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At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials

At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel to Gaza had been held in a notorious detention centre already facing allegations of torture and unlawful deaths in custody, officials from Gaza’s health ministry have told the Guardian.

The director general of the health ministry, Dr Munir al-Bursh, and a spokesperson for Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, where the bodies are being examined, said a document found inside each body bag indicated the bodies all came from Sde Teiman, a military base in the Negev desert where, according to photos and testimonies published by the Guardian last year, Palestinian detainees were held in cages, blindfolded and handcuffed, shackled to hospital beds and forced to wear nappies.

“The document tags inside the body bags are written in Hebrew and clearly indicate that the remains were held at Sde Teiman,” Bursh said. “The tags also showed that DNA tests had been carried out on some of them there.”

At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials

Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths

^{Lorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)}

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SGGeorwell

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Adopting the full Nazi regalia. Nuremberg Trials now. Hold them in Nuremberg again so they understand the painful irony of all this.

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At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials

Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths

^{Lorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)}

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BentoPDF - The Privacy First PDF Toolkit

I thought this would be relevant to Linux, since the options available to us Linux users are either unmaintained, hard to use, require a subscription, an account, or to upload your content to a server.

BentoPDF is the opposite of all that.

I just hope they add a dumb-proof way to install it (PWA? Flatpak?) for easy access.

https://bentopdf.com/

#linux

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vort3

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Can I just save this as an html file (with all js inside, in a script element) and use this single html file to work with pdfs (after opening it in a browser)?

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Matt

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I just use my browser of choice to view them.

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Empire dying stupidly

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tourist

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2024!?

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TheFogan

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They were planning before the election even happened!

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eldavi

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are yellow ribbons significant somehow?

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Russia/Trump demands continue to degrade to 'current frozen lines'.

Lost in the awfulness of this entire pointless genocidal vanity revenge project is just how historically badly it is going for Russia. From an initial goal of total conquest, in a month their truce startping point has slid from 1) Total Capitulation to 2) All 4 'annexed' regions plus Crimea, disarmament & constitutional neutrality to 3) Give us Donbas, and maybe our stooges in the U.N. can run Ukraine to 4) Please freeze the lines and give us something, and stop hitting our gas facilities. Trump, as always, overplayed his hand with leverage he doesn't actually have, and now has nearly no sway over Ukraine - Zelensky is tellin him flat 'No'. European and domestic support is probably enough to keep Russia from any meaningful strategic wins at this point against a severaly degraded and over rated Russian army.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-kremlin-putin-trump-10905942

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Vote!

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Dessalines

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Political philosophers in the year 300 BC:

"Hey, so electoralism is a rigged game, because only wealthy and prestigious families have enough money to finance the popularity contest to get themselves or their puppet candidates elected."

Marxists in the 1800s, with the rise of representative governments:

"Hey, this system is proving to be the safest shell for capitalist rule, because wealthy capitalists are able to stack every election to get their puppets elected, and people have the illusion that they live in democracies"

Goldfish-brained liberals in the 2020s:

"Electoralism is gonna work this time, we just didn't vote hard enough before!"

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Carrot

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I'd love to have a discussion about this. I am a socialist through and through. I believe that the system needs to be dismantled to achieve any meaningful change, and that no progress can realistically be made within the system.

I'd argue that there are 4 actions within the system. Vote red, vote blue, vote third party, and don't vote.
I'd argue that all 4 options will never lead to meaningful change. However, given this, every American who is eligible to vote is forced into playing the game, there is no way to abstain. Even not voting leads to a meaningful outcome within the system, and thus is still playing the game.

If no actions within the system can change things, I pose that the only way to disrupt this system is by dismantling it from the outside via revolution.

This however, cannot be done overnight, even if you are consistently acting on it. These types of things take a general sense of civil unrest to get kicked off. I believe that under capitalism, this unrest is inevitable, and once it hits a tipping point, the revolution will start. In the meantime, I feel we have two actions we can take.

First, we should be ushering in the revolution. Organize, make people aware of the alternative, disrupt the system in any means you reasonably can, try to get people to be sympathetic to the cause, etc. Don't slack on your responsibility to prepare and eventually initiate the revolution.

Second, since we have no choice but to play the game we've been dropped in to, you should vote for short term damage mitigation. If you are forced to take an action within the system, I feel people have a moral obligation to try to reduce the harm to others as much as possible. This involves making a vote, since not voting results in almost the same outcome as a vote for the candidate furthest away from the one you considered least harmful.

I have yet to see an argument that shows how not voting is going against or dismantling the system. However, considering so many people believe that not voting is the right choice, I'm really interested in hearing someone explain it to me, as there must be some reasoning behind it that I'm not seeing.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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The simple argument is that electoralism cannot work. Therefore, workers should front and vote for our own parties, to measure strength and prove the inability to gain change via electoralism.

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Carrot

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I don't know if I understand what you are suggesting. Are you saying the working class should vote third party, or each person should vote for themself? Or when you say vote for our own parties do you mean not vote at all?

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Cowbee [he/they]

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The working class should vote for socialist parties like PSL, participate in them, and organize with them. That's about the best we can do within the bounds of electoralism, but we should use that to organize for dual power and revolution.

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Carrot

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Oh, then I think we agree with each other. I'm specifically wondering why someone would abstain from voting

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3yiyo3

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I agree with both of you that we need to vote for socialist parties and organize with them. But that doesnt mean to support the lesser evil argument. Lesser evil argument will be that we need to vote for Hillary in order to avoid Trump for example, that is absurd and is the reason we cannot support this lesser evil stupidity. I hope Carrot is not defending this lesser evil position.

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Oppopity

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If you abstain from voting then you're basically lumping yourself in with people who don't care or actually are fine with the status quo. If you cast a blank vote then you're expressing your disapproval of all the candidates. Essentially saying "I'm willing to vote, but it won't be for any of you guys". This would make sense if the system worked but it doesn't.

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m532

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I’d argue that there are 4 actions within the system. Vote red, vote blue, vote third party, and don’t vote. I’d argue that all 4 options will never lead to meaningful change.
Second, since we have no choice but to play the game we’ve been dropped in to, you should vote for short term damage mitigation.

Let's draw the logical conclusion here.

Short term damage mitigation is the goal. There are three options that incur short term damage. Option 4, however, lets one continue working or resting, therefore incurring no damage at all.

As all 4 options don't lead to any meaningful change, option 4 is the best option.

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Carrot

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I don't think I understand what you're saying. Are you saying that the time it takes to look into a candidate is the damage being done? I was thinking on a larger scale. All 4 options lead to a politician getting sworn in, who will inevitably, directly cause people to die. Picking the option that appears to be likely to kill the least people would theoretically cause the least damage in their 4 years. I'm calling 4 years the short term here.

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m532

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All 4 options lead to the same politician getting sworn in.

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Oppopity

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Damage mitigation isn't the only thing. By voting for the party you support you're showing solidarity with that movement and also demonstrating to everyone else how the system doesn't work.

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Dessalines

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how not voting is going against or dismantling the system.

Its refusing to play their rigged game, and spending your energies elsewhere.

Every single positive change from the US came not through voting or participation in the electoral process, but from force or the threat of force from below, usually in the form of mass protests, or enemies of the US empire defeating them militarily.

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robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]

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emphasis on spending your energy elsewhere. like actually go do stuff, and i don't mean the no kings parades.

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Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-refugees-flock-to-linux-in-what-devs-call-their-biggest-launch-ever/

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einkorn

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Dare we say it ...?

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loxdogs

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Always... 2026 is year of linux desktop

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Tenderizer78

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Maybe 2027

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Kami

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Windows 10 died a few days ago, leaving users with three options: stick with the OS, upgrade to Windows 11, or switch to an entirely different platform like macOS or GNU/Linux. But months before Microsoft dropped support for the OS, Linux-focused companies were already campaigning to poach Microsoft customers and convert them into Linux users.

The Document Foundation, the folks behind LibreOffice, started its push as far back as June this year, criticizing Microsoft's decision to end support, which would render millions of perfectly functional PCs obsolete, and presented Linux as a cost-effective and secure alternative. We have also seen initiatives like The "End of 10" Campaign by KDE, making the case for Linux and providing guides and info on how to switch.

Of all the projects trying to poach Windows users, Zorin Group might be the most aggressive, launching its biggest OS upgrade, Zorin OS 18, on the very day Windows 10 died.

In a recent post on X, Zorin Group celebrated the launch of version 18, claiming that it hit 100,000 downloads in "a little over 2 days". The company called it its "biggest launch ever" and claimed that over 72% of those downloads came from Windows.

Zorin OS 18 just reached 100,000 downloads in a little over 2 days 🎉️
Over 72% of these downloads came from Windows, reflecting our mission to provide a better alternative to the incumbent operating systems from Big Tech.
Thank you for making this our biggest launch ever! pic.twitter.com/6U4h3EQ3dq
— Zorin OS (@ZorinOS) October 16, 2025

So what's the big deal with Zorin OS 18? The new version comes with a redesigned desktop that feels a lot more modern. It uses a lighter color palette and a taskbar that has a floating, rounded style by default. The developers also introduced a much better window tiling system. If you drag a window to the top of the screen, a layout manager pops up, similar to Windows 11's Snap Layouts. The main difference here is that Zorin allows you to create your own custom tiling layouts.

As for Windows app compatibility, Zorin OS 18 now includes an updated version of WINE 10 for better support of Windows software. On top of that, there's also an expanded database that helps when it detects a Windows installer. The system checks the file and suggests the best way to run over 170 popular apps, whether that means installing a native Linux version, using the web-based alternative, or firing it up through WINE.

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Romkslrqusz

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Windows 10 didn’t “die”

Microsoft isn’t offering support for it, but their help was barely useful to begin with.

There’s a few small hoops to jump through to enroll in the Extended Security Updates program, after which Windows 10 devices will continue to be functional and secure for at least another year.

Ultimately, I’m all for folks going out and dabbling in Linux. Unfortunately, most consumers are interpreting this situation as a requirement to rush out and buy a new Windows 11 PC and that’s bad.

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Attacker94

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There are two massive hoops as far as I am concerned, no local account & ms office forcing the use of one drive. I know these arent that big of an issue for most people, but I will never do either of those things.

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WhatGodIsMadeOf

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One big thing you are forgetting is that half these people aren't even aware they even exist as people or know what real freedom is.

