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nottheengineer

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  • It astounds me that anyone thinks otherwise on Hamas.

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  • Welcome to modern politics, where the range of opinions that a person accepts is so small that it doesn't overlap with the range that a person on the other side accepts.

    If you have an opinion in the middle, everyone will just hate you and having a discussion is impossible.

  • Windows: we noticed that you kept the useless search bar disabled since 2015, so we sent an update that re-enabled it without your permission

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  • Classic microsoft move.

    Linux has gotten great over the years and keeps improving while windows gets worse and worse every day. This has been going on for many years now.

    I switched already and suggest you give it a shot as well. It's honestly much easier than windows if you know the basics and understand how things are done there.

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  • Ripped right from wikipedia: "A backdoor is a typically covert method of bypassing normal authentication or encryption in a computer, product [...]."

    Given you can't be arsed to google that on your own, I don't see s point in arguing.

  • ich❓️❓️❓️iel

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  • Ein beliebiges Textsymbol

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  • What purpose would this be used for?

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  • An OTG setup needs all 5 pins of the micro-B connector. USB A cannot be used for OTG. If a USB-A port can act as a client, that's not OTG, it's a botched implementation.

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  • Downloading and running binaries isn't anything to worry about. Many apps do that to circumvent the update delays that apple and google put in place.

    Browsers also download and run code from any website you visit. The security measures make sure that this code can't just do anything, just like on android.

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  • Tiktok is indeed more malicious than any other app I can think of, but it isn't a backdoor.

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  • US tech is backdoored just as hard as chinese stuff. None of the companies involved need to know when and for what the government uses backdoors, so they generally don't.

  • I had a dream about windows and have decided to setup Linux on my laptop. What distro should I use?

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  • I'd recommend against Ubuntu. It uses snaps and it'll teach you that the hard way eventually by having very weird issues.

    Mint is based on ubuntu but says no to snaps, so that's a good place to start.

  • What are your thoughts on potential AI-integration into future Linux distros?

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  • LLMs are big, so you either need a powerful PC to run them or use cloud services. Linux users tend to not be fans of either, so it'll probably take a while before anything big happens.

    Besides, for the things where an LLM actually makes sense (like a copilot-style code generator), there are already implementations.

  • Za_Raczke: Pixel 8 Pro "exclusive" Pro mode running on a Pixel 7 Pro

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  • I hate that I have to support this to use grapheneOS.

  • Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode

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  • Make sure that the addons can only be used by VScode. There's vscodium for now, but microsoft could easily shut that down.

  • Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode

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  • Please look up "Embrace, extend, extinguish". VScode is open-source for now, but all the microsoft extensions you need to turn it into an IDE have DRM on them and microsoft puts work into trying to make those extensions not work with VScode forks.

    WSL is the same thing. They start by embracing linux and soon they'll start installing MS crap into the guest system or shipping their own distro that's filled with it. This is the extend part. The final goal is to extinguish desktop linux and make everything WSL to be able to track it all and harvest shitloads of data.

  • Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode

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  • VScode is the epitome of the EEE strategy. The core product is open-source, but it's filled to the brim with tracking and the official extensions have DRM. Yes, there's DRM on your python LSP.

    Anyone who gives a shit should look for alternatives right away. The problem is just that there aren't any that are as easy to set up.

  • a want to buy a tablet to take notes at school

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  • Pen support on linux is amazing. On the T935 it worked without any setup and was much better than on windows in terms of input lag and turning the touchscreen off/on properly.

    I used Xournal++ and while the UI is a bit small on a 13" 1080p screen, it worked perfectly.

    Now I remember another thing you should probably look out for: Don't get anything with a higher resolution than 1080p. Fractional scaling on linux is basically not a thing, so the resolution determines the size of any UI.

  • what did your government do well in the near past?

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  • German here and it's been a while.

    My parents came back from a vacation in austria recently and told me about what they heard on the radio: The austrian government did two separate things that actually benefit citizens in one day.

    They didn't remember something like this happening in germany in the last 20 or so years and neither do I.

  • a want to buy a tablet to take notes at school

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  • I put a similar amount of money into a used fujitsu T935 a few years ago for the same reason.

    It was great for this, so I'd recommend looking into used 2in1 laptops. With linux and TLP you can easily get enough battery life out of pretty much anything.

  • how to receive alert when comments removed?

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  • There is a modlog that contains all this information, but I don't know of a way to parse that or automate it into notifications.

  • ich👋iel

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  • Ebenso, es ist einfach ein tolles Wort.