Anyone using a Linux Smarphone?
Anyone using a Linux Smarphone?
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Linux @lemmy.ml I mean, I pretty regularly have to debunk the idea that Hitler was a leftist. My dad firmly believes it, because "he was anti-gun and hated freedom, and called himself a national Socialist!"
I've explained, until I'm blue in the face, that restricting freedom is right-wing, yes even restricting gun rights can be right-wing, and that Hitler deliberately chose the name "National Socialist" to fool leftists into coming ti meetings - like he straight up admits that in Mein Kampf.My dad is not somebody who ever learns new information or changes his mind easily, though, so I'll probably never successfully convince him that nazism was a right wing movement and not even slightly leftist.
And, like, what do you do on Linux about that key? Is there a way to just make it act as an additional Super key, or do anything at all without Logitech's program?
There’s people who think parts of my lifestyle are a mental disorder. That’s their problem, not mine tho.
It must be nice that there's not a dedicated ideological movement hell-bent on making it your problem.
Who did he want eradicated from public life?
Transgender people.
Honestly it seems like you're pretty dedicated to just defending this guy's ideas and ideology, so you know exactly what you're doing and why it's wrong, and it's a waste of time to talk to you.
His videos where he called empathy a sickness, said homosexuality is a disease, or the ones where he said that People of Color were less capable than white people? Or maybe you haven't stumbled across him saying that Black people were better off under slavery. Idk, I might just be biased, as someone who he wanted to see eradicated from public life. Maybe if you have a friend who's black or gay or trans, they might help you out with being able to spot plain and open bigotry that is apparently going right over your head.
The comment alluded to Transracial identities as a (very cherry-picked and extreme) example. I do really, genuinely wonder whether we should uncritically accept the validity of people who identify as transracial, especially people who benefit from whiteness but self-identify as a member of a marginalized race. What is the instances stance on transracial identities? Another question- do you have racially marginalized mods, and how do they feel about the subject?
Oh Gods, I learned the hard way to never roll back a package unless you really know what you're doing. And I learned that lesson way back in 2013 or 2014, when I'd only been using Linux for a year or two full-time. Now I'm on a rolling distro and have everything as purely the latest version, and if I come across some weird thing that involves rolling back a package to an older version, I will simply not do that and will look for other solutions instead. Sometimes it's as simple as creating a symlink so that when a program looks for libWhatever2.1.5 it gets quietly redirected to libWhatever2.6.0
Why not a fifth or even just an tenth as popular as reddit? I get wanting it to be more active, especially for the niche communities to feel more active, but the last thing I want is to go to the "All" tab here and see anything remotely like /r/all on Reddit.
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com Has anyone pirated their internet?
While I do agree that their focus should absolutely be on the browser, I do actually really like that they offer a paid Wireguard-based VPN with endpoints in dozens of countries. I think that makes sense for them, given their mission and everything, and actually gives them a revenue source.
same! just moved to a safe state and started a new job and was about to try to buy a house. just got my gender marker updated on everything. was (still am, inshallah and the creek don't rise) scheduled for bottom surgery next year. everything seemed to be going in the right direction and I had so much hope, especially in the last couple of days before the election when the energy and enthusiasm seemed to be peaking and I was thinking that Harris might actually win.
Now, fuck, I don't know if I'll have a job next year.
I got bored and installed Arch on my desktop. I'm back on Arch after using Ubuntu for years.
They still sold user data without being upfront about it until caught, and are still running a shady-ass business. They're at the intersection of crypto, bigotry, and dishonesty.
Not using or advocating for Brave is pretty simple.
In this US, yes, we generally trust our tap water (although there have been notable incidents of water infrastructure failures, such as major lead contamination in Flint, MI), to the extent that if you get a drink in a restaurant here, 99% of the time it's going to be mixed or made using tap water, with ice made from tap water.
Some folks will use a filter (Brita brand filter pitchers used to be popular at one time, with TV ads and everything) but that's more for filtering out chemicals/toxins/minerals than anything else.
