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flatpaks are objectively better though.

I don’t get it. Why is everyone donating to Omarchy. What are they hoping to get from that?

Two reasons. Firstly because it’s illegal to have the same distro on two different machines, and secondly because I’ve been meaning to switch back to OpenSUSE for a while (but I ain’t gonna be gaming on OpenSUSE).

Why OpenSUSE specifically? Firstly, my general rule is “upstream or Mint (because screw snaps)”. CachyOS was a decision I made prior to this rule but otherwise I have 6 options (Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, and OpenSUSE). A rolling release is out of the question, so Arch’s out. Ubuntu’s always out. Based on what I’ve heard, Fedora and OpenSUSE are the two leaders when it comes to desktop security on Linux. I value security so Mint and Debian are out. Fedora tends to adopt new technologies fast, which isn’t really what I want. So by process of elimination, OpenSUSE it is. Another part of it is nostalgia. I used it briefly when I was first switching to Linux full-time. I ran into various issues and moved off it. Private internet access wouldn’t install, I didn’t even know what proprietary media codecs were, and tumbleweed had a few bugs that caused me trouble. Despite all that, I’m nostalgic for it partly because of the themes I ended up installing.

IIRC the CachyOS optimizations were basically a rounding error. I’m thinking of just switching my gaming PC to Fedora.

The first one refers to men. It can be inferred that the second one refers to women.

Your computer has, on a hardware level, sent unique identifiers to ISPs and websites since Pentium IIIs.

Source?

Please stop with the personal attacks on open source maintainers.

There are profile pictures?

Linux builds suck, they're less well maintained than the Windows build. If Valve gave me the option to use Proton by default even when there is a native Linux build, I would enable that in a heartbeat.

Based on what I’ve heard, Fedora and OpenSUSE are the two leaders when it comes to desktop security on Linux.

Any criticism should be directed primarily at the laws, not the person who suggested adding a birthdate field to the user.json. Open source is dependent on volunteers contributing their time. The developers at SystemD have been receiving death threats over this. This article includes his name, face, workplace. I know that information is publicly available but the Geoguessr experts aren't the people we need to worry about.

If Windows 12 was just a Linux distro with Windows branding, it would probably be just as successful.

Oh no, your house just burnt down. Now all your data is gone.

Do people rate that highly, or just play a lot of it?

Furthermore, social media promotes addiction through endless scrolling, which can impair brain development.

I think this is the big one that's driving this push for age verification. The issue of YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and Lemmy rotting kids brains has gotten measurable and significant. I think Gen Alpha is the first generation to end up less academically capable than their parents. The status quo is considered untenable by voters, politicians, and the Epstein class alike. Not to mention the impacts on mental health. If anything the issue is that the legislation is too centered on kids. That's problematic firstly because it requires proof of age, and secondly because adults aren't immune to brain rot and addiction.

Inference is dirt cheap. Short of a botnet, nothing we do will at all impact Grok's finances. EDIT: I haven't actually done the math if it is actually dirt cheap. But assuming it isn't, then that makes it even more important not to use such a carbon-intensive AI.

I find iPhones themselves dystopian.

In the case of email, security is more important than privacy. The country your provider is based in doesn't matter. Hypothetically if we were talking about something like a VPN, it would need to be a country which values privacy and which has a vaguely hostile attitude to America. I have no idea what country that would be.

It should be the law that any information a online service collects about it's users should be given to the government immediately and unconditionally, then suddenly people will start really caring about how much information a service has access to.

They're two sides of the same coin. Can't have privacy without security and can't have security without privacy. Looking at the post though he's specifically talking about advanced security as a means of preserving privacy, security you'd need if (based on his model) targeted by a government (whether foreign or your local police forensics team). I don't think his model is correct though because while extra hardened security is useful to protect privacy in such an instance, it's also just best practice because it's better to have too much security than not enough, just to keep your bank account secure at least.

I think both approaches are too extreme. Supporting every device leads to poor security, poor stability, and therefore a poor user experience, but only supporting just Google devices (while there is a good reason for that) is a step too far for most people. If I were in the position of e/os I'd just support probably three manufacturers. Going through the major ones that I know of: Motorola and Google are obvious picks. Next would need to be something cheap and popular. Samsung is way out of the question. Xiaomi and Vivo I've never seen their phones mentioned outside of China (which is a country that generally doesn't have the same privacy considerations as people in the west do). That leaves Oneplus and Tecno Mobile for the third model.

That's not the computer doing it, that's the services you use going out of their way to gather one by combining data which has other legitimate purposes. Not so much being "sent" as it is being "abused". Unless we want to count Microsoft's "advertiser ID".

There's normally a reason when that assortment of countries chooses to abstain (the no voters are normally just evil). In this case it's likely the use of the word "gravest". I'd say the holocaust was worse, at least in the slave trade the people were just a means to an end. The holocaust involved torture by design and aimed to erase an entire religion. Others may disagree, but there's at least room for doubt on the declaration that it's the "gravest".

As an open-source volunteer, you work for the community, right?

1. They don't work for anyone.
2. Even if they did, it sure as hell wouldn't be for you.
3. Even if they did work for you, they are under no obligation to even think about breaking the law for you.

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If I remembered it, it wouldn't be overrated.

The carbon intensity wont make the product go away, but the economic cost will.

The product won't go away either way. I can't foresee a scenario where Musk kills Grok. Short of a catastrophic global energy crisis that makes anything AI basically impossible to sustain, but that'd never happen.

The stereotype of pedophiles in cop shows is that they use desktop computers anyway, not phones. Don't know how true to reality that is though.