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TrickDacy

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Did you think The Matrix was a documentary?

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Goretantath

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?? I just use massgravel and I have win 10 ltsc iot updates for years now.

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Attacker94

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I'm not all too familiar with mass grave, but it does seem like a similar loophole to the win11 updates without TPM 2.0, in that it works but ms doesn't want it to, so you may run into the issue of your system bricking or ms holding your data hostage. Also as far as I can decipher ltsc only fixes the security issue, as far as I am aware the one drive push is still there regardless of version.

All in all, I believe that there are workarounds, but if ms is so keen on making it this hard to stay on win 10 I would rather just take the adjustment period to a Linux distro.

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altkey (he\him)

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IoT is Internet of Things, devices where you usually don't know there is even Windows to begin with, due to some McDonalds Menu Picker overlay or whatever. There is no market for Microsoft acc or OneDrive as they are by themselves are rarely meddled with and are installed en masse. They would get security updates for 10 another years. But besides some differences, only corpos and no end user have a reasonable access to said release, so if you may be checked for legitimity of your software e.g. you try to use it in your business and get caught, it's obvious you haven't bought keys for it. So it's for personal use only.

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DarkAri

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It's okay, Microsoft can't hurt you here anymore. You have just been living your whole life in an abusive relationship. It's okay we will be nice to you.

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unexposedhazard

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If just this one OS, that i havent even really heard of, hit 100k downloads in two days, then there must have been like 100M downloads in the last week or so for all linux distros combined. Now i wanna see someone try to aggregate all download numbers from the major distros into a time plot to see if there is a noticeable change.

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Attacker94

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I think you'll be disappointed, the zorin boost is due to their marketing as Windows esque, I believe they just tell people how they are like windows. Extrapolating downloads for more linuxy distros from one that is supposed to be windows:Linux edition is not going to work out very well.

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Bloefz

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Yeah this is just a weird tangent that will die off.

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Bloefz

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"Zorin Group" never heard of that. Seems to be a shop that just wants to lift along with the Windows 10 discontinuation tbh.

And if their selling point is running windows apps then they have no chance. You can't get better at being windows than windows already is. You'll always be one step behind the real thing.

And really you don't need to, most linux apps are much better now that windows apps are more and more dumbed down. Look at the "new outlook" for example. It doesn't even do local storage anymore, you must import all your email into the microsoft cloud overlord.

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fckreddit

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Good because fuck Microsoft and Windows.

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HakunaHafada

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It bears repeating, so: fuck Microsoft and Windows.

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tensorpudding

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I guess it is the year of the Linux desktop for at least some people.

I've used Linux desktop in various forms for just over two decades, this has to be the fourth time it felt like Linux was having its chance to seize marketshare. Each time it ends up not being the mass adoption that people hope for but it feels like the community grows each time so I think it is neat nonetheless.

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Fmstrat

in reply to tensorpudding • 1 giorno fa • •

I'm ok with that. You hit a point where a community sustains, and is good. Lemmy is a great example of that. Often, when it grows past that, it can become.. unsavory.

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MonkeMischief

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Often, when it grows past that, it can become.. unsavory.

Exactly! Like the Internet, Linux is for anybody! . . .but not necessarily everybody.

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other_cat

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Anecdotally, I was tinkering with it earlier this year and finally stopped being lazy and flipped my main PC over. After I talked about it enough in my friend chat, three more friends followed suit and a fourth is going to soon. It's not just the end of supporting Windows 10, it's all of the repeated bugs, glitches, and AI garbage Microsoft has been pushing everywhere so aggressively. People who would likely only rate themselves as "mildly" tech savvy are sick of it and willing to make a move, I feel.

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I would give it a month tops

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SNAKE?!

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Ultraword

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I'm all for Linux adoption. However, seeing less tech-literate people feel as if they have to choose between an unsecured device and spending money they don't have on a new Windows 11 machine really makes me angry.

Most won't understand what no more security updates mean, and some overreact and get really worried.

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HiddenLayer555

in reply to uszo165 • 1 giorno fa • •

Stop calling yourself a "refugee" whenever big tech fucks up something you were using. Anyone who thinks having to switch software is worthy of that word has no idea what it's like to be a refugee. Check your privileged ass.

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Luffy

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This.

For Years, you had the Option to use Linux. Since the release of the win 11 beta, Linux has not made any relevant big steps. The leopards have simply decided to eat your face this time.

A refugee would be someone losing their home in a bombing. A windows 10 turned Linux user is more like a Trump voter turned no kings protestor because he though sending the government emails will sure stop the anti trans laws.

And no, sOmE uSeRs hAvE tO uSe WinDoWs is not an argument. If everyone who was still on windows until now was reliant on it, why are they installing and switching to Linux? Every new Linux user is someone who was simply too ignorant to install it.

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Nora

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I mean I switched my work computer to Linux and risked being reprimanded/ losing my job because I'm never using windows ever again in any capacity.

I feel like that's a little bit closer to a refugee lol.
Luckily so far no one has seemed to notice or care.

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Nibodhika

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I worked for almost 2 years at a company with my Linux PC, until one day I requested a laptop for travel and they were shocked that I didn't had one, I asked for one with Linux but was told that that's not possible, that they only had windows laptops. I thought, okays this is temporary, as soon as I'm back from traveling I'll return the laptop and things will be back to normal... when I came back and wanted to return the laptop they said that that was my work computer that I should use for everything, I was like, "you do realize our work runs on a Linux server, right?". But nope, I had to use the Windows laptop until I quit a few months later. I knew of at least a couple other devs who were running Linux, but didn't say anything because then they would be forced to switch too, but at my exit interview I remarked that forcing me to use Windows was part of the reason I had left.

I guess my point is maybe don't make a big fuss and don't try to convince HR people about it, they just don't understand.

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Bloefz

in reply to Nibodhika • 1 giorno fa • •

I work in IT (security). The reason they are so adamant on Windows at least in our place, is because it offers so many opportunities to go BOFH and lock everything down so much so the user can hardly do their job 😀 No other OS offers that, even Mac.

They think they need this to be secure. I beg to differ but unfortunately Microsoft is constantly feeding them with 'best practices' and other BS.

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Bloefz

in reply to Luffy • 1 giorno fa • •

For Years, you had the Option to use Linux. Since the release of the win 11 beta, Linux has not made any relevant big steps.

I would argue it doesn't need to. It's pretty perfect these days as it is, especially with KDE (and the great thing about it having so much control over how your computer works and feels, Windows can never offer that).

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Luffy

in reply to Bloefz • 1 giorno fa • •

Thats what I mean, in the last few weeks/months, there was no big thing that win users needed to be able to switch.

Linux in a vacuum is a great OS, and what it cant do in the context of Windows is more a „Proprietary formats and software being Industry standard” problem than a Linux problem.

I'm not saying that everyone should just abandon the standards , but that if you need to have these standards, nothing is going to change in a production envoirment that magically makes Linux work for you (in home you can argue about VMs and proton, but that's not a valid tactic for companies), and you need to keep using windows.

And the other way around, if you don't need any of these standards, you don't have any reason to still use Windows, except that you don't want to change.

Standards

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Bloefz

in reply to Luffy • 1 giorno fa • •

Yeah and also, many of the drawbacks of windows don't really apply to companies. All the AI and MS account crap? Just switch it off in intune and M365 portal. Telemetry you can minimise with group policies. Crapware you can simply not install. It costs money? Sure but at a corp level so does Linux because they always want to pay a vendor so they can blame them when something goes wrong.

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JoshCodes

in reply to Luffy • 1 giorno fa • •

So we're bashing the people who installed Linux now if they used something else first? What, if they've ever used windows we should send them to the Gulag? Wtf is this take? Like hey you dumb fucking person who finally figured out how to get away from the corporate software you were taught to use in high school, you are FuCkInG iGnOrAnT for putting yourself in this position in the first place!!1!

Let's not talk about the multi billion dollar industry spent locking people into an ecosystem from day 1, because blaming high schoolers and teenagers for not switching to an OS best know for running web servers is an awesome use of our time.

Speaking from experience: no one thinks about operating systems as much as we do. We are not the norm. Most people don't want to use the computer to begin with, but conceded its faster than hand writing everything. The guy who paved my driveway will never install Arch, because he only uses the computer to get paid. My office's cleaner doesn't understand how computers can even be unsafe.

When I went to primary school we had windows computers. Same thing in high school. In uni, because I did comp sci, I used Linux and found it was better for me. 350 people went through first year with me. Most of them continued using Windows, although a good chunk used Mac too. Like 10 of us used Linux. It is easier not to switch and that's not going to change. So can we stop having a go at people for not having the same interests as us, because that's the only difference.

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daggermoon

in reply to HiddenLayer555 • 1 giorno fa • •

okay fed

like this

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DarkAri

in reply to HiddenLayer555 • 1 giorno fa • •

Your mom is a refugee.

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HiddenLayer555

in reply to DarkAri • 1 giorno fa • •

Says more about you if you think that's an insult.

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DarkAri

in reply to HiddenLayer555 • 1 giorno fa • •

I'm not trying to insult you just make you and others laugh. Its kind of a stupid joke but maybe you are taking this place a bit too seriously. The world is fucked up we need a laugh sometimes. This is one of the only places on the internet where people would actually care about something like a refugee.

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AbeilleVegane

in reply to DarkAri • 22 ore fa • •

Being an edgelord on someone voicing an opinion about something serious can be construed as very unfunny, I don't know why you seem defensive, you are the troll in the situation.

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DarkAri

in reply to AbeilleVegane • 22 ore fa • •

No I'm not trolling and I'm not an edgelord. Many refugees sort of deserve what they get because they support authoritarian regimes. Go to Africa or the Middle East and you can't throw a rock without hitting someone who wants to genocide all gay people or people of other religions or something. It's not really an accident that they ended up in that situation, it's generations of shittiness and ignorance and immortality. Unfortunately the only way to be free is to arm yourself and educate yourself and fight for what is right. Nobody is going to give it to you. Nobody going to solve your problems for you. Those people who claim to care about your safety or something are just trying to use you because most humans are terrible.

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Quazatron

in reply to uszo165 • 1 giorno fa • •

I'm old enough to have seen this "flocking" several times. Some people stay and are pleasantly surprised. Most people go back a few weeks/months later, and leave a "Linux suxx" post behind them. I don't expect this time will be any different, and that's totally fine.