In rural places, every now and then the local government or water company (yes, a lot of places here have privatized water infrastructure which is not super great) will put out a 'Boil Water Notice' but this is generally considered outside of the norm, and you usually expect to see that kind of stuff resolve within a couple of days unless it's a result of a major disaster (we were under a Boil Water notice for 2 weeks after hurricane Katrina in my area, the longest stretch I ever remember). Boil Water notices are usually a result of either a breach of the infrascture (a pipe collapsing and the water supply getting dirty), or a water supply failing its regular quality/safety tests. Our water (can't speak for everywhere in the US, and don't really know the specifics of how they do it) is chemically treated and filtered before it goes into the tap, and the supply mechanisms are usually regularly tested to make sure they're within safe standards.
All of that being said, I know people who refuse to drink tap water, mostly because it tends to have a distinct taste from treatment and from having minerals in it, but also because they've heard horror stories like in Flint. Two things: those folks normally drink bottled water, which is usually just bottled-up tap water from some other place; and I usually see those folks gladly drinking fountain drinks/tea/etc at a restaurant, which is made with un-boiled tap water and served on tap-ice.
TL;DR - the tap water in the US is generally considered safe to drink, in most places, with notable exceptions, and for now (our mostly-privatized infrastructure is getting worse and worse, and very public failures have started to appear in not only water infrastructure, but everywhere)
It's going okay so far, but my area is forecast to have highs in the 100s later this week and I'm not sure how that's gonna affect me, since I only really know how to dress in layers for work (I'm a trans woman working an office IT job where I do occasionally step outside or carry computers from one bldg to another)
Like, I'm gonna be wearing a thin cardigan over a tank top and I know I'm gonna sweat. Oh, and my hair instantly goes frizzy when I sweat. I'm dreading it.
absolutely! I mostly only play older games for this reason. I absolutely love some of my old N64 and GBA games because I can clear them in a day or two. Even the older RPGs like LoZ:OoT seem a lot smaller than the open-world stuff out there today, and I actually like that I can learn the entire world and know almost everything about them. They're finite and I think that's a plus. Eventually, I'm either gonna get bored and move on, or I'm gonna clear a game. The first feels like defeat, like I did something wrong. The latter feels refreshing and mints the game as a nostalgic memory in my mind; I still look back at the day I finished Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time with such bittersweetness; I was sad that it was over, but really proud and happy to have reached the conclusion. And I think you miss that with infinite content, and open worlds. And I also did miss things in my first playthrough of LoZ:OoT but it only took me a couple more (years apart, so nostalgia definitely washed over me every time!) playthroughs to catch them.
I think open-world games can be really fun: games like Minecraft are great examples of that, but the emphasis there isn't on a story being told to you, but on you creating whatever you want. You're not as scared to miss things because you have all the time in the world to explore and not everything is gonna be up your alley (some people don't even "beat" the game, or even go to the Nether or End). But I don't think I'd like a Minecraft where you have a definite Legend of Zelda-style story scattered out across the infinitely-generated landscape. That's just not for me.
Yes, kind of. However, I was raised Pentecostal and strictly conservative, and have lingering religious trauma that I'm working through. For a while (from my teens through my mid-twenties) I described myself as atheist. However, I got into witchcraft and the occult a few years ago as kind of a time-waster hobby, not really sincerely believing in it at first but just having fun with it, and that grew into learning about other religions and becoming genuinely curious about spirituality and religion. Now I'd describe myself as a Unitarian Universalist. I've still never been to a Unitarian Universalist church in-person because there's not one near me, but I attend online stuff occasionally and whole-heartedly love the way they do religion. And I feel welcomed there despite all of the things that would have gotten me dirty looks at any of the churches I grew up in. In terms of belief, I'd say I'm agnostic and I like to "put on" and "take off" beliefs (or "suspend disbelief"), which I got from doing chaos magic. I think magic and ritual helps me organize and make sense of my mind more than anything else... if anything, just having a meditation and journaling habit has helped my mental health, especially since i re-started those habits after starting my gender transition. And yeah, it also maybe helps with everything else gestures to the world at large...
