UnfortunateShort

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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...

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Is there no electron wrapper around ChatGPT yet? Jeez we better hurry, imagine having to use your browser like… For pretty much everything else.

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I think overall they are not better or worse than other tech giants. They try to be the platform for blank and thus to push competitors out of the marked, or lock it down so they can’t enter. They try to extract as much money from their customers as they can, even if it makes the user experience worse. They push the boundaries of what the can legally do. They charge you, but you don’t own anything.

What really grinds my gears is how they try to force stuff on me that I don’t fucking want. I feel like they are completely different in that regard than for example Google. I use Google Maps because I want to. I don’t use Chrome because I don’t want to. It’s that easy. They don’t ask me to reconsider, they don’t make it super complicated to switch, nothing. I can disable any Google App and forget about it.

To stick with the Google comparison, I also feel like Google informs me better and gives me more control regarding my data. This feels much more hidden on convoluted in MS products in general. For example I had no idea Office is basically spyware before reading about it elsewhere. In Google-land, they seem much more upfront about what they use and what I can opt out from (or in to).

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I know this won’t help you a whole lot, but I do.

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People try their hardest to make computers your friends. Don’t be afraid to talk to them 😊

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You can use it in a browser or opt for WebCord.

Note that any text send to discord currently stays there forever. I don’t know when, but you can bet your ass they will be investigated for a violation of the GDPR, which hopefully stops that for good.

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I heard the messages even stay when you delete them. At least people claimed they could recover then, don’t know whether that’s actually true.

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You do need to authorize admin action on Windows and it causes severe security issues, because people do it without thinking all the time.

You can also configure Linux to have this behaviour, but for security reasons it works differently out of the box. Also, some programs, such as many terminal emulators, can cache you PW so you don’t have to enter it multiple times.

I use a U2F key for sudo and it’s just one touch. One touch you need to sit in front of my computer for.

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I mean, a lot if people will have Nvidia hardware - which will limit your distro choices right from the start and if said green hardware is recent, well you’re fucked (for just a little while longer it seems).

PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers (www.wsj.com)

Wall Street Journal (paywalled) The digital payments company plans to build an ad sales business around the reams of data it generates from tracking the purchases as well as the broader spending behaviors of millions of consumers who use its services, which include the more socially-enabled Venmo app....

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There are plenty, although some might be regional, others had security issues. In Europe, I know of Klarna, Skrill and (kind of) Revolut. In the US there are Block (Cash App) and ofc Google, Apple and Amazon… But I guess they are not really an upgrade :D

[QUESTION] Flatpak or AUR?

I’ve been using arch for a while now and I always used Flatpaks for proprietary software that might do some creepy shit because Flatpaks are supposed to be sandboxed (e.g. Steam). And Flatpaks always worked flawlessly OOTB for me. AUR for things I trust. I’ve read on the internet how people prefer AUR over Flatpaks. Why? And...

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I prefer Flatpaks, not only because I support the format, but also because of containerization and the ability to clean up an application completely.

I absolutely hate it when apps randomly place config files everywhere.

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Waterfox? Librewolf? Why not both?

github.com/Alex313031/Mercury

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Is using btrfs an option? Offer transparent compression at FS level

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I thought exactly the same about controlling a millilitre of water. You could straight up behead people on sight and leave basically no trace at all - just a suspiciously clean cut

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Edward fucking Snowden has recommend Signal and I think if anyone knows whether it’s secure, it’s probably him and the NSA.

That and he is paranoid to a point where he physically kills all mics and cameras on his devices, so if he claims anything is secure, I will believe him unconditionally.

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‘F-bomb’. US media is hilarious sometimes.

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People say there is no god and there are no miracles, yet right there you see an individual that somehow lived to take this picture. Checkmate atheists

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I love fish women. Way better than bash women.

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KDE can display one taskbar on all displays? If so I would like to know how

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Viofo A119 is great, but front view only. Could just get two of them tho…

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I encode everything with AV1 and Opus, although, as others have pointed out, there is the disadvantage that older (as in “not new”) devices won’t have hardware acceleration for those. I don’t care about that tho, because 1080p runs just fine on decent CPUs and I want to encode for the future, not yesteryear.

For AV1 I use 10bit, VFR, RF25. If you want, you can play around with the performance profile to trade file size for encoding speed.

For Opus I use 320 kbit/s fixed Bitrate and 7.1 downmix. Note that when dealing with audio and subtitles, you absolutely should include tracks of ‘unknown’ language! Otherwise they are just thrown away. And of course you should include every other language you care about. You can also choose to pass through Opus encoded tracks automatically.

I prefer MKV as container format, because from all I hear it’s flexible and robust. Pretty much everything else is set to default. I’d advise to safe your settings to a preset and to briefly verify encoded videos actually work and contain the desired tracks.

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Tbf, they held a user vote in Germany (supposedly, although the app did ask me to vote) whether to work with them or risk to cease services. Iirc the backgrounds were extremist (terrorist?) groups operating on the platform

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Fasterfetch!