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poke

in reply to Quazatron • 1 giorno fa • •

Many people will definitely go back, but the percentage staying might be better this time around. Linux has gotten a lot more usable and stable for those tech inclinced enough to be able to install it thanks in part to proton, immutable distros, flatpacks, Wayland, and improved defaults. Mint and bazzite are pretty darn good for daily use. I've never stayed on Linux as long as I have with this run, and I really don't feel much of a push to leave it. Most everything I want to do just works.

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Quazatron

in reply to poke • 1 giorno fa • •

I agree, I notice more new blood around Linux compared to the previous "OMG, Micro$oft suxx, let's all ditch Windoze!1!!" craze (I guess it was Win8.1 -> Win10, maybe?)

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Chloé 🥕

in reply to Quazatron • 1 giorno fa • •

many people will go back, but of these, i’m sure many will also come back eventually

i’ve tried a bunch of distros in my last 2 years with windows. many didn’t satisfy my needs at the time, so i stayed on windows.

but now, it’s been over a year since I definitely switched to linux, and over 6 months since i nuked (accidentally, but shhh) my windows partition. and i don’t plan on going back anytime soon.

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peoflor

in reply to Chloé 🥕 • 1 giorno fa • •

Same history

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JasonDJ

in reply to Chloé 🥕 • 1 giorno fa • •

Yeah it's been a long road for me to be fully Linux on my personal systems. I think I started messing with Linux circa 1997 and didn't switch over fully until I think Windows 7 went EoL.

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Sarcasmo220

in reply to Chloé 🥕 • 1 giorno fa • •

Just out of curiosity, which distro did you end up using?

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Chloé 🥕

in reply to Sarcasmo220 • 1 giorno fa • •

right now im on Fedora KDE! it works well enough for me, it’s modern, it looks good, and most importantly (for me) it supports fractional scaling well (my laptop needs fractional scaling and that’s been the thorn in my foot for a while)

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Damage

in reply to Chloé 🥕 • 1 giorno fa • •

Great choice, often underestimated but actually rock solid

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P03 Locke

in reply to Sarcasmo220 • 1 giorno fa • •

Linux Mint works great, but I've heard good things about Bazzite, too.

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Zoot

in reply to P03 Locke • 1 giorno fa • •

I love and hate bazzite. It's still what I use daily, but man is it weird. Just small little bugs, an it is an immutable os so that threw me off, couldn't do my wild an whacky project but atleast most everything worked right out of the box!

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miraclerandy

in reply to Quazatron • 1 giorno fa • •

I’ve looked at Linux for years but it was always so intimidating to me. I finally installed it when my pc was being aged out of windows 10 and honestly it’s really fun to play around with even though I’m not super tech savvy. It’s easy enough to find a solution online if I run into any problems and everything is free!

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Nibodhika

in reply to miraclerandy • 1 giorno fa • •

This is usually the case, people make it a monster in their heads but it's not bad as long as you're willing to accept it's a different OS to be used differently.

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Sir_Premiumhengst

in reply to Quazatron • 1 giorno fa • •

But this time Linux actually plays video games right out of the box. No trickery. Just install steam and the rest of the experience is smooth as butter

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MrScottyTay

in reply to Sir_Premiumhengst • 1 giorno fa • •

And sometimes with better performance than windows because of less of a system overhead.

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eldavi

in reply to MrScottyTay • 21 ore fa • •

this was so surprising to me; my favorite game (tropico) didn't have blinking tiles/polygons on my linux rig than it did on windows.

it was super strange because i put linux on my old windows laptop and it also got the blinking; but the game got better when i bought a linux-only laptop with zero proprietary stuff on it (not even the bios). go figure.

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Manifish_Destiny

in reply to Quazatron • 1 giorno fa • •

Linux is a lot better than the last few times.

It might just be 'good enough' at this point.

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P03 Locke

in reply to Manifish_Destiny • 1 giorno fa • •

I agree. This time, it's actually different. Big name streamers and YouTubers are showing their support. Not just people in the tech industry, but random channels like EmKay and PewDiePie.

Linux is better than ever. Steam is a breeze. Wine support has never been better.

Meanwhile, Windows has more nasty surprises, underhanded backstabs, and security nightmares than ever before.

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balance8873

in reply to P03 Locke • 1 giorno fa • •

Can you enumerate these underhanded backstabs? What a colorful claim.

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4am

in reply to balance8873 • 1 giorno fa • •

Ads. Steering me to store all my data in Microsoft’s cloud where they do (or inevitably will) scan it for profiling, AI training, government surveillance, etc. (which also annoyingly locks file handles when documents are open). Shoving AI into every product, even when it’s completely useless. Sunsetting useful products. Changing license terms for paid products, forcing subscriptions. Requiring online accounts only and eliminating workarounds. Removing features and replacing them with incomplete UI offering less control. Massive security holes. Annoying patch/upgrade system that interrupts me while I’m working. Flaky, bug ridden tools (Teams, etc)
And updates that break hardware.

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balance8873

in reply to 4am • 1 giorno fa • •

Hey some of these actually are underhanded backstabs. You get a good star for understanding the assignment! 🌟

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SSUPII

in reply to balance8873 • 1 giorno fa • •

Have you used Windows past the 8.1 days?

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balance8873

in reply to SSUPII • 1 giorno fa • •

Yes, I find Linux terribly unusable on my laptop, way too many driver issues, hard to get into a secure state, and I miss apps like signal (no official build) mpc-hc (the replacements are all trash) and a functional version of thunderbird (lol at the tray icon third party implementation that just doesn't work). Etc, etc. I don't have a ton of unique needs but I do want theto work

^and this is of course with KDE, gnome is all that but with just a trash user interface. How many gestures do I need to use to make my computer treat me like an adult ffs.

It's still of course on my server (an old laptop which ironically can't be used as a laptop because at some point after some random update the login service broke and won't accept input from the keyboard lol) and other headless devices I don't have to actually use, thank god.

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SkyeStarfall

in reply to balance8873 • 1 giorno fa • •

Signal has a Linux client though? I literally use it myself

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balance8873

in reply to SkyeStarfall • 1 giorno fa • •

The signal org produces a debian-compatible package and an apt server. I suppose there are hoops to jump through to make that work reliably on other distros but by that point my interest in using Linux was dwindling. (I actually moved for the performance benefits which didn't materialize I think due to linux' piss poor memory handling -- I have a pretty low end laptop with only 16 gb of ram. the above we're all just issues along the way).

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SkyeStarfall

in reply to balance8873 • 1 giorno fa • •

It's also in the official arch repositories, so any arch-derived distro has an easy install. I don't know about other distros however

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balance8873

in reply to SkyeStarfall • 1 giorno fa • •

If you care to trust random strangers with your secure messenger that's a choice you can make (admittedly the desktop isn't particularly secure to begin with but even more reason to use the actual org's build imo). I'm sure christian heusel is very reputable.

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SkyeStarfall

in reply to balance8873 • 1 giorno fa • •

And you also need to trust your OS not taking screenshots of your apps or recording the text displayed onto your screen

There's plenty of links in this chain, there's a lot you need to be aware of if you're going to those lengths. Pick your battles

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balance8873

in reply to SkyeStarfall • 1 giorno fa • •

My os does not do that

I don't consider "wanting a secure app to be installed through first party means" to be particularly unusual. I know in Linux it's standard to just install random stuff from the internet with root. I've obviously done that myself, but for secure stuff I want first party. Making a flatpak wouldn't be hard (they probably just need to review someone else's work -- it's like an intern project)

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SkyeStarfall

in reply to balance8873 • 1 giorno fa • •

So I went and looked it up, and signal-desktop is listed as a reproducible build, so theoretically you should be able to go and check that it conforms to the source

reproducible.archlinux.org/

But this isn't anything I've looked into myself, so feel free to look into it

Arch Linux Reproducible Status

^{reproducible.archlinux.org}

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Bloefz

in reply to balance8873 • 1 giorno fa • •

Ads all over the place (and a start menu full of crapware)
Telemetry you can't completely turn off anymore (the only thing I'd respect is a license check)
Constantly putting edge back
Forced MS account and removing ways to bypass it
Cloud upsells
Forced updates "do this within the next 2 days or else..."
"Copilot copilot copilot"

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FreddiesLantern

in reply to Bloefz • 1 giorno fa • •

-we heard you like search bars so we added a search bar next to the menu containing a search bar.

-open wide because here comes the unwanted update train.

-you want to do thing with file?

No, bad user. Play candycrush instead.

-that’s an impressive machine you have there. Would be too bad if someone were to slow it down with tons of bloat.

-Telemetry? At good ol MS? Never.

-oh but all the W10 menus you love are still there, it just takes a rainforest expedition to get there.

-Just buy a one drive subscription and walk away.

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Bloefz

in reply to FreddiesLantern • 1 giorno fa • •

Yeah that search bar, so useless because the start menu itself is a search bar if you simply start typing.

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balance8873

in reply to FreddiesLantern • 1 giorno fa • •

So, to really be sure i get it: adding two search bars is an underhanded backstab?

Now I see why I didn't get it, the definition being used is literally insane.

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FreddiesLantern

in reply to balance8873 • 1 giorno fa • •

Please make sure all your drivers are up to date and your screen is set to the correct resolution because it seems to be that you’re missing the bigger picture.

“Underhanded backstab” being the correct expression or not aside=> W11 sucks ass imo, get mad if you want to. (Something tells me this isn’t about proper word choice for you though, but feel free to correct me on that if that is a thing you care about)

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balance8873

in reply to FreddiesLantern • 1 giorno fa • •

I mean your point may have been windows sucks ass but I'm aware of where I am and that's a completely uninteresting claim here. Why not rant about water being wet -- it's just as unique or interesting as your take on windows.

What I specifically asked about is underhanded backstabs, because that's a unique and interesting claim I haven't read 464335735 times before on lemmy.

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FreddiesLantern

in reply to balance8873 • 1 giorno fa • •

Well, you’ll have to ask the person making that claim to begin with. I just added my take on the list of annoyances about W11.

I find your interest in the expression itself rather uninteresting. I do hope it goes without saying people say these things without meaning them literally.

All in all the step from W10 to W11 is such a letdown one might compare it to a backstab, underhanded or otherwise.

And with that I’m done defending an expression I didn’t use to begin with. Good day.

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balance8873

in reply to FreddiesLantern • 1 giorno fa • •

You added it in the subthread to my question and now you appear to be trying to blame me, in your head, for your error. Now that's interesting.