I'd have paid the fee for ad-free YouTube if it didn't also come with an (expensive) subscription to YouTube music. Nowadays though I don't want to give Google money for anything, even incidentally. I just use Ublock Origin.

The fact you're being downvoted so heavily, when you're completely correct, really makes me question the quality of the lemmy "community". I'm Australian though so it's not like I have other options.

I have two red lines.

• Retaining my personal information.
• Giving it to Peter Thiel.

If I had to give my photo ID to Mullvad to access a VPN, I would do it. I trust they wouldn't retain it nor give it to Peter Thiel.

If only you had a copy on your local drive, just in case any of that happened. Real shame about that fire though.

I've just heard tales. If a game doesn't work on Linux I just put it at the bottom of my backlog and hope it's eventually fixed. Baldur's Gate 3 apparently had a Linux build that didn't work well on anything but the Steam deck, and Left 4 Dead 2 apparently has a terrible Linux port.

The Australian government will do nothing of note, because the scapegoating of the prime minister by the press wasted all of the government's political capital that they were saving up for some big swings. Combustion engine cars become basically irrelevant outside of the US, Canada, and EU. Because if a country doesn't have a domestic car industry then cheap Chinese ev's are just better. In Australia you can see quite a lot of them. For a big swing, I'm going with Trump dying. He's pretty old, does not live a very healthy lifestyle, and he's got some pretty rabid followers. I'll hedge my bets and say Trump or Musk.

Climate change worsening is a given. I'm going to predict that the forecasted warming goes down thanks to Chinese production (like every year).

Firstly, the ID requirements for renting a place to live are a more apt example. Secondly, it depends how the ID is used. If my ID isn't being associated with my online traffic then it isn't the end of the world.

You need ID to drive a car, which is essential in modern America. Worse still you need ID to rent a house and that's normally getting fed straight into a massive insecure database. The advantage of Linux is that we could theoretically choose who we give our ID to (whether that's Red Hat, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Debian, Arch, etc). Handing over your ID is necessary for some essential parts of modern life, and while I wouldn't want to hand it over to access my operating system, I would be able to accept it. Thinking critically, let's imagine that only government approved companies could verify your ID and those companies are Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Persona. At that point I'd ... really hate it but I'd hand over my ID. Then I'd double check my operating system isn't logging and sharing my internet traffic. There's no indication that our online traffic will be required by law to be linked with our proven ID. If such a thing does happen, then firstly we are totally screwed, and secondly it would likely involve all major websites participating. We fundamentally won't be able to get around it in that case.

Your response again doesn't really follow from what I wrote. It retains some key words but not the ideas. Browser fingerprinting which exists because the average person can't be bothered concealing it and the theoretical sharing of your ID with the sites you visit due to a government mandate are two entirely different things. The relevant difference is that the government doesn't mandate browser fingerprinting, it exists because it is technologically possible and the mitigation measures are more inconvenient than the average user is willing to deal with. As for normalizing OS-level ID checks as a slippery slope towards sharing your full ID as part of a HTTP request ... firstly that is not something you can get around with an alternative distro anyway, because it would involve all major websites. Secondly, that is a hypothetical within a hypothetical. Thirdly, if that really is the path that we're on, now is not is not the most effective time to oppose it, because the slippery slope argument is far more persuasive from the bottom of the slope. EDIT: I think I just did the same thing I accused you of, talking past you. My response basically just rejects your core conceit, that being a distinction between the private power-user experience and the non-private normie experience, and nothing else. I'll need to edit this. EDIT 2: Okay, fixed.

Parts of what you just said are not really a proper response to what I said, either because of accuracy or relevance. So I'm just going to address the one important part of what you said, metadata. I didn't consider metadata because I treat proof of age as what it is, proof of age with proof of identity being incidental. If visiting a website requires handing over my full birthday, "hardware ID", or real identity then I would be concerned, but we're not there yet. It's a widely held view in the general public that you should be able to browse the internet privately just like you should be able to browse a library without the government seeing a log of every book you read, and I hope that would be enough to resolve this. The general public is not very concerned about browser fingerprinting, which effectively erases user privacy, but government mandated sharing of your identity online would be a red line that would get the normies involved.

He's adding age verification for the internet, not sending people to gas chambers. You really need to touch grass, urgently, because clearly your dependence on the internet is not healthy.

You can't put license conditions on LGPL code. Surprised you got 49 upvotes with nobody explaining that.

Finally a sane take. To take things further this whole outrage reads as a Karen screaming at a starbucks cashier and threatening to boycott the store because they asked for her name. It's an overreaction to a minor issue, by someone who overestimate their power, directed at someone who has no real power, while the Palantir surveillance system runs on the cameras behind them.

As does Private Internet Access.

That's the best part. You'd only get those pointless features if you paid money. If you didn't you'd get the Pale Moon browser (or something like it).

By "free browsers" I didn't mean "free versions". I'm thinking more along the lines of Pale Moon or Konqueror (in it's early days), third-party FOSS browsers with limited features.

I think web browsers would make sense as a subscription. The battle to keep them secure is intense and always ongoing. I think Firefox and Chrome should be subscriptions, while free browsers should have a drastically reduced feature set.

Other countries just do raw scores. Whether it's a good or bad score is up to a kid's imagination.

Searching a large dataset with a vague search criteria. Real-time feedback when studying a foreign language (since accuracy is less important than quantity). Apparently in medicine they’re using generative AI for something meaningful, but I’m not entirely convinced it is actually generative AI and I’d need to do more research. Sometimes it can help in learning to program and in sanity-checking code security.

I’ll take it to use as a computer desk.