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by josteink 5y ago
> Finding "fun" in technology is not telling women that they are men in dresses, But they are biological men. Unless they had them surgically removed, they have penises and can reproduce by having sex with biological women. Thi
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by josteink 5y ago
I've tried this, and on its own, it works really, really well. It does what I want, and gets me less distraction on websites. All in all great. Where it started not working so well was in conjunction with NoScript (which I've st
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by josteink 5y ago
> U-Boot is very easy to build and patch and hack on, and it's well known in these streets. U-boot is very simple and very good at booting device-specific OS images. What it fail at is providing abstractions and interfaces to provid
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by josteink 5y ago
That sounds like quite a narrow-sighted view of the man. The way I see him, he is cheerful, enthusiastic and tries to find joy and fun in technology and computing. Color me prejudist, but that's probably the polar opposite of trying
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by josteink 5y ago
> WirePlumber was made the default PipeWire session manager in Fedora 35 That sounds great and all, but can someone enlighten me exactly what a session-manager is, in the context of Pipewire? I’m using Pipewire and it works fine. But i
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Elementary OS is imploding(lunduke.substack.com)
386 points by josteink 5y ago|354 comments
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by josteink 5y ago
When people ask “Does it run Linux”, they typically don’t mean WSL (which in its current iteration is essentially just a VM).
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by josteink 5y ago
If these ARM-laptops supports the ServerReady platform, I guess it should be possible to just UEFI boot a plain Debian or Ubuntu Arm64 ISO on these machines, without need to tailor a specific image? If not, I'm going to be dissapointed
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The ReadyNAS 312 – A short backstory and a failed Plan A(repurposable.wordpress.com)
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by josteink 5y ago
> With the additional caveat that the domain will be available for renting by anybody else once you stop paying Not with the “additional” caveat. That’s the only caveat, and it’s a simple, understandable and known risk. Using gmail.com
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by josteink 5y ago
This is the #1 reason I would never, ever use a Google SSO for any non-Google property, service or account.
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by josteink 5y ago
> This raises a point that I don’t think many developers consider. By registering and using a custom domain as their main email address, they implicitly give that domain and their TLD complete control over most of their online accounts.
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by josteink 5y ago
Why run the Zoom app at all? It works perfectly well in a browser.
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by josteink 5y ago
I use LXC for isolation with VM-like environments, without the regular VM overhead. Never bothered with Docker or Kubernetes, as I already have my needs solved. Call me a dinosaur if you like, but it’s fundamentally simple and it works for
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by josteink 5y ago
> So what exactly is the rationale to pay for Apple Music? Googles absolute failure to provide family plans for people using Google-apps/Gsuite as their family domain and accounts. You have to buy individual subscriptions to everyon
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by josteink 5y ago
So basically what you’re saying is that you want your “smart” TV experience to be just like a desktop PC experience. That’s fair, if that’s what you want and if that works for you. For most users however that would make the TV impossible to
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by josteink 5y ago
There seems to be a “standard palette“ or standard colour-template in use when creating modern video-content. I mean, when my kids are seeing children's programming on Netflix I can very rarely tell what show they are watching, because
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by josteink 5y ago
So for Firefox to even start , Mozilla implicitly depends on Google now. Wow. Couldn’t they have used any other cloud provider? I mean, cmon!
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by josteink 5y ago
Sure. But you’re not obliged to respond or take on the offer.
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by josteink 5y ago
> On the one hand, yes, science should be completely open and unhindered by geopolitics. > > But recall that Trump was in the White House at the time. And so? Does the name of the current US president alter unrelated facts and find
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by josteink 5y ago
> the fact it might set a trend where drm locks out Linux devices Fact? Based on what evidence?
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by josteink 5y ago
The deal with spaces? I would say Linux-developers and script-wranglers targeting others of the same kin, being allowed to exist within their own bubble, never being exposed to a real/“normal” user. And I say that as a Linux-user, scri
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by josteink 5y ago
I found it in the AppStore searching for sync thing. Location: Norway.
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by josteink 5y ago
How so? There seems to be some third party client/implementation. Is there anything wrong or lacking with it? Asking as a Nextcloud (file only) user considering making a switch.
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by josteink 5y ago
Consider it ordered :D
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by josteink 5y ago
But they could be owned by a Google account if bought through the Google registrar. What happens when that Google account gets locked or banned?
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Feature request: Install Bitwarden without Docker(community.bitwarden.com)
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NFTs, Net Neutrality, & Emotional Reactions to Technology(lunduke.substack.com)
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by josteink 5y ago
Yes. Only straight, white males are explicitly verboten from applying. And it’s ok to discriminate those, right? Right?
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by josteink 5y ago
So everyone except white, straight males then?

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