kennebel

When I can’t block the ads, I always opt for the “non-personalized ads” option, since I know they are getting paid less. Also easier to ignore an ad when it is random.

I tried the bing chat (part of the work license), asked it some random questions, asked for more accurate information and pointed out the flawed answers it gave. It told me that I was being rude and ended the session. (smh)

This also implies that the average population has an astronomically higher capacity to read code than actually exists. The average Excel user can’t read most simple Excel methods.

I’ve been pondering something similar since I realized that Pop24 would be delayed. :) I want to see if a couple of minor items are fixed with 24.04, and can’t decide if waiting or reinstalling is more work.

So far no joy. The Linux channel and posts haven’t been able to crack this nut. New version of Pop OS coming soon based on Ubuntu 24.04, will try again after the update. :)

Sorry, when I said "life critical", i mean things like email, banking, self-hosted NextCloud for files, etc. For me, everything else is flexible as I don't have business things that have to run on Windows (that is my work provided laptop), so I don't have to have the Adobe suite for photo editing, i can use one of several open source alternatives, and all of my hobbies have open source alternatives like Blender.

The only game I cannot get to run is Space Engineers. Numerous other newer and older games work great. To be fair, I'm not an online/multiplayer gamer, so the challenges people run in to due to anti-cheating requirements don't affect the games I play.

What was really interesting to me, is that I tried Windows 11 Pro and 6 or 7 different Linux distros over several months before landing on Pop!_OS. I mention this because it was all the exact same hardware and so I was able to compare performance in an Apples to Apples situation. There is an obvious application loading improvement. Even comparing against something like Garuda that is supposedly all about performance tweaks.

I switched to Pop!_OS earlier this year and couldn’t be happier. All apps run way faster than they did with Windows on the same hardware. All but one of my Steam games run great (one day I’ll get that last game to work). My “life critical” things are web based, everything else is adjustable.