InternetCitizen2

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InternetCitizen2,

BIDEN’S SOVIET TACTICS DON’T SCARE ME!

Lol wat

The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning. (lemmy.world)

Whenever AI is mentioned lots of people in the Linux space immediately react negatively. Creators like TheLinuxExperiment on YouTube always feel the need to add a disclaimer that “some people think AI is problematic” or something along those lines if an AI topic is discussed. I get that AI has many problems but at the same...

InternetCitizen2,

AI just requires a level oftrust all of these companies have not earned.

Do you think people would be okay with 'Recall' if Apple did it?

With the recent WWDC apple made some bold claims about privacy when it comes to so called Apple Intelligence. This makes me wonder if they did something to what Microsoft did with Recall feature, would people be less concerned and to an extend praise their effort?...

InternetCitizen2,

Recall in principal is a cool idea. It is also one that M$ has not earned the trust for. I think Apple would be better received. I’m not sure I would like Apple’s recall, but they have done more to foster trust than M$.

InternetCitizen2,

Same reason file manager has a recents. It helps you return to previous work. Asking it if it remembers which paper had which conclusion or graph would make being a grad students easier. Perhaps it reminds you about some deliverable you promised in an email is due is three days. I see it as a good tool to organize productivity with. Like I said no one has earned the trust this software would require.

InternetCitizen2,

Yeah but recent only considers local files and you can’t ask it which one said this or that if you don’t remember. Its a good tool to keep track of a lot of things. As a student I would like that.

InternetCitizen2, (edited )

I know about the fuzzy finders and regular expressions. The Q was why I think it is helpful and I answered that. You’re just hitting me with some dogma. You could also just know where your stuff is at and not need search tools either. Recall is a neat idea, but I don’t have confidence in M$ execution or privacy.

InternetCitizen2,

I have been wondering this too. I am planning to move and am not sure how to get it working with K9 or if they will have their own official app. Perhaps I will decide to just not have email on my phone.

On a similar note, does Proton’s Calendar support the fossify and gnome ones?

InternetCitizen2,

Kinda sucks as I do like having notification of meetings, classes, and such.

InternetCitizen2,

Perhaps. In my distro of choice (popOS) the flatpak is a bit ahead of the repo version. I feel that having the bug fixes and only being able to interact with keepass via the sandbox would limit the attacks. I am not an expert on security, so i would like to hear where my current ideas fail.

InternetCitizen2,

Thank you for clarifying that.

InternetCitizen2,

And therefore you defend Russian colonial ambition?

Any good email service except tutamail and proton ?

I am now using disroot . I don’t care about anonymity or anything as I just wanna use it to connect to my bank, ID and buy/book shit etc. Which all have my phone number, address, name etc anyway so no point in that . I just want the security privacy to be good enough that no one can easily hack it, steal my OTP, inbox etc and...

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Well selling things in the west is more profitable. Our demand and food waste means that supply could have gone somewhere else. If a distributor knew our market was full they should gear to sell somewhere else. Either way its a macro argument that doesn’t mean much.

InternetCitizen2,

I’ve been using grapheneOS and never knew the toxicity. Crazy.

Linux admin with 20 years experience, looking for "beginner" distro [Solved, the real beginner distro was the Debian I've used along the way]

I’m over tinkering with my OS. So I’m looking for a distro that “just works” out of the box for my laptop. Also I want to test an “easy” distro I can install for my grandpa....

InternetCitizen2,

I got my start with Ubuntu and feel its still quite solid. Many say that Mint is a better Ubuntu than Ubuntu these days. Personally running popOS as I have their hardware.

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One cold winter my car’s battery died. I called campus police to help jump start. I was parked just outside the university so they refused to help me. I even had the cables.

InternetCitizen2,

Unsurprising. I think the real goal is short term rally of J6ers for the sentenceing on July 11.

InternetCitizen2,

A reminder that we need to take privacy seriously.

How easy is it to switch back to windows?

I’m considering switching to linux but I’m not a computer savvy person, so I wanted to have the option to switch back to windows if unforeseen complications (I only have 1 pc). Is it just a download on usb and install? And what ways can I get the product key or “cleaner” debloated versions.

InternetCitizen2,

If you feel comfortable swapping out the drives on your computer that would be the easiest way. You can buy a cheap ssd to install linux on it. If you really hate it you can just switch back to the windows drive. This also helps you avoid dual booting.

Viruses & Task Viewers

Hello everybody! I can say I’m a newbie at Linux. Wanted to ask about Linux’ task viewers. On the famous task viewers such as bpytop, htop etc., can viruses hide from them? Excluding the injected codes, can virus & tracker/logger softwares hide from classic task viewers of Linux? Do they show all kinds of services and...

InternetCitizen2,

Good point, but seems like a non starter from many opinions on Linux forums.

InternetCitizen2,

Very true. Thanks for your answers!

InternetCitizen2,

Mint is always a good point to start when in doubt. Ubuntu is also solid and has lots of documents online.

InternetCitizen2,

Bible spends more time explaining how to set up a tent (OT) than it does explaining the Trinity.

InternetCitizen2,

I think its value neutral. It might not collect data aggressively, but its not trying to protect you either.

InternetCitizen2,

Its a pretty good survey and has a good sample size. Statistics is hard. I won’t take the criticism too seriously.

InternetCitizen2,

Tbf a lot of that stigma has to do with trust violation.

Getting into Civ 6

I got into Civilization rather late with their fifth entry. I was hesitant because as I get older I need more time to game than I do new titles. Still I picked up six with all DLC during the last sale. I have to say I am liking the changes. It was good to wait because Civ does need its DLCs to feel complete....

InternetCitizen2,

That explains the pain I was having with 650M.

InternetCitizen2,

That has got to sting. I feel it implies a third party will split the republican vote more. Good thing too!

InternetCitizen2,

It is an eye raiser, but it is also somewhat of a red herring. Tor is a very solid privacy browser that started as a government project; not sure if they are still funded today. Nothing is ever going to be a perfect solution (cat and mouse game), but it does strike me that Telegram is more concerned about features than it is about privacy.

InternetCitizen2,

I guess perception is what matters here.

InternetCitizen2,

Interesting. I mostly said it in a sense that economics is primarily a social science. The way people think something is more or less makes it self fulfilling. Like a recession is in part characterized by lower demand. People that think we are in one might start to save to get a head of the pain; saving lowers demand.

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