Aradia

Aradia , 5 months ago

I don’t even have an Amazon account, I don’t care what they want to do.

Aradia , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

I dislike your comment, I dislike the Amazon business model, that’s why I’m saying I don’t even have an Amazon account. Then, I don’t care whatever they do, still I want to get informed of tech news. Any other question? btw -> www.amazon.com/privacy/data-deletion

Aradia , 5 months ago

Exactly, the problem is that even if you pay for the subscription, they will still use your data for their profit. Big companies are so abusive…

Aradia , 5 months ago

You should cross-post this to: [email protected]

Aradia , 5 months ago

ktorrent and keepassXC are better for me.

Aradia , 5 months ago

Remember you have this option: www.amazon.com/privacy/data-deletion

Aradia , 5 months ago

Well, if you are new to Linux, it is better if you just install new distros to try them, I would go to Arch Linux as it’s the cleanest distro, I could install multiple DE without issues, but then it’s a bit mess of packages, also it’s harder to install, you need to type archinstall and understand their options. I have a desktop and laptop and I always use the laptop for testing, if you copy the ~/.config folder, you can restore all your applications settings (just copy the app settings you are using), ~/.mozilla to restore your browser as you had it before the wipe and some more settings are under ~/.local. I also copy my ~/.zshrc because I have a custom prompt, configs, add-ons, alias…

Aradia , 5 months ago

My current work forces me to work with Apple (because they are lazy to prepare Linux for working), I have been on Linux for almost 10 years and I really want to quit my Job because of this stupid Apple laptop, it is trash, the DE is stupid, and I have many issues (with settings, login items, alacritty not working… yabai stopped to work without any reason…) that stresses me a lot… So good, I love my work and I still enjoy working, but the macOS is pure trash.

Aradia , 5 months ago

I can’t with macOS, even they keybinding makes no sense… it’s such a pain and I love Linux too much. About Windows… it at least has an easier way to manage the app windows and minimize and get it back properly, on macOS I need to install third party tools to be able to switch from windows from the same app, and it’s really a mess and slower than a built-in grid and windows switch manager. Also, if you are an expert of Windows you can always remove much bloated stuff, there are some high skilled Windows users that know how to clean their Windows OS, the only problem is WSL2 isn’t working properly for me, it is limited compared to a decent Linux system and on Linux you can always run Windows apps with wine, so I don’t see why I would want to use Windows haha.

Aradia , 5 months ago

Now, gamers will want to play on Linux for the low latency on online games.

Aradia , 5 months ago

I’m not an expert, but I suppose as this patch is on the kernel and not on the game, this will still improve any connection your kernel needs to do, like sending telemetry of your anti-cheat engine and other apps that make TCP requests while you are playing online games.

Aradia , 5 months ago

I always download my games before playing them. I don’t know what you mean here.

Aradia , 5 months ago

But is that related to my comment? I don’t understand why he’s talking about downloading games via P2P.

Aradia , 5 months ago

Yeah, that would make sense as opening TCP connections is not really viable for low latency, hahaha.

Aradia , 5 months ago

🤯

Aradia , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Gnome is coded with JavaScript (lmao 🤣) so yeah, I Think you are right.

EDIT: Actually, even if JavaScript and other languages have this issue, the value 1.7518248558044434 has not this issue. There is another reply that explains it and makes totally sense. But still pretty lame to know the desktop runs with JavaScript. (Yeah, I hate Gnome)

Aradia , 5 months ago

Okay, but still needs JavaScript, they are slowly trying to remove or improve it. But it is a fact that it also runs on JavaScript. 🤣

Aradia , 5 months ago

Yeah, on their git says 46% of the code is JavaScript: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell

That’s pretty much, almost half of the code.

Aradia , 5 months ago

There is less than 4% more code in C than JavaScript. That’s pretty much, many features on the gnome-desktop is using JavaScript too, like gestures and mouse events.

