shreddy_scientist

shreddy_scientist, 11 months ago

If you flashed Graphene onto your phone, 100% spend the time and setup AnySoftKeyboard for it!

shreddy_scientist, 11 months ago

I’m wondering if Universal Blue will be impacted if Redhat pulls a CoreOS move on Fedora. If not, that’d be quite a seamless switch.

shreddy_scientist, 11 months ago

Word is Microsoft quietly killed Cortana, so Windows has that going for it now!

shreddy_scientist, 11 months ago

You may want to dual boot, especially if your classes are online. I’ve seen issue after issue using a Windows VM for online exams. But, for me it’d be worth asking a buddy or using the computer lab to get around an invasive OS as your daily driver.

shreddy_scientist, 11 months ago

Apparently, if you go through the “privacy” settings in Windows and turn everything off, it still collects more data than KDE with all telemetry turned on 🤯

shreddy_scientist, 11 months ago

For sure, but online exams for college see VM’s as a cheating option since the base OS isn’t accessible by the exam software to restrict. I’ve seen on going workarounds, but these exam programs always adapt, making more settings changes required for a VM to work on a test. As if a difficult exam wasn’t tough enough. Windows provides the exam software’s the lockdown capabilities they desire, so alt OS options aren’t allowed.

shreddy_scientist, 11 months ago

Linux runs on will power!

shreddy_scientist, 11 months ago

More like doing whats best for everyone, which sucks for it to be considered shots fired…

shreddy_scientist, 11 months ago

Kubuntu or Mint are great distro’s to begin with when starting your linux journey. It’s good to know down the road these should really be moved on from, but they’re great to get the ball rollin for sure!

shreddy_scientist, 11 months ago

There’s a wide user base in mind with each, so rarely does anyone use all of the included packages. This could be defined as bloatware, plus proficiency in linux to me means anything can be done via terminal or GUI. The base distro’s have some task which require the terminal, while mint and kubuntu are managed via GUI.

shreddy_scientist, 11 months ago

It’s definitely a lengthy marathon and not a sprint. Google’s embedded itself into modern life intricately, but there was still a learning curve to get the most out of their services at first. Same goes for privacy focused alternatives, taking it slow and adjusting to one alt at a time should make the process easier to stay on course. For me, realizing how much Google makes selling data but never asks what user data is ok to sell or offering a small part of the profit to the user keeps me improving my online anonymity daily!

shreddy_scientist, 11 months ago

Would installing doas instead of sudo on Fedora fix this or would both still utilize dnf?

shreddy_scientist, 11 months ago

Open doas handles admin activity through the command line. It is only ~3,000 lines of code, while sudo has ~170,000 lines. doas does 90% of sudo commands and is more secure as well. Mental Outlaw has a great video on the topic.

shreddy_scientist, 11 months ago

States the gnome-initial-setup. KDE is big on telemetry only being opt-in, so it seems like just the gnome environment. Or at least I hope I’m right…

shreddy_scientist, 11 months ago

I love using the lynx launcher, zero trackers and it can incorporate arcticons too. Worth a try without question!

shreddy_scientist, 1 year ago

It doesn’t seem like it, RHEL is based on Fedora. Fedora is beta RHEL more or less. But Alma, Rocky and Scientific Linux will all be in trouble as they’re based on RHEL. Or at least that’s what I make of it

shreddy_scientist, 1 year ago

Based on my understanding, Fedora will be unaffected but Rocky & Alma are in some hot water along with Scientific Linux. RHEL is based on Fedora while the others are based on RHEL.

shreddy_scientist, 1 year ago

Since Fedora is upstream of RHEL I’d like to think it’ll be unaffected from the move. But only time will tell

shreddy_scientist, 1 year ago

Maybe add ecosia.org to the list, definitely a privacy focused search engine.

shreddy_scientist, 1 year ago

It’s kind of a long shot, but a privacy based online doc option I recently learned about, which surprised me now 5+ years in, is etherpad. I really like the board.net hosted option, as the company behind it enables all the actually needed extension and isn’t afraid to be privacy focused first. But you can host it yourself too. It’s pretty much a “google doc” page, so it would need a table added to be filled in by the end user. Still only accessible by the folks you give the HTML link to though. Plus, you can always cut and paste the data into a new doc and give that new link to the folks who need it 🤷

Link: etherpad.org

shreddy_scientist, 1 year ago

TLDW: Open source or nothing, but if your project is the first to truly blow up, you need to make git.

shreddy_scientist, 1 year ago

What makes you prefer OnlyOffice over LibreOffice? I like how OnlyOffice seems to decrease possible format errors, so I tend to open docs in it after putting them together in Libre.