My point was not only that aspect, but also about the fact that input and output of the task is information. And while information itself can be a “product” or be provided as a service, in most cases, it’s not.

But anyhow, I feel like I’m overexplaining myself over a term I said wasn’t good.

Think that’s called NATing

With administrative, I meant that IT is a about information flow - defining rules how data is consumed, transformed and ultimately output. These by definition of a classic business I’d see as administrative.

I agree the wording isn’t good, and I didn’t mean it as in “anyone working in IT is just performing administrative tasks”, but rather that the field of IT is traditionally more of an enabler of other businesses.

The mechanic is usually the actual worker - you run a repair shop - but his spare parts management is an administrative task, and nowadays usually implemented by an IT solution.

At least in some cases, it might just be wholesome advice. The fact that you have “a job” and a whole different persona from that and they’re two separate things that sometimes intertwine probably brings you closer to us in administrative tasks (in the end, IT is by definition always something administrative rather than actually productive) than me as in an IT guy with an influencer. Because ultimately, your actual identity is your job, and by conclusion, your whole life is performative, which sounds REALLY exhausting

Stronger compartmentalization

Me and my Steam Deck

Mostly used it in 2023 or so when I was sick on the couch. And yeah some hours on the trip I’m currently on. But it would just have been fine without.

Sometimes I see people post pictures use it in the most scenic locations, similar to the promotional video. And all I can think of is that if you want to play game so badly, you can just stay home. Much easier and also probably safer for the deck.

To each their own. Just hard to understand for me

Fair, though the fact doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

If you want easily replaceable parts and a system that can unlock the bootloader for example, your argument can be made for 99% of phones on the market. The more requirements you add, the smaller the scope gets until there are no devices left to choose from.

The reason for not using a headphone jack is making it simpler for the manufacturer, one less connector to handle which also limits how slim a phone can be.

I’m not saying this is good for the consumer, but there are reasons for integrating the functionality into the USB-C port.

Think I’m getting it, my Redmi Note 8 is aging and I’m pretty sure the current batch of custom ROMs is basically the last apart from the fact that the kernel is no longer supported, and Xiaomi is closing the doors on custom ROMs more and more it seems. Yeah, the new FP isn’t perfect but it seems good enough to pull the trigger, and while the Pixels seemed like a good alternative in some aspects, Google recently made it very clear where they see Android’s future, and it’s not more open.

An issue shared with the headphones themselves

Replaceable battery

40€

Replaceable usb charging port

20€

120 watt cahrging

33W

I had a phone without before, that one came with a simple cheap passive adapter for USB-C to 3.5mm headset. You lose out on using headphones while charging, but other than that I was never really inconvenienced…

Because necromancy is a forbidden art

I heard that yes, but it depends on the server / region you use (e.g. no port forwarding on US servers)

Bless your heart

Pirating Windows is wrong, but the lesser evil compared to buying Windows. Ideally, you shouldn’t do either

You should ideally run your own node when using Monero

Plex has better security, federates and shares with other plex servers and generally is less hands-on for transcoding.

Regarding security, it’d be interesting to see how secure it actually is. Yeah, the individual endpoints might be protected better, but is Plex the company maybe a single point of failure?

I don’t agree with your assessment really as I don’t see the core experience declining.

But also, it’s a free project and people are putting in their time wherever they want; I don’t think the project would reject a submission for something based on “we’re doing too much” if it’s within the scope of a desktop environment.

I have never used any of these (except Uber once in 2016 maybe?) because of the exploitative model. Even though the situation here in Germany is a tad different with them. Fuck them. Regular companies are bad enough already