You should know that any emails older than 180 days are considered 'abandoned' and now only require an administrative subpoena to access and not a judicial warrant.
Think your e-mails are protected by the 4th amendment? Sure, they are... but the definition of what 'your e-mails' is has been adjusted so the 4th amendment only effectively protects you for 6 months.
The next step is for Cloudflare to introduce a proprietary markdown tags, then release a library to parse their new crap, then update their systems so it serves degraded 'legacy' markdown but include a paid API to get access to the 'old' markdown, then add features to the library that can only be accessed by API customers, etcetc
I see a commercial entity embrace something and start looking for the extend and extinguish part.
Meta knows that you don't have to be dead for this to work, now you can respond to your friends on Facebook in a manner that most optimizes engagement... whether you want to or not.
They also won't let a little thing like you being dead stand in the way of their monetizing your data, it isn't like you can sue them for impersonation or anything.
The moment you give me a link to a banana tree/MP3 player/ripeness tester/EQ:
They did mix a lot of different symbology into it, but you are right that people 'incorrectly'* interpret the meaning.
*There's something to be said that art is subjective and your interpretation is just as valid of as what the creator intended, but I'm specifically referring to the intended meanings stated by the writers/directors.
I hate that the alt-right claimed the red/blue pill memes.
The symbolism here is describing the process of breaking free of the illusions that you're suffering under.
The partisan's who do things like tying this symbolism to a specific meaning (like 'anti-/woke means anti/pro-LGBTQ') is twisting the symbol, intentionally and with intent in some cases, to push a message.
The underlying symbol of red-pill/woke/not illusioned/out of the matrix is simply describing the subjective experience of realizing that you were wrong about reality.
At the current time in history, I think we need a lot of people to understand and internalize this idea and the idea that reality is harder than a comforting fantasy, but worth fighting for.
I love how autistic lemmy is.
The Internet is a weird place where people know how to read without actually understanding what they're reading.
Reading everything literally has to be the most confusing thing in the world. Though it does make The Onion a bit better.
Real family is who we choose
They don’t want to break out of their little bubble of toxic positivity where everything is fine and you just need to put your nose to the grind and work hard to get ahead and everything will be alright.
They think you’re an asshole for telling them EVERYTHING’S NOT ALRIGHT, and things aren’t going to be alright just because you ignore all the heinous stuff going on.
But they’re like “nah, don’t spoil my vibe.”
"That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it."
Appreciate that some multiplayer games won’t work, but Arc Raiders does and that’s all my group are playing at the moment.
I always look at it like this:
Even if I wanted to play those games, I want to play a lot of other games too and so I'll worry about the handful of kernel anti-cheat games once I run out of other, equally interesting, games to play.
Budget-Chicken-2425 did nothing wrong
Every time I see people complain about the complexity of Linux, I just want to remind them that the alternative is Windows and, while it can require less work as long as what you want to do is supported... if you want to do other things like:
etcetc, you still need to jump through tedious hoops involving using the terminal, editing system files and running random scripts from strangers on the Internet.
Sure, if you're using Windows you can play games without having to check a box in Steam but there are other tradeoffs that you simply don't have to make if you're using Linux. For example, I control my own disk encryption keys, my 'cloud' is in a locked, encrypted and tamper-resistant fireproof server box inside my house, all of my accounts are local, search is a local command without any means of accessing the Internet and my text editor doesn't even understand that communication with the outside world is even a thing (why would it need this?).
A note to that, Thiel always says it’s someone who expresses empathy, compassion, or other similar sentiment.
Yes, the ""Sin"" of empathy.
There are people who've wrapped 'anti-woke' in bible verses and claim that empathy can be a sin.
commit sudoku
The censorship is internalized
Mostly because it's a hassle and the AUR solves the same problem without needing to add a bunch of repos.
This shouldn't need to be said but, you can be right without being an asshole to people who are trying to learn.
Yeah, the Linux community has a lot of 'If I know something that you don't then it is because I am smart and you are dumb; and not because we have different experiences' type people. I'd guess the neurodivergent ratio is a bit higher in general 'round here. It'll eventually be something you just ignore.
It's a meme in the Linux community that no matter what distro you pick there will be some neckbeard in the comments who will tell you how wrong you are for your life choices. (Unless you choose Arch, then you are one of the Chosen Ones, btw).
As to your issues, each of those is solvable individually, but you are correct that it is frustrating to have to deal with them all at once on top of learning a new OS.
BTRFS
btrfs is a bit of an advanced topic, ext4 will serve you perfectly fine until you have enough experience to even care about the features offered by btrfs and it's not like Windows where you're locked into your choices forever, you could spin up a btrfs volume and move your system to it with minor hassle once you're familiar with the tools.
