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  • Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security

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  • That does seem to be the intention, to hold companies liable, I just dont see how that would possibly work. Similar situations have happened with DMCA copyright stuff. Some foreign pirate sites were fined by the American government, and the sites literally told them to fuck off.

    And what if some countries create laws that state you cannot recklessly gather users' personal information? Who do you obey? Do you pay a fine no matter what? Are you banned in one country? How would that be enforced?

    Not only do I fundamentally disagree with what they're trying to do, it simply doesn't make sense in the first place, nor does their implementation.

  • Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security

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  • I agree with you that there have been a lot of reactionary takes to this news. But I do think that many if not all Linux distributions can choose to ignore it, yes. I think it's inherently unenforceable. How is California supposed to have say over a random guy in the Netherlands who makes a distro? Even a distros based in California should be able to put a disclaimer that this OS is not to be used in the state of California. Maybe make a California version with age verification at worst. And then everyone will proceed to use the non age verification version because what is the government going to do? Kick in every door and manually check if your computer OS is in compliance? Even if they went to that extent (they won't), what is the criteria for criminally charging someone? What if you are just visiting California, do you have to reinstall your OS for a few days?

  • Fennec on graphene wants me to install unified push. Should I?

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  • Do you want push notifications from your browser? If so, then probably. Unified Push is a trusted, commonly used alternative to Play Services push notifications.

  • Forza Horizon 6 requirements are out

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  • Yes they do, which I said above.

    Yes they are more optimized, that's how they are able to keep up as well as they do. A 3070 completely blows away the current console gen specs wise. Due to optimizations, it is a lot closer than it looks on paper but 3070 is still ahead by a sizeable margin.

    I'm not here to shit on consoles. I said they are the base experience. The "good enough" experience. If OP's card is outdoing that by a significant amount still, he doesn't need to upgrade. If he's getting the same performance of consoles, that's still good enough. If he's starting to dip below consoles, maybe consider buying a new GPU or CPU, or maybe just get to more of your backlog for a while. Realistically he's got around 4 more years, maybe more the way pricing for electronics will affect how fast requirements go up.

  • Operating System Political Compass - Updated version

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  • It is technically fully community driven though. And if you moved it up you'd need more squares. No way in hell is it on the same level of corporate as Ubuntu, or especially Android.

  • Operating System Political Compass - Updated version

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  • There's an argument that it would be between Fedora and Ubuntu, since being immutable makes it more locked down and you are beholden to the devs to push out important updates like drivers. Then again it is basicallt customized Fedora Atomic so if we're counting "Fedora" as an average of all Fedora versions, maybe not

  • Forza Horizon 6 requirements are out

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  • It's literally still above the requirements for high graphics at over 60 FPS. I assume this is not even considering DLSS or frame gen, which would double performance.

    Consoles are the base experience. On Series X, Horizon 5, which is 5 years old, runs at the equivalent of medium graphics settings at best, with resolution scaling. Performance mode for a constant 60 makes even more compromises. Horizon 6 will likely be worse.

    3070 is crushing that, you're good. For a while in fact. And that's just assuming you're playing only brand new games.

  • Forza Horizon 6 requirements are out

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  • The graphics are better, new & more cars, some new event types, physics improve. It's released infrequently enough that it allows the game to breathe and make you want more. Yeah it's pretty similar, but like where do you go with the open world concept to evolve? I really don't know. Add more of a story?

  • Public restrooms in Osaka to get in-stall video screens with ads

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  • Do you think crime, hooliganism, or protesting doesn't exist in Japan?

  • Today, I finally deleted WhatsApp

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  • The problem with universal clients like that is that it inherently breaks encryption, shares it with a third party, and then MAYBE re-encrypts it correctly. And it does not prevent the third parties like Discord or whatnot from having access to your messages just because you run it through Beeper. It still goes through them. It's not even particularly more convenient. You still have to create an account with the other provider, and often times this can only be done by downloading the app.

    So there are a lot of downsides, and the only upside is not having as many apps installed, and I doubt you're hurting THAT bad for storage.

  • Today, I finally deleted WhatsApp

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  • It's cool because online based chats have more features but are more susceptible to enshittification. A federated, online based, encrypted open standard like Matrix is the future.

  • Today, I finally deleted WhatsApp

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  • Congrats! I know too many foreigners to get rid of WhatsApp. I try to count my blessings that it's not WeChat or Facebook Messenger that inexplicably became popular worldwide.

  • When the Linux user hears an iOS user say they hate Windows

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  • They got pretty bad in the mid to late 10s, but build quality is a lot better now. No iPhone bend-gate level stuff in a while.

    This did happen. Supposedly they stopped after they got fined. You can say liquid glass is a less blatant version of that hidden as a feature, but as far as I can tell they don't directly do the "slow down" button for new hardware. And if we're going to talk bloat, Microsoft is far worse. Linux is holding out for us.

    You can get an M5 Air for under a thousand bucks with an education discount, which isn't verified. I'd go for the 24 GB RAM 512 storagw version which would bring you to 1200. Might be able to snag an M4 for even cheaper if they're trying to dump inventory. The Neo has a better chip than anything close to its price range of $500. You won't be able to find better build quality OR specs for either of those 2 price ranges, let alone both. Believe me, I remember when they were overpriced 2k Intel machines. They're not that anymore, they're the gold standard, and looking even better with how Windows laptop manufacturers have gotten so greedy. You can barely find anything at all decent that's x86 for under 1k. There's a point where it doesn't make sense to go Apple if you need a ton of RAM and local storage, but most people aren't going to get a 128 GB RAM Macbook Pro.

    macOS is demonstrably better for privacy than Windows. Better than Linux? Of course not. Sabotaging apps? Huh?

