ArclightMat

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by ArclightMat 3y ago
> He moved to some launcher [...]. As I understand it, using a launcher prevents you from using the Google Play Store, so you're not buying apps. I'm going to chalk it up to you not knowing about Android, but swapping launchers
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by ArclightMat 3y ago
> The developer version is literally the alpha release, later renamed aurora, later named developer. It is not acceptable to use an alpha release as a main driver for security and stability reasons. It hasn't been for a long time, M
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by ArclightMat 3y ago
Have you tried Fedora Silverblue[1] and its cousins? `root` is an immutable image powered by something akin to `git` but for OS files. You can layer RPMs (although you should use flatpak or containers wherever possible) and /etc is mut
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by ArclightMat 3y ago
Mullvad is actually a Firefox fork and it directly uses Tor's privacy enhancements[0] to Firefox for a private web browsing experience. As a matter of fact, it really looks like Tor Browser but with a VPN baked in instead of Tor. [0]
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by ArclightMat 3y ago
Exactly my concerns. Fedora is significantly tied to Red Hat currently, and honestly if Red Hat keeps pulling in moves like that, I fear for the project's health in the long run. As matter of fact, yesterday I wiped one of my machines
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by ArclightMat 3y ago
Besides the fact that Uber Eats barely made a dent in the marketshare and came in way later, it also attempted the same strategy to bring in consumers. I distinctly recall using coupons or special "Only on Uber Eats" deals during
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by ArclightMat 4y ago
CentOS Stream 9, which is basically RHEL9 9.(x+1). The issue itself was overblown to hell, and after realizing that "rolling release" meant "one minor release ahead", I decided to stick with it. For my usecase, it works
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by ArclightMat 4y ago
In Ars Technica's article: > To ensure that none of their test ads reached vulnerable audiences, Global Witness deleted the ads before alarming messages like “Death to the children of Lula voters” could be published. And in the publ
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by ArclightMat 4y ago
It is undeniable that corporate Linux has prefered GNOME over Plasma, I can't name you a single relevant European distro that uses Plasma as its default. - Canonical (United Kingdom) ships GNOME for Ubuntu. - SUSE (Germany) ships GNOME
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by ArclightMat 5y ago
Well, this thing has been in development since 1998![0] Furthermore, SEGA has historically been very lenient with the Sonic community, where you can see prototypes of the games out in the wild being discussed [1], a yearly fangaming/RO
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by ArclightMat 5y ago
Chromium's a hard one for Debian. It is a big software that often suffers from security issues due to its size but it is hard to package according to Debian's policies. Its upstream ships with forked dependencies included, and thi
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by ArclightMat 5y ago
Indeed, as a Brazilian, it gets to my nerves reading those conspiracy theories about "how the media hid ${TREATMENT}'s effectiveness" or "there is no interest on using ${TREATMENT} because no money to be made! :c".
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by ArclightMat 5y ago
This seems perfectly fine. Private APIs are private and shouldn't be used by third-party, specially if it can bypass security measures [1], furthermore, they've a working alternative already: the portal system. As a side note, thi
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by ArclightMat 5y ago
While unlikely, it could've been that the kernel version was too old or you were missing non-free drivers for something? On my experience, if it worked in Ubuntu, it would work on Debian, and if it didn't, using the latest backpo
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by ArclightMat 5y ago
That's not Unity, that's GNOME with extensions mimicking Unity. Also instead of changing desktop environments, he could install the clean/stock GNOME session and then add Dash to Panel + Arc Menu, which would give it a Window
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by ArclightMat 5y ago
Have you checked out Fedora? Out of the box I had as good as (or close enough to) Windows' battery life on my ThinkPads and normal consumer hardware due to certain optimizations [1] they've made, to the point where I don't ev