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soulfirethewolf ,

Unfortunately, it’s not so easy or useful if you don’t have a powerful machine to host it with

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I frankly wouldn’t care at all had MS not truncate your home folder to 5 characters when using a Ms account and also didn’t make using remote desktop impossible when enabling a passwordless account.

The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning. (lemmy.world)

Whenever AI is mentioned lots of people in the Linux space immediately react negatively. Creators like TheLinuxExperiment on YouTube always feel the need to add a disclaimer that “some people think AI is problematic” or something along those lines if an AI topic is discussed. I get that AI has many problems but at the same...

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I imagine it might happen one day. But at present, I don’t really think that most computers are at a point where they can utilize it without the use of proprietary cloud technologies that aren’t considered to be ethical nor financially sustainable. And even if people’s computers could fully handle things themselves, there would still need to be a group of developers with enough knowledge to actually implement it.

Consumer AI has always been pretty limited in most Linux desktops. Heck, I’m still waiting for a Desktop Environment to one day have a nice implementation of Speech-to-text like Windows and macOS.

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I feel like another part of it too is just that Linux users also just have higher expectations in areas around privacy, security, and flexibility, and lower expectations of elements like UX and Minimum Viable Product, the latter especially being that they don’t even view the software as a “product”.

A lot of AI features are powered by data collection in some way. And given that most Linux users don’t even like small amounts of telemetry being sent without their explicit permission, I couldn’t imagine how libre AI models could be built, especially on a shoestring budget, to produce something that would be capable of producing acceptable results. All without avoiding the heat that current AI companies are facing with plagiarism accusations and copyright infringement.

I’m not really saying it can’t happen, But it would require a larger organization like Mozilla, who’s actively working on building open source AI that could then be later incorporated by someone else (similar to the soon to be dead Mozilla location services being integrated through daemons used by desktop environments). Or, by a much more random guess, by a corporation with a profit incentive to incorporate Linux like Valve and the Steam Deck with its inclusion of the plasma Desktop via an Arch fork. And in the long run, the FOSS community building a larger developer base that actually could, And one day upstream it all once it’s in a good enough format.

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What a time to be alive

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That. Is the goofiest system I have ever seen

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I’ve personally moved to Bing from Google. Partly because it’s annoyingly the only way to do web searches from the start menu, But also because it’s much more flexible with AI compared to Google’s new AI Overviews (The engines vice president actually tweeted about being able to disable Copilot in response to Google’s new AI).

I personally like how Bing presents information better, but it still has quite a few problems. Especially around relevancy, and it’s image search isn’t the best if you’re looking for anything that isn’t a photograph.

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It’s amusing how Google mentions stuff as being “exclusive to android” and then lies about it

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Yay the torment Nexus is now faster

Why YOU should write a Wayland compositor – Victoria Brekenfeld – HiP22 Berlin (www.youtube.com)

Victoria Brekenfeld: “Hi! My name is Victoria and I have worked on a Wayland compositor library called “smithay” for the past 5 years. Right now I am working for system76 on their new desktop environment, I am member of wayland-protocols and have been contributing to the wider ecosystem. So if you even wanted to learn...

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Why YOU should write a Wayland compositor

I don’t really know how to do that

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That’s why it’s important to build a personal security and privacy model and a good idea of what you are and are not willing to give up. Instead of blindly chasing after the things that everyone else does. Since for most people, that idea of living in a forest is usually unobtainable

How to make it so frequently used sites don't constantly require 2FA? [SOLVED]

EDIT: After reading all the responses, I’ve decided to allow cookies to persist after they close the browser, which I expect will make it so that 2FA doesn’t kick in as often, at least not on their most frequently used web sites. I may also look into privacy oriented browser extensions that might offer some protection, such...

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I personally think you should just allow cookies indefinitely. There are honestly so many bigger risks from phishing and other forms of social engineering that as long as your family isn’t leaving their computer unlocked in a public place, I wouldn’t say there’s really too much of a risk in leaving cookies enabled.

