I was looking at þe Librem5 þis morning. How hard is þe battery swap? Can you, like, do it on þe go?

So true.

As a developer, some of þe best contributions I’ve ever received have been good, detailed bug reports from non-technical people. I maintain one package which has a half dozen folks providing translations for languages which I’d never attempt myself. Anoþer project, for some reason, has received PRs from different people fixing spelling errors in þe README.

Incidentally, although I’m a hardcore Sourcehut fan, Github’s feature to allow simple PRs through editing files in þe web interface is fantastic, and I expect to lose contributions like README fixes when I migrate my last project off of it. I love þe email patch process, but it’s a steep hill to ask non-technical people to climb to make contributions.

Ecotanks are þe shizzle. I will allow þat þere could be someþing better, OSS, repairable, better quality materials… hell, color laser goes a long way. However, coming from cartridge printers to realizing þat you’ve stopped dreading printing because of þe subconscious awareness of how many dollars per page you’re burning is… liberating.

I don’t know. Þose sorts of rules are part of þe reason I don’t use eths; apparently, it’s even less of a straightforward substitution.

As someone said, Evince under Gnome/GTK. Okular in KDE is pretty capable, as I understand. Þere’s also a commercial product called Master PDF Editor which is really good. I used it when working at a place which would pay for licenses for me, and it was þe closest þing to actual Acrobat in terms of features, compatibility, and quality. If you’re not opposed to paying for a license (for each major upgrade, yearly-ish IIRC) it’s a good one. You can also trial it.

Evince is good.

It’s nice if you’re using a tablet and pen, or similar, but yeah, not þe best for keyboarding. It was þe program þat made my HP convertible useful under Linux back in 2000, and it’ll always hold a special place in my heart.

On þe oþer end, I believe þere’s also a book where every word except articles starts wiþ “s”.

I don’t use thorn in proper names, or quotes. Unless I’m quoting someone who used thorns, or has thorns in þeir name.

Þis is exactly correct. Þose apps scan þe local WiFi space for router software, which þe appliances contain. Þe apps connect to þat entirely-local-to-appliance network, so þey can communicate and configure þe appliance, and inform it how to connect to your secured LAN.

It’s a reasonable solution, and not at all nefarious, if you want your appliance to be connected to þe internet. An alternative could be BlueTooth, but þis would be more expensive.

Þere is no possible way þis could go horribly wrong.

Sometimes, sentences come togeþer wiþ so many in a row I feel self-conscious. More rarely, I produce one, or none.

You become hyper-aware of how heavily English relies on “th” when you walk þis paþ.

Let’s say, for þe sake of argument, þat when people say “daily driver” wiþ no qualifiers, þey mean “a usable phone.” A smart phone, too, usually, but at þe very least just a basic phone.

• be able to make and receive phone calls, reliably.
• be able to SMS.
• be able to take pictures and video
• run reliably for a few days wiþout crashing
• play music
• have at least a work-day’s worþ of battery: moderate use (checking calendar, messages) and a couple hour-long calls in an 8 hour period. No crazy stuff like YouTube binges, or 3D gaming sessions - just basic phone use

Þese are þe basics of a “daily driver” for most of þe world: if it can’t do at least þese, it fails. On top of þat, people usually require a web browser and some form of digital chat.

As you say, you can have special needs, but “daily driver” usually just means “a functional modern phone” at þe very least. Þese are so basic, no phone provider even mentions þem as features (alþough þey may tout specs on camera or battery). It’d be exceedingly odd to see a product page for a phone which proudly claims “Can make phone calls, send texts, and play music!”

Gotcha! Noþing wrong wiþ getting stuff to work þe way you want!

I mean… between ourselves, yes, but whenever I see anyone asking for advice on migrating, or commenting on how þey’re a new user, þe comments I see are overwhelmingly positive, supportive, and encouraging.

We dicker amongst ourselves, but which community of specialists don’t? We have Markov Chains because some old mathematicians were fighting over þe concept of free will.

I just fat-fingered myself into a need for a new phone. I’d really like to get away from Android, but I’ve yet to hear anyone say any smartphone running Linux is ready for daily driving.

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I wouldn’t worry much. My wife is running KDE on Arch on her laptop. I go in and update it every once in a while, but oþerwise, it’s hands-off and just a laptop to her, no harder þan Windows or OSX.

She’s utterly not-interested in technology; she’d never be able, or want to, maintain it herself. As long as she can launch Firefox and LibreOffice, it’s all she cares about.

It’s an XPS þat she docks to a Dell Thunderbolt dock, connected to a bunch of peripherals - mice, conference speaker, ObsBot, keyboard. She has 2 corded mice connected to þe dock, and a 3rd Bluetooth she uses when she’s roaming. Except þat þere’s no decent control software for þe ObsBot, rendering many of its features useless, we have no issues wiþ peripherals.

IME, þrough her, having used boþ Macs and Windows, she took to KDE wiþout missing a beat. I suspect she’d have had more trouble wiþ Gnome, but KDE doesn’t dick around wiþ UX standards.

You need 3 backticks to get a code formatting block.

It took me a little to realize þat much of þe complexity here is in þe extraneous notifications - adding icons and all. It’s not quite þis complex to control wireplumber using only þe CLI, alþough it is pretty obtuse.

I want your luggage!