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by foxfluff 5y ago
On my desktop, only pipewire and intel video drivers depend on polkit. I don't know if they actually use pkexec though.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I have a hunch it depends heavily on your location. I have never seen a check in my life, and I have never heard of anyone I know using them. I wouldn't be able to say whether such a thing even exists here. Cash is still a thing but
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> An authoritarian government comes in and demands that Facebook/Meta and Apple release a new version That is why a surveillance resistant system should 1) have open protocol 2) have free & open & fully auditable implementat
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Do Canadians and Mexicans feel like the US is terrorizing them?
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Did you try running banking apps on the PinePhone? My bank has made it (almost) impossible to make payments without a phone, btw. Either you need to receive SMS messages or use their proprietary app. I could receive SMS messages without a
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> What orange website could they be talking about? I wouldn't know, my topcolor is B5DB5D.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
How much would it change the cost to put in a Sochip S3, which has 128MB of RAM and can run at 800-900 MHz (if not more)?
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by foxfluff 5y ago
More importantly, if the content is actually relevant to the user's search, does it matter whether the title is clickbait or not? Clickbait pisses me off when it's used to waste my time, but a good search engine wouldn't give
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> that's usually why you'd trust a vendor to do it for you and not keep second guessing their decisions because they published and fixed a CVE. Yes, I'm inevitably putting some trust in vendors. Unfortunately I'm hav
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by foxfluff 5y ago
No, I didn't ask for a fucking GUI sudo with xml and javascript and local privilege escalation to root. I asked my computer to do something as basic as play sound, something that worked for decades without GUI sudo. Developers said t
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> The users all want the same things. Please don't speak for everyone. It's exactly this patronizing we-know-better-than-you attitude that makes users hate their corporate software vendors. > From what I have seen, the amou
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> There's a bunch of influential people that are bent on making "Linux desktop" be something that competes effectively with Windows and MacOS. And not necessarily with the interests of Windows or MacOS end users, but more
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I feel like this whole thing is driven by corporate interests. It would make sense in a context where a machine has multiple users (or: anyone at work can use their credentials on any workstation), which is not uncommon in a work environme
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> How many of you mourning the old internet frequent neocities or have their own personal website ? I don't think the the answer is 'a lot'. I don't, but I've been meaning to have one for a long time now. I even
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by foxfluff 5y ago
They are invasive if they somehow end up on your system even if you don't need them and didn't ask for it. The C library is something that I actually need, unlike a GUI sudo prompt for.. audio? I don't even know what such a
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by foxfluff 5y ago
That's worked pretty well e.g. for OpenBSD. Their code isn't perfect, but they've evaded lots of bullets simply by removing things they don't deem necessary. I think I've evaded many bullets exactly the same way. M
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by foxfluff 5y ago
The only things on my system that depend on it are pipewire and xorg-x11-drv-intel (which I don't need). It doesn't sound like you should need a GUI sudo with XML and Javascript for audio..
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Why does pipewire depend on it? Otherwise I'd just remove it right now.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Yes - the slice you visit can be changed for you by using the right user-agent (as suggested in TFA). It's hard to call it the web if your user agent doesn't support the web technologies. > Why can't gemini space be d
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Sure, but there are plenty of users that are out there with different needs than you. That's another discussion altogether. I agree Gemini is too limited, and I said as much in another comment here: https://news.ycombi
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I made my own with 16.5 mm key spacing. And it uses low profile switches and needs very low profile caps due to the way I mounted the top plate. I didn't feel like the usual way of mounting a plate would be rigid enough with my tight
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I wish it were easy to get custom keycaps. I couldn't find anything that fits my keyboard so I bought a few different sets and mutilated the best candidate with a mini drill. Not very economical, nor does the result look that clean.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
yxhuvud referred to length of the learning curve, not slope of the learning curve. Even if getting started is easy (no steep slope), mastery can take long.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Here's how it looks for me in Firefox. https://i.imgur.com/HJxJVJj.png
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> It's still possible if you use uBlock, or enable JS only when you need it. I've been blocking JS for a damn long time but it just breaks so many things. And if you selectively block JS with umatrix, that also breaks things s
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> how many pages of web standards you have to implement and comply with if you want to make your own browser, just to visit google dot com? Worse yet, it is precisely those standards that enable google dot com to discriminate and block y
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by foxfluff 5y ago
- People are using web features in a way we don't like. They could do it in the way we like but that's unpopular. Some do but it's impossible to divine it ahead of time before you follow a link and see what horrors lie behin
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Bottom line is, if you agree that the modern web has become an awful place, let’s work on changing that for everyone, instead of abandoning it like a bunch of billionaires trying to escape to a different place, before this one collapse
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Without numbers, it's hard to say how much of it is left. However, I do believe that a big chunk left and mere tiny bits of it are left. And of course, archives of old and now dead things.. The vast majority of people on the internet
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> now that the mailing list (itself a potent source of drama) has gone to the great bitbucket in the sky Oops, what happened? Now that was short lived.. EDIT: apparently hardware failure

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