dragnucs

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Generally, when things work on windows, it is the effort of whomever made the device or software. Microsoft generally does not develop drivers. However, when things work on GNU/Linux it is the effort of GNU, Linux, or the community. The manufacturer probably did nothing. This simply explains why we are generally relaxed or "give Linux too much benefit of the doubt relative to the “things that just work”".

So fairly comparing a Linux distro to raw windows, Linux is better. When you install a distro, things just work, when you install windows, most stuff do not work and you need to complete setup. Unless you use tools provided by the manufacturer, but then again, it is same story.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Very unlikely because we have sculptures and remains at pompei and similar.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

If pressure builds up we won't risk anything because the cement would just be propoulsed in the outter space and not hurt anyone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Post of the content is in the image so very hard to filter.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Why so you desgise US politics as memes. It ain't even funny.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

While the news is interesting, it is not about technology at all. Just because Starbucks has an app does not make this technology related news.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

You can get coffee from other places than chain coffeeshops for less money and better coffee. The café near me sells great espresso for 12 MAD (about 1 €). The place is nice, has a waiter and coffee is server in glass or porcelaine cups in stead of cheap plastic. You can get it from other places for the cheapest place at 6 MAD.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Just root it it. In waiting to unlock the bootloader, you can disable unwanted apps either via ADB or simply from the application manager.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I installed LineageOS and F-Droid. No google apps services. Very easy to use.

On an loder phone that I struggeled to unlock the bootloader on, I went a head and uninstalled all that I could, then disable the reste. Cut internet and autostart etc, on settings apps (Xiaomi phone).Then used apps from f-droid.

Traditionnaly I always install custom mobile operating systems like paranoid android or LineageOS and just not use gapps.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Happns also offline. People will pifk on you for what ever thing you like. Could be software, music, phone brand, clothes, or even the beard.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (25 children)

Those might look like freedom pitfalls but are actually not. On the one hand gitlab dot com is not really bad for freedom as it has at least an open core and is very freedom friendly. Gitlab can be easily circumvented by using got client directly. Maybe a tag could be helpful here.

Any way, just clearing cookies after closing the session is very enough for github.

Cloudflare? Why are you even mentioning this? This is part of projects infrastructure. We need to draw a line somewhere. For example would you visit a website if it was hosted on Windows server? If they use ESXi? Or if user account are managed with Active Directory or firebase?

Sure you are free to be as eclectic as you want, but at the end, those are very minor issues that do not dent FSF credibility. Remember it stand for Free software first.

Edit: typos

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Most diff tools have an option to ignore leading or trailing whitespace changes.

 

For all my needs of temporary android devices, I use a temporary VM instead. where I install android-x86. Now I am looking for alternatives to this distro. It is a bit slow to use and now dated. Still on android 9.

Any recommendation that are FLOSS? A guide how to install Lineage OS on QEmu or KVM is also a good alternative.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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