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Dima

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  • Should I Install Linux? Pros & Cons for Gaming & Coding

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  • A VM would be a good way to try out different distros & desktop environments, and to get some familiarity with Linux. For actually gaming I would install the OS on bare metal (you could dual boot if you wanted to keep windows installed as a backup).

  • PIC

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  • I'll make sure to post wonkier pictures in the future 😉

  • Steam Deck / Gaming News #14

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  • "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign used unlicensed font

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  • I mean the original anti-piracy ad said you wouldn't steal a car, because they were trying to equate digital piracy with physical theft, it's the meme edits that say you wouldn't download a car

  • Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Gemini

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  • The worst thing about Gemini is that you can't just use it like Google assistant without enabling the "Gemini apps activity", or whatever it's called, data collection

    You used to be able to ask it to set a timer just like assistant and it would work fine, now they require you to enable Gemini apps activity to ask it to set a simple timer. The solution of course is not to use Gemini.

  • Trump says 'major tariff' coming soon on foreign pharmaceuticals

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  • Something like almost half of generic medications are made in India.

    Is this for cancer drugs or generics in general? Only asking because most of the generics I see in the UK are made here, but that might be because I've only seen the more common medications and not stuff like cancer drugs.

    Hope you manage to beat the cancer!

  • How to harden against SSH brute-forcing?

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  • For security disable password authentication - use public key instead, disable root login via ssh - use sudo or su from another user.

    To reduce the number of attempts of others trying to get in change the ssh port and/or set-up fail2ban.

    You could also set a firewall rule to only allow ssh from your IP address, if you have a static address at home and only need access from there, or have a way to VPN into your home network. Make sure you have a static address if you do this though, you don't want your IP to change and be left locked out of your server.

  • Shed for rent

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  • I don't see any curtains/blinds or curtain rod/rail, did they forget that people need privacy when they were converting their garage into an overpriced studio flat?

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  • Yeah, it would be insane not to buy a Tesla self-driving taxi, they pay for themselves

  • Hackers know half of passwords entered online, Cloudflare finds

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  • The "correcthorse" part

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  • Yeah, I was mostly thinking of smaller businesses that used it because it was part of the office suite they were subscribed to and not the professional creative, print or whatever places

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  • Yeah, tbh I was surprised several years ago when I found out it was still being updated and included with 365, since they basically don't do anything to push people to use it. I still can't believe they aren't allowing people on 365 to use it unsupported after they drop support or at least release a good converter to convert them to .docx or .pptx - I can imagine there's plenty of businesses on office 365 that either: will forget that an important document is in publisher format or will completely fail to take any action to convert/migrate their publisher documents and will be scrabbling to try and replace/convert them.

    I remember using publisher a lot in school in the 2000s because it was better for doing layout stuff for posters, etc. than word or PowerPoint were at the time. Nowadays I'd just use word or maybe PowerPoint (if I'm using MS office for it).

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  • I understand dropping support because it's not that used anymore and word or PowerPoint can do similar things, but stopping people from being able to use it or open existing documents is crazy. If you're on office 365 and don't convert your files before MS shuts down publisher you simply won't be able to open your old publisher documents with the office suite you pay for.

  • Apple Removes iCloud E2EE in UK: What You Need to Know

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  • You could use rclone with any service it supports as encrypted cloud storage by using its crypt feature. More technical to set up though than just installing an app.

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    Bitly adds interstitial ads to shortened URLs, unlocking new revenue stream

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  • Nowadays I see them mostly used by creators for sponsor or product links, probably because it lets them track how many people click on it and when

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  • The basic steps are:

    1. Register a domain of your choice
    2. Select who you are setting up your email with (plenty of different providers, Zoho has a basic free plan that would be suitable for a single domain and only a few users at most; Google, outlook etc. also sell services for custom domains)
    3. Configure the DNS records for your domain to whatever your chosen email provider says (MX records to point to the mail server and some records for DMARC & DKIM to prevent your email being spoofed)
    4. Test it all works and start using it

    I'm not going to write a full tutorial so if it sounds interesting I suggest you do more research. The email hosting is typically focused at businesses as they are most likely to be wanting to host email on a custom domain.

  • Sweden to tighten gun laws after mass shooting at school

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  • Sweden to tighten gun laws after mass shooting at school

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  • It might be part of their guidelines to only use the English alphabet for the location at the start of the article

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    Arch Linux – Best Tips for Beginners?

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  • Arch is good for tinkering with to make it your own, but can sometimes require tinkering to do things other distros can do straight away, e.g. adding udev rules to use certain devices or setting up zeroconf to be able to discover printers on the network automatically

    If you want to be able to roll back changes easily you could set up your root and home partitions as btrfs subvolumes and use snapper to take snapshots, which can be combined with pacman hooks to automatically take snapshots when updating/installing software and can even be set up to allow booting into the snapshots which could be useful if you break your system