It was dead to me after microsoft bought it.

The maximum real world speed for USB 2 is around 320Mbps or 40MB/s, but that only happens if there is only one device connected to the USB controller. 30MB/s is much more typical.

Big tech is our enemy. It doesn’t matter if it’s facebook or tiktok.

It should be able to run games that support ARM. That means you are pretty much limited to open source games. The CPU clock speed is fairly low, so don’t expect great performance. These systems are intended for heavily multithreaded workloads.

The Steam Deck is the only decent console because it’s not locked down.

That lets a USB C port function as a DisplayPort output so you can connect the phone to a monitor without using some laggy wireless streaming crap.

Keeping data centers cool is hard enough on earth. It would be completely impractical in space.

It’s probably best to try that with a live CD.

A Thinkpad T480 would meet those requirements. Stick with the i5 version with integrated graphics to avoid overheating issues.

I would love to have a phone that I could just plug into a USB C dock and use as a normal computer. They’ve got plenty of processing power for that now. Every single program I use except for games could run on a phone if it used normal GNU/Linux.

If you’re using windows, make sure you set it to show file extensions. Watch out for files with a double extension such as “mkv.exe”. That’s guaranteed to be malware. Don’t open any link, bat or com files either.

Yes, they still make USB floppy drives.

Minecraft runs natively on Linux, so it won’t take them long to figure that out.

Android also shows an indicator when any app is accessing the microphone or camera now.

I’m sure someone will release an addon or some custom CSS to fix it.

Wow, I didn’t realize the windows tax was that high. I thought the bulk OEM licensing was significantly cheaper than the retail price.

You can’t find anything on discord with a web search. You can’t even open it without logging in. Once you’re logged in, good luck finding an answer to a problem that was posted a year or two ago. That’s much worse than reddit.

It could be worse. At least they didn’t move to discord or facebook.

It’s not uncommon for a single web page to use 5-10MB. Shopping and social media sites are the some of the worst since they have lots of javascript libraries and pictures. It’s not hard to use a couple GB in a day without streaming anything.

Modern websites are excessively bloated. That data goes fast.