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P03 Locke

in reply to FreddiesLantern • 1 giorno fa • •

Well, you’ll have to ask the person making that claim to begin with.

That implies I want to argue with somebody who is sealioning.

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balance8873

in reply to Bloefz • 1 giorno fa • •

I uh...don't have any of those experiences personally but that isn't really the point. I asked for underhanded backstabs.

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djdarren

in reply to P03 Locke • 1 giorno fa • •

Dankpods has gone in on Linux too. He did a video about building a Bazzite PC a couple of weeks back.

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Ilandar

in reply to Manifish_Destiny • 1 giorno fa • •

I think it's easily good enough for general use. It's only certain types of gamers (anti-cheat support is still pretty terrible), and people who are heavily attached to a specific Windows program that they spend a lot of time using, that will have trouble switching across full time. For everyone else, Linux is superior because it runs so much faster than the now incredibly bloated Windows. Depending on the distro, it's also arguably simpler than Windows too.

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Matriks404

in reply to Manifish_Destiny • 1 giorno fa • •

I think a lot of people expect Linux to work like Windows, and that's why they go back to Windows, even if some stuff is easier on Linux.

Many of us probably remember times when we tried to download random applications through a web browser, because that's what Windows expects you to do. People will try that, and be confused, why stuff breaks or not work at all.

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AlfredoJohn

in reply to Manifish_Destiny • 22 ore fa • •

I mean I love linux but the biggest hurdle is that certain software/games just aren't compatible. I use my pc for sim racing in vr a lot. With no ability to use iracing or my vr in linux I'm stuck. While I hate Windows and would prefer to use linux, I'm not going to abandon my hobby and all the equipment I have for it just to use an os I prefer. Throughout many different domains of use for a computer their are many different variations of stories like mine. Until the software and games people use can be supported in the linux ecosystem 'good enough' never happens. Like for basic computer use linux is already better than good enough its fantastic, it just works has intuitive user interfaces the bones of the OS are there. The problem is that many companies and software providers just aren't filling the gap that is the needs beyond basic web browsing, media playback and, playing older/indie games without anticheat. Without the substance people expect it doesnt matter how good the bones of the system are they are gonna be trapped in windows and linux will be stuck as the outcast programmers and enthusiasts use while knowing they have to still use windows for the niche use cases they have. And time and time again, eventually running 2 systems gets tiring and linix use/adoption slows back down again.

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Holytimes

in reply to Quazatron • 1 giorno fa • •

Desktops only frankly became remotely useable to normal people with recent revisions of things like kde...

Between that and software actually finally started becoming remotely reliable in like 2022-2023 for your avg windows user.

Comparing the past to now is not reliable fair.

More progress towards making things normal user friendly have happened in the last 3-5 years then the last 20.

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DarkAri

in reply to Holytimes • 1 giorno fa • •

And also other operating systems are becoming terrible in recent years. So double plus good for Linux.

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Nibodhika

in reply to Holytimes • 1 giorno fa • •

Let me guess, you might have tried Linux on n the past but only really started using Linux full time around 2021/2022, because every time I see someone saying "Linux only became user friendly around year X" is always around a 1 year mark after they started using it daily, because it's a lot more a matter of being used to than actual usability. I have been using KDE since 2004, and while things have changed it wasn't all that much, I don't remember any big usability refactor or anything of the sort happening, I'm fairly confident that if I were to put you to use a KDE 3.5 UI you would feel right at home.

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Damage

in reply to Nibodhika • 1 giorno fa • •

Yeah of all the potential Linux issues you could point out, DE usability really isn't on the map

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warmaster

in reply to Quazatron • 1 giorno fa • •

I was one of those nomadic users, every year, since 1998 with Mandrake Linux.

I have always been in love with the idea of an open source OS, but if I couldn't game and work on it, it wasn't ready. Every year, until Valve made it easy to game on Linux.

I made the switch when Proton was released and never looked back.

My point is, every time users go back to Windows, they have their own personal reasons, but those will some day not be the truth anymore.

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Bloefz

in reply to warmaster • 1 giorno fa • •

Gaming for me is the only thing I don't use Windows for. But for gaming I still do. Because I mainly game in VR and that's still so far behind on LInux 🙁

But I have 20 odd computers in the house so it's easy to have one with windows around (two in fact, another old one with Win 10 LTSC for programming some old radios).

I love KDE for all the options it gives 🫶 I don't like Gnome, Systemd and all the other redhat influences but they are easy to avoid these days.

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MonkeMischief

in reply to Bloefz • 23 ore fa • •

Because I mainly game in VR and that's still so far behind on LInux 🙁

This is a major sticking point for me too. I've got a dusty Win10 partition I haven't booted in ages, and I was keeping it around mainly for VR, but then Microsoft had to go and just extinguish that too.

Monado is making impressive progress but it's a huge pain because they have to reverse engineer stuff with zero help from the manufacturers, instead of simply interfacing with the hardware.

I refuse to let Meta have any of my money though. I hope a good affordable VR kit comes out that isn't another hyper-proprietary blackbox.

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herseycokguzelolacak

in reply to Quazatron • 1 giorno fa • •

Linux usage has been trending up over time. It's real.

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pmk

in reply to herseycokguzelolacak • 1 giorno fa • •

As a percentage of desktop users or percentage of any users (including people who use their phones mainly)?

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mybuttnolie

in reply to Quazatron • 1 giorno fa • •

my buddy wanted to switch from w10 to mint and i tried to recommend kubuntu because of wayland, i told him mint will be laggy because he has many screens with different refresh rates and mint can't handle that. he wouldn't listen, installed mint, and a few weeks later went back to w10 raging how linux suxx it's so laggy. could've just installed kubuntu but no, it had to be w10.

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reddifuge

in reply to mybuttnolie • 1 giorno fa • •

That's an Nvidia issue, not linux.

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mybuttnolie

in reply to reddifuge • 1 giorno fa • •

oh, always thought it was an x11 issue and affected AMD too. well anyway he's broke and he got a high-end nvidia gpu for next to nothing so I'm not going to even try to convince him to get another gpu

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HeChomk

in reply to Quazatron • 1 giorno fa • •

I've been trying to switch to Linux for at least 5 years.
I wouldn't say it's any better now than it was then.
I desperately want to love Linux, but it fights me at every step of the way.
As a media pc...
I have had zero success using it as a media pc. My one requirement is an on screen keyboard, but it doesn't come with one, and all the offerings I've found are shit. They won't work in some windows, or at all.

As a laptop...
This has been the most successful. I've not had any real issues with Linux on various laptops, other than finding replacements for certain windows software, but that's not really a Linux problem.

As my main pc...
Gaming has been fine. Hdr has only really recently become a thing, and it seems fine.
However, I'm constantly coming across stupid things are ARE a Linux problem.
Downloading and installing software has too many methods. I understand downloading a file to install something. I understand downloading a script to install something. I even understand why you'd need to make that script executable before it'll work.
I don't understand what to do with a bunch of random files that claim to be an installer but don't seem to have an install script or a .deb package.
I don't understand why once I map/mount a network drive, it fucking disappears after a reboot and needs to have the mount process be automated at every reboot.

Linux is just hostile to users. And while it is, it'll never massively succeed.

LTSC is a much better option.

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Stamets

in reply to HeChomk • 1 giorno fa • •

Same. I loathe Linux. I've been trying to use it since I was 19, periodically installing one distro or another, and I hate it. I absolutely hate it. I'm not saying it is bad or anything but I do not have the patience to fight with an OS over every tiny thing or having to look up a guide for every installation or having to double check what will work and won't because you're going to need a container.

Linux, I'm sure, is great but it's also one of the least user friendly operating systems out there, regardless of Distro. I keep trying to use Linux Mint and it keeps driving me up the fucking wall. Either Linux supports nothing without a battle or nothing supports Linux without a battle and I'm not remotely interested in fighting with my PC to do something simple. The second that that shit gets sorted is the second I'll be fine.

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Damage

in reply to Stamets • 1 giorno fa • •

Well that is a weird experience. I can imagine having issues with one device or one or more applications, especially when trying to use windows software in Linux, but having to fight everything seems... Extreme.

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Quazatron

in reply to HeChomk • 1 giorno fa • •

Each person knows what it feels more comfortable with.

Linux is not inherently hostile, it just has a very different way of doing things that what you're accustomed, so you perceive it as hostile. It is sometimes easier for someone who never touched a computer to learn Linux that someone who grew with Windows to unlearn the habits.

There's nothing wrong with feeling comfortable in Windows, it's the system you grew up with and know how to work with and maintain.

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balsoft

in reply to HeChomk • 1 giorno fa • •

Windows, starting with 8, is inherently hostile to its users in ways that are very difficult or impossible to mitigate. It's a black box of complicated machinery, a lot of which is trying to spy on you, steal your data, show you ads, upsell you on their stupid cloud services so that they can steal more of your data, etc. At this point, disabling all of this is really difficult and unreliable.

Linux on the other hand is like a box of spare parts that you can build whatever you want from. You really do need to read the manual, or else whatever you build will look and work like shit. However, if you do build something good, it's yours now in a way that a proprietary OS never will be.

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reddifuge

in reply to HeChomk • 1 giorno fa • •

Thanks for the opinion Bill.

For anyone wondering, linux offers over a dozen virtual keyboards and btw they aren't called on screen keyboards. All of them work great. And lots of distros come with one included.

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prunerye

in reply to reddifuge • 1 giorno fa • •

Hold on. I'm as much a Linux fanboy as anyone else, but can you name one OSK that supports swiping to type?

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HeChomk

in reply to reddifuge • 23 ore fa • •

You are the exact personification of why Linux won't catch on, and Linux users are seen as mlady neckbeards.

On screen keyboard is a descriptive term. You're nitpicking to sound superior.

I have tried a number of on screen keyboards and can assure you, that on my system, they do not work.

Go fuck yourself.

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reddifuge

in reply to HeChomk • 23 ore fa • •

Cry more idiot.

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Damage

in reply to HeChomk • 23 ore fa • •

I understand downloading a file to install something.

That's a terrible start.
Software installation sources by priority:
1. Package Manager
2. Flatpak
(Graphical utilities like Discover unite these two)
3. AppImages downloaded from the browser
4. Rpm/Deb packages downloaded from the browser, but really should be avoided
5. ONLY IF YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR SHIT YOU CAN RUN SCRIPTS TO INSTALL STUFF

You can add other stuff like toolbox after n.2 once you've got more experience.

