THAT, friends, is why you root the shit out of Android and then use an app like AdAway, which uses the/etc/hosts file to block ads, which is why root is required. I tried other adblockers that didnt use the hosts file and none worked worth a damn.. Before I rooted my phone, it was endless ads in EVERYthing, and of course, this crap was eating up my data like mad, for which I pay for what I use (am on Ting.com). Once I rooted and installed AdAway, no more ads, and my data consumption went down signifcantly...
Those of us who use our computers for things besides gaming, find Linux fits perfectly into our lives.. What very few games I rarely find the time to play either run just fine in Wine OR are presented by Steam.. I used/supported MS products for 20 years and when I retired in 2010, I realized I was sick and tired of their stupid antics, and since they've doubled down on stupidity with Windows NSA Edition, I couldn't be happier...
Yup... As far as I'm concerned, if it aint Dell, it can go to hell... And it is nice to see that Dell is finally putting Linux on their Precision line of laptop workstations..There for the longest time all you could get Linux preinstalled on was consumer-grade XPS. Running KUbuntu 14.04 on both my Precision T3500 desktop and M4400 laptop. Flawless operation...
The last time I used Lyft, was from the airport here in Las Vegas to my home. My plane was late and I didn't want to bug the wife to come get me, so I loaded the Lyft app from google.play, created an account, and within about 10 min I had a ride home with a super-nice lady driver who I found out had just emigrated from Russia to the US.. The fare was $14, and I gave her a $5 tip.. Later I checked what a taxi would have cost me.. Almost $50 WITHout a tip... The choice is clear to me... Uber/Lyft FTW!!
I retired in 2010 from a 20 year IT career and have NEVER owned a suit. The absolute most I ever wore to any interview was a button-down shirt, a tie, and a pair of khakis. Never had any trouble getting a job.. Don't plan to buy a suit either now that I'm retired.. FUCK SUITS AND TIES... (you KNOW you agree with me...)
If they had any brains, they'd simply put ~~Debian~~ err Devuan on it.. Since Debian (and Ubuntu) have fucking up those distros with systemd, I've moved my systems to Devuan 1.0, I had high hopes when they forked Debian a couple of years ago, and now I couldn't be happier.. Debian WITHOUT systemd... Fuck you, Poettering...
As far as I'm concerned, a current model Dell Precision laptop is *my* "dream Linux laptop".. I currently have a Precision M4400 but its getting kind of "long in the tooth".. My *only* gripe is its weight... Its great to see Dell starting to sell Precisions with Ubuntu installed, rather than just the consumer-grade XPS crap...
I live in Las Vegas, and we're getting the same high triple-digit temperatures and on top of that most of the Las Vegas valley is at least 2000 feet above sea level vs Phoenix being around 1000 feet. This difference would cause Las Vegas' density altitude to be worse than Phoenix, yet I've heard of no cancelled flights out of Mc Carran airport...
The fun part about automotive recalls is when they issue the recall, and then don't have the parts on hand to *service* that recall... I just traded in a 2012 Ford Escape which had an outstanding recall, where I'd received the initial notification letter from Ford over a year ago telling me to wait for another letter telling me to go to a dealer and have the fix applied. This recall being, of course, the now-famous Takata airbag issue. This Escape was in immaculate condition, with only 28K miles on it. Having been my wifes car, with her driving it very little. KellyBB showed its trade-in value as around $10.5K. We'd decided we'd leave if the dealer didn't offer at least $10K trade-in. When dealer ran a Carfax, he asked did we know about this recall and I told we did, having recieved the letter over a year ago. Dealer starts saying he can only wholesale the car and comes back with about $2K below our threshold.. We leave, start the car up, and before we get off the lot, salesman comes out and says he'll give us $10K for it, and begins to cry how he's taking a loss.. blah.. blah.. blah.. Bottom line: We got our 2013 Hyundai Elantra for the price we wanted and it doesn't have the Takata airbag issue.... YAY!
Jeez, I wish I had modpoints to mod you up!!! You are sooooo damn correct!!! I used/supported Windows for 20 years as a sysadmin.. When I retired in 2010, I was dual-booting Win7 and Linux, and due to being stuck using Windows at work day-to-day, by inertia I tended to spend most of my computer use at home on Win7 also. After being annoyed endlessly by Windows insisting upon taking a lot of time updating itself when all I wanted to do was shut the $#%@#$!% damn laptop down and get on with my day, plus a LOT of other petty annoyances. One day I decided I was DONE with anything to do with Microsoft. In fact, I simply "ripped the bandage off" by simply deleting the Win7 partition, and reconfiguring grub to boot only to Linux. Not surprisingly it was almost completely painless, since I'd started using Linux back in the mid 90s and had been admining some Linux systems at my last job before retirement. As far as I'm concerned, Microsoft can pound sand up their ass..
