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GravelPieceOfSword

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  • The Key

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  • Ian, is that you? I know things are still in flux, but it's good to finally hear from you!

  • Mastodon Says App Downloads Up 47% on iOS Amid Twitter Exodus

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  • I learned to follow hashtags, not people on mastodon myself..

  • Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS

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  • wayDroid does let you do that, in a fairly lightweight way (uses Linux namespaces iirc, similar to lxc.

    It's still not full native, which would be even nicer. I play droidfish on my Linux machines using it.

  • Mozilla hit with privacy complaint over Firefox user tracking

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  • Because hosting costs money, and sustainable services need revenue sources.

    News we read was put together by a team of journalists, editors, etc.

    Video streaming takes a lot of storage, bandwidth, processing, licensing.

    And so on.

    Price gouging is bad, but reasonable income is necessary.

    Billboard ads that don't target users and don't track effectiveness are dangerous financially for advertisers, and would pay much less to ad hosters.

    Anonymous, aggregated tracking is a healthy compromise.

  • Waydroid is pretty awesome

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  • I'll be honest here: I switched my main laptop from slow roll to Linux Mint to install it several months back to install wayDroid. I've been happy with the switch. Here are my thoughts:

    1. I'd installed Linux Mint + wayDroid on the laptop of various family members, and really liked what I saw
    2. Runa-chin has done a great job providing instructions and packages to install it on tumbleweed, but it has quirks that I didn't feel like fighting. It just works out of the box in Mint.
    3. I like having KDE plasma 6 on slow roll, but the cosmetic difference from plasma 5 is minimal (it's more performance/longer term). I'm ok with sticking with plasma 5 if I get a painless wayDroid installation
    4. Slow roll is generally stable, but updates have burned me a few times in the past year. More stability is always nicer
    5. Flatpak + appimage + snap (yes, I don't mind using whatever is officially recommended on the project website of whatever I'm trying to install, though it would be nicer to have more official flatpaks) make it such that while my base is stable, I can still get some pretty recent packages

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    Waydroid is pretty awesome

    waydro.id

  • Mozilla hit with privacy complaint over Firefox user tracking

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  • Kudos for putting together good reasons that you don't like PPA, while also acknowledging that Mozilla is trying to solve a problem.

    Yours is one of the very few reasonable objections I've read IMO - when the PPA outrage first erupted, I read through how it worked. Unique ID + website unaware of interaction, but browser recognizing, then feeding it to an intermediate aggregator that anonymizes data by aggregating from multiple users without sharing their IDs, with the aim of trying to find a middle ground seems fair to me. Especially with the opt-out being so easy.

    However, your points about classes clickbait encouragement, SEO feeding, and the uncertainty that this will solve the web spamminess as it is are valid concerns.

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    Is this heaven or is this hell?

  • Oh the humanity!

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  • I wonder if this is heaven or hell 😅

  • Linux Market Share Reaches New Peak: July 2024 Report

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  • It is finally upon us.

    THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP!

    Terms and conditions apply. It could be the next year, or the year after, or not at all.

  • Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other

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  • Sounds like dogs barking at/with each other in the night back when I was growing up. You'd hear the occasional how-how-hoooooww from one of them, and others would join in. Wolf'ish in some ways. The city I grew up in was much less crowded back then.

    Now: I guess self driving cars fill in the void left by dogs not barking at each other anymore.

    🐺 --- > 🚗

  • What are some good name suggestions for the rebranding of OpenSuse?

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  • Zyppos

  • Do you know any mobile games that don't suck?

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  • Do you know any mobile games that don't suck?

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  • supertuxkart SuperTuxKart (A 3D arcade racer with a variety of characters, tracks, and modes to play.

  • Google’s Privacy Chief Is Out And Will Not Be Replaced

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  • Nominative determinism is pretty accurate. Steve Jobs did generate a lot of jobs. Bill Gates had a lot of gates to his name.

    </joke>

    just in case it wasn't obvious

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    Microplastics found in every human testicle in study

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  • Balls of plastic. Descended from balls of steel 💪

  • FOSS AI painting with Krita

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  • This is the caveat for me for now.

    To run locally a powerful graphics card with at least 6 GB VRAM is recommended. Otherwise generating images will take very long!

    I've got decent RAM on an I9, but my graphics card, which is what matters here, isn't up to par.

  • Stable, consistent workstation recommendations?

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  • Linux Mint Debian Edition would be a pretty solid, pre-customized distribution.

    I've had great experiences with Linux on Lenovo over the years: would be my first recommendation.

    I currently use a Dell Inspiron, while it's works great, I had to do some extra work occasionally. I love that I can get fingerprint login with it on Linux though.

  • How fast is Plasma on old hardware?

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  • Why not try it for yourself on Linux mint first by installing plasma? Plasma 5 is available on mint - I believe Fedora has plasma 6.

    I use plasma 6 on my Opensuse Slowroll laptop and plasma 5 on my LMDE desktop.

    Overall, I've found plasma 6 to run slightly better (I was on plasma 5 on Slowroll too for a long time).

    Once you install and try plasma 5 on your current install, that will be a much less disruptive way to see how well it works for you.

    After ricing, both plasma 5 and 6 are pretty similar on my setup. The cube desktop effect isn't there by default on plasma 5 of course.

  • Linux for Kids?

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  • I second endless os. Parental controls, locked down system, comes prepackaged with many educational apps.

  • Linux GUI termserv

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  • Sorry, good catch.

    It had been a while since I had played briefly with kiosk mode in a VM: I misremembered the project (the one I played with was still available)

    I had found it interesting, and had set it up... Probably been around a year or so.

    The project I used was Gnome kiosk, not Fedora kiosk.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Fwupd Will Use Zstd Compression

    9to5linux.com /linux-firmware-update-utility-fwupd-will-use-zstd-compression-for-future-releases
  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
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    BRABIX - the Linux Mascot! (Happy April 1st)

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Commuting across timezones

    goo.gl /maps/wLuEApgAYmyut79n9
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    CUPS mirror image printer setup

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    SpiralLinux - It's really Debian underneath the hood!

  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    Bug busters 🦟🦗🐛🐜🐞🪲

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Certificate management

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Linux advocacy discussion (mastodon)

    mastodon.social /@veroandi/111041605637842348
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Tetris on termux on Android phone

  • Linux Tips 💡 @lemmy.ca
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    DEV stickers I recently bought for $10 on Amazon (206 count)

  • Linux Tips 💡 @lemmy.ca
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    Screaming at your program smartly

  • Quotes @lemmy.ca
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    "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anonymous

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
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    I want to exit, help!

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
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    Rabbitholes

  • nixos @lemmy.ml
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    NIX Question: NIX installed package on a non-nixos system - Using with vscode and compiling source

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
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    Listen to lolcat fortune turtle

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Teens Hacked Boston Subway’s CharlieCard to Get Infinite Free Rides

    www.wired.com /story/mtba-charliecard-hack-defcon-2023/