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d3Xt3r ,

Over-reliance on proprietary, closed-source products and services from megacorporations.

For instance, it’s really absurd that people in many parts of the world cannot function without WhatsApp, they can’t even imagine a life without it. It seems absurd that Meta literally has them by the balls, and these people can’t do anything about it.

Also the people who base their entire careers on say Adobe or Microsoft products, they’re literally having their lives dictated by one giant corporation, which is very depressing and dystopian.

d3Xt3r ,

One of my favorite sites: www.windows93.net

d3Xt3r ,

Eh, as an IT guy, I love seeing computer screens on TV. They’re either a good laugh, or they can be quite interesting.

Among the interesting/iconic interfaces:

  • The 3D “Unix” system in Jurassic Park
  • The Matrix
  • Minority Report

I also love seeing vintage/fake-vintage interfaces in movies, such as SolarOS (a take on Solaris) in Tron: Legacy

http://ideonexus.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/flynndesktop.jpg

and all the hilarious ones such as the infamous “I’ll create a GUI in Visual Basic to track the IP address” scene in CSI.

Also, here’s a bonus link for you retro fans: www.windows93.net

d3Xt3r ,

CrossOver is actually pretty good for Macs with Apple Silicon, where there is limited choice. But on Linux, you’re far better off sticking with Steam + Proton-GE / Lutris + Wine-GE

d3Xt3r ,

That’s actually a good thing IMO, Microsoft is giving people more reasons to switch to Linux. How kind of them!

d3Xt3r ,

Woah, wasn’t expecting to see pic of my hometown on .world!

d3Xt3r ,

Not really. Instead of dumping all the drivers into one repo, there’s now a separate repo just for GPU drivers, which is just a staging area, before they get merged into the main repo.

If you ask “why”? It’s like creating an extra folder so that your files are organized better.

As an end user, it’s not going to change anything for us.

d3Xt3r ,

It doesn’t.

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    d3Xt3r ,

    1TB on PC, 1TB on PS5.

    I uninstall games I’ve played and only keep replayable games (eg: Path of Exile, Diablo 2, Age of Empires etc).

    d3Xt3r ,

    become so inconsistent

    Your title implies that it was consistent at some point, but Android updates were never consistent. In fact, it’s actually become more consistent in recent years, since the introduction of Project Treble. Most mainstream flagships now offer 4 years of updates, with some manufacturers even offering 5 years (Google and some Samsung flagships).

    Android auto senza bigG

    Domanda del sabato pomeriggio. Io ho un telefono con una #rom vanilla quindi senza servizi google, ho dovuto mettere per forza di cose le #microG. Oggi ho installato un autoradio android volevo provare #androidauto dal mio telefono ma è impossibile. Esiste un modo per aggirare il problema senza mettere robaccia google stock?...

    d3Xt3r , (edited )

    I haven’t tried this myself, but apparently there’s an Android Auto for microG that you can try.

    d3Xt3r ,

    There’s also Dangerous Dave. You don’t always wear a jetpack, but every level has a jetpack that you can grab to fly over dangerous areas (or to secret levels!).

    d3Xt3r ,

    Votes don’t matter much here, because there isn’t enough content in the first place. Votes mattered on Reddit because there was too much content, and small posts would never be seen unless you’re browsing by new. Also, people farmed karma so that they could resell their accounts, or access karma-restricted subs. No such incentives here.

    d3Xt3r ,

    I don’t think I’ve seen a pun chain or a “he’s not your buddy, guy” or anything like that.

    And no Schnoodle guy either! No more annoying pseudo-emotional poems followed by celebrity worship, which didn’t add anything to the conversation, except for making threads long and wasting screen space on mobile devices.

    d3Xt3r ,

    I’d trust some random people running an activity pub server just as much as I’d trust Meta with my personal photos: I won’t.

    I’m pretty sure Pixelfed wasn’t intended to be a place to share your personal photos - it’s meant for sharing photos you want to share with the public - could be a circle of friends or the whole world. Photos like pictures of your cats, food, landscapes etc. It’s a place to share photos with friends, or a place to connect photographers with other photographers.

    Do you still write notes with pen and paper?

