Gemini24601

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

During Covid, 2020-2021. I was under the weather and bored out of my mind. I spontaneously decided to install Arch Linux, and the rest is history. Installing Arch was invaluable to my learning experience, and taught me a lot about Linux

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

Yes I’m pretty sure that this has been an option. For example when I go to imdb.com and right click on the tab, it prompts me to “add imdb” for search. Many such cases on many different websites. Maybe they changed the term or function.

 

Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds have apparently never met in person before, despite their pseudo-rivalry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I decided to take the Hillsdale college course on “communism” just for fun, and it’s some of the same rhetoric. Communism is bad because… (shows Revolutionary to Stalinist Soviet Union and pride flags). Marx and Engels were actually hypocrites because they are bourgeois! (Technically true for Engels, but he used his class for good as a way to further communist ideals.) I’d actually recommend this course because all it does is strengthen your left ideals.

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

I disconnected my smart tv from WiFi and just use my own home network. By setting up a static ip address on both my tv and media server through the eXXXX device, and connecting the two via Ethernet cable, I can access any media I have saved on the server from the tv with little to no lag. This allows the tv to continue being “smart” to some extent, but only with the addresses I specify. It’s also arguably better since Ethernet speeds are usually 100+mbps for me against 2mbps wireless speeds.

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“Elite universities are rife with communism, socialism, transgenderism…”?

“[professors] teach students who and what to hate”?

“[leftists] want a new America opposed to the Founders’ ideas”?

Maybe a little exaggerated?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

KDE Plasma has proven to be one of the most customizable desktop environments available. Theming is easily achievable with the versatility of QT, (which is technically on Hyprland but more versatile in a full QT desktop), as well as the versatility of panels that can be moved and modified to whatever you wish for them to be. External plugins or programs like Latte dock, or the Plutonium tile manager further expand on Plasma’s capabilities. Hyprland is also customizable, but almost only through external sources, making Plasma much more accessible and seamless. Of course there are reasons behind this, but each to their own. Feel free to state your own opinions [email protected], but since this is an IMO post (basically opinion of the OP), I think we’d all appreciate it if you were more civilized and detailed as to why you felt the need to shoot down the OP. Also, maybe research your claims before commenting.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

A love Hyprland, but KDE Plasma does so many things for you and saves time. If you want to change screen resolution in Hyprland, you need to check the wiki or man. In Plasma, you simply use the settings app. Each environment has its own purpose, and Plasma’s is for general purpose use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The issue was extremely non-negotiable, and the person wouldn’t listen to reason. Therefore I ended up following advice best I could by creating a new dedicated email for the Life360 account, and additionally using initials instead of a full name. Because I’m stuck on iOS for now, I have no option but to constantly track my precise location in the background. My VPN does not work with location spoofing on Life360. I’ve turned off any data collection/analytics in the in-app settings that I could find, but that’s probably only scratching the surface of how much more you can’t control or disable. I mourn the loss of the privacy that I’ve sustained for so long, and my battery as well; it has taken a massive hit since Life360 was installed. I may look into a cheap wireless plan to support Life360 on a secondary smartphone, but otherwise I’m just going to have to wait until I have the opportunity to get a Pixel for GrapheneOS until this issue is truly resolved. In the meantime I’m considering getting something like a faraday bag for externally blocking phone signals. Thanks for all of your suggestions.

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

I love that idea, but it would probably cost money because of a second SIM card. Maybe I could look into buying a prepaid card

 

I am being forced into installing Life360 on my phone, which as you all probably know, is a massive privacy violation. Just by looking through the AppStore data page, lots of sensitive information gets shared with third parties. There’s got to be a way to disable it, and only enable it when necessary right? Or am I out of options here? Even though it’s only slightly less of a privacy risk, I’d prefer using Apple’s find my service, which has most of the features that Life360 has, while also being built in to every iOS device. How do I reason with this person?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You need to use an external device to do that, making it extremely convoluted and annoying to do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’d be too paranoid to use my phone in the shower, it’s covered with cameras and microphones and may be full of backdoors as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I have only 16 gb of RAM but I can open 20 tabs on Firefox!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I didn’t think about that one, I’ll have to check it out later

 
 

I recently came across a Reddit post with a greentext also posted here a few weeks before (by me). While the one here got downvoted, the one on Reddit got over two thousand upvotes. Don’t take me wrong however, this has led me to realize how much morals differ between the two platforms; it seems to me like Lemmings have overall better morals in general. I’ve come to appreciate this. Evidence like this shows how much better Lemmy is as a community (excluding lemmygrad) when compared to Reddit. Instead of becoming what you swore to destroy, you became better a better version. I thought you all would find this interesting.

 

Discord defends itself against efforts to stop piracy on its platform by saying no to more invasive data collection. Even though Discord isn’t exactly known for privacy, this is a great move for its users. What are your thoughts?

 
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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Everyone can agree on VLC being the best video player, right? Game developers can agree on it too, since it is a great utility for playing multimedia in games, and/or have a video player included. However, disaster struck; Unity has now banned VLC from the Unity Store, seemingly due to it being under the LGPL license which is a "Violation of section 5.10.4 of the Provider agreement." This is a contridiction however. According to Martin Finkel in the linked article, "Unity itself, both the Editor and the runtime (which means your shipped game) is already using LGPL dependencies! Unity is built on libraries such as Lame, libiconv, libwebsockets and websockify.js (at least)." Unity is swiftly coming to it's demise.

Edit: link to Videolan Blog Post: https://mfkl.github.io/2024/01/10/unity-double-oss-standards.html

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