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heartlessevil , 10 months ago to linux in What are some things you wish you had known when switching to Linux?

Linux is pretty easy to use nowadays. The only thing I would check before switching is driver compatibility.

heartlessevil , 10 months ago to news in Wagner Group commander Dmitry Utkin was on plane that crashed north of Moscow, Russian civil aviation authority says

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heartlessevil , 10 months ago to news in Prigozhin most likely dead, and an explosion may have downed his plane, U.S. officials say

There was that whole en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17 thing. Not sure how people forgot about this.

heartlessevil , 10 months ago to linux in I successfully installed Gentoo for the first time today!

Well, you have the opportunity to. The fact that it is compiled on your system already gives you a lot of discretion. You can at least see what code is going into the compiler locally.

heartlessevil , 10 months ago to linux in I successfully installed Gentoo for the first time today!

They are referring to the fact that Gentoo compiles everything from source rather than shipping binaries. This creates a lot of duplicated work between every user. But it’s not just for nothing. You get to actually know what code ends up in your binaries and they are optimized for your system. It is a trade off.

heartlessevil , 10 months ago to news in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia

Wouldn’t they want to do that to show off their work? Or I guess not so they can distance themselves from it and pretend it never happened.

heartlessevil , 10 months ago to piracy in Publishing New Torrents

Auto correct typo of private tracker. Sorry.

heartlessevil , 10 months ago to piracy in Publishing New Torrents

Yeah, a lot of private travelers will not accept doubly-lossy encoded files as a rule. So you can’t just go from 264 to 265. You need the original lossless file.

To OP, yeah, you want a seed box. Both to pin the file up and host it for a while, and to preserve your anonymity (the original seeder is under particular scrutiny.)

heartlessevil , 10 months ago to technology in Leaked Zoom all-hands: CEO says employees must return to offices because they can't be as innovative or get to know each other on Zoom

The product sucks for work and productivity purposes. It can still be useful for meetings where productivity is not a factor (social, medical, many other situations.)

I don’t really care which teleconferencing software I use but without zoom I would lose access to several medical providers and need to travel a couple hours to them which is untenable.

heartlessevil , 10 months ago to linux in Alright, you know what? I'll be switching.

Seriously. Do not go for suckless unless you are an advanced user. It is not reasonable to change from a GUI OS to beyond CLI to literally “code it in config.h”. suckless is great but not for beginners.

heartlessevil , 10 months ago to news in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia

The body doesn’t magically disappear. Although it is probably in many, many pieces, this can be confirmed through DNA testing on small samples.

heartlessevil , 10 months ago to news in Live updates: Wagner’s Yevgeniy Prigozhin believed to be aboard crashed plane in Russia

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heartlessevil , 10 months ago to technology in API Misuse: Hacker Leaks 2.6M Duolingo Users' Emails & Names

There is no such thing as “api misuse”. You provide the api and people use it according to the conditions you provide. Tighten your shit. Don’t blame your own failures on other people.

heartlessevil , 10 months ago to linux in The Phoronix forms, where AMD and NVIDIA engineers can effectively communicate

What a dumb bet. I do use Linux, NixOS specifically, across all my laptops and servers. I still begrudge the corporate influence.

If you lost the bet, what do I win?

heartlessevil , 10 months ago to linux in Easy way to remote share the desktop?

Does it seem like VNC would fit your use case? TigerVNC is cross platform and reliable.