This is honestly quite reasonable from the university. They will be putting in a lot of work to get something set up that’s strong enough for all the students, and messing that up is kind of a dick move.

Here’s the stats for mastodon.world and Lemmy.world

(And a few other fediverse sites)

https://blog.mastodon.world/blog-post-for-august-2024-and-july

I mean my AirPods are fantastic. I think they’re great at playing my podcasts and I’ve not had any problems with random disconnects. Granted I’ve only ever used them with my phone but still.

Also: should you wish for something with Fedora literally in the name, Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kionite are the upstream—published by the Fedora Project—versions of Bluefin that use GNOME and KDE, respectively.

Either could be an excellent choice should you wish for

Atomic

The whole system is updated in one go, and an update will not apply if anything goes wrong, meaning you will always have a working computer.

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/silverblue/

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/kinoite/

Well this is literally Fedora, and I offered it for consideration, not a recommendation. This seems a tad hostile.

Only thing I might add would be potentially Bluefin. It is Fedora with Gnome, except Atomic. It markets itself as:

The best of both worlds: the reliability and ease of use of a Chromebook, with the power of a GNOME desktop.

It’s been fantastic for me with automatic updates and everything installed through flathub so you don’t bork your system with any misconfigured installs.

https://projectbluefin.io/

Written January of this year

JAN 8, 2:29 PM EST

De-Googling was what got me started as well. Wanted to be able to have my own Google Drive clone with Nextcloud. From there it was just one little improvement / additional service at a time as I learned to use Linux and docker. Now I run a Linux laptop and am considering an android phone.

Engineering background for reference.

Yeah I can’t help but wonder if this was photoshopped

This one from LTT?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kua9cY8q_EI

You could do a manual push mower! I’ve been looking to get one, I hear they’re much better for your lawn health and certainly help with getting a workout of it.

That may just be because the FTC has rules for when you can call, and it may have 9 AM because of where you live.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/complying-telemarketing-sales-rule

FWIW, the FTC says 8 AM is fine for calls, so presumably 8 AM is fine to start work on the weekends.