kabi

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kabi,

Idiocracy is when people want to role-play in a role-playing game

Legitimate interest? (lemmy.world)

I never consent to give my data away or being tracked, but how do you deal with so called legitimate interest? I tried several times to untick them but it is a long list (in fact at the bottom there is a “vendors” link with even longer, much longer list. It took me 10 minutes to get to the bottom of it once)....

kabi,

what are your strategies against such sites tracking you?

Close and never go there again. If I’m bit enough times, it goes in the hosts file for blocking. If I really need the stuff on there, I try archived versions on web.archive.org or archive.today

kabi,

There’s a million alternatives that do the exact same thing. Fastfetch is just better, since it’s still maintained, and not painfully slow. I used to think neofetch being slow was kind of cute. Then I switched to fastfetch, and now I can’t bear the years neofetch takes to run.

kabi,

Will you marry me?

From Windows to about 6 recommended distros for gaming.

I am not bad with computers and have a beginner+, maybe intermediate level knowledge of Linux and I kept running into some problems here and there with different distros. Most claimed to work out of the box (which may be the case for some users, but I have a shit ass Nvidia 1060 and that was not at all the case, until I...

kabi,

Mint handled my 1060 really well and it’s really good on arch too with the newer driver. Still just running Xorg with cinnamon, though. I guess mileage still varies with this stuff.

kabi,

He’s secretly hoping Q appears anyway.

What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?

I’m working on a some materials for a class wherein I’ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we’re including a section we’re calling “foot guns”. Basically it’s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....

kabi,

My buddy was in a class doing a programming test. It was a couple minutes until turn in time, so he went to zip up the source files. He had already ran the appropriate zip command previously, so he pressed up three times and then enter. It appears he had miscalculated, because the command that ran was rm *.c. There were no backups.

kabi,

That’s just saying “we want to sell access to our code, so we can’t make it open source”. Basically the definition of proprietary software, no?

kabi,

My point was that it’s not so much “fair reasoning” as just a statement of that fact.

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