And before that, where did people think money-grubbing, morally-bankrupt billionaires vacuuming up all their data was going to lead? This was all but inevitable, especially when, without outrage-based engagement algorithms there is no President Trump. These scumbags prop each other up. Don’t give them a dime or let them profit off your attention.

How does one keep their system secure with pirating? A large mkv of a new movie seems like an effective container to deliver a payload.

Children working for low wages: truly a show of a thriving state and a Great America /s

4 years later and I look down like I’m even higher up.

Yeah, but those with the competency to remove the bloat still get this look for not choosing the bloat-free option.

Back then people might say something like, “I work with computers,” because it actually narrowed things down.

When I was at my lowest, in an intensive outpatient program, our homework was to go for a walk, outside in nature, for 20-30 minutes a day. Treat it as a must do. Like if the only thing I did was get outside and walk, that was a successful day. Try it for a few weeks. If you miss a day, just try to get out there the next day. It can help stabilize your mood and gives you time and space to process and develop a sense of direction (literal and metaphorical, of course).

Wasn’t there a legal dispute around this that was trying to get them with tampering/destruction of evidence? Not sure if it’s foolproof.

If you do use GrapheneOS, quickly restarting the device means your pin is required before biometrics unlock is available. As I understand it – in the U.S. – law enforcement can legally compel you to unlock your phone with biometrics, but not a pin. Not that you can trust law enforcement to be law abiding, but at least it’s a stronger case in court.

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“Naive” doesn’t sit right with me. Anyone can scrutinize LUKS, or BitLocker for that matter (via cryptsetup). Backdoors aren’t the issue here, even for MS Bitlocker. The issue, as stated in the article, is:

by default, BitLocker recovery keys are uploaded to Microsoft’s cloud

No need for a backdoor if you know you can get keys to the front door.

This is me, too. Also, not bothered that their instagram algorithm can serve them highly personalized political propaganda just as easily. At least not bothered enough to leave.

Even after seeing it, I was sure the iphone would fail. I thought, “Why would anyone use a crappy computer on a tiny screen instead of a laptop or desktop?”

It’s the data of what corners MS can cut to save more money than they lose when x number of users decide enough is enough.

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So disappointing that someone could go from a music video like Praise You to thinking this was a good idea. At least Spike Jones went on to make Her.

Linux doesn’t “make you interact with the terminal.” Many linux users interact with the terminal because it’s a better tool for many purposes-- not just niche ones as you suggest. Your argument leans heavily on popularity: what most people are doing, but that’s kind of the point of the original comment. People are taught on software and OSs owned and pushed by private companies. It creates such a dependency that it’s hard for people to imagine how one can succeed without them. Knowing the terminal can help one understand GUIs better, and makes it easier to imagine building new ones or modifying existing ones. It also allows a person to recognise when a GUI is unnecessary and a task can be completed faster by keeping your hands on the keyboard and working in the terminal.

Not the commenter you replied to, but I change my XDG directory names to be lowercase and start with different letters. For example, Desktop, becomes “drop” (as in pick it up and put it somewhere else) and Downloads is a subdirectory dl. A program that would otherwise save to “Downloads” now saves to “~/drop/dl”. When I setup my machines I run a script including the line xdg-user-dirs-update --set DESKTOP "drop" to update the XDG directory and I delete “Desketop”. So og commenter has the option of updating their userdirs to be nested in their username if they wanted to avoid symlinking. Here’s the relevant arch wiki page and xdg freedesktop page.

I definitely miss the sense of community and building relationships that I had in forums. In particular, one forum I was on was a great size, diverse members with a shared interest, but we rarely spoke about the topic except to reference it. The off-topic section was where we spent all out time.

Lemmy/reddit feel more distant. I like it but it’s a different medium. There are people here I find so smart and funny, but interactions are akin to striking up a good convo while waiting in line at the store, wishing you were friends with them, but knowing you’ll probably never see them again.

It’s not like these platforms have been around that long. I hope one day a new platform/medium comes along that fills that need.

I see this all the time. I bet we’d be more productive if we all had the month of December off and came back truly refreshed, instead of trying to look busy and force it.

It’s like they stumbled across Gianmarco Soresi’s stand up bit and decided to use that as an argument, unironically.