I had a very similar PC. I think maybe slightly better. I ended up upgrading because the CPU was becoming more and more of a bottleneck. The roar was Elden Ring. The fps wouldn’t go past about 20. Also some gaves are now being compiled against x64 v3 instructions (like Hell Divers 2 and Death Stranding) which there’s literally no way of running on an old CPU since it doesn’t have the instructions for it.

Yeah it definitely does read like incel propaganda with the rest in there.

Wow, I didn’t know fascists wanted to protect women! They’re such allies! /s (hopefully obvious)

Awww, I thought you also made the prayer 14 words. Would’ve really nailed the point home.

Go tell the authors of that article then, I very clearly said I was only using it as an example.of what I meant by fixing it with macros and not saying it’s a solution I’ve looked into. 🙄

The one time I tried to manually install arch on a VM years and years ago it didn’t work and I wrote Arch off. Guess what I’m running now? Well, Cachy, but lol. It’s Arch. And guess what? It’s got a simplified install process.

Yes, it is a physical defect but it is common enough that people have been able to work around it with macros.

It’s been a while since I tried to look into this or fix it, but a quick search shows what I think was a possible solution. (Might not be, I’m just trying to be explanatory of what I mean by a macro fixing a double click problem.) https://techenclave.com/t/mouse-double-click-issue-solution-by-coding/269878

Does it still allow macros? I have a couple of 502s and my older one has fallen victim to the common problem of rhe switch getting bouncey so one click becomes multiple. Supposedly macros can fix this.

You think you can’t use Linux because you can’t set up something to automatically install updates? Nah, don’t worry about that. You really still can. You don’t need to know what a cronjob is lol. (Just some commands that run on a schedule.)

My CachyOS (Arch) desktop gets rebooted somewhat often because it suggests I reboot after some upgrades. I guess it’s kernel upgrades, but I’m not sure which do and don’t trigger that recommendation. Nor do I really know how important it is lol.

SSL or the comment? The comment is annoying because people use TLS and SLL interchangeably in colloquial speak.

Plex server isn’t open source.

I even liked Unity (so long as the icons weren’t on the side).

I saw someone giving a talk either about Wayland and they said someone told them they “don’t like Wayland because it violates the Unix philosophy.” (Do one thing and do it well.) The speaker said they responded by asking “What one thing does X do well?”

Inflation adjustment doesn’t really tell the whole story though, it’s not like salaries have gone up by the same amount. Regardless, I don’t like dealing with the Zero unless I specifically need something that tiny. It’s just too annoying. Don’t get me wrong! They’re cool! I’m just saying unless I really need a Pi Zero I wouldn’t wanna work with one. I’d rather work with x86_64 than Arm. Like even just getting Java working was really tricky on Zero. Much like a microcontroller has limitations for what you can run on them but they have other benefits, Zeros aren’t really general purpose.

So yeah, dirt cheap used laptop for general purpose server beats out dirt cheap Pi in my book.

Init is just that bad. /s

Which part? Because the “it’s not x86” is even more annoying to deal with on Pi Zero lol.

The shitty 2010 laptop isn’t disappearing

No reason why a laptop wouldn’t work though.

Also, Raspberry Pi first got popular because of the size and cost. Now it’s popular because it’s popular. Not hating on them, I think they’re cool, but they’re not cheap any more. Especially with the scalping.

Getting x86_64 based systems is going to mean much less headache. Unless you truly truly need the size I wouldn’t consider getting a Pi or other SBC. Just go to literally any used marketplace (Facebook, Craigslist, etc) and get anything.