I wish they wouldn’t do that. If i have to hear about Southern New Hampshire University again I’m gonna hurt somebody.

If I agree to free thing and have to watch ads, aight fine.

But at least make them different man, i hate that they play the same one over and over again. It does not make me want to buy your product.

Shocked i tell you. I am shocked.

No way an app would collect data it doesnt need. Preposterous.

Next thing you’ll tell me is that tiktok is doing the same thing!

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/everything-you-need-to-know-about-amazon-sidewalk

“How much of my internet bandwidth does Amazon Sidewalk require?”

“Very little. Sidewalk’s connectivity is distinct from your home Wi-Fi. If you choose, however, to enable Sidewalk on your eligible Bridge devices, those devices would use a small amount of internet bandwidth.”

This sounds like it still needs your internet to work unless I’m missing something.

I still think about this in FMA brotherhood. And im unfortunately familiar with this scene in futurama.

Why you gotta hurt me man?

If you arent already, highly recommend ublock origin. Great broswer extension thats pretty much required to use the intermet nowadays if you dont want to pull your hair out.

Though some of theae websites still have popus like this built in unfortunately. But Ublock helps a lot.

Ventoy is pretty great. Ive screwed quite a few usb sticks by flashing isos and now i can just put all the isos on one drive. Its a good tool.

Thats good to know because Fedora seems to be where im heading when i make the switch as well.

Ah I gotcha. Another option im considering is using a separate pc for windows and using a kvm to switch between them. That may be a good option for you as well if you can swing it.

imo dual booting is kinda clunky. Id rather have a vm of windows tbh. I dont like restarting my pc to swtich OS.

But hey if you like it, more power to you man.

I’m actually considering making this switch for the same reason. My 1070 ti is still a great card but its starting to struggle a bit with some games.

Me everytime i use a broswer without ublock. Ill open a link here in lemmy without opening it externally to firefox and dear god my eyes.

Ublock makes the internet a better place. Or at least it shoves the bad stuff under the bed lol.

True there are more. I just typically dont use it otherwise i would rack up more debt. Using my debit card is the best way for me to track my finances.

Agreed. Food banks are literally designed for this scenario. They exist to help people put food on the table. Few scenarios actually require credit cards. No shame in accepting help when you need it. And you can always donate later when you’re on your feet. You cant ever give back if you’re dead from starvation.

I use my debit card for almost everything and use my credit card for small things to keep the usage low if i use it at all.

Really the only good thing about credit cards is it helps raise your credit score. I only use them for that to be able to get a decent apr on a loan.Otherwise i would never use them.

I did something similar but used grub to be able to choose the OS at startup.

Both Windows and Linux (I used Ubuntu at the time) had thier own separate drives and grub was on the Windows install. That was the main boot drive that would launch grub so that i could choose to boot into either Windows or Ubuntu at start up.

I dont remeber the guide i used and this was a couple years ago so there may be something more up to date at this point. I liked the way it worked though.

That being said, another way would be to use two different pcs and use a kvm to switch between them. Dual boot is cool but having to power off is annoying. Or you can virtualize windows from your linux install or vice versa. Really depends on what you need.

For me, Windows is likely going to serve as my music making OS so having it bare metal makes more sense for me. I’m going to be using a mini pc for windows and my main rig will be for Linux. At least thats the plan for now.

Thats really good to know. Thanks for taking the time to explain that.

Oh thats neat. I’m assuming that can be configured for other package managers when you’re calling the apt equivalent?

Yup. Ive heard timeshift is good. Now i just gotta actually use it.

Hows the experience with timeshift been when youve used it? Pretty easy to restore from?

Haha i feel that man. I’m thinking of switching to Linux entirely and ditching Windows so i gotta get better at making backups otherwise its gonna be full reinstalls no stop.

What a mood. Im very guilty of not making backups and ruining setups only to have to start all over.

I’m a fairly new linux user so this is bound to happen again lol.