Aradia , 5 months ago

JavaScript isn’t the best language to make a desktop interface in my opinion, it can be very efficient, but you can see in bugs (at least in the past) how bad performance it had, and they needed to re-factor it to replace to C or improve the JavaScript. I’m just laughing and making fun of it using JavaScript, not saying it is slow, Gnome is pretty fast nowadays.

Aradia , 5 months ago

I see, thanks for the explanation.

Aradia , 5 months ago

Mostly C because you need to type more C code to do the same with JavaScript, so I suppose most of the logics are using JavaScript. Plasma desktop has 2% JavaScript (invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop), it’s not comparable. 🙂

Aradia , 5 months ago

No one here said GNOME desktop is mostly JS.

Aradia , 5 months ago

But at least the desktop itself isn’t using JavaScript that much like Gnome do. Show me the repo with the % to see what are you referring.

Aradia , 5 months ago

Well, I started this thread saying it runs on JavaScript, and I mean that they need JS for most of the interactions with the desktop, like gesture or mouse events. 😞 Even if most of the code is C, we all know we need to write much many lines of code of C to do the same with JS, so most of the logics on GNOME is computed by JS. We need some rust here. 🦀 🦀 🦀 🦀

Aradia , 5 months ago

Linux is the most used OS, it has many attacks every day. The problem is that you can’t see it and that’s why you think there aren’t Linux systems or attacks to it, because you can’t see them.

Aradia , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

I didn’t ignore.

those tend to be different attacks than would target random consumer computers

That doesn’t mean attacks on Linux are minors, just different kind of attacks, because a user mistake is easier to exploit than a vulnerability in a software/code. That’s not about software mistakes that create vulnerabilities, that’s a user mistake that install malware.

open source definitely plays a role in Linux security, but it’s minor compared to stuff like market share, user privilege, package management vs just installing random exes, different distros using different packaging systems

This kind of attacks you are saying are actually the “minor” attacks that daily occurs, but normally the most effective, there is a lot of scam, but daily or hourly there are millions or billions of attacks everywhere, or that’s what my cybersecurity team at my company showed me, they are 24/7 there to never let any attack penetrate to the organization. Imperva and Cloudflare (for example) are or have powerful firewalls that block many attacks every minute. And you are comparing that to a malware that a user install.

So that’s why I am saying, because you can’t see them, doesn’t mean there aren’t attacks.

Edit: More data added on bottom.

I found this: www.imperva.com/cyber-threat-index/

The Cyber Threat Index is calculated using data gathered from all Imperva sensors across the world including over:

• Over 25 monthly PBs (Peta Bytes1015) of network traffic passed through our CDN
• 30 billions (109) of monthly Web application attacks, across 1 trillion (10¹²) of HTTP requests analyzed by our Web Application Firewall service (Cloud WAF)
• Hundreds of monthly application and database vulnerabilities, as processed by our security intelligence aggregation from multiple sources

Aradia , 5 months ago

But I still think it’s wrong. Linux is the most used because it’s open source, anyone can audit it and adapt it to their servers or any infrastructure that can compute, as many libraries like OpenSSH and others that most closed source repositories are using to not re-make them from 0.

Aradia , 5 months ago

He can still use the Cable C to keep the battery on.

Aradia , 5 months ago

Actually, I always end up using ADB tools to get files or photos, you can get recursive files to get them all. I do it even with people that tries to get photos from their Windows machines, so I don’t think it’s a problem with Linux neither. This is the best way to get safely and correctly all your files.

Aradia , 5 months ago

Looks like conky.

Aradia , 5 months ago

Why should I care? Can we stop posting about every move Twitter do? I don’t really care, and I doubt this is a tech new at all…

Aradia , 5 months ago

Nice colors… good job.

Aradia , 6 months ago

Lol, so good I left Beehaw already. Do whatever you want now, not going to miss it, neither their admins.

Aradia , 6 months ago

You are welcome, thanks also for asking my opinion about this too.

My post isn’t a “constructive” contribution, neither a “destructive” opinion. I might just be rude saying that with those words, but I didn’t insult anyone or anything, I just said I disliked it and that I took a good decision to move after reading this. 🫤 I do like the Fedi, I suppose you can get it.

