I bought one if these many years ago and loved it. A couple years ago I got an induction range but I still have my probably unit and still use it on occasion. They really are great.

For appimages, I use https://github.com/mijorus/gearlever

I know people who are ready to leave Windows, but this and kernel level anti cheat games are keeping them away from Linux.

And my constant reminders that they didyn’t need those games doesn’t work.

I was under the impression that sneed was antisemitic.

It is bleak, but if you’re at the stage if being tortured for an encryption key, you’re already fucked.

It’s a good idea to keep data local. It’s an even better idea to encrypt it. But it’s not going to completely protect you from a fascist government.

You have rights, kinda. You can refuse to hand over data if they have no warrant.

If you are compelled to hand over data, it can be fully encrypted. You cannot be compelled to give them the key as long as the only place it’s stored is in your head.

Just adding that Mamdani talks mad shit about Trump both before and after meeting with him. He’s extremely principled in his approach.

I didn’t understand how you’re supposed to be measured about fascism. As if fascists are equally charitable and deserve measure.

I use Aurora for my wife’s laptop. It, Bluefin, and Bazzite come from Silverblue.

If you want GNOME: Bluefin or Bazzite.

KDE: Aurora or Bazzite.

Like Silverblue, updates happen in the background automatically. You just have to restart the computer to pick up OS updates.

I mean it’s definitely something that companies are trying to sell. Even if it’s just marketing BS right now, they’re using this to sell their LLM products.

https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/innovation/majorana-2-microsoft-discovery-agentic-ai/

Given that DF is free and has been around for nearly 20 years, I doubt that.

Lemmy also pushed me into trying Linux about 2 years ago and I also ended up on Aurora. Aurora has a pretty small user base, but it’s nice.

As sharp as a bowling ball.

I was a Windows fanboy for close to 30 years, until I switched to a Linux fanboy and never looked back.

My wife and I yelled at the same time when that ad played. Insanely dystopian.

When I was like 4 years old, our neighbor had a fancy sound system he showed off to us. Next time he was at our house, I walked over to our TV to show him it could do the same thing, by just turning it up really loud.

You’re just driving my point home.

There’s really no reason for you to act like this. This kind of snark doesn’t endear you to anyone and it doesn’t help good faith conversion.

I think you dramatically don’t understand how different other people are compared to you. Either that, or you lack empathy. I can’t think of any other reasons why you would distrust and dismiss their reasoning.

It was 12 days and the first time I’ve ever finished it.

Socialize the costs. Privatize the profits.