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HeChomk

in reply to Damage • 23 ore fa • •

Your reply seems to insinuate that all the software I could ever need will be included in the package manager. That's just stupid.

I agree with your order of preference, but when I start having to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find what I need, it becomes hostile.

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Damage

in reply to HeChomk • 23 ore fa • •

Your reply seems to insinuate that all the software I could ever need will be included in the package manager.

Why would I make it a list if that was true? It would be just "1. Package Manager"

That's just stupid.

If you smell shit everywhere you go....

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variouslegumes

in reply to HeChomk • 21 ore fa • •

Instead of an onscreen keyboard, you could try KDE connect.

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Bluefalcon

in reply to uszo165 • 1 giorno fa • •

Is there a dumbie sheet or cheat sheet . I just feel lost on linex.

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BombOmOm

in reply to Bluefalcon • 1 giorno fa • •

Any specific things you are getting stuck on?

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TheSambassador

in reply to BombOmOm • 1 giorno fa • •

Analysis paralysis mostly.

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BombOmOm

in reply to TheSambassador • 1 giorno fa • •

If it's on the distros, don't fret it too much. They all do everything, it's just an initial configuration.

I have been recommending Mint specifically, as it targets the average user with a 'it just works' mentality.

Home - Linux Mint

Linux Mint is an elegant, easy to use, up to date and comfortable desktop operating system.

^{www.linuxmint.com}

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HakunaHafada

in reply to BombOmOm • 1 giorno fa • •

Can confirm. For anybody else reading: Mint was my first Linux distro away from Windows, and it's been great daily driver.

in reply to HakunaHafada

jivandabeast

in reply to HakunaHafada • 1 giorno fa • •

Third'd

Mint or any other ubuntu-derivative distro is 10000% the move. I've been running ubuntu as my os for a while now, and I've spent nearly the last decade on linux (makes me feel old saying that lol).

The other distros have a lot of strength, but at the end of the day i want to spend my time messing with things i want to mess with. I don't want random weird issues that I have to constantly debug, and everyone can agree that stability is debian's (and therefore ubuntu's) undisputed strength

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DarkAri

in reply to Bluefalcon • 1 giorno fa • •

If you are new I suggest bazzite, and get lutris to install windows apps outside of steam. It takes care of most of the stuff and to install software, on bazzite you use "sudo rpm-ostree install " and then reboot because bazzite uses an ostree system, or just get it in a flatpak if available. Between bazzite and knowing how to install packages outside of the flatpak repository, that should cover most of your bases for a few years and you can learn other stuff when you have the inclination. ChatGPT is really knowledgeable about Linux since it's open source. It's often much faster than digging through forums just be specific when you speak to it.

Also if you get your setup in a decent shape, you can shrink the partition and image it with dd with a single command, and then compress it to have a full system backup, which is basically your own image. Then you just write it back with a program like etcher later if you screw up your system and then just reexpand the partition to the full drive. If you get bazzite though you won't have much need to use the terminal or install anything outside flathub which will keep you from breaking the system. Also update the system occasionally, to get security fixes once a week or two is probably fine if you don't have open ports to run a server and aren't running random software.

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Hemingways_Shotgun

in reply to DarkAri • 1 giorno fa • •

Is this satire?

Seriously, if I was new to Linux, coming from Windows, asking for a cheat sheet or Linux for dummies manual, everything you wrote would sound like absolute gibberish to me.

If this was someone's response to me when asking for advice I'd immediately reinstall windows where at least (from the perspective of a typical end user) they speak words that make sense.

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dev_null

in reply to Hemingways_Shotgun • 1 giorno fa • •

Also suggesting a gaming distribution to someone that gave no indication plays video games at all...

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DarkAri

in reply to Hemingways_Shotgun • 1 giorno fa • •

It's the easiest way to get into Linux if you need good GPU support and I assume most people play video games. Bazzite is what finally got me into Linux because it mostly just worked out of the box which is something most Linux distros I tried before that never did. I would always end up breaking them in a day or two trying to get the GPU driver installed or something. Bazzite is really good for beginning users. Not the greatest for mid tier when you are trying to gain a deeper understanding because it replies heavily on containers and file system overlays.

Also you have to remember that for people who aren't ultra Linux nerds. It's an incredible amount of work to get Linux to work. It's often days of painful configuration and research per machine. This, and a lack of gaming support is the main reason I think most people avoid Linux, which is why I suggest bazzite, as the shit just works distro.

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MrScottyTay

in reply to DarkAri • 1 giorno fa • •

You shouldn't ever use rpm-ostree to install stuff with, as it can cause issues with future system updates.

First port of call should be flatpaks in the bazaar.

Second, look for flatpaks or appimages online.

Third, use distrobox to install something via a different distro and export it as a shortcut to bazzite. I use arch in a distrobox, btw.

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DarkAri

in reply to MrScottyTay • 1 giorno fa • •

It seems to be okay for me, there is maybe a handful of things I install, and I don't want fedora so much as that's what bazzite is built on. If it breaks I'll just move on as I'm getting a bit more familiar with Linux. I will probably install Debian or mint or something with a much more simple file system when this one breaks.

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MrScottyTay

in reply to DarkAri • 22 ore fa • •

Even though bazzite is fedora-based you're not really meant to interact with the fedora side of it all. At least that's the impression I've gotten from it.

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DarkAri

in reply to MrScottyTay • 21 ore fa • •

I dont think it matters really for installing little programs. You probably shouldn't change your kernel or something. When you update the system it's just using rpm-ostree and doing a standard update through the repos, then it updates flatpaks. On the steamdeck since it's arch it will break pretty easily if you update the wrong thing, but bazzite is built in fedora.

The rpm-ostree systems is also good for anything that breaks because it's basically a snapshot system. Everytime you install something or update it creates a snapshot of your old working install which you can easily roll back to if anything breaks. You could use containers for stuff but that's not really necessary. It does probably make the system more stable in ways but then you have to deal with the headaches of using containers and having everything isolated from each other. For web services though containers are worth it as it greatly increases the security of the system.

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1984

in reply to Bluefalcon • 1 giorno fa • •

Just ask people here, people just love anyone who switches over to Linux and want to learn about it. Because we actually love this operating system. Its so good.

When my kid started using Linux, once he knew how to start programs and install things, we went through where the files are on the file system and how to get there in a terminal. I think thats a good starting point so you understand the foundation of the system.

And then go though a basic Linux command line tutorial to learn about the common tools for listing files, filtering results, renaming and deleting files etc.

You can do that stuff in a graphical file manager too but you dont really get that understanding of how things work until you do it in the command line.

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Bluefalcon

in reply to 1984 • 23 ore fa • •

The terminal commands is where I feel lost. I feel like Im trying to hack the main frame.lol just a bunch of typing and no clue what it means.

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Kuma

in reply to Bluefalcon • 1 giorno fa • •

Depends on what you feel lost about, if it is the basics in general then I would suggest you start of and read about the basics here labex.io/linuxjourney they write about the very basics in a very simple way. I think they did a good job, they start of with what Linux is, what distros are to commands from the most basics as how to navigate in the terminal to more advanced combinations. They also have vms where you can try out the commands if you haven't switched yet.

If it is a cheat sheet as in commands then i would say it is better to make your own of the commands you care about but you can start of by using other ppls list like this one geeksforgeeks.org/linux-unix/l… but it can be overwhelming for you so use the linuxjouney first. Also it is very important to learn how to look up how to use the arguments in the terminal with man or -h to make it faster and less painful to use.

If you are lost about programs then there are a lot of good GitHub pages that links to useful programs and cli tools, you just need to search for awesome Linux list

Examples:

github.com/luong-komorebi/Awes…
You can use their web pages version too luong-komorebi.github.io/Aweso…
githublists.com/lists/awesome-…

Here is one for distros
github.com/kolioaris/awesome-l…

Here is an example for customizing github.com/fosslife/awesome-ri…

When looking for programs is it very important that you know what distro you are on, what desktop environment (like kde, gnome, xfce) and what window composition you use (usually Wayland or x11, x11 is older and is more compatible).

So in short start of at labex.io/linuxjourney

Then look up distros here
github.com/kolioaris/awesome-l…

For new ppl do I think Ubuntu based is best because almost everything has a Ubuntu version, when you feel ready can you test out other distros. I haven't tried bazzite, I started of many years ago on debian (a few random ones like arch and mint) and then pop os for many years and now cachyos, I liked my journey but that doesn't mean it is correct for others.

I would suggest to have all of your data you care about on a separate disk or have automatic backup of it so you can break your os without care. And if you start customizing would I suggest setting up a GitHub repo and commit your changes everytime you like what you see so it is easy to go back if you regret something.

I hoped this helped on your journey, I didn't want to overwhelm you so I hope I kept it simple enough 😁

Linux Commands Cheat Sheet

Linux, often associated with being a complex operating system primarily used by developers, may not necessarily fit that description entirely.

^{GeeksforGeeks}

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MarieMarion

in reply to Kuma • 1 giorno fa • •

Butting in to say: your post may be the help I needed to actively consider switching.

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buttnugget

in reply to MarieMarion • 1 giorno fa • •

Dude, I’ve been using Linux for over 20 years and nowadays I barely need anything beyond what I do on Windows and Mac. Just remember that everything is a file lol

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Regrettable_incident

in reply to Kuma • 1 giorno fa • •

Thanks for that, I've saved your post for when I switch. My laptop runs windows 11 but I'm not enjoying the experience. Used linux a bit in the 90s but I've forgotten everything and will have to start from scratch. Yep, when I get some time I'm going to make the jump.

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kent_eh

in reply to Kuma • 23 ore fa • •

If it is a cheat sheet as in commands

With most modern distros, I would say that most typical users shouldn't have to go to the command line any more than they had to in windows (which is to say very seldom).

Yet there is that lingering reputation that you have to be some sort of command line guru to even think about using Linux- and that simply isn't true. Hasn't been true for decades.

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Kuma

in reply to kent_eh • 22 ore fa • •

This is true, but I think it is good to know the basics because sometimes is it easier just like it can be easier in Mac and windows.

I think it is good to know about the tools you have so you can do the best decisions for your use case.

But like you said the terminal is not a must (for most) so if you feel uncomfortable about it then the terminal is not a reason to not switch to Linux.

