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  • John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives

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  • But the thing is out of the big companies, basically none of them are in the business of selling the data they have. They are much better off if they don't allow competitors to grow by keeping all the data to themselves.

  • What is the difference between same brand or different brand different 5070Ti gpus? I mean prices vary quite significantly

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  • The main differences will be the overclock that is applied from the factory, and that mostly depends on the quality of the cooler and fans, and the quality of the power delivery components. Lower end cards will have louder and less efficient coolers, and a less capable power delivery system which will make an overclocked card less stable and more prone to overheating. But in reality the difference is minimal, like low single digit performance difference minimal.

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    Teen son (16) has stopped wearing deodorant cause it's "not manly"...

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  • Nah I know it better than you, you don't actually like smelling nice you're just gay!

  • Can we please, PLEASE for gods sake just all agree that arch is not and will never be a good beginner distro no matter how many times you fork it?

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  • Never was able to try mint, I only did once but the installer didn't work for some reason, probably Nvidia related so I don't blame mint for it.

  • Can we please, PLEASE for gods sake just all agree that arch is not and will never be a good beginner distro no matter how many times you fork it?

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  • Oh wow yeah I had forgotten about the grub update, the only way to not have a bricked computer was to be active in the arch communities because they didn't remove the faulty package even though it was known to brick computers

  • Can we please, PLEASE for gods sake just all agree that arch is not and will never be a good beginner distro no matter how many times you fork it?

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  • The level of disillusion in the thread is insane. At no point in time is it a good idea to recommend Arch and it's derivatives to Linux newbies. They will 100% wreck their install in the first two weeks. Even I, as a pretty experienced user had to wipe my arch install after failed update attempts, luckily I had a separate home partition. Anything else like fedora or tumbleweed will provide packages that are very up to date, but that are also tested. For example I don't fear that updating my fedora install will completely brick the networking of my system like what happened to me on arch.

    Ironically I wouldn't recommend any Ubuntu derivatives as for some reason, every single time I've installed Ubuntu or one of its variants like PopOS they ended up messed up in some way or another, albeit never as critical as Arch did to me numerous times. Probably some kind of PPA issues that make the system weird because it's always the fault of PPAs

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    Calm down Satan

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  • The dev taking the issue and closing it 30s later because the dev is competent enough to open the console and check the values and seeing "[Object object]"

  • Are you in this pic?

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  • Which password manager to use?

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  • Proton pass if general UX and speed are important to you. Bitwarden if amount of features is important to you

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    Arch Linux – Best Tips for Beginners?

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  • Make backups of your important files, or use a separate home partition. When I used arch, more than once I had a bricked install after doing updates. The last straw for me was when after updating my network completely went out. I switched to fedora and haven't had issues for 2+ years. Also, (this goes for every distro, but more so arch than others) NEVER update if you don't have at least some time in front of you in case something happens. Arch was definitely a good learning experience and it was fun at first tweaking everything, but the drawbacks in stability got a bit old after a while. The AUR is a godsend and it's the best thing ever, you should also be using an AUR helper like Yay to make your life easier.

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    Daughter's older rich boyfriend is throwing a big party & she wants us to pretend being rich

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    If at the very least he worded it as "they are rich people and they will judge you if you don't behave like them" but this sounds wrong. But I do get it. But still I don't really. But I kinda do.

  • Completed NTSYNC Driver Merged For Linux 6.14: "Should Make Many SteamOS Users Happy"

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  • Of course, but the articles make it seem like it will 6x the performance in some games when in reality it won't because the performance gain is already factored in upstream proton

  • Completed NTSYNC Driver Merged For Linux 6.14: "Should Make Many SteamOS Users Happy"

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  • These articles are very misleading because Proton is already patched to include fsync (I think it's fsync). So basically there won't be any performance improvement for most games under 99.999% of setups. Still a good thing that this is merged because it means the regular wine outside of proton will now be on par with proton

  • I love systemd

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  • I see why that may not be an ideal position in an ideological sense, where every distro uses the same thing, but i see it the other way around: it's a way to finally attempt to standardize Linux desktops. Having a standard desktop is crucial for mainstream adoption, because developers won't bother supporting 4837 different combinations of software. This is the reason I am really excited for the future with flatpak, xdg-portals, systemd, pipewire, Wayland etc etc. This way the distro is no longer the platform, it's the distro agnostic software stack that becomes the target platform. For example there's no longer a need to support KDE's file picker, and gnome's file picker and xfce's, you can just call the portal and it will (should) display a file picker. And if the user doesn't have a supported environment (which the vast majority don't) then the burden is on them for being different I guess :p

  • Running Plasma instead of Gnome for the first time in years

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  • To be fair customization is a good thing, the problem is it's too easy to accidentally get into too advanced settings. It feels like the settings most people want 95% of the time are burried in the same place as the niche settings. The gnome tweaks app often gets criticized because it contains basic settings, but I think it could be beneficial for plasma to have the same thing. Only keep the base level user settings the the settings, and put all the customization stuff in a separate tweaks app. The simple by default, powerful when needed moto is true to some extent, but the simple by default part could be much improved and a lot more intuitive

  • GNOME 48 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing, Here's What's New - 9to5Linux

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  • Very thorough overview, I really like the charge limit feature, I previously had to use an extension to manage it

  • Color management/HDR protocol just got finalized - Wayland

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  • reddit has its own AI feature now

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  • Time to crank up their openAI bill 😎😎