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mrshy ,

I donā€™t know but it might be inextricably linked to Googles content servers or reliant on services in such a way that it canā€™t simply be stripped of the telemetry in the way VSCodium is for example.

mrshy ,

Itā€™s nice that Arch is providing an easier installation method, itā€™s counter-productive for many users to have to contend with such detail just to have a functioning system.

I'm relatively unfamiliar with Linux. I'm getting a ThinkPad T460 and want to install Mint on it. Is there anything about the T460 I should know?

Itā€™s probably been 15 years since Iā€™ve used Linux and Mint seems to be the recommended distro for people who arenā€™t all that familiar with Linux like me, but I didnā€™t know if there was anything I should know with this ThinkPad model that anyone is familiar with. My searching around shows people saying everything from it...

mrshy ,

You may need to update the UEFI firmware.

mrshy ,

It would be from Lenovo.

mrshy ,

Oh thatā€™s a nice project for them to participate in!

mrshy ,

It looks like Twitter users are explicitly paying to access the Fediverse using servers like @bird.makup.

mrshy ,

Iā€™m not clear who the intended audience is here. A self-moderated micro-blogging platform is what most people needed all along, which is why the Fediverse exists. The real question remains how a corporate Fedi-protocol is going to interact with advertisers and marketers.

mrshy ,

Currently I think the most eco-friendly option is a Framework.

mrshy ,

Another option would be to get a laptop which is verified to work with most or all of QubesOS security features.

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