everybody needs to be on their best behavior for the next few weeks ok
James R Kirk
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Moving to Fedora? How stable is it?English
3·19 days agoFedora has two immutable distros KDE (Kinoite) and GNOME (Silverblue) and both are excellent and very stable.
Your vent was good and justified
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Why are so many Linux projects on Microsoft GitHub? Shouldn't they all move to Codeberg?English
3·24 days agoNo love lost for IBM but I still wouldn’t expect to see casually mentioned alongside Palantir.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Why are so many Linux projects on Microsoft GitHub? Shouldn't they all move to Codeberg?English
17·24 days agoWow I went to fact check that claim and it’s actually no exaggeration. Here is the AP article.
Google and Amazon provide cloud computing and AI services to the Israeli military under “Project Nimbus,” a $1.2 billion contract signed in 2021, when Israel first tested out its in-house AI-powered targeting systems. The IDF has used Cisco and Dell server farms or data centers. Red Hat, an independent IBM subsidiary, also has provided cloud computing technologies to the Israeli military, while Palantir Technologies, a Microsoft partner in U.S. defense contracts, has a “strategic partnership” providing AI systems to help Israel’s war efforts.
Crazy to see Palantir, Google, Microsoft mentioned alongside …Red Hat.
I have an adjacent vent and that is I hate how companies put so little effort into the UX of their mobile web pages. Privacy concerns aside, I would still prefer not to have 100 apps on my phone and just use web pages; but my bank’s web page suuuuucks and so well, I have the app.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Do you think Linux popularity will be slow steady growth or a big a jump in popularityEnglish
1·25 days agoI think we’ll continue to see incremental gains for a long time, especially as normies abandon desktops/laptops entirely and the entire market shrinks. Windows will probably continue to dominate in enterprise for long past when it’s fashionable.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Do you think Linux popularity will be slow steady growth or a big a jump in popularityEnglish
2·25 days agoIt’s crazy because Apple had every reason to be FAR ahead in that game.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Do you think Linux popularity will be slow steady growth or a big a jump in popularityEnglish
18·26 days agoAssuming you mean desktop Linux, probably slowly. While Linux on desktop is growing, Desktops PC use in general is trending downwards and Linux on mobile is far behind the other players.
My gut says that long before Linux overtakes Windows/Macintosh most people who want a mouse/keyboard/monitor experience will just plug their phone into a simple dock, like we’re seeing with Android’s “Desktop mode”.
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•It's possible that the heat on Proton is a smear campaign.English
16·1 month ago“The guy”? What?
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Linux@lemmy.ml•i left linux,and returned to windows 11.English
55·1 month agoThe social ecosystem around FOSS is so horribly toxic. There’s an “upper middle class” of power user that aren’t quite developers, that insult everyone with less experience, and openly harass the developers themselves. I honestly don’t know how FOSS can expand adoption as long as these people exist. They are a dual-edged sword that disincentivizes both new adoptees and long term app support.
Proton is arguably the best option if you’re trying not to rely on Google, and they are slowly building a suite of apps with the goal of directly competing with Google Drive, Calendar, Sheets, etc.
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•Your notes. Your files. Your rules.English
3·1 month agoboooo
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Your notes. Your files. Your rules.English
111·1 month agoIs this the Google Keep replacement we’ve all been waiting for?
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Thoughts on privacy focused smart glasses?English
2·2 months agoFinally, we’ve invented a machine that saves mankind from the drudgery of getting to know other people!
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Thoughts on privacy focused smart glasses?English
7·2 months ago“I want a way to record the young ladies at the gym without Meta knowing about it”
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•YSK: you can buy (email) accounts anonymously using darknet marketsEnglish
2·2 months agoI’ve also used duck.com’s free email masks with great success
Not quite what OP is talking about but useful in most cases
James R Kirk@startrek.websiteto
Linux@lemmy.ml•TIL: It is 2026 and you still can not run Snaps in strict mode on Debian-based systemsEnglish
4·2 months agoYeah this is it. I like snaps just fine but I also like Flatpaks and well, everyone else is using Flatpaks.




Unless you’re driving a vehicle from the 20th century, the car itself is going to be tracking significantly more information than even the most nefarious possible use of something in the picture.