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  • Alright fine I admit it, I want to learn Linux

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  • Not who you asked, jumping in until they reply: Windows and most GNU/Linux distros are much further apart than most GNU/Linux distros are to each other. Unless you're doing a lot of manual meddling or using hacky tools, the biggest change between Mint (Ubuntu/Debian-based) and a Fedora-based distro, in my experience, was that apt is replaced by dnf, so if you install apps from the command line instead of a prettier software manager (I did lots of programming so this was normal for me) then the names of programs and libraries were a bit different. I'd also make a list of things you've installed (VPN software, chat apps, etc.) and look them up in the Fedora packages site or their own website and make sure they're all available. I would assume they would be, Fedora is popular enough.

    The desktop environment (Cinnamon vs. KDE) will be an initial change, but they're both familiar enough with a program menu, task bar, like how Mint lets you carry over some of that same basic surface-level intuition that Windows taught.

  • Alright fine I admit it, I want to learn Linux

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  • Yep, if you have the means, I recommend having two SSDs until you feel confident using one of them full-time. The only downside is that if your computer is so small/cheap/old like mine was all those years ago and doesn't have enough cables to keep both drives plugged in, switching between them can be annoying for a while.

  • Average neolib worlder take

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  • (just checking you actually meant schizoid, which is notably different to schizophrenia. both could make sense here but imply different things)

  • It's even infecting the wider lemmy network!

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  • These past few years have been very illuminating

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  • So, an ML Leftist?

    That position isn't specific to ML tendencies. I personally see more anti-electoralism rhetoric from anarchists, for obvious ideological reasons.

  • Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers or USB

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  • Yeah, props to the Nanoleaf team for helping the author out. Win-win. The author says at the end that they intend on sharing it around more once it has more polish, so I hope they upstream it properly and demonstrate to Nanoleaf that helping out volunteers helps their product reach more customers. (I know it's iffy to suggest it's ok to neglect Linux and let us sort it out ourselves, but if we get open-source drivers in the process with the help of the company, I think that's a net win)

  • I'm DONE with Google - PewDiePie

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  • A good thing about tech is that if you have a spare device (even a cheap single-board computer like a Raspberry Pi or similar cheaper one, or a partly-broken laptop) or a working virtual machine, you can break things. That's a core characteristic of the old-school hacker mindset, to try stuff and break stuff until you understand stuff. Usually, the worst case, you just reinstall the operating system and have a fresh clean environment (or, better yet, you restore a backup you made! Learning how to fail gracefully is a great skill)

    I bricked a certain wacky laptop setup twice and had to start over (luckily with backups) just trying to get a custom startup loading screen. But once I realized why it was breaking and how to avoid it, I had a cooler looking computer!

  • PNG is back!

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  • PewDiePie's tierlist of browsers

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  • I know it's been said, but Brave is a hard no. Replace it with Ungoogled Chromium. I haven't seen the video so I don't understand why it's in the "not ideal for a normal human" list, and I am biased since I use plenty of "not for normal" tools.

  • PNG is back!

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  • Now the noob is using wepb for a bunch of rasterised vector graphics with 4 or 5 flat colors, and he’s wasting more disk space than before.

    I just tested with this image:

    Default GIMP WebP export settings (90% quality): 88.8 kB

    Lossless WebP mode: 85.6 kB

    Default GIMP PNG export settings (compression level 9): 189.8 kB

    So I don't trust this claim unless you have some evidence.

  • a spectre is haunting NYC

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  • There was a post yesterday havin a giggle about low resource usage Linux setups, shout-out to LOW←TECH magazine's solar-powered site (running Armbian Stretch)

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  • Good to hear. I was very very slightly disappointed when I read Pelican was a Python tool. I'm also a Hugo user.

    Take pride in a minimalist webpage.

    Last week I was thinking of making a meme pointing out how all the famously ultra-minimalist http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ and its many rebuttals are really put to shame by this one. Also, you've reminded me of some of those little webring banners people would put on their site bragging about being minimal, which are fun.

  • PNG is back!

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  • In fact, it should still be the default unless you need something it doesn’t support or really need to reduce file size.

    I disagree. It is wasteful (we're talking ~30% savings with lossless WebP or JPEG-XL) and widely misused, which matters at the massive scale of the Internet with technically inexperienced people making up plenty of those images.

  • I love how resource-efficient linux distros are

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  • Keyboard has too many keys, bloat/10

    probs don't need that mouse either

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  • I haven't been around these communities in a while, so I can't really speak for /c/privacy as much as /r/privacy and other communities, but I've noticed far far far far too many posts which are blindly perfectionist, with no consideration of threat capabilities or their motivations. Privacy is futile without a realistic threat model, that's how you get burned out solving non-problems and neglecting actual problems.

    My threat model is largely just minimizing surveillance capitalism and avoiding basement-dweller neo-nazi stalkers from connecting any dots between my online personas and real life identity. Even for that, my measures are a bit excessive, but not to the point where I'm wasting much time or effort.

    Daily reminder: "more private" and "more secure" are red flags. If you see or say these, without a very specific context, it's the wrong attitude towards privacy and security. They're not linear scales, they're complex concepts. That's why Tor Browser is excellent for my anonymity situation but atrociously insecure to anyone who is being personally targeted by malware (tl;dr monoculture ESR Firefox[1]). That's why Graphene is not automatically anti-privacy simply because it runs on a Google Pixel and Android-based OS. (Google is one of my main adversaries.) And I think this simplistic 'broscience' style of "[x] is better than [y], [z] is bad" discourse is harmful and leads people into ineffective approaches.

  • The US House of representatives is preparing to vote next week on a resolution that would deem “Free Palestine” to be “an antisemitic slogan.”

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  • I’ve never heard of a republican being called a liberal though.

    US casual political rhetoric is all kinds of screwed. In political science terms, plenty of Republicans are conservative liberals, Libertarians are essentially classical liberals, and the people you're used to calling liberals are social liberals, aka progressive liberals. The USA is [still...] a liberal democracy, one of the many types of democracy.

  • What browser are you using?

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  • Tor Browser (daily driver) because I really hate surveillance capitalism. I have fallbacks but rarely need them. Can recc LibreWolf and Ungoogled Chromium.

  • Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event

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  • At least one US fash has already, Chadwick Seagraves. The rest might need a little encouragement.

  • Owned (stocks)

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  • It's a common and well-understood word, you're completely correct, and really any word is a valid word, although it's pretty clear the teacher was trying to teach formal English habits (which unfortunately can be useful to know) and it ain't that.

  • J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization

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  • It's a vibe, not an actual analysis of political economy.

    People don't magically change their worldview because they have more money, but a person's economic relationship (e.g. owning a business, or being an employee) will guide their class interests - someone like Rowling who primarily makes money from ownership rather than work will materially benefit from conservative economic interests. And since capitalism rewards profit over social contribution, those of the business owners who don't care about other people enough to sacrifice profitability are (generally) more able to build wealth, so there are more right-wing types in mega-wealthy circles, not simply because they have wealth (this also includes those feigning left-wing ideals, like rainbow capitalism and philanthrocapitalism, to exploit real social movements for reputation and profit).

    This Wikipedia page gives a quick rundown of how a person's politics and their role in the economy intertwine, although it's probably more useful to learn the concept through pamphlets or books which provide historical evidence, examples and related concepts. My recommendation - Not pointlessly academic or dated, relatively general, has nice and neat chapters for specific questions.