    With so much note taking apps nowadays, I can’t understand why does anyone still write notes with pen and paper. You need to bring the notepad, book or that paper to retrieve that information, and most of the time you don’t have it in hand. While my phone almost always reachable and you carry when you go out. For those still...

    d3Xt3r ,

    No.

    Surprised no one here answered with just a “no”. I can’t remember the last time I even held a pen for signing something, even my last job contract and rental agreement etc were all digital.

    AMA, all you pen and pencil people.

    d3Xt3r ,

    However, from a practical perspective, deceiving users into performing the required action shouldn’t be overly challenging, and given the vast size of WinRAR’s user base

    Excuse me, but “vast” size of WinRAR’s user base? I didn’t know WinRAR even had any users left.

    d3Xt3r ,

    That looks quite interesting, seems like they’ve even got quite an extensive list of plugins - looks like may be even better than Midnight Commander. :o

    d3Xt3r ,

    Which part of the world is this, if you don’t mind me asking? (just genuinely curious, cause I haven’t come across any WinRARs in the wild here in NZ, most folks I know use either 7-Zip or PeaZip).

    d3Xt3r ,

    NONSENSICAL STATEMENT INVOLVING PLANKTON

    d3Xt3r ,

    Driverless cars, VR and the recent NASA experiment where four people started living in a simulated Mars environment for an year, even conducting VR space walks - all of this makes me feel we’re living in the movie Total Recall.

    d3Xt3r ,

    Nice presentation! Never thought of placing rice like that in the center of a bowl.

    d3Xt3r ,

    There’s always a tradeoff in computing between security v/s performance/overhead, so the value of it depends on your threat model, and the attack vectors you’re expecting.

    Anyways, RAM encryption is generally “available” in various forms, depending on the mobo, CPU, software used etc, but it’s not commonly enabled/used. Most AMD boards (at least, mid-range and above should) have an option in the BIOS to enable Secure Memory Encryption (SME). This allows the OS to selectively encrypt memory pages, making use of a hardware AES engine that sits outside of the CPU.

    There’s also Transparent SME (TSME), which encrypts the entire memory and works completely independent of the OS and software. Usually only high-end/workstation boards have this, and it also requires a Ryzen PRO CPU. TSME also has a much lower overhead, I recall reading somewhere it’s something like only 5%.

    I believe Intel also has something similar, but I never looked into it.

    AMD have a whitepaper available with an overview on how this stuff works, if you’re interested: www.amd.com/…/memory-encryption-white-paper.pdf

    d3Xt3r , (edited )

    There’s really no reason not to check out OpenSUSE, if you wanted to. If it does go down the enshittification path, it’ll no doubt be forked, given how relatively popular it is.

    This move isn’t anything new by the way - SUSE was only public for two years, and was a private entity prior to that. If you’re worried about enshittification, you should’ve worried about it back when it was acquired by Novell, in 2003. Everyone said SUSE was doomed, but it continued on without any issues. SUSE changed ownership thrice since then, and yet it still stands strong, even two decades after Novell’s acquisition. So I expect this move won’t change anything, at least in the short term.

    d3Xt3r ,

    I had the Envy’s cousin, the HP Elite DragonFly (also a touch/flip), and it worked great under Linux (Arch + Gnome). All gestures worked out of the box and was pretty smooth too. HP touchscreens are generally pretty standardized so I reckon your Envy should work fine too. Just use whatever distro you’re comfortable with, most distros should work fine.

    d3Xt3r OP ,

    I forgot about Evie. Nice to see that it’s still being updated.

    Edit: 2.2 rating on the Play Store, people are saying it’s filled with adverts and not the real Evie launcher, wtf?!

    d3Xt3r OP , (edited )

    So apparently the one you linked is indeed fake, it’s made by someone called “ManDeep”. The real Evie launcher died three years ago and was taken off the Play Store, and there have been a few fakes since then.

