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Southern Wolf

@ southernwolf @pawb.social

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Individualist, Capitalist, Objectivist, Liberal, Transhumanist. Linux User + Certified, Programmer (Web Dev, Rust, a little Python), AI Tinkerer, Gamer, Science Lover, #NAFO🇺🇦

  • What's your current favorite distro that isn't Arch, Debian or Fedora?

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  • OpenSuse Tumbleweed without a doubt!

  • AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number & email

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  • While I have little respect for removed's overall privacy practices, this sounds a lot like the CCP making something up to scare protesters and dissidents from using AirDrop. There's no sensible reason they would be advertising such an exploit openly, especially when it could potentially be used to secretly spy on dissidents, protesters, or even used in foreign espionage. Something doesn't sit right with this.

  • Friendly reminder

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  • Unfortunately for those of us that use Cuda features, AMD just really isn't that viable of an alternative. Anyone who's had to deal with ROCM can attest to this...

  • NewPipe v0.26.0 released with support for channel tabs

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  • Oh hey, nice to see this fork expanded a lot since I last looked at it!

  • Kernel 6.6.6 is out 😈

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  • 🤘🏻

  • Why is there no BSD 3-Clause + Patent license option?

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  • Wanted patent protections for myself mostly. I know the Apache 2.0 is best well-known for that, but I tend to prefer the simplicity of the BSD licenses. More so curious why the BSD 2-Clause was chosen for that Patent clause and not the BSD 3-Clause. Just seems odd to me. I updated my original post with more info.

  • Why is there no BSD 3-Clause + Patent license option?

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  • You are correct, yeah. I updated my post with more info on what I was asking about, plus the text of the two licenses.

  • Deciding between Fairphone 5 and Pixel 8

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  • This is absolutely true. The Fairphone kinda gets around this since its got open parts and can be user serviced for most things, but the honest question for that is how many are gonna go to that trouble, not next week when your phone is still new, but 5 years from now? The dedicated certainly will and I commend Fairphone for it, but a lot of average folks with a slower phone are gonna want to upgrade at that point.

  • Deciding between Fairphone 5 and Pixel 8

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  • Really, it's gonna depend on what your top priorities are. I run a Pixel 6 Pro with CalyxOS and I love it. But for you, it depends on whether you really need top security or want to go for a more open and long term design (which may not be entirely beneficial or all that special now).

    For the Pixel 8, you're gonna get much better cameras and more of those "Pixel Features" even when running something like GOS or CalyxOS. Its really nice cause you can even use GBoard and GCam and just firewall them (or however you do the equivalent in GOS), so you get the benefits without the downsides. Though it will be more expensive too.

    With Fairphone, you're gonna get a more open design that likely will last longer. That said, it doesn't have a top end processor in it, so you have to imagine what it'll be like in 6-8 years trying to run Android 20. Longevity is nice, but not as helpful if it can't keep up physically with new releases. Also, with the Pixel 8 line now set to be supported for 8 years, it kinda... Undermines the Fairphone argument somewhat, though not to a huge degree.

    Personally, if it were me, I'd choose the Pixel (and also choose CalyxOS as well, but that's more a personal choice, don't let the Graphene folks try and sway you with a bunch of FUD. CalyxOS is just fine, but GOS is a good choice too). It will have higher quality hardware, the processor should be able to handle tougher workloads into the future, and I think you'll quite like the experience.

    But, the Fairphone isn't a bad choice either, and its definitely supporting a better ecosystem overall. It just won't have as good of cameras and may not run as well a few years down the road, which could be an issue for the longevity. It can also run CalyxOS as well, so you won't be missing out on using most other normal apps.

    Really, it just depends on your use case and priorities. I don't think you can go absolutely wrong choosing either one though.

  • Smart android keyboard respecting privacy?

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  • Holy crap, I didn't know about this fork before now. I kinda thought that OpenBoard was sorta... abandoned at this point, but seeing the improvements from this fork just made me go and try it again. Normally I just use GBoard with it's connections disabled (CalyxOS, so that is possible to do in a secure way), but trying this out now to see if I can dump Gboard entirely.

  • What feature are you dying for to come to your DE - Linux?

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  • Actual proper touch support, which includes a decent built-in keyboard (looking at you KDE...).

    I love 2-in-1's, but I do wish touch support would go all the way. It's like... 70-80% there, with Gnome having a good keyboard and KDE having the better touch support overall. But it just needs to go the final stretch to make it a good experience.

  • Now more than ever, ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment

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  • I mean, that's the case for KDE too, so can't really throw stones there.

  • Ecosia.org updates its Privacy Policy

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  • Say what you want about Brave, but at least they are moving to their own indexing. Where as DuckDuckGo is just Bing...

    Also I'd take that anti-Brave link with a grain of salt. I've got a hunch it's somehow connected back to a Vivaldi dev. So I'd view it as highly untrustworthy.

  • System76 values and ethics (Opinion)

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  • Could be it's a requirements for their payment processor, and details like that aren't something you talk openly about freely.

    Also, you will have sites that u lock will break beyond repair, so try is the correct word. I know this well from using Brave, which is even less than uBlock does, and even then some sites are still broken and requires the shields turned off. Just an unfortunate reality with today's web.

  • System76 values and ethics (Opinion)

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  • Quite frankly no one should be using captchas at all. They are mostly pointless, and AI's have reached the point of being able to solve them. It's mostly just a gratis thing at this point... The illusion of trust and safety, probably for both users and providers.

  • System76 values and ethics (Opinion)

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  • Considering Purism is running a pump and dump scam with their phone, I wouldn't grace them or their website with a single cent. There are worse things than a potential privacy issue...

  • System76 values and ethics (Opinion)

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  • It's likely something out of their control. I imagine their payment processor either uses it, or requires the site to use it. Mostly to combat automated fraud.

    You likely won't find any site, that has online shopping, that doesn't use some sort of way to gatekeep against this behavior, unless it's crypto-based. And even then it likely still has something like that. Even if the site redirects to Paypal, you're gonna face that.

    Your approach simply isn't realistic to the modern web. You can try uBlock, but blocking those connections likely will make the site ultimately not work for you.

  • Announcing Freya GUI library

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  • Haven't looked at a lot of Rust front-end GUI libraries recently, eh?

  • I has come to my attention that some users have never heard of F-droid. F-droid is a free software app store for android

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  • ^^^ This!