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IratePirate

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  • Trump Goes Back to Bombing Iran as Deal Implodes

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  • I have no illusion things will get better under the other motherfucker. I just want things to get worse for that one motherfucker.

  • Trump Goes Back to Bombing Iran as Deal Implodes

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  • Pope urges 'disarming' of AI in major manifesto

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  • All hail the Omnissiah!

  • Pope urges 'disarming' of AI in major manifesto

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  • You know it's a strange year when both the Mullah regime of Iran and the Pope of the Catholic church put something out there and you can't immediately disagree...

  • Big Tech is turning you into a digital tenant, but there is a way to evict them

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  • I'm happy that things did work out for you, and indeed, "breaking shit and fixing it" is part of the rites of passage on Linux.

    That said, I guess you're part of the "tech-savvy tinkerer" crowd. This demographic will handle these things gracefully and take every breakdown as a learning opportunity.

    Coming from this demographic, it's easy to forget that there are people out there that deem computers mere tools, not a hobby. These people expect things to "just work", and any breakage is an annoyance, a road block, a "this Linux thing sucks". Set them up with a tinkerer's distro, and you will make them thoroughly unhappy. Not because they're wrong. Not because we're wrong. Just because of a mismatch of expectations.

    So, dear penguins: let's not blindly advertise our pet distro to whoever asks (or doesn't). Let's look at who is before us, and provide them with the best experience possible. In a lot of cases, due to the influx of "just works" users, this may mean something stable in order not to put them off.

  • Big Tech is turning you into a digital tenant, but there is a way to evict them

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  • they favor ease of use by restricting the user

    Never ran into anything like that. I'm hungry for more details.

    with snapshot software you can always rollback most distros as far as I know

    It sounds you've never done that yourself. It's not hard if you know what you're doing, but it's not trivial either and may require use of a boot stick, dealing with disk encryption through the terminal, chrooting... and that is not the kinds of hoops I'd expect a newcomer to have to jump through just to fix their system.

  • Big Tech is turning you into a digital tenant, but there is a way to evict them

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  • You misunderstood my question. How old are those installs? Chances are they're not very old.

    Arch-based systems like EndeavourOS are rolling releases with minimal testing. They'll work fine at the start, but errors will accumulate over time. Breakage is not a question of if, but when, and when that happens, Arch assumes you're a savvy user who knows what youre doing and able to fix your stuff. If you aren't (and newcomers to Linux normally fall into that category), you're going to have a bad time.

    Whatever the hype around Endeavour or CachyOS is: I wouldn't recommend any of them to Linux newcomers for this very reason. Instead, it's wise to give them a stable Debian-based OS to make themselves comfortable with Linux. Once they have arrived, they may or may not experiment with other flavours of Linux.

  • Big Tech is turning you into a digital tenant, but there is a way to evict them

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  • *yet

    How old is your system?

  • Big Tech is turning you into a digital tenant, but there is a way to evict them

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  • Please do not recommend Arch-based distros to newcomers. At some point, something minor or major is going to break, and they're not going to be able to fix it. Give them something Debian-based to learn the ropes (or not). It's not going to break down on them as easily.

  • What do you NOT do, that you would do without privacy violation? [discussion]

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  • True, but very few of the others bullshit themselves into believing they're "the land of the free". The fall of the U.S. into illiberalism and authoritarianism is remarkable because the nation claims to be founded in opposition to both - and many U.S. citizens still hold on to that old self-image.

  • What do you NOT do, that you would do without privacy violation? [discussion]

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  • Travel to the U.S. again. To be fair, it's not just about the surveillance. It's also about the political dystopia that goes with it. But these two are connected.

    I love you people and I love your country - you're alright. But fuck the technofascist dystopia you've allowed yourselves to slide into, and fuck the criminal sacks of shit a lot of you have put back in power. I wish you all the best for removing them. Until then, I stay away and help you starve your regime and its corporate enablers of any Dollar I might otherwise have spent there.

  • 61% of Americans Said They Had to Cut Back on Groceries

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  • "After four years under By-den, I'm dying to own the libs..."

  • 61% of Americans Said They Had to Cut Back on Groceries

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  • It's only 61 percent because 38% have started stealing groceries. The remaining 1% steals from all the others, like it always has.

  • Backup

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  • Not true. I'm Lemmy, and I don't believe you. Checkmate!

  • How would you expose Jellyfin securely without a vpn?

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  • You don't say. My autocorrect had a mind of its own again. Fixed it.

  • Perfect

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  • Kids changed things but I assure everyone, I probably have a more active and fun life than most the depressed doom scrollers on here without the kids

    So much this. It's so hard to remain a miserable grinch when there's a tiny human tugging on your limbs, trying to make you touch some actual grass and engage in an epic water gun battle.

  • How would you expose Jellyfin securely without a vpn?

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  • Oops. I tried it in the past and just linked to quickly without taking a close look at the repo. I've updated the above posting. Thanks for pointing this out.

  • How would you expose Jellyfin securely without a vpn?

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  • There's a plugin for that. Plugin is archived and will become outdated (and unsafe to use) over time. Don't use it.

  • Meta data center allegedly muddies Georgia town's drinking water, investigation underway — EPA promises immediate investigation after congresswoman brings dirty jars of water to hearing

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  • Also, brown means the water is in line with the political climate. Clear blue water is liberal Democrat water, boo!

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    A song of praise for mergerFS and SnapRAID

  • DeGoogle Yourself @lemmy.ml
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    The locking-down of Android: why I had to 'hack' a banking app just to get it running

  • DeGoogle Yourself @lemmy.ml
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    Degoogled FairPhone users: which camera app do you use?

  • Buy European @feddit.uk
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    Where to buy DRM-free music