Package Managers/Flatpak
One of the biggest difference between different distros is the package manager. You've been using apt, but on Arch-derivatives you'll use pacman to install from the official repository.
However, you will find that a lot of the software that you want to install won't be on the official repos and so, in Arch, you will need to turn to the AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/).
So, for example, if you search for orca-slicer (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?K=orca-slicer), you'll see a bunch of packages. orc-slicer-bin and orca-slicer both have high votes and popularity. In the AUR world, you'll often see package and package-bin. This is basically 'do I want to compile it myself or do I want it pre-compiled', also these two package (maintained by two different people typically) may have slightly different versions depending on how actively they are maintained.
Here, we'll go with orca-slicer-bin. The way you install from the AUR (there's an easy way, but first the 'real' way) is to find a folder where you would like to store these things. I use ~/projects/AUR but the location is just an organization thing, it doesn't affect anything, the package will be installed via pacman like everything else.
Open a terminal, navigate to your directory, (create it if needed) and clone the project (the Git Clone URL at the top of the AUR page)
cd ~
mkdir -p /projects/AUR
cd projects/AUR
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/orca-slicer-bin.git
Now you have the files locally, so you can navigate into the directory and use makepkg to build and install the package. Since this is a -bin, it won't need to compile.
cd orca-slicer-bin
makepkg -si
makepkg is a script that automates building and installing, -s says 'find and install any dependencies also' and the -i is 'After build (which is done because it is a -bin) also install'.
Then you'll see some lines where the script verifies that the package is built, grabs dependencies, etcetc. If you're prompted you can , usually, just accept the default by just pressing enter (sometimes you'll want to read/modify the PKGBUILD, but generally not).
Eventually you'll see pacman being called and the application will install like normal.
But, that's a pain in the ass, nobody wants to have to open a browser and manually clone repos etc. So most people use an AUR helper so that the interface is essentially like pacman.
So, now do the same process as above to install yay (or yay-bin).
...
Once that is done, now you can use yay just like pacman. For example, searching for orca slicer:
yay -S orca slicer
Or installing orca-slicer-bin:
yay -Ss orca-slicer-bin
You don't need to use sudo, it will prompt you if you need elevation.
Yay will also install from the official repos (you can largely replace your usage of pacman with yay) and if you just run 'yay' with no switches it runs a full system upgrade.
Flatpak
Flatpaks are another way of packaging software. The idea is that it's a pain in the ass to have one piece of software that requires a package being at version 10 and another package that won't work unless you have version 11 installed. With Flatpak, the software comes in a container with all of the dependencies (which can include other flatpak images).
You can think of these containers are little virtual machines that only run one piece of software (they're not full virtual machines, they share the same kernel as your system, but the technical details are an advanced topic).
Much like yay and pacman, you can search install flatpaks with the flatpak command. flatpak --help will give you a list of commands. The wiki ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Flatpak ) is much better. For the average user you really only need to search and install. So:
flatpak search slicer
flatpak install PrusaSlicer
##or by Application ID
flatpak install com.prusa3d.PrusaSlicer
Once they're installed you should be able to launch the applications via the usual methods.
The common issues that people will run into is due to flatpak's essentially acting like a virtual machine.
So, to the flatpak /home/
<youruser>
doesn't exist because in its virtual environment you do not have a user directory. So interacting with files on your actual machine, outside of the flatpak, can be annoying in cases. Ideally, the packages will configure themselves to be able to see any relevant directories that they need to see but not always.The ways to install software on Linux may seem harder than 'download .exe from Internet, run as administrator' but it helps protect you from things like running untrusted executables from the internet as root.
If you have a smartphone you're already with installing from Repos. App stores are just Repos with price tags. Rarely do people go download .apk files and run them on their phones, everyone knows that you use the repos. Smartphones are simply copying Linux's package manager systems, so you're already familiar with this process but know it by another name.
I can't speak to any specific distro (I manually install Arch from the install medium, like the Flying Spaghetti Monster intended) but you're going to run into similar problems everywhere you go.
You can try to fix your problems by distro hopping and that may work in some specific cases. That being said, you will have more success if you plow through the problem and use that problem as an excuse to learn how that part of your system works so that you can fix it. This will almost certainly be faster than completely reinstalling your system as you go forward in your Linux usage.
If you run any problems and need some help just make a post with as much details about the problem as you can. You'll get assholes (see this thread) but there are some knowledgeable people who are happy to help fix things.
Stop it, you're going to get invited to the new secret island
But they were, all of them, deceived
Yeah, I too would like the source on that.
No offense OP, but it isn't hard to generate text on a white background.