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Bluefalcon

in reply to Kuma • 23 ore fa • •

Im setting up a raspberry pi for media then switching my pc to linux. So it should be interesting. Thank you for all the great starting points.

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Kuma

in reply to Bluefalcon • 22 ore fa • •

Glad I could be of help! Knowing the basics about the terminal (cli) will help you a lot with your raspberrypi when you wish to fix/change/do things on the fly. I often use ssh to connect to mine to do stuff from my phone haha

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upsidedown

in reply to Bluefalcon • 1 giorno fa • •

For all their faults, LLMs are pretty damn good at basic trouble shooting of Linux. Ideally prepare context for them with installation details. Use CLI client, recommend opencode CLI, plan agent is good to inspect the commands it will plan to run and let's you inspect and think through what it is doing. Can also ask for clarifications along the way.

It's not perfect but very good.

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NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ

in reply to upsidedown • 1 giorno fa • •

Honestly, if you go that route I'd probably recommend using an LLM only for information and asking questions, but run commands yourself and actually read it's responses. If you don't understanding something, ask for elaboration. Otherwise, you risk too much automation, letting it set up configurations you don't have actual understanding of and making a spaghettified mess.

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Communist

in reply to Bluefalcon • 1 giorno fa • •

I do free infinite troubleshooting on matrix, I have over 15 years of experience

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Bluefalcon

in reply to Communist • 23 ore fa • •

Is that a help service?

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Communist

in reply to Bluefalcon • 22 ore fa • •

I guess? I don't know what you mean I just help people on matrix in dm's for free, my matrix is on my profile

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Bluefalcon

in reply to Communist • 22 ore fa • •

That answered the question. I appreciate that. I'll save this. Thanks

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EtAl

in reply to uszo165 • 1 giorno fa • •

I've been a Windows user since 95. I tried a few times to move to Linux, but basic user unfriendly problems always brought me back to Windows. Now there's no option to go back. Linux Mint has had some bumps, but I'm properly motivated to jump over those hurdles now. I've become a proud Linux user this last week. Finally free of Microsoft's gravity.

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InFerNo

in reply to EtAl • 1 giorno fa • •

Good luck. I jumped ship 10 years ago, you get used to it to the point Windows starts feeling weird.

Don't hesistate to reach out when you're stuck

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Pat_Riot

in reply to EtAl • 1 giorno fa • •

I've been on Mint for 2 years now. So far the only roadblock I've hit is my obsolete audio interface not talking to it, and that's not Mint's fault. Everything else was a seamless transition for me. I will admit that I'm not super enthusiastic about GIMP though. Welcome to the club.

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NutWrench

in reply to Pat_Riot • 23 ore fa • •

It might be worth getting a cheap Soundblaster card for your computer. Mint seems to have good support for all of them.

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Pat_Riot

in reply to NutWrench • 23 ore fa • •

It's a laptop. Really I just need to buy a slightly newer interface. My old one was running in Windows 10 with a Windows 7 legacy driver. I haven't been bit by the recording bug lately so it hasn't mattered. I've been focusing on playing badly around campfires instead. Eventually I will get around to it. My list of hobbies is stupid long.

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NutWrench

in reply to Pat_Riot • 22 ore fa • •

Well if you're still interested in updating your laptop, Soundblaster actually makes a sound card on a USB stick for less than $20 (Amazon). 😀

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Pat_Riot

in reply to NutWrench • 21 ore fa • •

Right on. It's mostly the 1/4" and XLR inputs that I need. I should have picked something up by now, I just haven't. I'm sure Uli has something available that'll talk to Linux.

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SCmSTR

in reply to EtAl • 1 giorno fa • •

I miss Windows 95.

That ui was so damn clean. There was basically zero bloat and everything had a place.

A computer was a tool and only did what you wanted it to. Nothing more, nothing less.

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UltraGiGaGigantic

in reply to SCmSTR • 23 ore fa • •

I miss Windows 95.
That ui was so damn clean. There was basically zero bloat and everything had a place

SerenityOS

^{serenityos.org}

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addie

in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic • 20 ore fa • •

Aww, man alive. Most perfect desktop environment I've seen in years, and then it's a full OS rather than just a DE. Had been looking in the ArchWiki for how to install it and everything.

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SuperDuperKitten

in reply to EtAl • 1 giorno fa • •

I remember someone on Discord server I used to be on kept telling people to "use Linux" which back then, I thought it was some scary OS for people who's tech savvy and wrote him off to be annoying. It was few years when I have my own laptop as early birthday present that I find Windows 10 annoying and remembered Linux exist so I run up a virtual machine and watch so many videos on YouTube about it. Then, I made USB-Boot and installed Linux Mint.

Far from perfect but I feel so much more comfortable using Linux over Windows, feels so much more smoother

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kent_eh

in reply to SuperDuperKitten • 23 ore fa • •

back then, I thought it was some scary OS for people who's tech savvy

That "too hard, too scary" reputation is a big part of what has held back linux adoption.

But when people actually give it a try, most realize that reputation isn't really true.

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Samsy

in reply to kent_eh • 23 ore fa • •

Maybe its M$ Propaganda.

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SuperDuperKitten

in reply to kent_eh • 21 ore fa • •

As a Linux Noob, Linux was lot easier than I expect it to be. Think it was me having the "This isn't Windows so I might as well as research about anything Linux related" mindset which it paid off for me. It got to point where Windows is now my secondary OS (Mainly to use it to use Tomb Editor to make custom Tomb Raider levels which is annoying to get it running with Wine which I don't know how to troubleshoot at all.)

It's ironic how it's now my main OS and if you told me several years ago that I would be mostly using Linux, I would think you're talking total nonsense.

Home - Tomb Engine 1.9

Welcome to our home! The official website for TombEngine: A new, open-source game engine for building adventures for Lara Croft.

^TombEngine

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jjjalljs

in reply to kent_eh • 20 ore fa • •

I think installing Linux exposes you to higher severity issues, like "now it won't boot". Once you get over that initial setup, it's not much different than windows or apple.

If more computers came with it pre installed, it would be even easier for folks.

I think about half the time I've installed Linux it was fine. The other half were problems with esoteric solutions.

Still glad I made the switch.

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NutWrench

in reply to EtAl • 1 giorno fa • •

I'm really enjoying the learning curve with Linux because it's a valuable skill to master. On the other hand, every time I've had to "go under the hood" with Windows, it's been to keep it from doing something awful to me.

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Admetus

in reply to uszo165 • 1 giorno fa • •

I'm using it on my laptop as a teacher. My gaming PC with steam is linux. I see improvements in performance every half year.

Had a student want to use it. I told him he needs to dual boot. Keep his options open. Then time will tell whether he will make the great leap.

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McWizard

in reply to uszo165 • 1 giorno fa • •

I really really hope, Zorin brings up a screen and says that it has detected a "legacy application" when it proposes better alternatives...

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brax

in reply to uszo165 • 1 giorno fa • •

I hope this doesn't mean the enshitifcaiton of Linux as we start to cater for people who don't want to learn.... We watched it with Microsoft products, though they also had a profitable reason to nerf their software.

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plyth

in reply to brax • 1 giorno fa • •

We already have systemd.

don't like this

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Comrade Birb

in reply to plyth • 1 giorno fa • •

Systemd is fine.

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NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ

in reply to plyth • 1 giorno fa • •

Am I the only one who likes systemd...

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jumping redditor [they/them]

in reply to NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ • 23 ore fa • •

yes

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Pat_Riot

in reply to brax • 1 giorno fa • •

Just Canonical.

like this

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Zink

in reply to brax • 1 giorno fa • •

Being simple to use out of the box is NOT a bad thing on its own. We are simply used to seeing the proprietary profit-driven version, which is the path to enshittification. When something works great out of the box but you still own your machine and have access to any damn thing you want that's hidden from view by default, that is just a good product.

I've been an engineer in electronics and software for over 20 years. I have a masters in software engineering. I currently work on C and C++ code every day for embedded systems, including one that's embedded linux. The terminal is my comfort zone. Screens full of super-legible monospaced text please my eyes.

I run Linux Mint Cinnamon (btw) on every computer of mine, even my work machine, and I don't care who knows it!

I recommend it to anybody of any skill level who will listen.

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DupaCycki

in reply to brax • 1 giorno fa • •

It doesn't have to. KDE is a great example here. Out of the box, it's extremely simple to use, as well as familiar in look and feel to Windows. But if you want to - it gives you a lot of customization options. So it doesn't seem to lose out on anything due to being simplified by default.

And frankly, a lot of Unix software could use a similar approach. I know it's not that simple, but it helps the users greatly - particularly new ones, but experienced ones too. Perhaps this wave of Windows refugees will in some way lead to progress in this area.

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kent_eh

in reply to brax • 23 ore fa • •

That's the beauty of Linux- there are so many distros to choose from.

Something for everyone.

And if enough people don't like the existing options, you are always free to fork what exists and make something that fits your needs better.

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Moltz

in reply to brax • 22 ore fa • •

Lol, have you seen Gnome? It's already too late.

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TheJesusaurus

in reply to Moltz • 21 ore fa • •

Yeah what a nightmare. Amazing volunteers building incredible software for everyone for free.

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Aufgehtsabgehts

in reply to TheJesusaurus • 21 ore fa • •

Gnome devs threatening me with a good time on my surface laptop. Please stop.

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jjjalljs

in reply to brax • 20 ore fa • •

Linux doesn't really have the profit motives that lead to enshittification.

I guess a bigger entity could try to start charging for... something... Support, maybe, but that seems unlikely to take off.

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brax

in reply to jjjalljs • 20 ore fa • •

My biggest concern is the whole "removing powerful features = user friendliness!" mentality that these big tech companies have been pushing for years.

Why make users smarter when you can make software worse and charge more for it?

The dummies don't get the bigger picture, they just see "nobody needs powerful features that make things too confusing for me!" My hope is that they don't flood Linux with this drivel - profit margin or not, it's a toxic cultre that has already been created in commercial software.

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Phegan

in reply to uszo165 • 1 giorno fa • •

Swapped to pop!Os on my gaming PC on the 14 and not looking back.

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ViceroTempus

in reply to Phegan • 1 giorno fa • •

Same, really liking it. Bit of a learning curve, but in a fun way.

