Got a petrol car for €60 for about a week. I did look up the equivalent electric. Maybe it's an issue of supply and demand, but the for the same time it was about €200. Kind of a no brainer from the consumer point of view.

Python is very much "good enough" for that kind of environment. The touch screen drivers on the other hand, yes, should probably be rust/c.

So I assume it's because of their sponsorship of Omarchy and Hyprland projects?

I was complete opposite. Filling up the bio generators was like a ticking clock and it stressed me out so much.

I wouldn't call it dead, maybe slowed down is fair.

I used to find it took forever to start showing a picture compared to HDMI on my PC. Getting a new GPU so maybe that will improve things.

Before the comments roll in, are you venting or looking for advice?

In case it's just the latter: this was a tough read and I hope you're ok.

Most people just want a thing to work though. One member of my family has issues with her iPhone at the moment where the signal is just all over the place. Sometimes not able to receive calls, sometimes not able to make them, sometimes inaudible when the call is made. She's googled and gone to apple tech support who have given her a list of basic troubleshooting tasks to do, stuff like checking settings. She said to me "I don't want to go hunting for these things I just want to hand it to someone and they can make it work!"

Linux and computer enthusiasts are happy to assemble things as we need them because the problem solving stuff is satisfying to us, for other people it's just a slog.

I heard a journalist use similar language to describe skibidi toilet recently like it was just the one video. You'd think journalists would know better.

In my case my partner has a Windows 10 surface laptop. It's perfectly functional and does what she needs it to do, but Windows 10 is dying next year, so I need to find some solution that is user friendly (meaning GUI-based in this case) to maintain her access to her OneDrive, or we throw away a perfectly good laptop to buy a slightly newer one. Besides the e-waste it's just a waste of money. It makes some business sense, why make it easy to move away from windows? Except it also sucks on anything that isn't a windows desktop, so they just expect people to put up with a subpar service essentially because their business users don't have much choice. Dropbox was better 10 years ago than OneDrive is now, in terms of platform availability and usability.

Note: I'm aware we can access OneDrive and office via a browser, however it's not the same as native and feels clunky. Throwing Linux on it and using a browser is probably going to be our solution if I can't get rclone to work in a way she'll be happy with.

The main draw to the CLI for me is portability. I've been a dev for ten years now and used tons of different editors on different platforms and while each one had a different way to describe the changes, how to commit, or how to "sync" (shudder), the CLI hasn't changed. I didn't have to relearn a vital part of my workflow just because I wanted to try a different editor.

"Too slow to be viable" is a bit strong. I've had a fairphone 4 for at least a year now and I've had no issues.