LostWanderer

Oh, it’s time to get my Representatives on the Phone, bother them about this brand-new change that will make everyone’s lives better! It just sucks that I had to go to the city’s website because Abqjournal is blocking anyone who doesn’t disable ad-block (in this day and age, it’s non-negotiable).

Eating the $3 in this case is chump change for a company whose revenue at the end of Sept. 30th 2025 was $21.957B. Are you implying that they are too poor to eat this mere $3 per post paid customer increase? Given they integrated this perk into the Experience More plan when they released the Experience Plan offerings on April 23rd of this year; I thought they’d easily be able to offer other extras. Something more than yearly phone upgrades, Scam Shield, and some discounts for the amount of money they wanted for it. It just seems like a case of corporate greed to me.

I’m probably going to move to Ting instead, don’t want to give Google too much money (if any). Still, a MVNO is a good idea in order to combat constant nickel and diming of post paid carriers!

Good thing I read this article…Corporate greed, it’s pathetic! I pay more for Experience More, that should be enough to at least get a few crumbs of perks?!

If only the author actually reported on the post install experience, that would’ve been helpful for people looking to switch to a Linux distro…Kinda annoying they paywalled the article (thankfully, you’ve provided an Archive Link). I do agree with the author’s suspicions that Windows is only going to get worse due to the AI bullshit that Microsoft is infecting Windows with; Windows, is at a breaking point because vibe coding is ruining update quality, a human hand is key to maintaining such a complex OS.

After seeing the writing on the wall during the initial Recall situation, I permanently switched to Ubuntu (dabbled in other distros, before returning to Ubuntu). Gotta say, having full control over my operating system is nice. I only borked it around 11 times in the years of being on Ubuntu and others (mostly due to devil may care experimentation and a healthy amount of backed up data). Most of the time, I even recovered from the TTYL 3 screen, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. Linux is in a better place than years past, Ubuntu, Zorin OS, and Mint are very usable for beginners who just want a PC that works. Valve’s experimentation with Linux and funding development work done by Arch and others has smoothed out a lot of the bug bears associated with gaming, there are few barriers to entry.

Outside the hostile big publishers who use anti-cheat that makes their games not run on a Linux distro via Proton Compatibility Layer (Rockstar are the prime assholes doing this, among others I can’t rightly recall).

This basic tutorial explains the steps to installing a Linux distro (Ubuntu is recommended as it is easy) in detail, and plain language. Read it several times, until you feel comfortable. Ubuntu is the distro I started with, as drivers are easy to deal with and can be installed during the installation process without fuss (unlike some distros, side-eyes Fedora with slanderous intent).

One detail, Balena Etcher is the application this author refers to when mentioning “Etcher” Installing Ubuntu

Edit, I forgot to include the New User Guide, based on category!

Yes, we do…It will be hard, but the thing is that they can’t control us unless we give up. The US is a big place, it would require all of us to comply in advance for these chuds to win. There are many more civilians than in the military members and government combined, if we did a mass flash mob, there would be nothing they could do about it.

This is unsurprising, given the GOP has fascist designs and are doing what fascists do: Try to discredit and publically shame those who stand in their way of collapsing their nation into a fascist one. We’ve got to keep on resisting these incompetent chuds.

LMAO Yeah, only watching to see how they fail because all these AI corporations aren’t going to make it once the bubble bursts…So much money has been burned trying to make AI fetch, and people are wisely not spending money for the services. Good to see yet more companies grab defeat from the jaws of victory.

While I have always found GNOME to be extremely limiting and highly opinionated, I don’t mind this change. Wayland has improved quite a bit and will only get better with time, x11 is an aging standard. It’s natural that it will eventually be dropped in favor of a new one. Wayland too will be in this position as another display server replaces it as well.