Giving you a heads up as a Onyx Boox Nova 3 owner. These devices are poorly supported. You’d get maybe a year of “updates”, meaning the bundled apps are updated. But after that you are on your own.

It’s a brilliant e-reader don’t get me wrong, and I’ll take it over a Kobo or a Kindle any day. But go in assuming that you’d want to keep it offline.

For me, Windows 11 mandatory account, and Internet on setup. Yes there are bypasses, yes I could upgrade from 10. But where I’m from, having the internet isn’t always a given.

So imagine dropping $500-$1000 on a new laptop booting it up for the first time, and learning that its now a brick since Windows refuses to let you use it since you have no internet. No Pro license can unbork you from this.

Even MacOS isn’t that dumb (for now).

The account thing is a personal beef I have with windows. I.e. my PC my account, why does it need to be online, I have no reason for it.

So my plan was to migrate to FOSS or proper cross platform software for work, see if Linux works, and if it doesn’t move to MacOS. So far Linux Mint has been stable.

I agree, though Daily appears to be much better. For the sable release I see it like GIMP to Photoshop

Not officially, but there are some github projects which help with it

Export it as a fusion file (*.f3d), you can reopen the file in Fusion and you won’t loose anything

There is cad plugins for blender. That said try FreeCAD again with the next major release. From the looks of FreeCAD daily, it’s really improved

I’ve personally switched over to FreeCAD, because of Autodesk signin policy (not this one, fusion kept signing me out forcing me to keep having to log back in). I am excitingly waiting for the next major FreeCAD release since the daily builds are looking extremely promising.

This is how switched, though I’d recommend properly platform agnostic software (Windows, Mac, and Linux support) since if you don’t find Linux proper works for your workflow, you could switch to a Mac.

Another thing which helped me was switching my Laptop first before my Desktop since if I had problems (which I did) I could loose my laptop and not worry about data loss.

As of now, I am 2 year with Linux on my laptop and 6 months on my desktop with no noticeable difference between my Windows experience and Linux.

Spyro 1-3. First game set the mood. Second game refined the formula, last game had fun with it. Still play it to this day.

That was the reason we did it, though a wirelessly earbud and a call was less headache inducing.

Because years ago I made my PC password with Capslock on since a warning would show.

So genius 13 year old me said, “hey even if someone knew my password, they’d never know how it was inputted.”

So my actual wake key is capslock.

Only my PC uses this old password method now, everything else is passphrase+uniquekey

Like google+lemmyworld

Depends the OS.

Windows its Space

On Linux shift since space will fill in the password field with spaces

ArrowOS on android 13. Waiting for a 14 build before I upgrade again. I’ve also had good luck with the unofficial Lineage OS ports.

I wish I was. North American

I have a Poco X3 Pro running custom android. Running a phone with custom Android is the only way I can run the OS now. I have a Xiaomi Redmi Note 4x which has finally given up the ghost that started with Android 6 and I can install Android 14. What killed it was the screen delaminating from the digitizer probably because of battery swelling.

With that being said, I know my next phone is probably going to be an iPhone. Unlocking phones these days is not as easy as it use to be, and many of my issues of iOS of the past are gone. The only thing I am waiting on is that third party app store support.

Sums it up perfectly. I feel that many of your “suck” list can be resolved if there is a proper third party app store for iPad, like f-droid. So it’s not a question of if, it’s more a question of when.

I am with you with the right to repair. If I had the spare cash I’d replace my laptop with a Framework.

I’m going to be honest. I am of the opinion that I don’t want MacOS on my iPad. iPadOS when I didn’t have a keyboard attached made sense and worked great. But it’s missing core functionality.

If I was to associate it with Linux. The Desktop Environment of iPadOS is excellent and I don’t want it to change. But it’s missing key features in the kernel or missing key drivers which would make it a better experience.

I thought I mentioned it. But I had a Logitech Combo Touch Keyboard case for this, and you are correct a Keyboard + Touchpad combo is absolutely needed for a comfortable experience.

I’ve only reverted back for long typing sessions, my hand craps are only just going away now. I need a more sturdy keyboard accessory and I don’t think they exists. And since the case is already falling apart, I’ll probably just make my own replacement with what I can salvage from here. Need to make a 3D Printable friction hinge that doesn’t break and is thin. I have a long list of things I want to do first.

For those, like me who entered this chat wondering why the hostility? Here is a great write up of what happened in 2021.

https://hackaday.com/2021/07/13/muse-group-continues-tone-deaf-handling-of-audacity/