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by commoner 4y ago
Exactly. Canonical's Snap Store service is closed source and the Snap client is designed to only interface with Canonical's proprietary service. It's not "disinformation" to point out that Snap is a locked-down prod
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Fedora might be a better choice. ThinkPad has a partnership with Fedora[1] and Fedora uses recent Linux kernel versions. Lenovo sells this exact model (Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 10) with Fedora pre-installed as an option.[2] [1] https:/&
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> None have privacy guarantees The Apple Card's issuer (Goldman Sachs) and payment network (MasterCard) retain just as much transaction information for the Apple Card as they do for any other credit card.[1] [1] https://w
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> I’m actually not aware of any 2% card without any catches The Bread Cashback Card (American Express)[1] and SoFi Credit Card (MasterCard)[2] give 2% cash back on all purchases with no foreign transaction fees, no annual fees, and no ot
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For US residents, the Apple Card is not a competitive credit card. There are enough credit cards with no annual fees offering at least 2% cash back on all purchases that the Apple Card's 1% back on general purchases is not a good value
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> I' m referring to this https://fightthenewdrug.org/ (+some peer reviewed studies), not to some religion "Fight the New Drug" is much more entangled with religion than its owners would like the public to
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Darling will hopefully one day support complex GUI applications, but it's not there yet. From https://www.darlinghq.org : > Does it support GUI apps? > Almost! This took us a lot of time and effort, but we finally have
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Vanilla OS gives these instructions for installing drivers: https://handbook.vanillaos.org/2022/12/10/install-additional... From what I understand, the Linux kernel version is tied to the Vanilla OS release a
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- Immutable: The OS is designed so that critical portions cannot be modified by the user, except when upgrading, downgrading, or removing the OS. Other immutable OSes such as Fedora Silverblue, Chrome OS, macOS, Android, and iOS also use th
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I was misled by the title of this submission. The Linux NordVPN client is now open source ( https://github.com/NordSecurity/nordvpn-linux ), but the Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows NordVPN clients are still closed sourc
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> The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in written note before a bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, which was hearing two PILs relating to the recent Adani Group shares crash, described what short-selling is and wh
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Reposting my comment from 2 years ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28453627 ): FediTips, a Mastodon account, recently shared some concerns about the Uyghur-related content in the largest Lemmy instance, which is run
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Yes, some financial institutions offer FDIC "sweep" accounts that automatically allocate cash deposits among accounts in multiple partner banks when the balance exceeds the maximum amount covered by the FDIC ($250,000 per account)
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There is no evidence that homosexuality is a reliable predictor of pedersaty within the Catholic clergy. HN users making this accusation without evidence are not immune to criticism, just as Catholics who make this accusation without eviden
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> Male leaders tend to have daughter(s) or family in the troop thus the incentives are aligned. A single male is rarely thie troop leader. Gay male leaders can also have son(s) or family in boy scout troups. The Boy Scouts of America sto
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> Those teachers may be married and/or have daughters. Homosexual male teachers may also be married and/or have sons. Your entire line of reasoning is invalidated by your refusal to consider homosexual males in the same light a
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YouTuber must pay $40K in attorneys’ fees for daft “reverse censorship” suit(arstechnica.com)
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> I suggested that it's extremely strange for a gay man to be teaching at an all boys school and it's highly reasonable to suspect that his intentions are unethical. Your suspicions are unreasonable. As I mentioned before, hete
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> But such is not the case when a gay man becomes the leader of a boy scout troop. He may have good intentions, but it is highly highly reasonable to assume he does not. This portion of your comment is unreasonable. Girl Scout troops wel
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> When a homosexual man becomes a teacher for an all boys school something is wrong. No, that is incorrect. There is nothing wrong with all-girls schools having heterosexual male teachers (example: https://girlsschools.org&#x2
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Fruit juice is generally not healthy because it excludes most or all of the edible fruit pulp, which includes all of the fruit's fiber and much of the fruit's antioxidant content. Whole fruits, on the other hand, have been shown t
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Yes, but it's not complete. I'd also include manufacturers that maintain Linux distros designed to support their devices, such as System76 (Pop!_OS), Purism (PureOS), and Tuxedo Computers (Tuxedo OS), if you're willing to use
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Devices actively supported by vendors on LVFS tend to be Linux-friendly. The vendors with the most firmware updates pushed to LVFS in the last 6 months are Dell (796), Lenovo (364 combined), HP (35), Star Labs (29), and the Pine64 community
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> I find that people place way too much importance on the lack of physical trackpad buttons. Mouse buttons are necessary for the use of the TrackPoint, because you need them to click and/or scroll while keeping your hands near typin
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Russia fines Wikipedia for publishing facts instead of Kremlin war propaganda(arstechnica.com)
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EU says Apple breached antitrust law in Spotify case, final ruling yet to come(theverge.com)
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The ThinkPad Z series is the flagship AMD line of the ThinkPad brand, combining a Ryzen CPU with a Radeon GPU and a premium build. Unfortunately, the Z series also removed the physical mouse buttons from between the keyboard and the trackpa
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To be clear, I'm not the dev. (If I were the dev, the submission would start with "Show HN".) The processing time of SuperImage is longer because it's running on an Android phone (Snapdragon 855). I've edited the su
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SuperImage: Free and open source AI image upscaler for Android(github.com)
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Another issue with Snap is that it is locked to Canonical's closed source Snap Store server. Canonical can start fixing Snap by releasing the Snap Store server source code under a FOSS license and supporting multiple software sources i

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