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Mountaineer

@ Mountaineer @aussie.zone

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  • Funnily enough, I've got a few friends who are long time iPhone users, who actually point this stuff out themselves:

    "OMG! Have you seen the eye watering price of the new one?""Yay, I finally get stuff you've had for years."

    Neither party would ever consider anything else, and they both buy the new model every year. 🤷

    At this point I admit that my reasons for choosing Android all those years ago no longer exist or matter, but I can't imagine changing ecosystem either.

  • Can a Linux installation be run as a VM in Windows?

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  • I think all the existing answers are on the basis of creating a new Linux VM.

    And if I understand you correctly, you already have a bare metal Linux install that you want to run whilst Linux is up.

    This is the best search result I could find: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=93437

    It sounds like Virtualbox will indeed create a pseudo vhdx that points to a real partition, but windows is going to give you permissions drama.

    The above link is out of date though, so its best viewed as info rather than guide.

    Good luck.

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  • A lockdown browser?

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  • If you need to use windows because of a software issue, not a hardware issue, you're probably best off running windows in a VM.That way your linux install is making the WPA3 connection, and as far as the Windows install is concerned, it's on a wired lan.This has the added benefit of not having to reboot, you just always start linux and turn the windows VM on and off as required.

  • Aussie Rules

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  • They do a plant based version that is still delicious and doesn't upset lactose intollerent people.

  • How to send a fax from an Android phone

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  • This requirement is designed to be hard, and as such is a major red flag to me.What else is this company going to be difficult with?Can i only get customer support or cancel my account in person, between 9-4 on the 2nd Friday of the month?I would consider alternatives, if possible.

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  • TOTP is a defined standard, specifically RFC 6238.But I still have 3 different apps on my phone so that I can get on to various customer VPNS. 🤷‍♂️

  • It looks like we'll soon be welcoming a lot of new Linux users here

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  • Low tech DHCP

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  • Can't tell if you're joking, but a Request For Comments is effectively a proposal for how a process should be performed.Some of them are eventually ratified as internet standards by the IETF.Plenty of them remain useful as defacto standards even without formal acknowledgement.

  • Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them?

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  • Windows XP is basically firmware at this point, and has been for over a decade.

    Lots of proprietary hardware that works perfectly, will not work on newer versions of Windows due to lack of drivers.

    I see it constantly in factory situations with scales, scanners and robot controllers, it would only be worse for million dollar x-ray machines.

  • I have to give an elevator pitch for an assignment, and thinking of pitching the fediverse. Any advice? Resources?

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  • Think about your audience and the specific features that will potentially appeal to them.

    Depending on who that user is, the same feature/quirk can be either a pro or a con.

    There's lower user numbers here compared to something like Reddit, but the people involved tend to be of an average higher tech literacy.So there's not as much noise, but there's also not as much signal.

    As a user, you can spin up your own instance, which gives you complete control... But it also introduces a financial and moderation expense, not to mention inherently leading to fractured communities.

    Just look at the Android discussion, it's occurring on at least:[email protected][email protected][email protected]

    etc etc

  • What was your gateway product to open source?

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  • FOSS is enshitification-hardened, not proof.

    VLC remains awesome because the guy (maybe Jean-Baptiste Kempf?) that controls the project has refused to be bought, has in fact refused HUGE sums of money.

    The original author of any project has to right to sell it with the corresponding licence changes at any time.There's some legal grey area on something like Linux or VLC which have MANY MANY developer hands in the pie, and existing users could certainly fork off the existing releases, but VLC could pivot tomorrow to a for profit company and make future releases of the official VLC a paid product, if they choose too.

  • Stop using Brave Browser

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  • Firefox + ublock origin.I just clicked through a few long youtube videos without hitting any ads.

    edit: my apologies, I missed your iOS problem.

  • What's a book you really enjoyed, that you feel like no one else on lemmy has read?

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  • I've read Revelation Space and Chasm City.I'm sorry, but they are a massive struggle.

  • If everyone was spread out onto different instances, and communities were based all over the fediverse, the decisions of one instance would be less impactful.

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