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    1 year ago

    I can still remember running Windows 3.1 on my Windows 98 Pentium machine (booted into DOS 7.0). The sheer responsiveness… In a blink of an eye the system was ready, apps would open. The last time I felt this kind of responsive speed was running KolibriOS: http://www.kolibrios.org/en/

    I’ve run plenty of low resource OSes/Distros on low-end hardware but… there’s nothing sweeter than running low resource OSes on high end hardware - it feels like the future (the way it was suppose to be).



  • I don’t think there’s a single “main” computer anymore. My home computer is Linux Mint Cinnamon. My mobile computer (which I use nearly as much as my desktop OS) is Android.

    My next smartphone is going to allow installing a privacy-respecting custom ROM (because Linux on mobile really isn’t there yet). Once I do that, I’ll focus on f-droid apps only. Something to look forward to.


  • Reddit used to be able to do two things. 1. Allow me to express myself and 2. Entertain. They really stopped entertaining me a long while ago. They also didn’t engage me enough for me to want to express myself. I already had a foot out the door.

    Point 1 is filled with Hacker News, Lemmy and tildes. They are all similar but different. With lemmy… you kind of take your shoes off and relax (respectfully). With HN and Tildes: you are the best version of yourself.

    Point 2 is taken up by TikTok. I use TikTok on an older dedicated secondary tablet with a fake gmail account, no contacts. The tablet only does TikTok and nothing else in order to alleviate privacy issues, etc.

    HN, Lemmy, tildes and TikTok provide an experience that far surpasses that of reddit.