Well hello there beautiful!

I am almost always on wifi so its not a problem. Up until I switched to them in March, I have never had unlimited cellular data.

256k is surprisingly usable if you’re not on the corporate hellscape internet. On Lemmy, nostr, in privacy respecting websites, since they don’t have all kind of bloat and crap like that, things actually load pretty well.

I am hoping to get the increase to 512 kbps though, because it would be helpful. I am fully aware though, that higher and higher speeds incur diminishing returns, so 256 kbps is much better than 128 kbps would be, and 512 kbps is much better than 256 kbps will be, but once you get up to a certain level, speed increases stop mattering nearly as much. I would peg that level at probably something like 10 Mbps. Once you get over that speed, things just don’t matter quite as much.

I am using Cloaked wireless which allows me to pay my bill in Monero. I get unlimited talk, text, and data, with 500 megabytes of that data being 5G speed, and the rest of it being at 256kbps, with a possible raise to 512kbps coming in the future.

You are definitely right, but I will caution that people are going to have to get used to a lot slower connectivity speeds and higher latency than we’ve been used to.

Max reticulum link is 40mbps, tor to onion services is like 5mbps, wifi halo is like 1-16mbps and MeshCore and Meshtastic are like ~20kbps max.

Centralized internet has gotten us used to speeds of hundreds of megabits per second and latency of 10s of ms, and that’s just not possible when decentralizing systems, at least not right now.

People like you are the reason Monero exists.

You cant steal what you cant see and if you murder the person you still get nothing

Yes, until more supply comes online, and then prices will fall again. Either that or the AI market will crash first, one or the other.

I do my banking on my web browser, and when my previous bank tried to force me to use their app, that’s why they are my previous bank and not my current bank, because I told them they could go fuck themselves.

I refuse to put their proprietary spyware app on my device.

I refuse to even have a proprietary app store on my device. More or less install your proprietary app.

Oh, that’s interesting. I didn’t know you could have Windows and Linux on the same disk in separate partitions, and then boot Linux and have the virtual machine access the raw disk image of Windows.

For now, yes. But it’s a supply and demand curve, so either the demand from AI is going to crash as the AI boom crashes, or the amount of supply will increase to satisfy the demand. I am suspecting the AI bubble will crash before the supply side catches up.

I think proof-of-work CAPTCHA could solve a lot of this problem.

Sure, it’s still going to let some bots through, but those bots are going to have to work to get through.

When you’re a single person, one or two seconds worth of work to solve the CAPTCHA isn’t a problem. When you’re a bot with hundreds of thousands of machines, that’s hundreds of thousands of seconds.

That hasn’t happened for me, but it has shifted from desktop to mobile for me, because, for me, desktop Linux is just about fucking perfect, and I see no need to change it. But, I do very much enjoy playing around with different things like lineage OS, and possibly post-market OS on phones.

I’d say my phone is my primary computing device so it’s what I like to mess with and the laptop is just a system that I need to work whenever I pick it up and therefore it gets Linux installed on it and doesn’t get many changes.

I would say my laptop is more like an appliance similar to my toaster. When I turn on my toaster, I expect it to work. And it’s the same thing with my laptop for the little bit that I need it. And my phone is the device that I mess with, primarily.

I started with Ubuntu version 10.10 and currently my computer runs Linux Mint Debian 7.

Though I am seriously considering giving NixOS another spin. I gave it a try once, and it didn’t quite work for me, but I think I might try it again. I am getting pretty convinced that immutability is the future because then the operating system developer can work on the operating system and the user space can focus on the user space. And user space applications can’t do things to the operating system that would screw it up and bork it. I’m primarily thinking of when an application gets uninstalled and then uninstalls some shared library that’s needed by another application and fucks it up.

I know immutable systems and self-contained applications require more disk space, but that’s a worthy sacrifice in my opinion. Disk space is pretty damn cheap.

Mint is wonderful though I am considering switching back to a system with GNOME instead of Cinnamon because the screen reader works better under GNOME.

I am thinking about giving NixOS another shot or at least going with an immutable system, but Mint is a great place to start your Linux journey, and hell, it’s a great place to end your Linux journey if you don’t give a shit about computers and just want the damn thing to work reliably.

I don’t know if it’s possible, but have you considered trying to install Windows in a virtual machine and just use Linux as your primary system? I started out this way too, where I had a dual-boot Linux and Windows system, and eventually I realized that I was booting into Windows so little that I just installed Windows in a virtual machine for the, like, very few times I ever needed it. And then, eventually I found out I didn’t need it at all anymore, and just killed the VM, and I haven’t used Windows for years.

Windows 11 is synonymous with installing Linux.

Well, if you don’t run Google spy services, then nothing is changing for you in September. But if you do, then so help you. I feel sorry for you.

With that said, I am very seriously looking into switching to post-market OS and running mainline Linux on my phone instead of Android.

That device came with what, Android 11? I think my favorite thing since then has probably been not having to ask whether fDroid can install apps once it’s done one time.

Like facials?

Now, turn around and take 'em off baby

Very nice