I can't remember where I read it or it might have possibly been in a video: the KDE Falkon browser may be a better fit than Firefox. I guess I'll try both...
I think AntiX and Puppy Linux are RAM-based distros, yeah, or something like that. But I think I'll try Devuan + Runit as per another commentator here who uses this same machine... sounds promising! I've never heard of icewm, though, thanks; I'll check it out.
Wow, thanks a bunch! My biggest fear is the dismantling to get at the write-protection screw... Hopefully I don't screw something up... So, after that, enable dev mode and then boot via flash drive? Is that basically the way? I've gotta look up that Mr. Chromebook-or-whoever's guide; the device is in not with me and I won't be seeing it any time soon so I've been forgetting some of my research.
Yes, I love the look and feel of this laptop (netbook, really...)'s body and keyboard! I'm so glad that there is hope after Google's terrible support drop.
Yes, there's a major activation energy barrier for the first time. For example, for me moving to Linux, Oracle VirtualBox was absolutely instrumental in helping me feel more comfortable. Reddit itself was also weird at first and off-putting until I simply tried magnifying the font size; back then, we only had what-is-now-Old Reddit, which was a pain to navigate at 100% size until I got used to it. Anyway, hopefully this Bluesky development will finally break X's might, even if it's not that much better of an alternative... and then gradually grow our own numbers here on Lemmy.
NGL, I rotate among at least 4 accounts across different instances here lol. It was originally out of accident because of my misunderstanding back then of how the Fediverse works, but now I just randomly use them as a simultaneous, illusory boost to Lemmy's activity as well as my own pseudo-privacy lol. I like to think that it helps overall...
That's probably simply a more skeptical take of my own newbie perspective: the automated update systems on Linux are feeling increasingly scary since their maintainers can get hacked... I'm on Mint and I wish that the Update Manager would show changelogs per update, at least (even if those, too, can be fabricated)...
Huh, that's an excellent way to handle this... Donate more for higher consideration but still with no guarantee of anything, hence it being called a "donation"... Almost like how politics should work!
Switch to AdNauseam, a fork of uBO that garbles advertisers' click data by invisibly clicking every ad before blocking (including blocking the resulting load so it doesn't take any further data toll). Don't just avoid; retaliate!
To clarify: Jan, Ollama, Alpaca, etc. are frameworks, onto which you can download and chat with different LLMs. They themselves are not LLMs. But yeah, you should probably have, like, a 2080+ or something...
I can't remember where I read it or it might have possibly been in a video: the KDE Falkon browser may be a better fit than Firefox. I guess I'll try both...