Aradia , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

github.com/…/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
github.com/hellzerg/optimizer

EDIT: Unless you are an expert on PowerShell to know exactly how to disable that option, it is better if you just activate and disable the spy software.

People explaining how to do it:
superuser.com/a/1360999
www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/…/d7xg5vw/

Aradia , 6 months ago

For Linux compatibility, something like this www.tuxedocomputers.com would be better than Dell XPS 13.

Aradia , 6 months ago

Yeah, I knew it, I still would get a TUXEDO computer, something like TUXEDO InfinityBook S 15 - Gen8, the DELL XPS 13 is very small, small keyboard, very portable but not really nice to work with. And TUXEDO looks much more into Linux than DELL.

Aradia , 6 months ago

Same, I would go to Arch (for me the best distro, it’s clean), and if you want something easier just Linux Mint.

EDIT: I would forget about PopOS, really think this distro suck.

Aradia , 6 months ago

Dell XPS 13 with the “developer” label is also pretty nice so it’s all good, but check that it has the “developer” label, or it will be not designed to be compatible, if I’m not wrong, the main difference is the Wi-Fi adapter. Also, out of this topic, careful with the finance and credit card, it’s always a scam unless you really need it to work I wouldn’t spend money that I don’t have.

EDIT: About the compatibility, on this Reddit post, people are saying there is not really any difference reddit.com/…/difference_between_the_standard_and_…, and I think the Wi-Fi adapter was only on the old versions (years ago when I bought mine). Haha… 😛

Aradia , 6 months ago

The post on your link has no date, I don’t know if this is from January or from December.

Aradia , 6 months ago

Woah, thanks!

Aradia , 6 months ago

I remember like 5 years ago I was doing the same, but then I realized Windows is even worse with many problems and limitations. I can’t just go to Windows, it sucks. Maybe you need compatible hardware or some more skills on Linux to fix your hardware issues.

Aradia , 6 months ago

About Battery life, did you try this? austingwalters.com/increasing-battery-life-on-an-… TLP or PowerTop + github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq#why-do-i-need… ?

Try Linux another time (I also often switched to Windows in the past until now, I can finally say I would never use a Windows/Apple desktops, I really dislike them), I often try distros on my Laptop while my Desktop has a stable distro to work with. On laptop, I just try different distros as I do like to test them.

Aradia , 6 months ago

Yeah, overwhelming but can be cool to learn about this linrunner.de/tlp/settings/index.html and wiki.archlinux.org/title/Tlp has some documentation, with this and some blog from a user explaining it, it should work. Also, the auto-cpufreq is pretty cool, makes your PC go slower but saves a lot of your laptop energy, or I feel like this.

Aradia , 6 months ago

Big tech also does open source because they are very interested in Open Source, such as Linux, the system that runs the world. Without Linux (which is open source) the world couldn’t run. All routers, servers, IoT, many devices (etc.) run Linux, Open Source.

Any closed source app that big tech or small tech do also uses Open Source tools and libraries. And you are an ignorant.

Aradia , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

I think you are mixing the big companies monopoly with Open Source.

very dificult to self host email

It is not (example: mailcow.email), the difficult is to keep it safe, updated and pay the hosting, but there are alternatives of email hosting like posteo.de, so I would say you just didn’t search for any alternative.

before we had personal websites

You can still self-host your own website, if not, you can find a provider or use alternatives like gohugo.io, it’s full of it.

community forums then reddit came and take over the forums making profit of off it

You can still use Lemmy and forums… I never used Reddit, so I don’t see what’s so good about it, a part of some posts that has some good info as any other forum or website that I got into. I don’t see how this damages open source or where is the issue with the open source.

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The real problem is the people ignorance, they are still using the big tech apps that have more marketing that other ethical apps. But there is nothing wrong with FOSS here, big tech uses this mass control as government does too to control civilians feelings and thoughts.

Aradia , 6 months ago

Open source is the right term, I don’t care if I need to pay for products I like, what I care is that the code is public. Then, if the license is also permissive, it’s a plus.