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Gary Ghost

in reply to uszo165 • 22 ore fa • •

Windows 8 is what pushed me to Linux. Linux is better than ever. Proton is just amazing.

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nek0d3r

in reply to uszo165 • 22 ore fa • •

I finally dumped Windows for KDE Neon on my desktop and my Surface about 5 months ago now. Never looked back.

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Fijxu

in reply to uszo165 • 22 ore fa • •

Bro I'm not going to wait 15 seconds to read that article fucking cloudflare, takes years to complete on a smartphone.

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boaratio

in reply to Fijxu • 21 ore fa • •

You're clearly not a human.

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Song Lyrics... Does any app (preferably FOSS) actually work on Android?

I tried a few on Fdroid and they didn't work.

#piracy

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seraphine

in reply to DeathByBigSad • 1 giorno fa • •

What exactly are you looking for? If you're looking dor a music player with integrated lyrics being shown line-by-line, try OuterTune one github.

GitHub - OuterTune/OuterTune: A Material 3 Music Player for Android with local file & YouTube Music support. Forked from InnerTune

A Material 3 Music Player for Android with local file & YouTube Music support. Forked from InnerTune - OuterTune/OuterTune

^GitHub

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DZZ

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I tried a lot of them. SongSync was the only app that gave me decent results. It can download synced lyrics like you want, but it depends on the lyrics provider. Spotify doesn't work, Apple does but kinda broken. Stick to the other options.

GitHub - Lambada10/SongSync: Android app to download lyrics for songs in your music library.

Android app to download lyrics for songs in your music library. - Lambada10/SongSync

^GitHub

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Biggest Job Loss Reported In Ages

https://archive.ph/YvfTV

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ThirdConsul

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I'm surprised to see you (of all people) posting an article glorifying the capitalism.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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I'm posting it for the numbers. Just because I post an article, doesn't mean I agree with the conclusions and opinion expressed by the author.

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via Technology

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Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system— up to 9x increase in output lets 213 GPUs perform like 1,192

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/alibaba-says-new-pooling-system-cut-nvidia-gpu-use-by-82-percent

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Avid Amoeba

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I would have never guessed that introducing resource constraints increases efficiency of resource use.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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I often think about how much energy we waste because our hardware is fast enough to allow for software bloat. The dynamics of capitalism select for making software that's just good enough to use and can be pushed out cheaply and quickly, meanwhile hardware companies benefit from software bloat because it allows them to sell new chips. If the dynamic was different, we would have far more efficient software stacks that would require a lot less power to run. If you scale it up to billions of users globally, it translates to an incredible amount of energy saving. It's another example of how capitalist incentives lead to horrendous inefficiency.

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Avid Amoeba

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You're obviously not wrong on the relationships between these variables. There's however use value in just-good-enough, easy-to-write, bloated software in that it could enable value creation and higher efficiency elsewhere. E.g. a shitty, power-hungry computer vision program that frees up 20 people from doing visual quality inspection of parts in a factory. These people can then do the manual work needed on additional lines, thus increasing the labour efficiency and output of the factory, and lowering the cost of the production per unit. Which frees up resources elsewhere in the economy, increasing the effect. All of which could more than offset the inefficiency of the original program and then some. Of course capitalism won't necessarily select for these use cases for bloat. More likely than not we're producing bloat that doesn't offset anything. But in a non-capitalist environment, such bloat might very well be desired. Especialy if you're trying to develop at speed that allows you to create deterrents before the US decides to liberate you from non-capitalism.

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I completely agree, it's not always black and white and there are plenty of cases where having inefficient software is better than not having anything at all. My main complaint is that the mechanics of the system select for bloat, and there's little incentive to go back and optimize things. In a sane system you could make something that's inefficient first, and then spend time to make it better if it becomes widely used. To a certain extent, we see this happening with open source stuff like Linux, where you can have a very lean system compared to commercial alternatives.

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Avid Amoeba

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Well there's definitely socialist dynamics in FOSS development. Most drivers in the Linux kernel were implemented because someone needed them, not for profit. The same is true for most things in the Debian repository. Also people generally own the means of producing that software. How do proprietary systems produced to maximize profit compete with software written to just work and cost nothing? FOSS is doing software product dumping! 😁 And the rest of the software economy has grown tremendously as a result. Imagine having to pay good money for a compiler. There were huge barriers back in the day.

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Why does a Local AI Voice Agent Running on a Super-Cheap Soc Matter?

Most recent news about AI seems to involve staggering amounts of money. OpenAI and Nvidia sign a $100b data center contract. Meta offers researchers $100m salaries. VCs invested almost $200b in AI …

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Ethiopia in Talks With China to Convert Dollar Loans Into Yuan

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Ethiopia in Talks With China to Convert Dollar Loans Into Yuan

Ethiopia started talks with China to convert at least part of the $5.38 billion it owes Beijing into yuan-denominated loans, following an example set by Kenya that bolsters China’s efforts to internationalize its currency.

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Funny federated comment:

And so Peter Navarro (remember him?) got hold of the monkey’s paw, and he said, “I wish we didn’t have a trade deficit with China,” and then the finger curled over.

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The Crushing Cost of U.S. Sanctions on Cuba

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37811665

[from Cuba In Context - weekly newsletter of the BellyOfTheBeast news/video collective]
Cuba has released its annual report on the impact of U.S. sanctions on the island's economy. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the damages amount to $7.5 billion, the single biggest loss in a year since Cuba began issuing these reports.
Also:
* Farm near Havana pioneers #agroecology
* Cuba wins gold at the Tokyo Athletics World Championships
* Almost 1,000 same-sex marriages in Cuba last year
* Cuban reggaeton artist returns home after emigrating to #US
* Cuba extends tax exemptions on medicine and food imports
* Millions of Cubans struggle to get water

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2025-10-20 14:54:08

The Crushing Cost of U.S. Sanctions on Cuba

[from Cuba In Context - weekly newsletter of the BellyOfTheBeast news/video collective]
Cuba has released its annual report on the impact of U.S. sanctions on the island's economy. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the damages amount to $7.5 billion, the single biggest loss in a year since Cuba began issuing these reports.
Also:
* Farm near Havana pioneers #agroecology
* Cuba wins gold at the Tokyo Athletics World Championships
* Almost 1,000 same-sex marriages in Cuba last year
* Cuban reggaeton artist returns home after emigrating to #US
* Cuba extends tax exemptions on medicine and food imports
* Millions of Cubans struggle to get water

https://groups.io/g/cubanews/message/43380

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The Crushing Cost of U.S. Sanctions on Cuba

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37811665

[from Cuba In Context - weekly newsletter of the BellyOfTheBeast news/video collective]
Cuba has released its annual report on the impact of U.S. sanctions on the island's economy. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the damages amount to $7.5 billion, the single biggest loss in a year since Cuba began issuing these reports.
Also:
* Farm near Havana pioneers #agroecology
* Cuba wins gold at the Tokyo Athletics World Championships
* Almost 1,000 same-sex marriages in Cuba last year
* Cuban reggaeton artist returns home after emigrating to #US
* Cuba extends tax exemptions on medicine and food imports
* Millions of Cubans struggle to get water

Peter Link

2025-10-20 14:54:08

The Crushing Cost of U.S. Sanctions on Cuba

[from Cuba In Context - weekly newsletter of the BellyOfTheBeast news/video collective]
Cuba has released its annual report on the impact of U.S. sanctions on the island's economy. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the damages amount to $7.5 billion, the single biggest loss in a year since Cuba began issuing these reports.
Also:
* Farm near Havana pioneers #agroecology
* Cuba wins gold at the Tokyo Athletics World Championships
* Almost 1,000 same-sex marriages in Cuba last year
* Cuban reggaeton artist returns home after emigrating to #US
* Cuba extends tax exemptions on medicine and food imports
* Millions of Cubans struggle to get water

https://groups.io/g/cubanews/message/43380

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The Crushing Cost of U.S. Sanctions on Cuba

[from Cuba In Context - weekly newsletter of the BellyOfTheBeast news/video collective]

Cuba has released its annual report on the impact of U.S. sanctions on the island's economy. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the damages amount to $7.5 billion, the single biggest loss in a year since Cuba began issuing these reports.

Also:
* Farm near Havana pioneers #agroecology
* Cuba wins gold at the Tokyo Athletics World Championships
* Almost 1,000 same-sex marriages in Cuba last year
* Cuban reggaeton artist returns home after emigrating to #US
* Cuba extends tax exemptions on medicine and food imports
* Millions of Cubans struggle to get water

https://groups.io/g/cubanews/message/43380

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The AI that we’ll have after AI

Pluralistic: The AI that we’ll have after AI (16 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Dolphin gets serious

You are going to fuck this up. Don't come crawling back to me when you lose all your data since the dawn of time and you completely brick this goddamn computer. This is your one and only warning.

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With this ~~character's~~ file's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a ~~saved game~~ backup to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.

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ELI5: Is browsing on 4g/5g networks less secure than on your own wifi?

And does that change whether using a VPN or not? With VPN I'd assume its the same.

#privacy

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It's going to depend on what types of data you are looking to protect, how you have your wifi configured, what type of sites you are accessing and whom you are willing to trust.

To start with, if you are accessing unencypted websites (HTTP) at least part of the communications will be in the clear and open to inspection. You can mitigate this somewhat with a VPN. However, this means that you need to implicitly trust the VPN provider with a lot of data. Your communications to the VPN provider would be encrypted, though anyone observing your connection (e.g. your ISP) would be able to see that you are communicating with that VPN provider. And any communications from the VPN provider to/from the unencrypted website would also be in the clear and could be read by someone sniffing the VPN exit node's traffic (e.g. the ISP used by the VPN exit node) Lastly, the VPN provider would have a very clear view of the traffic and be able to associate it with you.