    I would advice removing your link ASAP and uninstall it from your device, who knows what permissions you’ve granted it and what nefarious activities it’s been upto…

    d3Xt3r ,

    The answer is AMD/AMD, regardless of whether you’re going for integrated or discreet. Reasons being stability and performance/price ratio. Stability because AMD’s open-source drivers are excellent and rarely break with updates (not that it doesn’t happen, but the breakage isn’t as frequent as nVidia, statistically speaking). Plus, AMD drivers play better with Wayland compared to nVidia (although in saying that, nVidia has made some significant advancements in Wayland support recently, but may still require some custom variable settings/tweaks).

    d3Xt3r ,

    Not denying your experience, but the thing with comments like this is that it’s very anecdotal. There’s a lot of variables potentially at play here, ranging from the model of your APU/laptop, the DE you’re using, the display server, the kernel, the distro, the codecs you’ve installed etc, so it’s really hard to place the blame squarely on “AMD”.

    But since we’re being anecdotal, I’d also like to say I haven’t experienced any such issues with my AMD laptop + APU. FWIW, here’s my full setup:

    • Laptop: Thinkpad Z13 Gen1
    • CPU: Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U (Rembrandt / Zen 3+ family)
    • iGPU: Radeon 680M (RDNA 2)
    • DE: KDE
    • Display server: Wayland
    • Distro: Nobara
    d3Xt3r ,

    Depends on how you define “surreptitiously”. If you say, surreptitiously as in, no visible user-facing activity under a normal desktop environment, then sure - something like a GPU driver could do whatever it wants to, with the level of access it has. Drivers are often a common attack vector, and are exploited for this reason. However, in this scenario, standard monitoring tools could potentially detect the exfiltration, for instance, a network monitoring tools might spot unusual outgoing traffic, and system monitoring/security tool such as SELinux might detect unexpected behavior from the GPU driver and could even block this activity, depending on the policies in place.

    If you say “surreptitiously” as in being able to completely evade the likes of Wireshark and other monitoring tools to send network traffic, that wouldn’t be a bit more difficult to achieve. One possible method could be to encapsulate the telemetry data within harmless traffic. For instance, a request pretending to check for driver updates, could potentially hide some telemetry data as part of the request. With encryption, encapsulation and consistent padding (so both loaded and legit packets look roughly the same), it would be next to impossible to suspect anything. But you could just block all traffic originating from the GPU drivers, there’s many ways to go about this.

    It is also possible, in theory, to completely bypass the OS layer depending on your hardware stack. Say you’re running an Intel CPU, and the GPU is an Intel Arc, the GPU could potentially talk directly to the Intel Management Engine, which is an entire subsystem inside an Intel CPU that is invisible to your OS, and it could do whatever it wants to, since the CPU has access to everything - and you’d never be able to detect it, at least not by normal methods. One method to detect such traffic would be to compare all the traffic leaving your system from an OS’s perspective, against traffic leaving the system from your network card (using say an external firewall), and if the packets don’t match, then you know something’s up. So exfilrating data via this way would be very risky for a company like Intel.

    d3Xt3r , (edited )

    Bedrock is a cool concept, but it can become quite messy - installing just a couple of major packages from different distros could easily make a spaghetti of your system (superficially anyway). It’s generally unlikely to actually break your system though, since each subsystem is sorta isolated into what they call a strata, something like a hacky poor-man’s container/chroot. Whilst in my limited testing I haven’t run into any breakage issues, the whole strata thing comes across as flaky and unsupported, sometimes leading to weird/unexplained behavior that you may need digging into.

    If you like the idea of Bedrock though, IMO, a better and more practical/cleaner approach would be BlendOS, which uses proper containers to isolate packages from different distros, so there’s no chance of breaking your system, and you could use standard container toolsets to identify/manage processes and packages from different disros. BlendOS is based on Arch so you have access to the latest packages by default, but it’s also immutable, so the base OS is much more stable than Arch. So, you have most of the advantages of Bedrock, but with none of the confusion and mess.

    d3Xt3r ,

    shit like this comment thread is why regular people use windows

    No, regular people use Windows because that’s what their device they purchased came with. If they bought a Chromebook instead for example, they’d be using ChromeOS which is based on Linux, and if they bought a Smart TV, it’d probably be running some sort of Linux-based OS as well.

