Good point but I will say even with immutable distros users are given a lot more control than Windows or Mac.
Corgana
/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021
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Corgana@startrek.websiteto Fediverse@lemmy.ml•John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed9·4 months agoYeah BlueSky is a solid side-step. It’s still for-profit and not federated but every BlueSky user is one not on X. And a lot of BlueSky’s userbase is comprised of particularly influential X users so them leaving is particularly harmful to the ecosystem.
I also think it’s funny how the journalists who repeat BlueSkys “decentralized” nonsense thought Mastodon was too weird and technical, and yet are promoting Pixelfed. Not complaining, but it is funny.
In Bazzite, installing software, for example, works differently than under a typical distribution.
This is true, but it’s also on the whole a lot more familiar to a non-Linux user (open app store, search, download).
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Privacy@lemmy.ml•John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives50·4 months agoTook a long time, but nice to see this topic getting mainstream attention.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Privacy@lemmy.ml•John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives1·4 months agoThis is literally the answer lmao why are you getting downvoted.
“Stuff in my feed I don’t want to see in my feed” is kind of the exact problem the Fediverse set out to solve. Nothing gets “injected” to a feed here so if you are seeing it, it’s a choice to continue to do so.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•What's your favorite DE, and what does your workflow look like?2·4 months agoZorin is another distro that (very successfully imo) does a windows-style taskbar with GNOME and is parent friendly, though like I said before, I think today I would go with something immutable for a non-techie because they’re very hard to break.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•What's your favorite DE, and what does your workflow look like?11·4 months agoKDE is the easiest for coming from Windows, you almost never never need the command line or anything “extra” to customize it (beyond what even Windows will allow).
GNOME (especially in Ubuntu) by default is more Macintosh-like which might appeal to some people, it’s “simpler” but any customizations will require navigating the add-ons (and in my experience inevitably the command line too).
I think KDE is the one for most people who just want a functioning PC. GNOME could be good for the PC you might make for your parent. Bonus points for an immutable distro which are even harder to break.
Corgana@startrek.websiteOPtoReddit@lemmy.ml•Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says2·5 months agoIf they were smart they would find a way to paywall all the years-old posts where someone is like “hey how do I fix this specific part on my 1992 sewing machine” and it has a single reply with the answer.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Technology@beehaw.org•Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth.2·5 months agoBing and all Bing-based engines stopped being able to show Reddit results.
Not accurate, actually!
OP if you enjoy a fun weekend project, don’t go with a pi-hole. It literally only takes about 5 minutes. Also I recommend the blocklistproject lists https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer61·5 months agoFOSS land is always going to be populated by freaks and geeks. The well socialized devs get jobs at Google. It’s impressive the “system” works as well as it does, IMO. Passion is a big motivator.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer175·5 months agoThere is a reason the type of devs who have the talent, passion and time for projects like this are not spending 60hrs/wk at Google.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Open Source@lemmy.ml•US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek1·5 months agodeleted by creator
The moderator to user ratio on the fediverse is orders of magnitude higher than commercial platforms. Even Lemmy.world (a large, loosely moderated Lemmy instance) has again, orders of magnitude more eyes on its content than reddit.
This means that even if a chatbot gets invented that is impossible to distinguish form a human, mods will more readily be able to tell if it is pushing a narrative/shilling products.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons16·5 months agoHonestly I had the same thought. But on the other hand, internet outrage talking points have also become extremely formulaic…
Save yourself some clicks: https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV
Bitwarden
Do you mean Bitdefender (the antivirus)? Bitwarden is free.
Before anyone well ackhuallys me yes, there is a very cheap $0.80/mo plan if you want an authenticator.
Corgana@startrek.websiteto Fediverse@lemmy.ml•CNET: Fed Up With Instagram? How to Move Your Photos to Pixelfed1·5 months agoWhat bugs have you encountered lately? I’ve been playing around with it (only a couple of days now) and it’s overall been very smooth experience for me.
This is very cool! Thanks for sharing.