PotatoesFall

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PotatoesFall,

It’s cute and evil. Similar to cats or children

PotatoesFall,

I just use web browser on desktop, works pretty good!

There might be some clients available as flatpaks, which is generally better for installing GUI desktop apps imo.

If you want native packages for everything, I suggest you switch to arch and spend hours puzzling over broken AUR builds.

PotatoesFall,

Erklärung?

PotatoesFall,

is there a text version or summary of this?

Which filesystem should I use for stable storage?

Hello everyone. I’m going to build a new PC soon and I’m trying to maximize its reliability all I can. I’m using Debian Bookworm. I have a 1TB M2 SSD to boot on and a 4TB SATA SSD for storage. My goal is for the computer to last at least 10 years. It’s for personal use and work, playing games, making games, programming,...

PotatoesFall,

Moore’s Law is not really in effect anymore. At least the growth is no longer at an exponential rate.

PotatoesFall,

Von der AfD lass ich mir nix in Anspruch nehmen

PotatoesFall,

wat

PotatoesFall,

freedom

PotatoesFall,

I can forgive using Sync, but Chrome?

Cult of the Dead Cow Launches Encryption Protocol + ChatApp to preserve privacy. (gizmodo.com)

The protocol is built from the same digital DNA as the Tor browser and the chat app Signal and will be used to create new ways for folks to communicate, share files, and generally surf the web while simultaneously protecting their privacy.

PotatoesFall,

This news makes it sound like theres no encrypted messaging protocols around. I wish it was more clear what is special about this one. Is it the integration of onion routing and end to end encryption into one protocol?

PotatoesFall,

Sure, some people work better when surrounded by colleagues. Those people usually know that and will seek out on-site work, because it probably also makes them happier.

People who are more efficient at home probably also feel better at home and will seek out remote work.

If you want a much smaller hiring pool, more office upkeep costs and more transport emissions, sure make everyone come into the office… it’s so dumb to do this.

IMO if your sector lends itself to remote work and it’s not working for your company, you’re doing something else wrong.

PotatoesFall,

As a more extroverted person and a people-pleaser, people wanting my help is the dream. Also great for negotiating wages.

But yeah I can see how it can be annoying too!

PotatoesFall,

I’d rather be loved by a dum sweetie than a swum deetie nawmsayin

PotatoesFall,

mastodon (& tusky) lemmy (& thunder) helix editor lapce forgejo bitwarden alacritty linux kernel ublock origin signal

That’s off the top of my head. I think I might also print a bunch of stickers promoting the fediverse.

PotatoesFall,

no idea I don’t even know if they actually need/want donations

PotatoesFall,

I forgive you lol, and your cat doesn’t have to because it will never know. Nothing wrong with liking a certain kinda cat. I like cats with piercing yellow eyes

PotatoesFall,

if you trust meta, then no, they can’t see your messages either way. But you have to trust them blindly… signal is better

PotatoesFall,

A lot of people have made a website before, so it makes sense that’s the first choice for them.

That being said, if I was to make a simple desktop app tomorrow, which GUI would you recommend me?

PotatoesFall,

this is a hypothetical scenario but let’s just say rust

PotatoesFall,

How long ago was this written? Sure it’s not perfect but you can run a lot of distributions like fedora, ubuntu, opensuse etc etc whatever exactly as described. Maybe this is a joke I didn’t understand lol. But in case it is not:

  • No need to use command line if you don’t want to
  • Drivers are installed automatically (okay this might depend on the distro but in OpenSUSE I recall this being possible in a GUI)
  • There is a steam flatpak, and most user apps can be installed through a GUI, often as flatpaks
  • For a user like this, I see no reason to interact with system packages other than choosing when to update.
  • I’m a programmer and even I rarely edit ANYTHING in /etc on my desktop. Sure I edit stuff in ~/.config, but that is not stuff a “normal” user would need to do.

Now sure if you want to start customizing your login screen and this that and the other thing, eventually you will have to run something on the command line. But Windows doesn’t allow much customization beyond changing your desktop background, and pales in comparison to the amount of customization you can do with KDE, all through a GUI

PotatoesFall,

I think the appstore / sandbox / flatpak situation is actually quite accessible to a younger audience that grew up with smartphones. They don’t deal with files much

Cory Doctorow: Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it (pluralistic.net)

From the author: My next book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation: it’s a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me – because Amazon refuses to sell my audio.

PotatoesFall,

Honest question, what exactly brings you to the fediverse? and if not walled gardens and monopoly, what is wrong with, say, reddit?

PotatoesFall,

I thought this topic seemed quite interesting. Do you have experience reading his content?

PotatoesFall,

controld.com/free-dns has free DNS resolvers that do the same thing as a pihole. you just go to your phones “Private DNS” setting and at it there. this will work for non-browser apps as well!

PotatoesFall,

Yeah the engine for Control D is the same as for windscribe just with more bells and whistles, and loads of configuration tools on the paid tier. It’s great for smartphones which circumvent ad blocking by putting stuff in apps rather than browsers.

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