    At the end of the day, I try to get whoever I can convince to go to Linux. I try to convince whoever I can to get a desktop instead of a laptop, especially for gaming. But if they NEED a laptop, or if they NEED apps that aren't on Linux, especially creative apps like Adobe and CAD, I'm sure not going to recommend Windows, from any perspective, hardware or software. Microsoft is just awful these days, and has no redeeming qualities left, with Proton being as good as it is for games. So its going to be a Macbook. If they're a student or general user with a budget that doesn't need a lot of performance, get whatever refurbished business laptop you can get a good deal on with 16 GB RAM, 32 if you can swing it, for like 300 bucks, and put Linux on it.

  • When the Linux user hears an iOS user say they hate Windows

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  • Lol definitely not a bot. I've always been more of an Apple hater due to the ecosystem and business practices, but they've turned it around a lot in the 2020s. They're still a trillion dollar company and not to be trusted, but yeah, they make great laptops.

    I main Linux on my desktop and old laptops, like I mentioned. You can say ARM doesn't belongin laptops but Apple has proven that's not true. They outperform just about any chip, with battery life efficiency that is not even approachable by any other laptop chips. That's just the facts. You can spend 3k for a laptop chip that is as good in performance as an M5 (which costs 1k), or you can get a Snapdragon chip that is almost as good as an M5 for efficiency, for over 1k. But not both. That's where we're at. Intel especially is asleep at the wheel. At least AMD is making good desktop CPUs still.

    I'm also excited for RISC V, I'm considering getting one on an SBC to make a CyberDeck out of. It's not come as far as ARM yet but it's promising and we need an open standard.

  • Already heared of Genshin but I didnt play it

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  • What? Apples and oranges. Game servers are centrally hosted. You can already host private servers in some of these, like Minecraft, it's just not federated with other servers because that kind of defeats the point of private servers.

  • JMP vs iMessage

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  • It's sort of a loaded question. Depends on threat model and what you're trying to accomplish. Apple is frequently the "good enough... I guess" privacy and security choice, believe it or not, but heavily skewed towards security. And at the end of the day, iPhone privacy comes with an asterisk that Apple may keep others from spying at a mildly acceptable level, but Apple themselves will know a LOT about you. iMessage is E2EE (from iPhone to iPhone) but do you trust the trillion dollar company to not have a backdoor? I don't, they've proven they scan content in messages.

    You can mitigate privacy AND security concerns with GrapheneOS on Android. I do this and use JMP instead of Google Messages/RCS. This is the move on GrapheneOS, because Google Messages/RCS is not fully implemented, and hotfixes often break due to Google's changes. You could also try a Linux phone, but usability has mixed reviews. These are the best options.

    If that's not an option, it's almost better to just stick with iPhone, since other custom ROMs often have security tradeoffs in the name of privacy, and stock Android has HUGE privacy tradeoffs in the name of security.

    So, assuming you are sticking with iPhone. iMessage is more secure than SMS, no doubt there. And since SMS security is not there, the privacy of the content of the messages are in question if it is intercepted. Although, these days, intercepting SMS usually require a targeted attack, and targeted attacks are almost always through social engineering. Note that iMessage will also use SMS if texting a non iPhone. But it is more common to go iPhone to iPhone vs using an app with XMPP to another app using XMPP, so in practice iMessage is more secure. Features are slightly better on iMessage. Sometimes I miss being able to edit my texts, not having them be split up into multiple messages, and group chat is slightly simpler (assuming everyone is on iMessage, if not it goes right back to the same functionality)

    Are you worried about approximate location data from your mobile provider? If so, JMP is a great choice for that, since you can sign up for some carriers anonymously, and you won't be using the phone number they provide to you. You can even get a data only Sim card. JMP almost entirely prevents SIM swaps. It's harder for governments to pull your cellular location data and tie it to you, though they can get it from Apple depending on the situation and if they know to look specifically for you. Some websites scan your device info, which can include your SIM phone number. Even JMP itself, when I went to sign up, offered me numbers to choose from that were the same area code as my SIM card number. Only...I specifically picked an area code for a state I've never been to. So if you use that SIM number, many sites that will be able to tie it to your real name from public records or people search sites. Lastly, JMP can give you multiple numbers for half the price of the first, which can be pretty useful for dating new people you don't trust yet, spam, restaurant wait lists, calling a company anonymously, selling stuff locally, etc.

    Money wise it is about the same. JMP costs extra money on top of your separate SIM bill, but since you don't care about your SIM number, you can constantly get new customer deals that usually last up to a year, and further obscures your cellular location history.

    All of this assumes you have a factory unlocked phone. If it is locked to a big name carrier, it becomes harder to sign up anonymously. If you have a carrier locked phone, may as well stick with iMessage.

    Tl;Dr: JMP is a fairly significant privacy boost at a slight security decrease and slight feature loss, but there's a lot more to it.

  • How do you feel about the current state of Lemmy?

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  • I'd say it's sort of the opposite. When I first looked into the Fediverse, Lemmy.ml was the juggernaut sub. They were and sort of still are filled with tankies (literally stands for Marxist Leninist). Now there is more variety of instances, Piefed has better moderating tools and combines cross post comments which is why I used that, and user base is slowly growing over time as Reddit and everyone else continue to fuck up. Sure there is still a lot less content, but that's infinitely more preferable to liking a comment and then someone pointing out the comment was stolen from an 11 year old post by a bot.

  • Microsoft once tried to cut Windows 11 RAM usage, install size by 20%, now it’s trying again in 2026

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  • Systemd-Free antiX 26 Linux Distro Is Here Based on Debian 13 "Trixie"

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  • Lol antiX has never had system-d in the first pace.