too... Thank you, but no, no HP for me.
"When patents expire, you'll see many generics come onto the market at reduced costs, and cost to consumer goes down."
This assertion is simply not true. A prime example - Insulin is 100 years old. Those who need it are paying sky high prices due to corporate greed, and many simply can't afford it. No competition, no affordable option. People are dying due to this greed.
You’ve picked one large-molecule therapeutic which has significant variations between different products and much higher production costs. The vast majority of drugs are nothing like it, and they follow the pattern of a dramatic drop in price once generics can be legally sold.
My main desktop went out of support earlier this year, but it has been so stable I can't be bothered to rebuild it. I have apps for everything I need from photo and video editing and management, to gaming, to productivity and development. My newer laptops have more recent builds and likewise have worked without issue. Really the only speedbump I have are a couple of Windows only things like a Dymo label printer and some automotive tuning software, so I run a dual boot on one XPS 15.
Unfortunately at work I can't run Linux so I use a MBP as it's far better than Windows, however it still infuriates me regularly and I don't use any other Apple products. I've previously contributed to Mint and was recently thinking I need to send some more money, so thanks for the reminder!