Yeah you could bend the top part back into place, it’s just that with heat, it would make the process easier. Heat gun or blow torch would work, I’m all for trying to repair things rather than tossing it out.

I’m not too knowledgeable about tablets but if you do end up with android, ACode is a decent replacement for VSCode

The breakages happen a year apart when the summer heat gets bad, if we were going to replace a lot of components at once, at that point we could have just got a new system entirely as this one is really old

We don’t replace the whole thing, only the part that broke, and again, this system is 20+ years old

My 20 year old AC breaks once a year, at this point it’s the ship of theseus. One year it’s the capacitor on condensor, then condensor fan motor, then fan motor that circulates air instead, then circuit board that controls all HVAC functions, then capacitor for circulation fan. Every year, when the heat hits strong, something breaks, I have become proficient in diagnosting HVAC system at this point.

I can only read it from a distance, but being bilingual doesn’t help either

I’m not really a designer, and even if you don’t care about icon, I think it still needs to be good, here is a website someone can use to make a pretty good and simple app icon and export it to all the platforms they need as it automatically makes it the correct size and file name that you extract and add to project: https://icon.kitchen/

I heard they are adding a desktop mode to android 16, curious if it would be possible to use phone and have a similar experience to an actual PC by connecting monitor and mouse/keyboard, well just using a browser, at the very least.

EDIT: found it

Future updates will also bring even more productivity enhancements to Android, allowing you to connect tablets and phones to an external display for an expanded desktop experience

Gotta account for timezones as well /s

You learn to use the same operating system in school/work and never want to try anything different.

Change scares many older folk, young kids don’t like linux cuz they can’t play roblox

I loved those old Chevrolet commercials from the 1930s that explained things like how a differential or transmission works in a car and I’m not even a car guy

Depends if you want the things you learn to help you in future career paths, I chose to learn flutter because I wanted an app cross platform on all devices and not just ios, android and web which is what react native offered (plus no good full storage access of device, cuz damit I had visions), but it’s difficult to find a position as Flutter Dev without at least 5 years of experience.

You will most definitely need to enter credit card information during sign up

MicroG?

I still need it for 2 games I like to play on my phone, maybe other things too, it was only recently that I started slowly moving away from being dependent on google

Honestly, even if you need some Google services, just get things like gapp (or whatever its called, forgot) and you are good to go.

I want to try GrapheneOS, but no one I know owns any old (or new) pixel device and compiling and running as emulator (like for developing purposes) requires like 500gb of storage on PC for it.

PostMarketOS sounded fun but I couldn’t get waydroid to start without crashing

I don’t have history on, I keep my “subscriptions” list curated to perfection so every morning I find interesting videos to watch/listen while I make coffee

Oh wait, were you looking for alternatives? I guess this also works: https://filebrowser.org/

Its just web veiw to file server instead of only using things like smb or nfs

Yeah setting it up the way you want is a pain, but I like it mainly for backing up photos from my phone automatically, as well as, syncing podcasts and music between devices since I moved away from Spotify and start using things like AntennaPod and Gramophone

I got 20TB in my server, might as well use it.

In my opinion, if you are a regular user then atomic is the way, but for me as a developer it was unnecessary friction when trying to setup things like SDKs, environments, emulators and just dealing with dependencies. When I did the switch to fedora, I did try the atomic KDE version, but I didn’t last long, switched to the plain KDE spin 2 days after.

After you move to Linux, you end up continuing your journey to different Linux flavours