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TechNerdWizard42

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  • Why does it seem the world is all of a sudden concerned about sexual orientation? Especially America. Did I miss how far we came as a society to see it take a 40 year step backwards?

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  • Why does it seem the world is all of a sudden concerned about sexual orientation? Especially America. Did I miss how far we came as a society to see it take a 40 year step backwards?

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  • What online print service would you recommend?

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  • Seconding. I have a 3D printer. A couple of them. And I use JLC for PCBs and 3D prints because they have AWESOME printers and it's just as fast to push the button and have it show up from them as it is for me to find the time and baby a print.

  • Is Linux As Good As We Think It Is?

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  • $300 for the most important piece of software on the hardware that you interact with every day, sometimes all day, for years? That's a steal.

    And again, as an OS, Windows just works and Linux doesn't. Even if you wanted to set things manually in the registry to disable the bad consumer "features", you'd still spend less time than configuring a standard Linux install and it would be more stable.

    It's like Apple fan bois nowadays. Ridiculous.

  • Is Linux As Good As We Think It Is?

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  • Or... Read what I said. Spend the $300 on the enterprise license. No ads. No forced notifications. A single computer with multiple users at one time in a home environment is not a use case that would get any thought. Those that want it, can do it. And it's easy, and free. Hyper-V is free and the licenses for the virtual machines are free too because the container host is windows. Lock an instance per output and voila. Recall won't be coming to enterprise or server and if it does, it will be disablable. Just like forced updates are disabled in enterprise. Forced reboots disabled. Etc.

    If you want that experience you buy that experience.

  • Is Linux As Good As We Think It Is?

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  • I'm sure if you edit the registry inside emacs from a live iso boot from 6 burned CDs, it will unlock all the golden rainbow features you require.

  • Is Linux As Good As We Think It Is?

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  • Yes exactly. I love Linux. I build embedded systems devices with it. I run it on some of my rack appliances. But I'm also not a blind fan boi.

    Windows made leaps and bounds into stability with XP. And since then it's been a slow cog into being an excellent enterprise grade OS even with users bashing it all sorts of ways.

    Most (all) of the complaints except price focus on money grabs and features for the docile masses. Forced updates, reboots, integrations, etc. My 80 year old relatives can use it and you know what it works great when they type into the "computer question box". Click start menu and type. It brings up their files, folders, apps, answers to web questions, etc. That makes sense to someone who doesn't understand a computer. It's not pandering to the IT folk, it's pandering to Karen.

    If you're IT folk, you can just spend a little more money on the proper license and all that goes away. Or you spend some time hacking the registry and get it for free usually.

    The only BSODs I have had in the last decade are graphics driver related usually when pushing beta drivers hard. My Linux OS's have had way more stability issues with less interaction.

  • Is Linux As Good As We Think It Is?

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  • It 100% is in a desktop environment used by users.

    In an embedded locked system not in space, it's the same.

  • US seizes Venezuelan President Maduro's plane, DOJ says

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  • Bully terrorist state steals assets of other sovereign nation.

    That's the headline.

  • Is Linux As Good As We Think It Is?

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  • No. It really isn't.

    Windows with the proper license and configuration is more stable, more productive, and that configuration takes less than an hour once for the life of the machine.

    In 2024 if you're still bashing Windows for BSODs, stability, updates, etc, you're doing it wrong. You can bash all day long for privacy violations and corporate greed but both of those are fixed with the proper version like Windows Enterprise. Costs more, but you are less of the product.

  • Advice on Using WhatsApp Safely with Dual SIM for Privacy

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  • Welcome to the land of dual sim, my requirement since 2003. It's incredibly useful even if only professionally.

    Up until earlier this year this was easy. Any sandboxing app like MultipleApps would load WhatsApp and then you'd have a clean break if you chose. But Zuck decided to block all non original instances, giving a warning for about 6 months that it wasn't supported and bad and lies about stealing your data, then just logged out and that was the end.

    Now very few sandboxes work and in my experience it's only the root level ones that come with your device. From there you can block contacts or permissions for WhatsApp.

    But I think you've got it backwards as you'll be the one with the mixed contacts. Your work colleagues won't have your personal number and your personal colleagues won't have your work number. And if they did, it would message two separate WhatsApp instances. They wouldn't see your other contacts, it's not like Outlook.

    And in that case a free Google voice number on WhatsApp's second account in the same app, would work just fine for you. That's how I have 4 WhatsApp on my 1 device. 2 physical sims always on, plus google voice, and an esim. Each WhatsApp instance with a second account switch and then the second WhatsApp in my phone's sandbox.

  • Born in the USA Was a Protest Song

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  • Unfortunately, it really isn't. The absolute disregard for reality is a very American thing. There are always outliers everywhere. But the whole country of the US is an outlier in the global stage with the only comparison being North Korea. For how its people inside feel and think they're perceived versus are. And it's the same style of nationalist propaganda that sustains it.

  • US Imperialism Consolidating Hard at the DNC

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  • Yes exactly. The US funds and overthrow governments all over the world. Usually violently with great loss of life. Then when any country uses "normal" methods like fake social media posts to take advantage of "low information voters" its suddenly a world security issue and has to stop!!!

    Anyone who has broken free from American propaganda sees it clearly. Unfortunately most Americans are trapped in an insular life and will never come close to knowing the facts

  • Propaganda vs Reality

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  • The US is the biggest offender of propaganda globally and its sheep citizens are too uninformed to even know it.

  • I got a new job. whatsapp group (20 people) is migrating to signal because I don't use it.

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  • I don't disagree but don't let perfection get in the way of good enough. SMS and standard email etc are all unencrypted. WhatsApp is encrypted end to end. You may not trust meta, or like them. But that's millions time better than SMS or email.

    Getting your parents on WhatsApp is a huge awesome step. Getting them to telegram or Signal or whatever else is a minor step comparatively.

  • I got a new job. whatsapp group (20 people) is migrating to signal because I don't use it.

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  • I'm currently in a former USSR country on holiday and everything is WhatsApp and Telegram. Delivery drivers to government services.

    Japan is still on floppy disks attached to carrier pigeons.

    China is WhatsApp for every non Chinese even with the ban. Wechat for everything else but you need a Chinese mobile.

    Korea surprisingly is using WhatsApp more than even prepandemic. Almost all my Korean friends are now WhatsApp versus like 1 just 5 years ago. Telegram is also popping up there.

    But point taken. A few bubbles of differences but WhatsApp really does rule supreme.

  • I got a new job. whatsapp group (20 people) is migrating to signal because I don't use it.

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  • Pretty much the entire world, except the US and Canada, is WhatsApp based. Every job chat, every message you send, it's all WhatsApp. Heck to pay for parking or to get immigration visa services from the government, it's mostly WhatsApp. And yes you can send stickers.

    Sometimes Lemmy loses perspective that the way 300ish million people do something is not that relevant to the other 7500 million.

  • Iran: Woman left paraplegic after being shot by police over hijab

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  • 100% middle East.

    And I practice what I preach unlike most of you keyboard warriors that don't even a passport. The other side of the planet is NOTHING like you portray in your propagandist media. And you're all too brainwashed to even look for yourselves.

  • How I got a truly anonymous Signal account

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  • The issue is good luck getting a pay as you go number without identity verification.

    You have to pay by credit card and if you don't, you'll be forced to make an online account with verification.