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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I bought my son a used Surface Pro 4 for schoolwork. Luckily we haven't run into many problems, but there is a known problem where the processor still runs the battery dead when it's shut off. You're actually better off using standby.

If he runs the battery dead, we can plug it in and it will boot, but shortly die afterwards. But if we wait ~15 minutes to charge it a little, it stays on as long as we want it to.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Anon would be best off avoiding that girl at all costs. Dodged a bullet there. If she's unhappy with the relationship she should break up first. Being willing to cheat is a big red herring. Guess who she's going to cheat on next?

And who knows who's to blame for the relationship issues? Never stick your dick in crazy...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ain't it funny how if a guy has sex with a drunk chick, he's "taking advantage of her and the situation," but if a chick has sex with a drunk guy it's rarely seen that way, and in either case if she ends up pregnant she can go after the guy for child support for the next 18 years...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Routine infant circumcision is an egregious violation of human rights, regardless of the gender of the infant.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We're running Linux on the vast majority of PCs at my job. We used to run Lubuntu, but switched to Debian. You can use pam_mount so user folders are mounted from a server at login, to create a "roaming profiles" environment. But there really isn't a great solution for laptop users that might be away from the office.

If you do use pam_mount, don't mount their entire home folder. That will end up throwing a bunch of stuff on the server, like chrome temporary internet files, and their .config folder, that just aren't needed on the server and will slow everything down. Just mount their individual Documents, Downloads, Pictures, Videos, Desktop, etc. folders.

We're a small business, we don't have any Enterprise Support or anything like that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Because there are free and open source alternatives available, rather than having WinRAR beg you to pay for it every time you open it. You should really try 7-Zip. Haven't looked back at WinRAR or any other utility since.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's no one "proper" way. Running multiple DEs shouldn't break anything, but each DE comes with it's own set of dependencies and other software, so it does add clutter. There will also be considerable overlap with config files, so if you change a setting in one DE, it could change settings when using another DE.

Having a separate user account per DE will prevent most of the configuration overlap, but it doesn't solve the abundance of packages you'll have installed from having multiple DEs. I don't think there's a great "clean" way to do it.

One thing I love about Linux though, is how relatively flexible the user home directory is. When moving to a new distro or PC, usually everything you need to copy over is within your home directory. For what you're trying to do, I'd consider throwing /home on a separate partition. That way, you can try out multiple DEs and distros, without blowing away your home folder. And you'd be surprised at how small your root partition can be, the vast majority of your storage should likely be reserved for /home. The Steam Deck, for example, uses a root partition that is only 5 gb. On a typical Linux system, I've found 64 gb to be plenty for root.

When switching distros and/or DEs, consider cleaning out various config files in your home folder. Almost all of them will be hidden files that have a filename that begins with a period. I only keep specific config files for programs I want to retain data for, like Google Chrome (.config/google-chrome), Thunderbird (.thunderbird), and Steam (.local/share/Steam). If you use SSH keys you'll want to keep your .ssh folder too. But deleting all other config files will give you a pretty clean start when changing DEs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

There are a lot of parents who don't deserve forgiveness. The raisedbynarcissists subreddit has many examples.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Routine Infant Circumcision, as performed in the United States, is a human rights violation. Regardless of gender.

Doctors, mohels, and anybody else that continues circumcising infants, belong in jail.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Try installing Linux on it. Check out AnLinux. I'm running Debian with KDE on mine.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Anything wrong with Nextcloud Notes?

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