Honestly, fuck Bandcamp. I used that platform for years, purchased a huge library, supported artists even when I was about 90% sure that some of them were just resellers providing rips of the original artists music.
And then for no reason at all a few weeks ago, I was asked to verify my account via email. Despite using the correct autosaved password. That email never arrived. Never arrives no matter what I try. So I cannot get back in. Support is like check your spam folder like motherfucker you don’t think that’s the first place I went when I didn’t see the conformation email?
Fuck the new ownership. Fuck Bandcamp. Good luck with your upcoming job search.
Some laptop manufacturers disable functions and stay in low performance throttle if there is no battery present, and remain that way until a new one is installed. Apple does this.
Some laptop manufacturers disable features if their operating system is not installed. Apple disables integrated Intel graphics, for example, and forces amd graphics on Linux and OpenBSD.
So its not impossible that your laptop is crippled by design without the battery.
I use CalyxOS on my Fairphone since 2022. It is better than the stock OS and allows re-locking the bootloader. It also provides timelier updates than Fairphone OS. It is absolutely fine and has zero issues.
I have one banking app that doesn’t work. Another one that does work. Also, I have paid purchases through the Google Play Store that do not see the subscription. I was going to let them expire anyway. I also have a Google One that doesn’t see the subscription, so none of the advanced editing features in Photos works. I assume all of these would be problematic on GrapheneOS as well.
I would run GrapheneOS if I had a Pixel, or if it supported the Fairphone.
I got the popup all the time for a few weeks with Firefox and uBlock Origin. As a YouTube Premium subscriber. The paid service. The whole reason they were pushing back on ad blockers to begin with.
No problems in the couple of years that I’ve used it, but upgrading in the past wasn’t painfully terrible either. Just fetch bsd.rd and boot into that.
Of course you couldn’t do it remotely, but the historical ease of updating highlights the well-engineered simplicity of OpenBSD.
I don’t use Discord but this is great for Flathub. It seems that the community is coalescing around flatpak as the distro-agnostic package manager for desktop Linux moving forward. The next biggest targets should be Steam (kinda sorta official already) and Spotify.
I would imagine VSCode stays a snap only app so long as Ubuntu is now Microsoft’s baby.