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MangoKangaroo

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Bane of avocado toast enjoyers.

It’s not a competition, all operating systems suck.

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MangoKangaroo ,

Been playing TS4 again, lightly modded to facilitate poly relationships. I’m not a fan of the shit storm of DLC that’s basically the staple of the game’s monetization at this point, but that’s nothing that can’t be solved on the high seas. Otherwise, I still enjoy the series a lot. (Also, shout-out to the various weird spinoffs like Castaways.)

MangoKangaroo ,

Luckily for you, there’s a version 2!

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/5fc5a886-acad-4778-857a-cc1b0ff0d16c.webp

MangoKangaroo ,

I’m curious whether the increasingly invasive telemetry of modern Windows will have legal implications surrounding patient privacy here in the US. I work IT in the healthcare field, and one of our key missions is HIPAA compliance. What, then, will be the impact if Microsoft starts storing more and more in-depth data offsite? Will keyboard entries into our EHR be tracked and stored in Microsoft’s servers? Will we subsequently be held liable if a breach at Microsoft causes this information to leak, or if Microsoft just straight-up starts selling it to advertisers? Windows is our one-and-only option for endpoint devices, so it’s not like we can just switch.

I genuinely don’t have the answers to these questions right now, but it may start to become a serious conversation for our department in the future if things continue at the trajectory they’re going at. Or, maybe I’m just old and paranoid and everything will be okie dokie.

MangoKangaroo ,

Sadly a lot of the privacy switches are exclusive to enterprise and education users, but our endpoints are running Pro (we have our previous supervisor to thank for that). I guess I’ll hope this is one of the ones we can just toggle off without any fuss.

MangoKangaroo ,

I work IT at a hospital here in the US. The key issue is compatibility. Most of our vendor software flat-out does not support Linux at all, either on the client or server side. Shit, half of it barely even works on modern versions of Windows.

MangoKangaroo ,

Shoot, that’s hardly an exaggeration - I was only recently able to deprecate the last of our Server 2003 instances, which was running a program originally designed for 2000 Server!

MangoKangaroo ,

Playing on my Oldschool Runescape ironman. I’m currently grinding out cooking so I can cook my own sharks. Other than that it’s a bunch of stupid farm runs. >:(

MangoKangaroo ,

Been on it for about a year now, both with my desktop’s A770 and my laptops AMD iGPU. Experience has been pretty much flawless.

MangoKangaroo ,

A bit of an anticlimactic ending, but it’s still nice to see Team 0% achieve their goal.

Android users who have a keen eye for design and detail, how is the whole stutter/lag situation? Esp. after a few years of use?

I haven’t used an Android device since my last one, the Galaxy S8. Beautiful hardware, beautiful design, but it was plagued with animation stutters and dropped frames. I switched to an iPhone and an iPad around 6 years ago. And the animations were buttersmooth. It was almost unthinkable to achieve such a fluid interface on any...

MangoKangaroo ,

I’ve had a pretty smooth experience with both the Pixel 6 and the Pixel 7 Pro.

MangoKangaroo ,

Air Ride is goated.

MangoKangaroo ,

Maybe not your speed genre-wise, but Final Fantasy Tactics has a version for the PSP. Goated game.

MangoKangaroo ,

Are you doing personal file storage, or is this for backups from a server? If it’s the latter case, and if your use case would benefit from deduplication, you could just stay on Backblaze and use something like Duplicacy (available as a free CLI app or paid web UI) to deduplicate and encrypt your files. This is the approach that I use for my homelab. The only issue you run into is that, in the case of Duplicacy, you have to use the CLI or web UI to restore your files (and god help you if you lose your keys).

MangoKangaroo ,

I still use Clonezilla to back up devices before performing reinstalls/major updates (when Timeshift isn’t practical). No issues so far backing up and restoring both Windows and Linux partitions/drives.

MangoKangaroo ,

Given we’re not counting the Steam Deck or virtual console titles, I’d probably go with the DS. I’m too big of a dirty Pokemon fan (among the million other great IPs on the older Nintendo handhelds), and the DS is particularly nice because it has backwards compatibility with the Gameboy Advance.

MangoKangaroo , (edited )

Beta 1.8 and its consequences was a disaster for my childhood nostalgia.

MangoKangaroo ,

They fixed the distance bugs :(

MangoKangaroo ,

What do you mean? Taylor Swift made Minecraft.

MangoKangaroo ,

The consequences of straying too far from spawn got less interesting.

MangoKangaroo ,

Fedora. I love Debian as well, but both of my computers needed more recent libraries, and now I’m curious to see how far I can take these installs.

