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Nerd|Furry|Linux User|Ace|BiRomantic|Taken <3

Leftist with an incorrigible love for fancy aesthetics (mostly Renaissance Italy/Victorian England) that might be incorrectly read as a monarchist because of that.

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Unicorn, but also occasionally gryphon.

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[SOLVED-See Comments] My "Windows" boot entry has disappeared from the EFI menu

Title. I dual-boot Windows and Linux. I always saw people making “WINDOWS DELETED MY LINUX BOOTLOADER OMGOMG” posts and it had never happened to me. Now, the opposite has happened. I switched from EndeavourOS to OpenSUSE and now my windows install is no longer selectable on boot....

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Yea so I got no choice?

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But generaly do not dual boot unless you have to.

Thanks that doesn’t help in the slightest :3

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The

Did you get killed mid writing the comment? That’s ominous.

Anyway, I thank you for actual helpful comment instead of the others just calling me dumb for dual booting at all. :P

I’ll see what I can do.

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More like the recording industry unto itself is the reason it is a threat at all

If artist’s entire livelihoods weren’t 100% dependant on business parasites who have, since time immemorial, been looking for a way to get rid of them and just keep making money without those pesky artists asking for like. Payment or respect. Then AI would just be a funny little invention that might have even been welcomed by artists as another tool in their toolkit.

Expand that for writers and the television industry. Illustrators and the publishing industry. Etc. Etc. Etc.

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The school where I did the equivalent of elementary/middle school education had a strict “absolutely no hats” rule.

I have no clue why, but if you were caught wearing a hat (or cap or…) you’d get into trouble. First time a warning and you take it off. Second time they take the hat away from you and return it after seven days. Third time you get suspended.

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That’s just US Election Season

Gringos tend to vore every conversation when that time rolls around.

Let them get it out their systems. They are in pain.

I’m from Latin America, btw.

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The developer of SystemD was mildly rude to some people back in 2009

That means everything he makes is pure evil by definition and explanations as to why it’s bad will be invented post-hoc to make it make sense.

ELI5: The Linux xz backdoor situation

PLEASE. I keep seeing it in memes. As I understand it the latest version of the xz package (present in rolling release distros like Arch and SUSE Tumbleweed) has “a backdoor”, but I have no earthly clue what can be done by malicious folks with access to that backdoor or if I should be afraid or how to check if my distro is...

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I was on EndeavourOS (Arch-derived), but switched to SUSE Tumbleweed like, this weekend.

But hold up

So if the backdoor is all about exploiting ssh to gain full system access, and ssh was never enabled in my OS I’m in the clear regardless?

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Checked. We good. Thanks, stranger.

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to discover your stash of furry lewds.

No need to call me out, even if my home instance makes that obvious.

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I was being silly as well :P

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I know you’re making a joke, but just in case you’re not, “ELI5” is about simplifying things for the layperson, not about actually explaining things to five year olds.

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Dendy Deck.

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Other random stuff that fits in with WWJD:

  • Tilting at a tree for not having edible fruit
  • (presumably anyway) building tables and stuff
  • telling all your mates to pretend they are eating you
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Using Linux is often about ethics, it just doesn’t make you a good person.

Yeah, a user is passive. Now if you contribute to FLOSS projects, either with money or knowledge, then we can talk about your ethical superiority (I totally don’t btw, can’t afford the money, and don’t have the knowledge)

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Oh I understand it alright.

I understand that you guys are FUCKED, and since my country is in the US’s sphere of influence, eventually so will we be fucked.

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I’ll dunk on Americans, but only and exclusively when they are ranting about how EVIL other international powers are.

It has little to do with your election cycle and lots to do with the fact that your CIA destroyed my country’s future twice, both in lived memory, one I was already an adult for. You could say I have a vendetta. :3

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Amusingly I often distract myself from anxious thoughts and manage to sleep by thinking gay thoughts

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It’s true but while no padding would be ideal, I’ll take busywork padding over NES style “overwhelming difficulty spike” padding any day.

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Oh I play retrogames alright

But in emulation, with save states and rewind. And fuck any pretentious retrogamer that would call me a faker for that.

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Are we 100% sure those are even persons running the accounts, and not LLM bots trained on the worst Twitter Threads imaginable?

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The conversation in this thread reminded me of a thing I saw on Reddit ages ago, of feeding /dev/random into aplay with some parameters I unfortunately forgot, to get a series of random noise that sounds almost musical.

Without the parameters you just get white noise sadly.

What non-FOSS software have you been unable to quit?

For me, Google video search, Google books (Internet Archive is good, but doesn’t always have the same stuff), Adobe InDesign (but in the process of learning LaTeX), and Typewise. As for the Google stuff, I liked Whoogle a lot, but almost all their instances seem to have been blocked or shut down. Also, apologies if this is...

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Can’t speak for any country but my own (Brazil)

The reason WhatsApp is such a thing here is an interesting little historical path.

See, texting never really took off here in Brazil. Because phone service providers would charge per individual message. And while the charge was like 5 cents per message, that shit builds up. So unless you’re rich… You won’t be texting.

So when smartphones, and with them, data plans (that offered very little data, around 4 gigs is the average nowadays, it was a few megs back then) came around, internet-based messaging services became our texting. Because if you have, idk, 512 megs of data in your plan, that’s not a lot but it is more than enough for messaging over an app.

WhatsApp was the one that got popular, no idea why.

It was popular with the youths™ first in the early 10s, then families hopped on, dragged in by their young-adult kids no doubt, and then… Everything! Because once the Boomers had learned how to use this one app, every business under the sun realised it could serve their purposes as well. And eventually… So did the government.

You want to order pizza? WhatsApp. Want to contact a government agency? WhatsApp. Want to schedule a doctor’s appointment? WhatsApp.

Now, I got my friends and family on Telegram, largely because Telegram has nicer features (still closed source though grumble grumble) but I still need WhatsApp for work. It’s how I talk to everyone: The team, the boss, the contacts, etc.

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