I apologize that this doesn’t exactly answer your question, but I’d like to suggest an alternative. I’d like to also ask, is your family using a password manager by any chance? And if so, are they making use of passkeys on supported websites. Many modern websites, including Google and Facebook, support them. And they require virtually no interaction aside from unlocking the password manager. It’s still a form of two-factor authentication, but it’s far more convenient than anything out there.

I also don’t really think you should try to force Linux on people who aren’t particularly comfortable or familiar using it.

I worry they’ll get frustrated to the point that they’ll go out and splurge on new macbook air when they already have a perfectly functional laptop with functional OS.

If you’re worried that they’re going to go and do that, then Linux might not serve their needs. Linux might be a fully functional desktop system, but it’s also one that isn’t an out of the box experience either. There’s certainly been a lot of improvements, But I don’t think that any Linux Desktop Environment is ever going to reach the same level of intuitiveness as something like Windows or macOS. I would certainly love to see it that way. But I think it’s just an issue of the people who actually use it.

I understand looking out for family and ensuring they don’t spend excess amounts of money. But you also shouldn’t take it upon yourself to try and dictate how your family uses the computer either. Linux wasn’t built as a commercially supported desktop operating system with years of full-time researchers studying topics surrounding human computer interaction with a multi-million dollar budget. It was built to be a free as in freedom alternative to the mainstream systems that are available (I personally call it “The problem solving platform” for this reason) by a loose knit group of volunteers who love computers and know a lot about them. Most people who use a computer use them to do work, and not really for promoting a personal agenda.

I’m not saying that you shouldn’t try to get your family members to use Linux, I’m just saying that you shouldn’t force them. You should put their best interests first that can help them.

I’m sorry to go on such a long rant about this. I just see a lot of people who I believe to vastly overestimate the willingness of others in certain places. And the whole part of “worrying about someone spending their own money” just kind of struck a red flag to me.

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Needs more material 3

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Aside from the fact that it’s owned by alphabet, what’s so bad about .xyz?

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I hope this means a US release is soon

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I don’t hate copilot but I seldom use it enough to justify having a taskbar button for it

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Stick to the walled garden. There are monsters out there.

Okay, have fun inside!

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I hope Mastodon will incorporate this

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I’m pretty sure you would be able to opt out of this. Just like the rest of Find My Device.

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Pretty nice.

Side note though, do people here actually read the articles here? It’s pretty obvious this would be a part of FMD. iPhone has already been doing this for years

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Personally with XMPP, I think it’s right now because of the lack of decent looking clients (especially on iOS), as well as a lot of the same friction that people have suffered with mastodon.

Also, Signal is built towards a completely different audience that places privacy first over modern messaging features (things like API’s, sending messages through voice assistants, etc.). And for SimpleX, I’m not really sure if sharing a QR code/link with someone else is the best route to go in UX just to message a friend

Is the Fediverse truly decentralized? Not exactly. (blog.benjojo.co.uk)

The author examined the distribution of instances in the fediverse. Given that many instances are hidden behind CDNs like Cloudflare or Fastly, the author employed ActivityPub’s functionality to discover the actual hosting locations of servers. More than half (51%) of the fediverse is hosted within a single hosting company....

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I always feel like whenever someone complains about fedi not being fully decentralized because they perceived too many instances as being held under a single place, they miss the point a little bit in terms of prioritizing infrastructure over user governance.

Aside from the potential disasters happening at them, it just really doesn’t feel like a problem if most people are hosting an instance on a popular cloud platform. These are companies that are just providing infrastructure, and as long as you aren’t trying to abuse their network or spread anything that they consider to be harmful, they won’t really care.

Instances operated under Home and business ISPs aren’t particularly immune to this either. And can still cut off an instance if they decide to.

soulfirethewolf ,

Yeah, but I think that most of the clients are a bit dated in UX otherwise. There isn’t really anything that I could suggest a friend to use

soulfirethewolf ,

It’s not like everyone has a choice in the say. Given that many schools and workplaces rely on Google for something

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I would definitely agree. I would say that UI and UX are pretty important in open source.