MangoKangaroo ,

Curious question: what does the business internet plan get you over the home plan? I’m on Comcast Business right now, but I’m always looking for better options (plus we’re looking at getting a 5G failover at work).

MangoKangaroo ,

I use Debian as a default and Fedora when I need a newer kernel/newer libraries. You aren’t weird at all. Or, at least we’re weird together. :)

MangoKangaroo ,

How’s your fortress coming along? I’m super excited for the return of Adventure Mode. :)

MangoKangaroo ,

YouTube kept recommending Fallout: New Vegas videos, so I’ve been doing a mostly bee-nice NCR run. Did main quest up to the dam, currently working my way through Honest Hearts (did Old World Blues super early for the implants).

MangoKangaroo ,

I had a more detailed response to this written down last night, but the servers went down when I tried to send it so I cba.

This is super freakin’ cool. Nevermind -Well-Crafted-, I’ll call this one ☼Masterful☼. What was your inspiration for the original project?

MangoKangaroo ,

There’s something magical about the idea of suspending a king in a room above a volcano. Y’know, just in case the peasants get mad. ;)

Best of luck! I’m sure it will be !!fun!! either way.

MangoKangaroo ,

Welcome to the party! Never let anyone get you down for using a “beginner” distro; it’s perfectly valid to want a system that just works. :)

MangoKangaroo ,

Shoot, I’d probably be one of them if not for my need to have Wayland and slightly newer libraries for my A770.

MangoKangaroo ,

Well, “just works” in the Todd Howard interpretation. ;)

MangoKangaroo ,

I’m watching Cinnamon’s Wayland rollout with great interest. No Pipewire sharing yet (among other things), but I’m excited for the future.

MangoKangaroo ,

Honestly, if Mint has been working fine then I see no reason that you’d need to switch. If you’re curious about trying out other distros, it could be worth using a program like Boxes to try out some VM’s. Otherwise, I say you keep doing whatever works well for you.

MangoKangaroo ,

I’ve been using and loving the Intel AV1 support that got added with the latest update. Glad to see we’re getting a VA-API implementation now.

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Hey 👋 dear Linux Community,

I'm still kinda new to Linux (started using this year 😅) I already made it to my main OS, even if I still missing some things which I used on Windows, anyway. What I wanted to ask you guys, what recommendations do you have for Linux Mint (Cinnamon)? In terms of security, optimization, (a way to make the UI looking modern ;-;) and privacy? I would be very interested in what you do guys to optimize your Linux setup :) I'm pretty technical, so there is nothing which could overwhelm me (probaly).

Thx! 🤍

@linux

MangoKangaroo ,

As other have mentioned, setting up Timeshift + a firewall is a good start. I’m 99% sure that LM guides you through both of these processes on first boot, but it’s a good thing to check on anyways. LM is pretty sanely put together out of the box, so I’d honestly just recommend you use it as-is and tweak things when/if you run into something that isn’t doing it for you.

Other than that, welcome to the party!

MangoKangaroo OP ,

This was me playing Ocarina of Time.

MangoKangaroo OP ,

I never played Majora’s Mask. Having seen speedruns of it, I’m pretty sure it would have fried my brain as a kid.

MangoKangaroo OP ,

The first bit is basically me whenever I do a challenge run in a Pokemon game.

MangoKangaroo ,

Timeshift supports rsync snapshots. No btrfs needed :)

MangoKangaroo ,

Nevermind the government or hackers, I use a home-grown VPN to keep Comcast off my ass.

MangoKangaroo ,

It’s not too exciting, but I’ve got an old Lenovo EMC2 NAS that’s probably from the early 10s. I was also running a Pi 1B as a DNS server until it gave up on life.

MangoKangaroo ,

My honest answer:🥚

MangoKangaroo ,

😳

MangoKangaroo ,

Maybe you’re a Matryoshka ;D

MangoKangaroo ,

Beyond what people have posted, I also believe I saw something about GNOME planning to implement something like this soon™️

MangoKangaroo ,

Zero. The only new games I purchased this year were BG3 and Lethal Company, both of which are goated for completely different reasons.

Beyond that I’ve just been sticking to games I’ve been playing for years. No stinkers there, probably.

MangoKangaroo ,

Ayy someone else who’s been enjoying Against the Storm.

MangoKangaroo ,

Goodness gracious you’re far further along than me! I haven’t touched it for a bit because I’ve been busy with other games, but I’ll get back to it eventually because it’s super fun. (Also GL on P20 I believe in you.)

MangoKangaroo ,

Probably COSMIC. I’m also excited to maybe see HDR and improved tiling in GNOME.

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