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This is so stupid, I love it.

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That’s something they didn’t handle all too well imo. They seem to be able to detect incompatible stuff, so it would have been quite easy to help you clean it up. Finding all the places things are stored after they just disappeared from Settings was a bit of a pain.

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Tbf, Plasma 6.0.0 was not exactly bug free. Then again, Plasma 6.0.1 was the first release on Arch and for me, it didn’t break anything. Only some UI issues and occasional (although never fatal) crashes.

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Mint is better Ubuntu

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Is FastFetch not? I have used it for quite some time now and afaik it is being updated.

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There is room to expand warrantless surveillance? Colour me surprised.

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Millennial’s joke, boomer’s nightmare, gen Z’s dream

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Are you seriously saying that the guy who was in contact with a Russian propaganda outlet was involving with Russia?

I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you!

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The thing is, it was already known they were in contact and the politician in question claimed he did nothing sketchy. So he’s not only corrupt, or a traitor to our country, or (most likely) both, he also already publicly lied about it and there is supposedly evidence he actually accepted money. This makes things much worse for him.

His party also already claimed it’s a smear campaign, so if there really is evidence, they’ll look pretty stupid as well (although this really isn’t news).

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There are two wolves inside you: One hates US politics, the other hates TikTok.

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Arch is perfectly fine for gaming. I use EndeavourOS with KDE and Steam + Lutris (as Flatpaks) on top. Quite similar to the setup you would have on Steam OS, but I would highly recommend using btrfs as your file system and setting up snapshots.*

While I have had little to no problems so far, compatibility issues can still occur on rolling release distros, and it’s extremely convenient to just be able to undo an update.

*This is quite simple btw., you just need to install snapper, snap-pac and btrfs-assistant. The latter serves as a GUI for btrfs setup in general. Create a config for your filesystem root (‘/’) under ‘Snapper’, and under ‘Snapper Settings’ enable ‘Snapper cleanup’. You can also set the number of snapshots to retain there, but note that two will be created per system upgrade by snap-pac. I would suggest to also enable balances and scrubs for ‘/’ and ‘/home’ in the maintenance-tab.

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Garuda Linux has a setup where you can even boot into the snapshots from GRUB, but it is a little more bloated than EndeavourOS and I feel like it’s also less stable. Still definitely worth a try.

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One day Steve said: You know what? Keeping a prisoner a life for a thousand years is fucking expensive. What if we didn’t have to?

And from that conversation our company was born. Little did we know that death sentence is still a thing or that humans don’t even live that long. But boy did we scam some investors.

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There’s another problem here. You can have much nicer Whiskey, even on the low-end. Singleton 12 years and Roe & Co. come to mind for ~ 20 a bottle. Both not bad at all for the price.

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Nothing like choosing the “everything” ISO and having 2k+ Packages on a fresh install lol

I mean, I like Garuda, but I opted for replicating the look and feel on Endeavour xD

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Garuda has multiple ISOs, ranging from almost bare to batteries + power plant included. This appears to be the most heavy one, which is great to get to know cool software, but also an Arch veterans nightmare.

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By extension, GTK. I was shocked to learn it’s C with object orientation bolted onto it.

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Wayland is the default for GNOME and KDE now, meaning before long it will become the default for the majority of all Linux users. And in addition, Xfce, Cinnamon and LXQt are also going to support it.

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Woah, chill Proton. I know I started using it, but you didn’t have to buy it for me. I like it tho. Very frequently updated app, lots of features.

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Still amazing that they will copy everything from GNOME and Plasma but the “Are you sure?” on shutdown/logout/restart

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Cause Earth disc rotated, duh

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Eh, I kinda doubt too much will come of it. There is already strong incentive for ARM support because of servers and for Qualcomm-specific hardware because of Android. That is unless they plan to use completely different architectures and drivers for their new, laptop-focused stuff (and only that).

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Does it block MS tho?

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Are these by any chance Flatpak apps? If so, do you have GTK and GNOME portals installed and up to date? I had a similar problem where this was the issue.

What to include in a backup? (Ubuntu)

Hi! A friend just recommended the backup tool that comes with Ubuntu. I took a look at it and was wondering what you guys include and exclude from the backups. I just installed wire guard VPN and but the config file in the etc/wireguard folder, where it belongs. I would have to include this folder as well if I want to keep my...

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I auto-backup my entire /home, except for stuff I explicitly exclude and hidden files. I only explicitly include some of the latter, because I don’t want to back up all the stuff programs put there without my knowledge.

Config files outside of /home I copy semi-manually to and from a dedicated dir in which I replicate exactly where they go in my actual FS. I have written shell functions that easily allow me to backup and restore stuff from there and it’s synced to my cloud storage.

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It’s quite good value, especially the 2-year plan, if you actually use all the stuff they offer. I got my family there, but they are still not to eager to integrate all there is into their routines.

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