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RCS is designed to be used with a phone number though. And fall back to SMS when unavailable. If XMPP was used.

If RCS was fully walled off, Apple would not be able to implement it like they said they would

soulfirethewolf ,

I would definitely root. But I do want to have access to my banking apps and GPay. Even though I do have a watch that can do all that

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The hype is because America won’t switch to Internet messaging by default and only wants one app to message with. So SMS is the only primary option for that. Meaning lower resolution media, and a lack of modern features like read receipts and typing indicators.

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The thing is is that if MNO’s truly cared about running their own RCS network (instead of leaving everything to Apple and Google). It might actually be a more open system. Sure, you can’t self host an MNO, but it’s still a much larger step forward.

soulfirethewolf ,

Ok good. But then there’s the problem of actually convincing people to use Signal. A messaging app is pointless if nobody else wants to use it.

soulfirethewolf ,

It just seems like activitypub being used the way it was intended to.

Also, this seems to be owned by a UK registered charity. So I’m not sure what exactly is meant by corporate dredging.

soulfirethewolf ,

I can’t wait for home assistant assist to be good enough to replace Gemini as a assistant. Without the need for an llm

I dislike wayland

Quite the unpopular opinion, but I just wanted to post this to show the silent majority that we still exist. We have reached a point where voicing criticism against wayland is treated like the worst thing ever and leads you to being censored and what not. The red hat funded multi year long shill campaign has proven to be quite...

soulfirethewolf ,

Last time I checked, free software respecting your freedom was about giving you the ability to redistribute it and do what you wanted with it. It wasn’t about guaranteeing compatibility

soulfirethewolf ,

I fail to see what this has to do with slavery in tech supply chains

soulfirethewolf ,

I really hope this means either a new MTP app is coming (ideal) or quick share for MacOS is officially coming (ok)

Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch::Google is testing a feature that places a call to a business , waits on hold and then give you a call once a representative is available.

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Although Talk to a Live Rep is similar to the Pixel’s “Hold for Me” feature, Google says there are some differences, noting that while some of the underlying technology is the same, Talk to a Live Rep goes one step further.

Mood

soulfirethewolf ,

I fear for the digital literacy of Gen Alpha

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The goal is to change the norm, Fernyhough said, so that when children come to the end of primary school, the class “bands together and says, ‘Let’s all delay until at least 14.’

Yeah right that’s going to happen: p

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They can live their childhood as they should do, focus on their learning and enjoy the real world without having to spend their life scrolling, which we all know is not good for them

Older people forget that the norm of childhood has changed. And assume that children should do the same things they did instead of learning how to moderate what they do

soulfirethewolf ,

Well you’re in luck, there’s the Pleroma and Misskey family of apps out there that are ActivityPub compatible. Pleroma also has Akkoma as well, and there are far too many Misskey forks to count. Both of them support S3 I believe.

soulfirethewolf ,

I personally feel like stadia was a self-fulfilling prophecy. It shut down because people didn’t use it, and they didn’t use it because they were afraid of it shutting down like Google always does with stuff

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They didn’t even make it available on tablets

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Mozilla isn’t committing to manifest V2, they’re just making changes to V3 that are different than what’s specified for the sake of compatibility with what people want. They still intend on migration.

Also, microsoft edge is getting extensions as well real soon

Finally, while this is a more personal opinion, the AI integrations that Mozilla has been working on (including some of the work on large language models) is isn’t particularly contributive to the Mozilla manifesto and doesn’t have much to do with the web itself. It’s simply seeking something out because of hype

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Oh yay another model I can’t run on my computer :'(

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I use it sometimes, there can be a bit of drama at times, but it’s pretty nice.

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You can, but that’s not the point. The idea is to ask users to choose upon opening the app for the first time. It’s an already common statistic that most people never actually change any settings beyond basic personalization. It’s part of why Google spends so much money on setting Google Search as the default engine.

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