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VeganCheesecake

@ VeganCheesecake @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game

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  • Earlier this year, I got a game I liked on steam. Pretty much 3d Rimworld. After playing for 20 hours over a few weeks, I sporadically started getting errors about me having "no hardware activations" left for the game, and how I should wait 24 hours. I have never installed it on any other machine.

    It is so very silly that a pirated copy would be the more seamless experience.

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    Plex staff leaving review on Play Store for Plex

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  • I actually kinda did that. Sent a preconfigured thinkcentre to my mum that boots into the jellyfin media player, connects to my server via tailscale. Just had to plug it into power, lan, hdmi. Immutable, atomic system that looks for updates on boot, applies them on next reboot, and does a rollback and ping me if the update fails.

    I have ssh access, and my brother lives nearby in case everything fails, that makes things easier.

  • Writing code

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  • I kinda get it with "soft" targets (e.g. Let's see what we can do in a day/weekend). "Hard" targets (you gotta do x in x Minutes) pretty much guarantee I'll get nothing good done.

    Yes, I hated every coding exam I've been in.

  • Prices are out of control

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  • Hmh. Maybe I phrased that wrong. The one I had is also mass market, in the sense that they're in quite a few supermarkets in several regions of one country.

    Kerrygold is just ludicrously mass market, being available in a lot of supermarkets in over 100 countries.

  • ich💻iel

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  • Huh? Auch mit vielen Leuten/Video? Sonst war das wahrscheinlich der Grund, warum ich entschieden hatte, auch Jitsi zu brauchen.

  • ich💻iel

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  • Bin gerade dabei eine Matrix Instanz für meine ttrpg Gruppe aufzusetzen, und hatte den Eindruck, dass Gruppentelefonate aktuell noch auf jitsi ausgelagert werden, oder nicht?

  • The Privacy Iceberg

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  • They are a relatively established game storefront, and have been at it for over a decade. Same Corp that's also behind CD Projekt Red.

    In the end, any storefront that distributes executables could in theory distribute malware, but I'd honestly be more worried about steam, since their publishing process seems a lot more automated, with less oversight.

  • Prices are out of control

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  • Prices are out of control

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  • Do people really see kerrygold as a premium option? I haven't bought butter in a long time, but I always saw kerrygold as overpriced mass market shit.

  • Refurbished Lenovos in general (and LinuxPusher.dk, in particular)

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  • I don't think it's necessarily worth it for anyone currently on Linux, but if they provide support and a warranty, it might be helpful for some folks who aren't that computer savvy, but still sick of Windows.

  • The Privacy Iceberg

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  • I'd argue that gog might be a bit better, since you can download executables from their website, and then use them offline, without telemetry. But still, I think neither are necessarily all that relevant here.

  • What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge?

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  • I guess you could install cockpit (via Terminal, sorry, but it's pretty straightforward and there are good guides). After that, you could use the cockpit web interface to deploy docker/podman containers. It's a bit clunky sometimes, but it does the job purely in UI.

    You can also manage updates, backups, etc via cockpit if you install the required modules.

    As base, I'd use any stable Linux distro that's reccomended for server use.

  • What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge?

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  • Edit: Comment was in wrong place, refiled as op level comment.

  • Atomic Linux Distros: What Barriers Stand Between You and Making the Switch?

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  • I use atomic distros on my server and a media centre, but don't see any reason to do it on my main systems. Stability is fine, and atomic distros make said tinkering more difficult.

  • German teens denied entry to US for traveling ‘under false pretenses’ and ‘intended to work’: Border Patrol

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  • On the one hand, I don't doubt it's gotten worse. On the other hand, I've always heard stories about US immigrations being unreasonable, entirely humourless, and possibly detaing you or sending you back for the smallest mistake or omission.

  • the state doesn't care anymore

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  • I mean, I get all that, but even if we leave out the conditions that might or might not be present in the prison, and how many of the inmates might be innocent (how would we know, without the possibility of due process), I don't see how anyone could justify rounding up people from the US, who where in many cases in the immigration system (meaning not "illegal immigrants" in the classical sense) in the streets and sending them to a prison in a different country, with no legal representation, no contact, and no knowledge of what will happen to them long term.

    It's practically government sanctioned kidnapping.

  • the state doesn't care anymore

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  • What is "zero idleness" but forced prison labour, and what is forced prison labour if not slavery?

    Also, while I don't disagree that it used to be worse for many El Salvadorians, that doesn't mean one should be silent about the total lack of any process with which alleged gang members are being imprisoned there, seemingly for life. If you want to claim that's worth it, that's your prerogative, and as someone who's never been to El Salvador, neither before nor after the crackdown, I don't think I can judge it. Still, you can't ignore the issue.

  • Lenovo now ship with Fedora

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  • In my experience in Germany it's just available. Only for the business focused models, but still.

  • Lenovo now ship with Fedora

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  • I'm pretty sure they've been doing that for a long time. The other more business focused OEMs too.