It’s also possible to configure Linux to automatically pause a Virtualbox VM when the window is not in focus so Windows doesn’t keep burning CPU cycles when not actually in use.

I’ve tried various methods to run a couple Windows programs I use occasionally and most reliable method I’ve found (without buying a commercial package like Crossover) is a VM. With a decent multi-core processor and enough memory the only downside I’ve found is it makes my laptop run warm.

Reddit has paid shills, vigilante company employees, and customers who believe their chosen corporation is a gift from god. The mobile carrier and phone subs are the worst.

Raspberry Pi OS is based on Debian. You should be able to do what you’re describing and more by enabling SSH even without changing the OS.

Assuming it’s a Pi 3, Wireguard will work on it, as will Syncthing (useful if you add an SSD) but the interface bandwidth is limited so it can be a bit slow. That may not be too much of a problem though. My cable Internet’s upload speed is limited to 20Mbps, and despite the limited bandwidth both Wireguard and Syncthing are surprisingly useful.

Not only don’t they participate in our shared interests and values, they are actively working against them.

Amazon has been slowly killing ePubs from public libraries so this is odd. Libby (previously Overdrive) lists “Kindle” and “Web” for reading, but has hidden ePub until “Other Options” is selected. It is the only thing there. (Do they think library users can handle 2 options but will be totally confused by 3?) Librarians have also repeatedly told me that ePub is no longer available and I suspect it’s only a matter of time until that’s true.

Maybe this is to increase book sales to those who refuse to use Kindle for anything, although many of those people (including me) won’t buy from Amazon anyway. Or perhaps there’s a longer term plan to completely squash ePub?

A few years ago I booted up Windows after months of exclusively using Linux. When I ran Windows Update it deleted and overwrote my Linux partition! This wasn’t a grub issue, my files were gone and even file recovery utilities couldn’t find much. Plenty of others have experienced the same thing.

This is still happening and is unquestionably pure maliciousness on Microsoft part.

Anything including a unnecessary war to distract from the Epstein files, the fact Trump’s a rapist and pedophile, inflation, tariffs, unemployment, and recession.

Maybe a typo in your first comment. “Now” instead of “not”?

Remember when Google backed off the changes to Chrome that prevented adblockers from working and a short time later implemented those changes anyway? Why TF would Google start caring about what users want now, especially since this issue is way less visible to most people? Google wants people to think they have a voice about what happens with Android, not to actually give them one.

Blocking side loading will force apps and any generated revenue into Google’s Play store which is exactly the point of this no matter what Google says.

The bloviating Google is doing now is irrelevant. The company will move forward with blocking side loading within the next few months, guaranteed.

Remember when Google backed off the changes to Chrome that prevented adblockers from working and a short time later implemented those changes anyway? Why TF would Google start caring about what users want now, especially since this issue is way less visible to most people? Google wants people to think they have a voice about what happens with Android, not to actually give them one.

Blocking side loading will force apps and any generated revenue into Google’s Play store which is exactly the point of this no matter what Google says.

The bloviating Google is doing now is irrelevant. The company will move forward with blocking side loading within the next few months, guaranteed.

Absolutely

I truly believe it’s better to meet them and challenge their (rather stupid) opinions

I spent months on another social media platform doing just that and I learned quite a bit about Maga and none of it was good. They literally had nothing to back up their opinions besides posts and videos by other right wing assholes. Their “research” was entirely within their own echo chamber and outside information, no matter how authoritative, wasn’t considered at all. Information they couldn’t easily disregard or ignore like quotes directly from congressional reports didn’t change their minds either, although it did shut them up.

In addition, 80% of Trump supporters on that site were functionally illiterate. They couldn’t spell, capitalize, or use punctuation, nor could they write a complete, coherent sentence. They likely had just as much trouble reading.

I did learn that they really didn’t like it when someone was able to easily disprove some of their bullshit in a sentence or two and I was threatened more than once by Maga assholes on that site.

There is no challenging Maga Nazis, Trump said it, they believe it, and that settles it.

We have an openly fascist president who reads Mein Kampf and administration members who combined have made Nazis comfortable literally doing Nazi salutes on international broadcast TV. IMO the U.S. IS the Nazi bar in the story - we let one Nazi in and now they’ve brought all their friends. Let’s not repeat that mistake on Lemmy.

Give them the boot.

Pathological liar says what?

40% of the population.

At a private store in Victoria a month ago there was a sign up on an empty shelf saying they weren’t ordering any more American wine or spirits.

I had very similar problems with Realtek wifi on an HP laptop.

A possible fix:

Run “iwconfig” and check your adapter power management setting. If it’s on turn it off: “iwconfig [interface] power off”.

This solved most the wifi problems on my system.

Maga and Trump: It’s a false flag operation that was started when the suspect was 10! The pictures are photoshopped! He’s secretly a Democrat! It was the deep state! We’re under attack from the liberals! What about his trans roommate?

One of the primary characteristics of malignant narcissism is someone else is always to blame.

Says another guy who probably has staff to cut his toenails.

It’s inspiring how giving and generous the rich are with other people’s lives.