The *REAL* problem is you can use the Antibeacon tool to turn off the spyware aspects of Windows, but every time you get another "update" or new version from MS, they default those spyware aspects back on, so you're playing an endless game of "whack-a-mole" trying to keep MS's nose of your bidness.. I used/supported Windows for 20 years as a sysadmin, and never really trusted MS, but since Windows 10 came out, ANY trust I may have had for MS has evaporated. When I retired in 2010, I moved all of my computers over to Linux and thats where they'll stay..
I use Filezilla extensively on Linux and I gar-on-tee you theres NO ads here.... Couldn't say about the Winblows version, as I quit fucking with Microsoft crap over 7 years ago.....
Your numbers on Linux desktop users is quite a bit off... I have over 30 users on Linux desktop, two small businesses and a bunch of neighbors/friends/relatives.. One of the businesses flat refuses to allow ANYthing MS on any computers in his home or office..
I like the AIMP Android port.. It's kinda like Winamp/Android. Simple enough to *just play tunes*. not try to be something like an Android version of iTunes...
I'm betting I'm like most, such that once a company has lost my trust, it has lost it for good... I used/supported Windows for 20 years as a sysadmin. I retired in 2010, and decided I was tired of MS's insane licensing schemes, and since I'd been using and supporting Linux for about 1/2 of that 20 years, I made the decision to "yank the bandage off" and move 100% to Linux. Been MS-free now for nearly 7 years and couldn't be happier.. As for trust in MS.... hehe I trust them as far as I can throw them, and thats not ever gonna change...
Yup.... Came here to say the same thing... I've had friends who bought new systems at a big-box store come to me when their new i7 system that came with Windows NSA Edition (my name for it) shit the bed, and want me to fix it.. ummm... no? I spent 20 years cleaning up after MS, and when I retired, I left that ecosystem for my favorite OS.. That being Linux.. I show the Windows "victim" a LiveUSB of Linux and tell them this is what they need to avoid the abuse that MS heaps upon people who *still* use Windows. Assuming their machine use-case allows it, everyone I've shown Linux to has opted to have me upgrade their systems to it.. FUCK YOU MS!
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Easy fix: root and AdAway... easypeasy.. No more ads..
THAT, friends, is why you root the shit out of Android and then use an app like AdAway, which uses the /etc/hosts file to block ads, which is why root is required. I tried other adblockers that didnt use the hosts file and none worked worth a damn.. Before I rooted my phone, it was endless ads in EVERYthing, and of course, this crap was eating up my data like mad, for which I pay for what I use (am on Ting.com). Once I rooted and installed AdAway, no more ads, and my data consumption went down signifcantly...
Pretty nice looking Canadienne, VERY well preserved for 53 years old...
Given THAT criteria, the ONLY "astronauts" who have "been outside the atmosphere" were the Apollo crews..
Linux users: the vegans of the computing world.
Negatory, there sparky.. Linux users are the smart ones of the computing world...
Those of us who use our computers for things besides gaming, find Linux fits perfectly into our lives.. What very few games I rarely find the time to play either run just fine in Wine OR are presented by Steam.. I used/supported MS products for 20 years and when I retired in 2010, I realized I was sick and tired of their stupid antics, and since they've doubled down on stupidity with Windows NSA Edition, I couldn't be happier...
One of the MANY MANY reasons I left the MS ecosystem after I retired from 20 years of dealing with that psychotic corporation....
Yup... As far as I'm concerned, if it aint Dell, it can go to hell... And it is nice to see that Dell is finally putting Linux on their Precision line of laptop workstations..There for the longest time all you could get Linux preinstalled on was consumer-grade XPS. Running KUbuntu 14.04 on both my Precision T3500 desktop and M4400 laptop. Flawless operation...
The last time I used Lyft, was from the airport here in Las Vegas to my home. My plane was late and I didn't want to bug the wife to come get me, so I loaded the Lyft app from google.play, created an account, and within about 10 min I had a ride home with a super-nice lady driver who I found out had just emigrated from Russia to the US.. The fare was $14, and I gave her a $5 tip.. Later I checked what a taxi would have cost me.. Almost $50 WITHout a tip... The choice is clear to me... Uber/Lyft FTW!!
As a driver, I like Uber better, but as a rider, I prefer Lyft... I drive for both and have ridden on both..
I retired in 2010 from a 20 year IT career and have NEVER owned a suit. The absolute most I ever wore to any interview was a button-down shirt, a tie, and a pair of khakis. Never had any trouble getting a job.. Don't plan to buy a suit either now that I'm retired.. FUCK SUITS AND TIES... (you KNOW you agree with me...)
If they had any brains, they'd simply put ~~Debian~~ err Devuan on it.. Since Debian (and Ubuntu) have fucking up those distros with systemd, I've moved my systems to Devuan 1.0, I had high hopes when they forked Debian a couple of years ago, and now I couldn't be happier.. Debian WITHOUT systemd... Fuck you, Poettering...
Yet ANOTHER reason for those of us who have quit using Windows and switched to Linux have reason to rejoice...