    Regular people don’t know or care about Linux, nor what operating system their device is running - they just want a device that’s easy to use, looks good, has a good price and can let them use Facebook, Zoom etc or whatever it is they’re expecting from that device.

    who the fuck wants to learn about this kind of stuff when you can just point and click

    There’s no need to learn about this stuff, Linux is already just point and click. The main hurdle these days is installing it on a PC, egular people don’t mess around with the OS on their device, they just use whatever it is that came on their device. They shouldn’t have any big issues using Linux (especially if it’s a user-friendly distro like Zorin OS), as long as it’s already installed on their machines.

    if y’all want people to use linux maybe make it palatable

    It is already palatable, we just haven’t gotten mainstream manufactures to sell preloaded devices to the masses. There are some OEMs like System76 that are doing a good job, but they haven’t hit mass market yet. What Linux needs is a partnership with mainstream manufacturers and some big $$$ invested into marketing, plus partnering with retail outets like Best Buy etc. And maybe have a hardware certification program, like how Windows has the WHQL. Market the hell out of it, pass out shiny “Linux compatible” stickers to vendors, put Linux on sleek and shiny MacBook-like devices, and you’ll find regular people getting into Linux.

    d3Xt3r ,

    Ooh. What’s it like, compared to Parallels?

    d3Xt3r ,

    Cool, but can you spot the difference between I and I?

    d3Xt3r ,

    Going better than I expected, especially now that we have so many capable clients like Sync. I don’t miss Reddit at all, and I really like that there aren’t any annoying posters like Schnoodle and his circlejerking fanbois, or the LTT fanclub in subs like r/pcmr who’d downvote anyone who criticizes LTT, or Windows fanbois who’d always downvote anything Linux related (I also like that there’s a larger representation of Linux and OSS folks here which is awesome).

    I spend like an hour here daily and I’m looking forward to see how much it grows.

    d3Xt3r ,

    I use a Puppy Linux derivative - QuickPup64 to be exact. What sets this apart from other Puppies is that QuickPup is updated regularly and has a recent kernel, with the biggest advantage being that QuickPup is compatible with almost all the popular Linux package formats out there.

    
<span style="color:#323232;">Wider package support. Aside from PET, Debian (DEB), Red Hat (RPM), Slackware (TXZ, TGZ), and Arch Linux packages (PKG.TXZ).
</span><span style="color:#323232;">It also accepts the following packages (natively installed, no more package conversion needed. This allows to utilize almost all available linux packages):
</span><span style="color:#323232;">->Slitaz (*.tazpkg)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">->Tiny Core (*.tcz,*.tce,*.tcel,*.tcem)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">->Pardus (*.pisi)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">->Alpine Linux (*.apk)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">->Slax (*.sb)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">->OpenWRT (*.ipk)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">->0linux (*.spack)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">->Void linux (*.xbps)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">->Damn Small Linux (*.dsl)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">->Puppyrus (*.pfs)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">->Nutyx (*.cards.tar.xz)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">->Solus (*.eopkg)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">->Stampede (*.slp)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">->Porteus (*.xzm,*.lzm)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">->Gentoo precompiled package (*.xpak)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">->Paldo Linux
</span><span style="color:#323232;">->Venom Linux (*.spkg.txz)
</span>

    I also have to say that Puppy is fast - it’s designed to be run off USB and work on older systems with limited resources, so this thing absolutely flies, compared to a regular distro.

    d3Xt3r ,

    I don’t use an exclusive tiling WM, but prefer a hybrid stacked/tiled approach.

    So my argument for the stacked approach (or why I prefer floating windows sometimes) is because sometimes, some of my windows don’t really work well as a small tiled space - remote desktop windows for instance. Or sometimes, there’s too much white space in a window and resizing it into a tile may make it look weird, like a web page (especially web apps). So tiling doesn’t always work for me, so for the most part I prefer floating/stacked windows.

    As for tiling, it’s great when you’ve got multiple things you need to refer to, or keep an eye out on. For instance, in my typical tiled work setup, I would have one tile for emails, one for chat, one for my browser, and one is a terminal or IDE. The terminal or IDE would be my main work area, I need the browser open at the same time to look at help or other reference material and maybe copy-paste code, and the emails and chat I need them open to keep an eye on things. I might make use of other monitors or workspaces for other things, like full-screen windows such as remote desktop sessions, or other monitoring stuff.

