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omeara4pheonix ,

That was always Gabe’s intention with SteamOS when it came out around a decade ago. He has never really liked windows, and definitely never liked the potential for Microsoft to mess with his product. SteamOS was made from the ground up to supplant windows as the primary gamer OS, we are just now witnessing the turning of the tide.

omeara4pheonix ,

Not sure if it’s right, but it seems to me this is really just a bunch of preconfigured fedora instances for specific use cases with containerized packages you can mix and match to your needs. Then they slap on a bunch of buzz words to make it sound novel.

omeara4pheonix ,

Correction, $5 more for a lifetime (or until the company decides to remove it) rental.

omeara4pheonix ,

Buying the disk is still owning it (which is another $5 less on amazon BTW) though it is not out yet.

omeara4pheonix ,

Short sellers, and the corporation that absorbs them at bargain prices.

omeara4pheonix ,

No it’s not, unless they have a MacBook. And even in that case it’s not hard to find an external SSD with a thunderbolt or USB3.2 interface.

omeara4pheonix ,

New MacBooks have their memory soldered directly to the main board and don’t have an extra m.2 port. There are very few windows laptops that meet both of those criteria. But like I said, even in those cases you can install games on an external drive.

omeara4pheonix ,

It’s not that unrealistic if the dock has a GPU in it. Something they should have done with the og switch.

omeara4pheonix ,

The media creator runs perfectly in wine. But isos are easy to find as well.

omeara4pheonix ,

I use batch renaming all the time, very little of it for programming. Media management, and general file organization are my most common uses. But there are plenty of third party free programs that let windows do this without the need for running python scripts.

omeara4pheonix ,

.world has already become a shithole echo chamber. Good thing lemmy’s technology can not really let it take over the platform as a whole like it did with reddit.

I’ve been liking .zip so far.

[HN] Will Browsers Be Required by Law to Stop You from Visiting Infringing Sites? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability. Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list....

omeara4pheonix ,

Eh, it’s unenforceable. Just theater from a bunch of politicians that don’t understand the technology. I wouldn’t worry about it.

omeara4pheonix ,

That could very easily be all websites. It would never be feasible to stop.

omeara4pheonix ,

Looks like it was to give independence to the French African states.

omeara4pheonix ,

When they actually do have far right beliefs sure. But I think they were referring to people using the “right wing extremist” tag as a bludgeon for any views right of their own, or things that may not even be right at all.

omeara4pheonix ,

I’m not saying they won’t try, just that it doesn’t matter. They have no power here

omeara4pheonix ,

That was the first way I installed Ubuntu. I remember the bootleg ones on eBay for $5 also.

omeara4pheonix ,

I am almost certain they are not actually doing this and it’s just some ploy to get people to login to their long dormant accounts. I haven’t logged into my account in around a decade, but I just did today and all the games I bought are still there (a whopping 2).

omeara4pheonix ,

According to one person, that likely made it up for fake internet points.

omeara4pheonix ,

I haven’t touched my Ubisoft account since 2013 before today. It’s still there with all my purchases intact.

What is you backup tool of choice?

I don’t mean system files, but your personal and work files. I have been using Mint for a few years, I use Timeshift for system backups, but archived my personal files by hand. This got me curious to see what other people use. When you daily drive Linux what are your preferred tools to keep backups? I have thousands of...

omeara4pheonix ,

Don’t forget that a local backup is as bad as no backup at all in the case of a fire or other disaster. Not trusting the cloud is fine (though strong encryption can make this very safe), but looking into some kind of off site backup is important. Could be as simple as a second hard drive that you swap out weekly stored in a safe deposit, or a nas at a trusted friends house.

omeara4pheonix ,

I use timeshift for local backups, then duplicati for backing up to Amazon glacier monthly.

omeara4pheonix ,

Originally, because I was a poor middle school student with a bunch of dumpster hardware. I could not afford a windows license (this was the XP days). I immediately liked Ubuntu (gnome 2 at the time) more than windows, everything felt faster and more customizable. It really screamed on my pentium 3. I used Linux of various flavors all the way through school and continue to use it as my OS of choice to this day. I remember my teachers always being mad that I didn’t use “times new Roman” font when I turned in papers, explaining that I used Linux and TNR was not an available font didn’t do much for me. I would switch to windows for AAA games back in the day, but that is quickly becoming less necessary.

The biggest benefit I have seen over the years is that it is so much easier to keep old hardware alive (and still secure) with Linux. If your old matching is starting to bog down you can always find a lighter weight distro to load it up with. And when you are ready to upgrade hardware the old stuff can easily be turned into a server, game console, or PC for grandma. Anything to keep it out of a landfill is pretty easy to do. It used to be that you never had to worry about paying for an upgrade either, but now that windows is essentially free for upgrades that is no longer a huge benefit.

Why can't flatpaks just work

I usually try to stay out of the whole snap vs flatpak discussion. Although I am just really confused as to why flatpak just does not seem to care about usability. You’re trying to create a universal packaging format I would think the point of it is that a user can just install an app and after reviewing permissions it should...

omeara4pheonix ,

I honestly wish more programs did the app by app theming thing. I don’t need my desktop theme applied to every program I open. I would much rather the program to have a consistent design language that works, rather than slapping themed buttons all over the place that don’t fit with other aspects of the program.

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