There is also LTSC, which is much lighter than regular Windows 11, and does not have the ridiculous requirements.
Should we use *Linux when referring to the entire system, instead of Linux?
I've been thinking about the best way to refer to systems that use the Linux kernel, whilst avoiding the confusions that come with using the latter for both meanings. Since there are GNU and non-GNU (e.g, Alpine Linux) systems, I assume that *Linux would cover both. However, for users without a technical background, the asterisk means much less than it does to developers — this seems self-deprecating, considering that the point of the suggested term is to avoid confusion for NON-TECHNICAL users. Am I overthinking?
It means that a project isn't hosted on a country that is actively hostile towards the libre software movement. Privacy is dependent on the country, because e.g. the NSA may try to backdoor projects hosted in the US more than in other countries.
Basically, Expat-like licenses do not use the copyleft system: When you distribute a project that's copyleft licensed, you must give the exact same rights you were given (including the source code, license terms, etc). To resume this in 1 quote "the rights of one ends where the rights of the other begin"
I actually agree with you, especially in the last sentence. Knowing the Cambridge Analytica Scandal, governments are definitely willing to manipulate children through control of information.
Prohibition never works; people will always find other bad — maybe even worse — things to do. The human pressure to have social interactions may lead to creating terrible IRL friendships, ones that can be much more dangerous.
Instead, I would strongly advise for honest, mature conversations about the risks that social media comes along with. This can lead to a highly positive impact, especially if you teach how to observe interactions between people through social media, even if not interacting, yourself.
This article actually became true… What's happening in this world?!?
Yeah, with the exception that is some (a lot) of the laptops, and many pre-builts too. But they are a lot better than consoles nonetheless, no matter which other (Desktop, Laptop, even Tablets if you're looking for a challenge) you use. I'm still rocking on my Intel Celeron N3060!
On with my Intel Celeron! Long live game optimization!
A short introduction about Hit Selecting (1.8 or below only)
Introduction & Notes
Hit selecting is one of the most powerful methods in 1.8 PvP, although it only truly became popular after 2022, mainly because of the Boxing and Ranked BedWars communities.
Do keep in mind that this is mainly taken from a GitHub issue I made for a cheat client — nonetheless, everything still applies perfectly.
Mechanics Involved
There are multiple phenomenons which make hit selecting exceedingly useful, so I'll start from that:
1: Due to how combat mechanics work, you can get free hits / combos if you hit at a different time than your opponent, given the correct distance.
2: Hit selecting makes you hit the ground earlier — this may lead to you being faster, which, combined with a sprint resetting technique, will make you deal more knockback than your opponent, potentially allowing you to initiate a combo. In many servers, there is also a Spigot fork that has custom knockback, perhaps including a ground and a sprint multiplier — making the advantage even g
This is likely because, right from the beginning, we're taught to directly correlate nudity with sexuality — this is not easy to solve, for the majority of people.
While I understand your point, the biggest misconception about the 1984 book is that it's mainly about surveillance — it's about manipulation of words, e.g. Ministry of "Peace".
He probably thinks they're Chinese spies, and the tariffs are going to stop them.
Sorry for chiming in at about a year later, but I see some issues with the state of "Free Software":
1: IMO, Libre Software is a better way to say it, since it doesn't have the ambiguity that "Free Software" does. 2: Revolt is a perfectly fine replacement for Discord - it has almost no bugs, and works identically to the latter. 3: The average person does not, and will never code. Libre Software movements like the FSF should focus on more practical benefits of Libre Software, although not ignoring ethical concerns (e.g. never being locked out of your software is a big benefit, that covers both practical and ethical considerations)
Please do correct me if I'm wrong about something I said, but I wrote this with all the knowledge I currently have.
That hardware is very powerful, so Linux Mint (maybe Debian Edition) will do the trick.
This, too.
Keep in mind my response may have things added, as I verify and look into what you said, but here it is:
1: The Supreme Court is dominated by Republican Justices, which, if you take Trump's stance about judges being corrupt and bla bla bla, that also applies for his judges - and Trump never accepted the election loss, so the abortion right removal technically happened in his presidency.
2: I never did imply that abortion has anything to do with DOGE, I separated those two things with something called a comma (which you haven't used at all - oh, that explains it!). Medicare and Medicaid are, however, likely going to be cut off to save those juicy $1T to then give more money to the wealthy.
3: The rights being removed are not all by DOGE, but all are tied to the Trump administration, which does include DOGE.
This is officially rambling territory, but did you that if 99.99% of Elon Musk's money (assuming he has between 300 and 400 billion dollars) was evenly split between every US citizen, everyone in the US would get 1000+ dollars, and Elon Musk would still have 30-40 million?
Even if he just lost 99.8% of his money, he'd have an enormous amount of wealth ($800M), and the US citizens would still get a lot of money? Do that but 6 times (to count for every billionaire, making each keep $800M), and uni-statians would get $5K each!
P.S. Poverty only happens because the wealthy want to subjugate the working class, and make rebels not make it through.
The right for abortion, healthcare (by the DOGE bullshit), among other rights.
I understand where you're coming from, but there are some flaws with your reasoning:
- About Kernel anti-cheats: if you wish, you can dual-boot Windows and any GNU+Linux distro, without any issues.
- The LibreOffice thing: there is OnlyOffice, and even M$ Office has Open Document format compatibility.
I think so too. I just checked his profile, and it's riddled with overly controversial opinions, to ridiculous extents.
Not that bad - the start menu opens in about 2 seconds, but some apps can take much longer (highly depends, but up to 6-10 seconds). I can easily work with a minimal, Windows 9x layout, if that means I will get a significant performance boost.
Which Distribution and Desktop Environment should I use?
Background: I am a lifelong Windows user who is planning to move to Linux in October, once Microsoft drops support for Windows 10. I use a particularly bad laptop (Intel Celeron N3060, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, 64 GB eMMC storage).
I do have some degree of terminal experience in Windows, but I would not count on it. If there are defaults that are sensible enough, I'd appreciate it. I can also configure through mouse-based text editors, as long as there is reliable, concise documentation on that app.
So, here's what I want in a distro and desktop environment:
- Easy to install, maintain (graphical installation and, preferably, package management too + auto-updating for non-critical applications)
- Lightwight and snappy (around 800 MB idle RAM usage, 10-16 GB storage usage in a base install)
- Secure (using Wayland, granular GUI-based permission control)
I have narrowed down the distributions and desktop environments that seem promising, but want y'all's opinions on them.
Distributions:
Questions about Argon2id and authentication handling overall
Is it a good idea to crank up the settings in Argon2id to max (20 iterations, 100 length, salted) for applications? I'm new to the cybersecurity subject, but I assume keeping the hashing as slow as possible (and a longer hash length = fewer chances of collusion) helps fight against brute-forcing. Is that correct?
Also, what is the security of having a password logging in system that: 1: Uses the max Argon2id settings, to make the authentication slow 2: Makes it take 1–2 seconds (in a circle loading style) for it to either fail, or succeed 3: Adds a 1-second cooldown, increasing by 0.5s by every failed attempt (any successful attempt in that cooldown is ignored, it just says that it's on cooldown nevertheless)
I'm open to suggestions! (I'm not implementing everything, but thought experiments are a good place to start, IMO)
Thoughts about a Progressive Tax Rehaul?
As the title goes. This would involve turning the tax levels / brackets into an exponential mathematical curve. One of the benefits off of the top of my head, is that people wouldn't be scared of their salary increasing just enough, to actually lower their clean income. Another one would be that you can lower even further the tax rate for middle / low class, because you (the government) would receive more from taxes. Any opinions/ideas for this?