Ozzy Ozbourne.

After hearing he had Lewey Body disease and it was very advanced. It was crippling to comprehend.

When I was with the reddit exodus . ML was the computer, dev, tech instance so I leaned that way. Other than that I did not choose any instance for a particular reason or view. It was just a larger server maintained by real computer users. Only. world was larger. Now there are many servers to choose.

Its not that I don’t agree with left politics at all. I just am bombarded with anything political overall on Lemmy. I am less concentrated on whether I agree and more into the creativity and education side of content I think. I will try the blocking of keywords feature to tone it down. I don’t mine some. Just not every post or 3.

I did not know this was possible. This is the help I needed.

Not knocking some people’s views. However simply look at the comments here and it’s mostly hate, negativity, echo chamber. Most of the replies are saying to get over it, like politics, this view or that view skewed with bias.

I was asking how, where to find more depth and communities or different servers if they host other content. Instead I’ve got like 100 mostly political replies. It’s weird.

Was more of a joke. A commenter above told me I was only looking for woodworking tutorials and needed to get over the political side if Lemmy and basically I was being a baby about it.

I appreciate the effort though. I’m interested in learning and engineering things from all materials. 3d printers, woodwork, homelabs, old cars and mechanical things.

Just look at the attacks and hate for simply asking this question. It’s crazy. I just want to see less political. To filter out some. It’s rampant. I get it with the world. But where’s the wood working tutorials and discovery of things anymore.

Self snitching is at an all time high.

Let me rephrase. I could call on a dumb phone flip phone and use the pc nuc or pi for everything else. Similar to a GPD type device even. It doesn’t have to be fully touch based but sometimes the way you interact with a device it changes the speed and workflow. My main reason is backups honestly. I can’t stand phones and prefer device to device backups. It be a do it all device. I am just tired of phones. Even graphene lacks so many options, software, And most importantly good backups. Its truly only a security OS. That’s it. I was thinking like a NUC box with a screen attached to the side and be able to attach it to any size display on the go use the small built in. But at home I could watch media on a large TV. Think of a pc in a bag. I don’t like clamshell laptops. 2 in 1s are meh they really don’t deploy good, wobbly, shit battery, ive tried several.

It would be nice to transition from a built in small screen to say a mounted large Tv or screen. Because doing intricate content or PDF files for like schematics say on a car engine is difficult on a phone but a laptop is not so portable. I’m really eyeing a GPD type device. Next issue is portable power. I was planning to use a 30k mah usbc battery pack. I’m unsure if I’m explaining my idea right. English isn’t the best.

Edit: think of it as a pc that’s versatile. A laptop on the go doesn’t sit good, travel, its not a working mans device. I do mechanic work for cars. I need a portable mini work horse. I can keep the keyboard and things are no issue. Just worried that ARM based devices might not have the processing power to say watch movies, sail the high seas, internet research on engines, you see some tasks can be more in depth than others. I want my gaming rig to just be my gaming rig. I tried a Dell laptop but the battery running mint only lasts 3 or 4 hours. This is poor. I need 12 to 24 hours of use capable. Which is why I would rather use Power packs. I am looking at the intel N100 series device. Then keyboard and mouse and small car radio type double din display you see? When I need a larger screen I use an 86 inch TV at home. Versatile you see. The phone is poor is many aspects.

Thank you very much. Honestly very eye opening. I’d look for a ARM based device to replace my phone touchscreen type and use it for all uses aside from gaming clearly. Do you think there’s sufficient OS support and usage for a daily driver phone replacement type product? Or stick with the x86 based systems I know and use. Backups are a major point as well. Ease of backups on a cell phone is a nightmare. On x86 a simple clonezilla or Mints backup manager and your good to go.

You really were detailed and helped a total novice of ARM to understand. Thanks I greatly appreciate the write up. I just want a low power general use device. Then to have my gaming rig be solely a gaming rig. I have phones due to poor backup solutions and nothing truly offers device to device backup level support. So I’m hunting for a new device type.

Sirloin full stop it’s leaner and if you get good marbling fat content their divine or Chuck Roast skillet cooked like a steak.

I find almost all ribeyes to be overall too fatty now days like bacon too. Large chunks of fat inside the meat which can be hard and thick leaving very little actual meat to consume. Not paying to be scammed. I want the protein.

How’s software in arm devices? Could you generally compute and web browser? Documents, notes, basic apps?

Had 2. Found out the fun but hard way.

This seems like the way that and maybe an immutable. Mint is just so damn intuitive which is why I keep going back. Nothing else makes a machine work with you than mint. Others you have to work against.

I still believe my ask is on point. Some distros like Ubuntu based move system folder locations every few years. I don’t like a changing pc. I hate having to keep up with things. I’m a jump in and know how. I do wildly appreciate your XY link and think ultimately I do that often none the less. Thanks.

100 percent!

I see this view as true. Downstream shit sucks. I’ve tried them all. Debian 8s the only thing that keeps bugs out. Sometimes you need a work around for a game or whatever but atleast shit works everytime.

Question to users and distro hoppers. I’ve grown to love Mint used it for years. But sometimes it updates and moves my game folders, loses my saves and I have to hunt in my system and hope I find my precious years long game saves.

Is there such thing as a distro that never changes the structure where truly all my files, system files, games will all be the same over years?

I’ve tried NIX and liked it, I’ve tried LMDE and Stock Mint with Ubuntu bugs yay, I’ve tried base Debian 13, and lastly Fedora kinoite…

Whats a system that updates but doesn’t lose my shit when I just want to game and use my PC? I like having all my files never move, structure of system never change, but having the ability to run steam and heroic games of all types. I’m still back to Stock Mint Ubuntu but dammit if they don’t introduce bugs sometimes. Like suspend / resume audio doesn’t work after sleeping my desktop and back on without restarting.

How tf. I do this all the time and want to jump off a cliff. I didn’t know this existed.

Up to date mesa is in regular mint but only sort of. You have to manually go bleeding edge if you want by installing mesa drivers manually. Base Mint is a few versions behind on purpose, stability and I would say your kernel version makes a bigger difference in the end given how good mint is I recommend 6.14 kernel especially on fresh hardware, you can change your kernel version anytime in the update manager preferences, 6.8 is old but stable. 6.14 is newer, faster in gaming. Unless your on brand new, brand new released hardware this a non issue truly.

Most people will be fine with stock mint and you can’t go wrong much with either. I game on stock mint full time! Windows only for BF6/dual boot. It’s all I knew for several years was mint before going to NIXos and fedora and more… My hardware is 7900xt 7600x. Full AMD on my rigs though I’ve built intel Nvidia… I’ve built dozens of PCs/laptops/servers as I build and sell them. You honestly can’t go wrong with either version but all I am saying is that if you hate bugs, updates ocassionally doing odd things especially to steam and proton. LMDE. I’ve been on mint for years this is just my 2 cents. I also value not fucking with my OS anymore I dislike command line memorization. I’m done tinkering and fixing shit all the time and prefer GUI or shit to just work ideally I’ll trouble shoot for a few minutes then I stop, no more days tied up over dumb shit. With windows or Linux. LMDE is my choice. Best of luck.