For encrypted websites (HTTPS), the data portion of the communications will usually be well encrypted and safe from spying (more on this in a sec). However, it may be possible for someone (e.g. your ISP) to snoop on what domains you are visiting. There are two common ways to do this. The first is via DNS requests. Any time you visit a website, your browser will need to translate the domain name to an IP address. This is what DNS does and it is not encrypted by default. Also, unless you have taken steps to avoid it, it likely your ISP is providing DNS for you. This means that they can just log all your requests, giving them a good view of the domains you are visiting. You can use something like DNS Over Https (DOH), which does encrypt DNS requests and goes to specific servers; but, this usually requires extra setup and will work regardless of using your local WiFi or a 5g/4g network. The second way to track HTTPS connections is via a process called Server Name Identification (SNI). In short, when you first connect to a web server your browser needs to tell that server which domain it wants to connect to, so that the server can send back the correct TLS certificate. This is all unencrypted and anyone inbetween (e.g. your ISP) can simply read that SNI request to know what domains you are connecting to. There are mitigations for this, specifically Encrypted Server Name Identification (ESNI), but that requires the web server to implement it, and it's not widely used. This is also where a VPN can be useful, as the SNI request is encrypted between your system and the VPN exit node. Though again, it puts a lot of trust in the VPN provider and the VPN provider's ISP could still see the SNI request as it leaves the VPN network. Though, associating it with you specifically might be hard.

As for the encrypted data of an HTTPS connection, it is generally safe. So, someone might know you are visiting lemmy.ml, but they wouldn't be able to see what communities you are reading or what you are posting. That is, unless either your device or the server are compromised. This is why mobile device malware is a common attack vector for the State level threat actors. If they have malware on your device, then all the encryption in the world ain't helping you. There are also some attacks around forcing your browser to use weaker encryption or even the attacker compromising the server's certificate. Though these are likely in the realm of targeted attacks and unlikely to be used on a mass scale.

So ya, not exactly an ELI5 answer, as there isn't a simple answer. To try and simplify, if you are visiting encrypted websites (HTTPS) and you don't mind your mobile carrier knowing what domains you are visiting, and your device isn't compromised, then mobile data is fine. If you would prefer your home ISP being the one tracking you, then use your home wifi. If you don't like either of them tracking you, then you'll need to pick a VPN provider you feel comfortable with knowing what sites you are visiting and use their software on your device. And if your device is compromised, well you're fucked anyway and it doesn't matter what network you are using.

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Secure against whom?

If it's from a random thief, both are about equality secure, they rely on proven cryptographic methods.

If it's from somebody powerful enough to make an ISP bend the knee, then they are equally insecure because those cryptographic methods assume you trust the underlying infrastructure. If you do not though, then yes using a VPN will help as you are adding your own level of encryption on top.

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Windows privacy: AtlasOS vs Amelabs Privacy+?

AtlasOS: atlasos.net/
Amelabs Privacy+: docs.amelabs.net/privacy/_plus…

I use a Windows VM for apps not available on Linux and just want to cut out all the telemetry possible.

AtlasOS is installed as a Ameliorated Playbook and makes a ton of opinionated changes that aren’t privacy or necessarily performance related. Disabling the Windows 11 right click menus in favor of the legacy one, disabling window shadows, changing the wallpaper, etc. Privacy+ looks appealing, I wanna know if anyone has tried both and can tell me differences, like if one or the other improves privacy more.

Privacy+ Playbook

Completely transform your computer in minutes. Simply download a verified Playbook, or use your own, and run it in AME Wizard.

^{Ameliorated Documentation}

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eleijeep

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Could you please use the cross-post feature instead of making a separate post in each community? That way our front-ends can consolidate multiple cross-posts into one post instead of it being listed multiple times.

Honestly, doing it your way looks like spam. This is what I see in my feed:

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TheTwelveYearOld

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Oh sorry, I had heard that was fixed awhile ago but apparently not.

What I don't like about lemmy crossposts is having the whole post text inside block quotes, and sometimes isn't formatted properly. I think that and showing a link to the original post is bad design, like why would it matter if a post is a crosspost or not?

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President Xi Jinping's remarks on the formulation of 15th Five-Year Plan

President Xi Jinping has made instructions on the formulation of China's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) on different occasions.

^CGTN

#china

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How China fostered growth, innovation amid global uncertainties in the past five years

Explainer: How China fostered growth, innovation amid global uncertainties in the past five years

With the fourth plenary session of the 20th Communist Party of China Central Committee scheduled on Monday to review proposals for the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), it is an opportune moment to reflect on how the country has navigated its developm…

^CGTN

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Drawing lessons from the Cuban Revolution: organization, unity, and internationalism

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/19/drawing-lessons-from-the-cuban-revolution-organization-unity-and-internationalism/

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La tecnologia nel solarpunk è fatta dalle decisioni di una comunità che codifica i suoi strumenti.

Technology as crystallized community

"Ice Crystals" photo CC-BY spurekar For a few years now, I've been analyzing how technology is represented in fiction and popular culture.

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I see the Italians are onto me...

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CNN anchor apologizes for saying freed Israeli hostages were 'treated better' than Gazans

CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour apologized Monday after claiming that Israeli hostages freed from Hamas captivity were “treated better” than Gazans — remarks that provoked furious backlash from Israel supporters.

The longtime international correspondent retracted her statement on air just hours after Hamas released the final 20 living hostages under a cease-fire agreement brokered by the United States and Egypt.

Amanpour’s mea culpa came after she earlier told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins that the hostages “were probably being treated better than the average Gazan, because they are the pawns and the chips that Hamas had.”

“That was insensitive, and it was wrong,” Amanpour said during a broadcast on Monday.

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour apologizes for saying freed Israeli hostages were 'treated better' than Gazans

“That was insensitive, and it was wrong,” Christiane Amanpour said during a broadcast on Monday.

^{Ariel Zilber (New York Post)}

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CNN anchor apologizes for saying freed Israeli hostages were 'treated better' than Gazans

“That was insensitive, and it was wrong,” Amanpour said during a broadcast on Monday.

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour apologizes for saying freed Israeli hostages were 'treated better' than Gazans

“That was insensitive, and it was wrong,” Christiane Amanpour said during a broadcast on Monday.

^{Ariel Zilber (New York Post)}

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Yeah but world comm didn't cause so put link I posted there here.

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geneva_convenience

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They are kind of right because NYPost is a rag outlet. I just find the headline funny.

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DeepSeek releases DeepSeek OCR

LLMs totally choke on long context because of that O(n2) scaling nightmare. It's the core scaling problem for almost all modern LLMs because of their self-attention mechanism.

In simple terms, for every single token in the input, the attention mechanism has to look at and calculate a score against every other single token in that same input.

So, if you have a sequence with n tokens, the first token compares itself to all n tokens. The second token also compares itself to all n tokens... and so on. This means you end up doing n*n, or n^2, calculations.

This is a nightmare because the cost doesn't grow nicely. If you double your context length, you're not doing 2x the work; you're doing 2^2=4x the work. If you 10x the context, you're doing 10^2=100x the work. This explodes the amount of computation and, more importantly, the GPU memory needed to store all those scores. This is the fundamental bottleneck that stops you from just feeding a whole book into a model.

Well, DeepSeek came up with a novel solution to just stop feeding the model text tokens. Instead, you render the text as an image and feed the model the picture. It sounds wild, but the whole point is that a huge wall of text can be "optically compressed" into way, way fewer vision tokens.

To do this, they built a new thing called DeepEncoder. It’s a clever stack that uses a SAM-base for local perception, then a 16x convolutional compressor to just crush the token count, and then a CLIP model to get the global meaning. This whole pipeline means it can handle high-res images without the GPU just melting from memory activation.

And the results are pretty insane. At a 10x compression ratio, the model can look at the image and "decompress" the original text with about 97% precision. It still gets 60% accuracy even at a crazy 20x compression. As a bonus, this thing is now a SOTA OCR model. It beats other models like MinerU2.0 while using fewer than 800 tokens when the other guy needs almost 7,000. It can also parse charts into HTML, read chemical formulas, and understands like 100 languages.

The real kicker is what this means for the future. The authors are basically proposing this as an LLM forgetting mechanism. You could have a super long chat where the recent messages are crystal clear, but older messages get rendered into blurrier, lower-token images. It's a path to unlimited context by letting the model's memory fade, just like a human's.

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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That's a really clever, interesting solution. DeepSeek seems to be leaning hard into optimization and efficiency where other AI companies are just throwing more money at more hardware.

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Yeah, it's refreshing to see the focus being on actual efficiency.

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fruitycoder

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Honestly effenciy, more hardware options and federated are the only real AI advancements that makes huge waves to me. Like getting a reasonable output out of a hundreds of billion dollar DC just isn't as cool as: your PC, phone, toaster can now do xyz or contribute to xyz

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Yeah, I'm mostly excited about LLMs that can be run locally. And it really does look like there's a lot more optimizing that can happen going forward. Stuff like this is also really exciting. It'd be pretty amazing if we get to the point where models that perform as well as current 600+ billion parameter ones could run on a phone.

GitHub - BICLab/SpikingBrain-7B

Contribute to BICLab/SpikingBrain-7B development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Interesting. We're coming full circle to text being read as images. Like all text was before computers.

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turns out a picture is really worth a thousand words 😀

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Enceladus

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Does it add Egyptian hieroglyphes to CS major or should I just learn Babylonian akkadian like every new freshman?

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Protestation

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Hamas EXECUTES Collaborators as "Israel" Violates All Terms of Ceasefire

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I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

Piped

An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

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[Video] Father of released captive Omri Miran says Hamas took him to the beach for fun days

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025

Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

BlueMonday1984

2025-10-12 23:00:04

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

https://awful.systems/post/5853532

#techtakes

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JFranek

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Simon Willison writes a fawning blog post about the new "Claude skills" (which are basically files with additional instructions for specific tasks for the bot to use)

How does he decide to demonstrate these awesome new capabilities?

By making a completely trash, seizure inducing GIF...

simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/…

He even admits it's garbage. How do you even get to the point that you think that's something you want to advertise? Even the big slop monger companies manage to cherry pick their demos.

Just felt like I got an aneurysm there.

(in unrelated things, first)

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP

Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …

^{Simon Willison’s Weblog}

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Artificial Intelligence: Workers' unions must shape deployment and regulation

The ITUC has released a new report on the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on working people, with a clear call for trade unions to be fully involved in shaping how AI is deployed and regulated.

^{www.ituc-csi.org}

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App e servizi in down per malfunzionamenti AWS: interessate Canva, Alexa, Fortnite, Prime Video e altri

Lunedì 20 ottobre 2025 un maxi-down ha colpito numerose piattaforme globali a causa di problemi ai server di Amazon Web Services (AWS). Il disservizio, partito dal cloud di Amazon, ha generato interruzioni e rallentamenti a catena su applicazioni consumer e strumenti professionali in tutto il mondo, con oltre duemila segnalazioni registrate negli Stati Uniti e problemi di navigazione segnalati anche in Italia.

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