NightFantom

I think it strongly detracts from the post. I basically skipped right to the comments without clicking the link because I’m assuming it’s AI slop, and I’m hoping the comments are interesting.

Your writeup on spotizer seems to imply that they can just steal your credentials, is that correct? Not that it should matter much if you’re doing this to stop with spotify afterwards, but still feels icky…

Who’s going to say what is to be reset in a “full new install” and what is kept? I don’t think the line is as clear as you think.

For example, the disk space. Maybe one partition was made to be a flat amount, and another gets what’s left, maybe it’s a percentage split. Who’s to say?

What if the rest of the hardware is significantly different? Maybe your old amd setup needed no third party drivers, but your new nvidia setup is broken without the third party drivers?

I don’t think copying the username / password is a good idea either, ever, by the way.

I think the gray area between cloning and just doing a fresh install without copying anything is a little too personal (and/or hardware-specific) to really manage well this way.

In university we had c++ and python courses alongside each other, and I currently get paid to write python. I honestly believe my knowledge of c++ (and of course the rest of the courses which went deeper into cpu architectures and data structures and whatnot) makes me a better python programmer, because of the deeper understanding of what goes on under the hood.

I have an arctis something, 7 or 9, not entirely sure anymore and posting this from my phone. Only thing I needed the drivers for the mic loopback settings (which I used my gf’s old windows laptop for for like 5 minutes) and otherwise there wasn’t anything I needed. The wireless connection base station is just usb plug and play, no drivers needed. Not the same as the nova but my 2 cents, good luck!

Thanks!

Got any links to resources you used / recommend for this / further reading?

If you do that I’d be very interested to see the results! Especially things like night sight, my gf’s camera is as night blind as she is 😅

Not OP but interested in both privacy and high-tech features. My current (stock) pixel 4a device has a worse camera than many other phones, but the software compensates a lot, netting better picture quality overall very often. I’m wondering how much of that is lost when using graphene instead of stock android, do you know?

Similarly with the latest gen pixels having AI features built in, I’m assuming much of that is software that’s not as easily installed somewhere else…

I also caved for a pixel (4a) for my last phone, it still has Google’s bloatware (can’t remove youtube music app for example), but at least it doesn’t have Samsung’s bloatware in addition.

Still interested where this thread goes in other options though, as it’s getting worse in battery life and I’m also looking out for something new.

I agree, all of the apps I’ve tried have some good and bad points lol

It seems like Liftoff has updated, this doesn’t work on Connect (the other app I’ve been using) and this was the first mp4(?) I’ve seen embedded on lemmy with working, just probably because it was the first one I saw with the updated Liftoff

Yo this may be the first decently embedded vid I’ve seen on lemmy, what’s the secret?

Not buying one is more sustainable anyway :D and when you do need a new one, you’ll know about fairphone and probably have even better options than you do now!

I just looked aroundon their site a bit, and it looks like they are pretty competitively priced by selling upgrades to next gen for 70 dollars (fairphone 3 to 4 core or something)

I still can’t see the url? (Jerboa app)

What’s holding you back with gaming on linux?

I’ve been there way back when windows 7 was nearing it’s end of life. I’d been dual booting stock ubuntu for a while, and basically by the time proton got stable enough and win7 was officially dead, I chose to have Ubuntu be my default and keep win7 “just in case”. About a year later I deleted the win7 partition because I hadn’t used it and needed disk space for some bigger game :D