    So for me, both floating and tiling windows are useful, so I prefer a general stacked WM that can also do tiling.

    d3Xt3r ,

    I usually have 4 windows on my 34" QHD monitor (16:10 aspect ratio), the fifth window is usually a full-screen window on a different workspace or monitor.

    A stacking WM is a “normal” WM that most people use, like Mutter (Gnome) or kwin (KDE). Also called as floating WM. It’s called stacking because windows are organized in a layered stack, one on top of the other, similar to pieces of paper on a desk. They have a “z order”, and can be “above” or “below” each other, along the Z axis in the stack.

    Problems with firefox 116 and/or cloudflare

    Yesterday i upgraded ff to the current version and since today i experienced problems with a bunch of different sites. Either the cloudflare verification sends me into a loop or i get through and the site’s not working correctly. Some others work, though. Disabling add-ons (noscript, ublock) and allowing all cookies didn’t...

    d3Xt3r ,

    It’s the opposite for me, private mode causes more Cloudflare prompts (and Google captchas).

    d3Xt3r ,

    I really like what Framework is doing with their laptops - what we need is an equivalent in the mobile space. It’s a shame that Project Ara never took off, their original idea was great and had a pretty good public reception, but they kinda sabotaged themselves and ultimately released a very nerfed version of their original idea. It’s been seven years since it was canned and I think it’s worth revisiting - technology has progressed a lot since then.

    Also, more than repairability, I think the bigger question should be around sustainability, after all, repairability is only a small part of the sustainability equation. So in regards to that, we need to look at what we can do to make Android devices last longer. Updates is the most obvious thing - Apple is offering 6-7(?) years of updates, whereas in the Android world it’s more like 4-5, if you’re lucky. Even if updates cannot be offered for that long, there should be some sort of certification or recognition process for third-party custom ROMs such as GrapheneOS or LineageOS. The fact that custom ROMs fail to pass the Play Integrity checks is very unfair, especially for GrapheneOS, when they’re likely to be more secure and updated than stock ROMs. This is a major roadblock for people in switching to custom ROMs, and thus a roadblock in the sustainability pathway.

    At least one positive thing to look forward to is EU’s mandate for smartphones to have replaceable batteries by 2027.

    d3Xt3r ,

    Sorry but your wording is a bit confusing. Are you saying that Proton have port forwarding but it’s difficult to set up? And is Mullvad developing a new client or is it Proton? And how does IVPN fit into the picture, do they not have any of these limitations as Proton/Mullvad?

    d3Xt3r ,

    Classic. Somehow, I never managed to play NFS during the DOS era (probably because none of my friends had a copy I could “borrow”), Test Drive however was more my jam.

    My first NFS was NFS III on Windows, got hooked on to it and continued playing it all the way till Most Wanted (2005). Overall, I’d say NFS: Porsche (2000) was my favorite in the whole series.

    d3Xt3r ,

    Are those fresh jalapeños?

    d3Xt3r ,

    As someone who’s been a Stock Android fanboy and got his first Samsung in over a decade, the only significant change for me is:

    Keep pop-up windows open – Instead of minimizing pop-up windows when you go to the Recents screen, pop-ups will now remain open after you leave the Recents screen so you can continue what you were working on.

    d3Xt3r ,

    In addition to what the other person wrote - popup windows are very useful on large screen devices like foldables and tablets. I’m on Fold 4 and the popup windows have been great for multitasking, like keeping an eye on a chat (or how far away your Uber Eats is) whilst you’re doing something else in full-screen. Using a Fold is more akin to using a desktop, so multitasking features like this is much appreciated by folks like me.

    d3Xt3r ,

    What @Yote.zip said.

    Also, here’s a much better alternative script that also hardens your system: github.com/…/Windows-Optimize-Harden-Debloat

    d3Xt3r ,

    This reminds me of those old forum signatures which looked like a signpost, and showed your IP address, browser, OS etc. They were pretty popular back then (when no one cared about their privacy), to the point that some folks even made parody versions of those signatures (like changing the IP to “127.0.0.1” or writing a funny message).

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