And yeah, I just realized this is the most I've talked about my spirituality to anyone since going down this road. One of my big things is that my spirituality is a very personal thing and I keep it mostly to myself. Nothing against people who proselytize (I've come to understand and forgive people who sincerely believe they're saving my life by "ministering" to me, like some of my older relatives who genuinely care about me and who are probably happy to hear me say "yeah, I'm kind of getting into a church now") but I don't feel compelled to tell people about my shit because I definitely have no answers. That's my whole thing, I have no answers. I'm just kind of reading everything and trying everything, for no purpose other than to just understand people and myself a little better. And maybe it works for me, but I also know folks who definitely don't want or need religion and that is 1000% okay, and I hope I don't disturb them. So I only really speak of my stuff when people ask.
How's the job market there, especially for IT jobs? I'm looking for remote stuff so that I could move anywhere but it seems like the whole IT sector is suffering at the moment so I'm also looking at in-person or hybrid jobs.
even just an older version of Windows or Linux
Maybe this is obscure enough: I used Debian PPC on an old removed PowerBook G4 back in 2011 to get me through my last semester of community college. My main laptop had finally died (The CPU had overheated, it was an old hand-me-down that barely ran XP before I loaded linux on it, and its fan had always ran hot). I found the PowerBook on ebay for 30 bucks and decided, after 10 minutes of research, to give it a shot. Of course, removed on it was a no-go, as it no longer got updates and most software for removed was no longer packaged for PPC. It was my first experience using a different/non-mainstream architecture, and it was rough.
The main things I needed, like Firefox and Libreoffice, worked well enough. I got gameboy and N64 emulators working, which was enough gaming for me at the time. My main issues were getting Flash to work just so that I could use one website our college used for one of our classes. I remember spending hours trying to get a third-party Flash plugin working (I think it was called "pepper" and having all kinds of trouble with it. I also remember just wanting to watch a movie or TV show in VLC, and although VLC worked like a champ, there were some formats/codecs that would just lag hellaciously on it, and when I researched, the answer I found was that they just didn't play nice with PowerPC architecture (or more precisely, the drivers for the onboard graphics for this PowerPC cpu... some combination of it all) and that nobody really wanted to work on the issue. Because hardly anyone was using PowerPC on their regular computer by then.
Every time I went to install something, there was a 50/50 chance that it wasn't available in the repos. I'd hear about new software coming out - the linux community seemed to really be growing then, and ElementaryOS was taking off and with it, a lot of modern-looking linux apps and stuff built on Electron was coming out - but it was usually not out there for PPC. I couldn't use Spotify, I don't even think the web version worked. I couldn't play Minecraft (lol I think the laptop would've died if I'd even attempted that). I'd grown fond of Sublime Text Editor (look, i've grown up a lot since then) and it wasn't available. I was basically limited to FOSS apps that someone, anyone, had been kind enough to build and put in the repos for my silly little dying architecture. Or FOSS apps that I was brave enough (with my limited linux know-how at the time) to try to compile (I think I compiled mupen64plus for it? I think that was the only one I had to do)
So yeah, it was a pain. But mostly you could use regular GNU/Linux with your core apps and any FOSS stuff without issue.
Oh, and Youtube didn't really work, until they switched to the HTML5 player. Then it worked, but would lag on any resolution over 480p.
I upgraded to a Thinkpad X60 that summer when I finally landed a job and to date, that Powerbook is the worst computer I ever owned. (I didn't mention them since this is a post about Operating Systems, not hardware, but it had hardware issues: it was heavy, the screen flickered if it wasn't at a certain position, it got incredibly hot when charging, and the fans were noisy as hell).
I still think it's fun to run linux on something other than x86 - I play around with ARM linux on other devices, including Ubuntu Touch and postmarketOS on an old phone. But for my desktop linux experience, I think I'll stick to x86 from here on out, thank you very much.
No real annoyances on either the desktop site or the mobile website tbh. I don't even need a client for my phone because the mobile site is that good - which I wish I could say the same about for other social media apps/websites who've intentionally kneecapped their mobile web UI to force users onto their app. Glad Lemmy is fully accessible and usable in a smartphone's web browser, I hope it stays that way.