As far as I'm concerned, a current model Dell Precision laptop is *my* "dream Linux laptop".. I currently have a Precision M4400 but its getting kind of "long in the tooth".. My *only* gripe is its weight... Its great to see Dell starting to sell Precisions with Ubuntu installed, rather than just the consumer-grade XPS crap...
I live in Las Vegas, and we're getting the same high triple-digit temperatures and on top of that most of the Las Vegas valley is at least 2000 feet above sea level vs Phoenix being around 1000 feet. This difference would cause Las Vegas' density altitude to be worse than Phoenix, yet I've heard of no cancelled flights out of Mc Carran airport...
The fun part about automotive recalls is when they issue the recall, and then don't have the parts on hand to *service* that recall... I just traded in a 2012 Ford Escape which had an outstanding recall, where I'd received the initial notification letter from Ford over a year ago telling me to wait for another letter telling me to go to a dealer and have the fix applied. This recall being, of course, the now-famous Takata airbag issue. This Escape was in immaculate condition, with only 28K miles on it. Having been my wifes car, with her driving it very little. KellyBB showed its trade-in value as around $10.5K. We'd decided we'd leave if the dealer didn't offer at least $10K trade-in. When dealer ran a Carfax, he asked did we know about this recall and I told we did, having recieved the letter over a year ago. Dealer starts saying he can only wholesale the car and comes back with about $2K below our threshold.. We leave, start the car up, and before we get off the lot, salesman comes out and says he'll give us $10K for it, and begins to cry how he's taking a loss.. blah.. blah.. blah.. Bottom line: We got our 2013 Hyundai Elantra for the price we wanted and it doesn't have the Takata airbag issue.... YAY!
Jeez, I wish I had modpoints to mod you up!!! You are sooooo damn correct!!! I used/supported Windows for 20 years as a sysadmin.. When I retired in 2010, I was dual-booting Win7 and Linux, and due to being stuck using Windows at work day-to-day, by inertia I tended to spend most of my computer use at home on Win7 also. After being annoyed endlessly by Windows insisting upon taking a lot of time updating itself when all I wanted to do was shut the $#%@#$!% damn laptop down and get on with my day, plus a LOT of other petty annoyances. One day I decided I was DONE with anything to do with Microsoft. In fact, I simply "ripped the bandage off" by simply deleting the Win7 partition, and reconfiguring grub to boot only to Linux. Not surprisingly it was almost completely painless, since I'd started using Linux back in the mid 90s and had been admining some Linux systems at my last job before retirement. As far as I'm concerned, Microsoft can pound sand up their ass..
The *REAL* problem is you can use the Antibeacon tool to turn off the spyware aspects of Windows, but every time you get another "update" or new version from MS, they default those spyware aspects back on, so you're playing an endless game of "whack-a-mole" trying to keep MS's nose of your bidness.. I used/supported Windows for 20 years as a sysadmin, and never really trusted MS, but since Windows 10 came out, ANY trust I may have had for MS has evaporated. When I retired in 2010, I moved all of my computers over to Linux and thats where they'll stay..
I use Filezilla extensively on Linux and I gar-on-tee you theres NO ads here.... Couldn't say about the Winblows version, as I quit fucking with Microsoft crap over 7 years ago.....
AND if you don't use Windows anymore, WinSCP is a non-starter, and as far as I'm concerned, Filezilla is the best ftp/scp/ftps client for Linux....
Your numbers on Linux desktop users is quite a bit off... I have over 30 users on Linux desktop, two small businesses and a bunch of neighbors/friends/relatives.. One of the businesses flat refuses to allow ANYthing MS on any computers in his home or office..
yup... simple to strip out the video and write a standard audio mp3.. ffmpeg is your friend...
I like the AIMP Android port.. It's kinda like Winamp/Android. Simple enough to *just play tunes*. not try to be something like an Android version of iTunes...
I'm betting I'm like most, such that once a company has lost my trust, it has lost it for good... I used/supported Windows for 20 years as a sysadmin. I retired in 2010, and decided I was tired of MS's insane licensing schemes, and since I'd been using and supporting Linux for about 1/2 of that 20 years, I made the decision to "yank the bandage off" and move 100% to Linux. Been MS-free now for nearly 7 years and couldn't be happier.. As for trust in MS.... hehe I trust them as far as I can throw them, and thats not ever gonna change...
Yup.... Came here to say the same thing... I've had friends who bought new systems at a big-box store come to me when their new i7 system that came with Windows NSA Edition (my name for it) shit the bed, and want me to fix it.. ummm... no? I spent 20 years cleaning up after MS, and when I retired, I left that ecosystem for my favorite OS.. That being Linux.. I show the Windows "victim" a LiveUSB of Linux and tell them this is what they need to avoid the abuse that MS heaps upon people who *still* use Windows. Assuming their machine use-case allows it, everyone I've shown Linux to has opted to have me upgrade their systems to it.. FUCK YOU MS!