Yikes, how’d that go?

Not everything being sold as the R36s is able to use ArkOS (although I think there’s been progress on getting the other ones to use that OS), more deets here. Also, not every micro SD card works in that second slot, but yeah, just get a Samsung Evo Plus (I’m running dual Microcenter cards, don’t do this lol). There is a huge enthusiast community doing cool things with these devices, there’s a bit of tinkering to get them set up but it’s easy enough.

Alpaca, got anything set up through PortMaster yet? I’ve been meaning to get Stardew Valley and Half-Life on there.

I got one around Christmas on sale and I’m a big fan of mine, I’m replaying Crash Team Racing and Final Fantasy Tactics at the moment. They’ve got some quirks, there’s a lower powered variant floating around, definitely read through the subreddit and do a bit of research on the device. I will say that it’s awesome for what it is, but there’s places where it feels like a ~$30 gadget.

Loved the Xenosaga series, shame they never actually got to make the 6 games they wanted.

Jak and Dexter games absolutely, but I actually prefer the later ones that aren’t just platforming like the first.

Uh… this is basically real. It’s a more honest ad for those troubled teen camps, up to and including the actual kidnapping.

Ooh, that looks amazing. Thanks! I’ve installed it, but I’ll wait to open it because I don’t have three hours for it to index my thirty terabyte meme collection.

!linux_memes@programming.dev exists, but it’s more quiet than you’d expect for Lemmy.

You must be new here.

It’s vegan, so it’s healthy! /s

French: https://jlai.lu/

Technically SJW is bilingual French/English but apart from announcements it’s basically all in English here (which is disappointing, I’m trying to learn French, anyone know of a French meme community?)

This got re-posted to !minnesota@midwest.social, where we actually know what a hotdish is.

(It’s a casserole. /s)

Also, at least some of them can’t kill you! My dad got stung by one once. The ER told him the local scorpions just hurt if they stung you but to come back if he had an allergic reaction.

Nah, middle school me really wanted a pair of Jncos, which were a 90s and early 2000s fad.

No, that’s Florida.

Timberborn is awesome. I play on the stable release (non-experimental branch) through Proton experimental and it runs about as well as it did under Windows. I’m running Bazzite (Fedora) though so my system is much more up to date than Debian, but I bet one of the awesome nerds here could help you get it running on Debian.

Proton DB page for the people smarter than I am, lol

Maybe check your local Craigslist or e-waste recycler? Someone on Craigslist near-ish me has a 10" Dell Inspiron laptop for $25. There’s also a HP mini 110 that the seller is asking way too much for, lol.

That size of laptop/netbook has kind of fallen out of fashion and it seems to be touchscreen tablet-likes in that size now. You’ll want to keep build quality in mind with the older machines because a lot of stuff is soldered together at that size and age, I had a HP Stream 11 and the hardware recently failed - it was e-waste when I bought it but it ran Linux well until it died.

Thinkpad made 10" models?

… I found the Thinkpad 10, which is a tablet computer and a bit ridiculous for OPs intentions (or mine, for that matter, I’m looking for me too, lol).

Edit: the comment I’m replying to didn’t mention size when I replied.

Bazzite has been great for me. Bluetooth, Nvidia GPU, controllers, Bluetooth controllers all worked out of the box, and it’s based on Fedora so you get all of those perks, and the rollback feature, which comes by default, works (to an end user) rather like timeshift (I think - it lets you return to the previous working configuration if an update has a problem, which admittedly did happen to me recently, I just rolled back and waited for the devs to fix the problem the next day, lol).

It doesn’t have a live boot option so it just has to be installed to try it, which is disappointing.

But I totally get if OP wants to take a break and maybe come back to Linux in a few years, because Linux will keep getting better and Windows will keep getting worse.

That think they’re just going to reap the rewards of all that oil that was under the permafrost.