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  • EU OS: A Fedora-based distro 'for the public sector'

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  • Based on a US distro whose versions are supported for 1 year, and "built to the requirements for the EU public sector" (because the EU public sector has one coherent set of requirements and the dev knows them, even if he doesn't list them out).

    This is most probably good-intentioned and it is admirable how the dev sprung into action, but it's naive at best.

  • United States: French researcher turned back for expressing “personal opinion on Trump administration’s policy

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  • Visitors to the US have been asked if they were members of the communist party since forever though?

    IDK if those who replied "yes" would be sent back, but I do remember reading about Chinese communist party members being denied entry to the US.

    I don't see much difference between this and that as far as the 1st amendment is concerned... aren't you idealizing the 1st amendment (and/or how seriously the US takes it)?

    PS: let me make clear that I'm not trying to defend the indefensible behaviour of the Trump administration in any way

  • United States: French researcher turned back for expressing “personal opinion on Trump administration’s policy

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  • You must have an outdated version. The current version is “We announce that there must be no criticism of the President, and that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong. Anything else is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

  • How do I bypass Captchas?

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  • I know :) that's why I was asking if anybody else did it instead of campaigning for more people to do it

  • How do I bypass Captchas?

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  • (tangentially related)

    Do you guys intentionally half-ass your capchtas or am I the only one?

    eg. when Google asks me to recognize traffic lights, I intentionally make some errors to decrease the quality of data they harvest

  • Best or least worst choices for cell phone service?

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  • Generally speaking, if someone asks/talks about some local topic without bothering to specify where they live, you can just assume they live in the US :)

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  • have you read the sidebar?

  • BraX3: the most privacy-friendly smartphone!

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  • How I’m Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech

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    How to disable Polkit password prompts (the annoying ones that pop up when you want to update, for example)

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  • And... what started out as honest advice, ended up being a preventive strike against Internet villains. Very Internet-villain-like, I must say :D

  • BraX3: the most privacy-friendly smartphone!

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  • Does it run lineage? Any other FOSS, third party OS? No? Hard pass.

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    Linus responds to Hellwig - "the pull request you objected to DID NOT TOUCH THE DMA LAYER AT ALL... if you as a maintainer feel that you control who or what can use your code, YOU ARE WRONG."

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  • (rightfully) does not like mixed language codebases for projects as large and important as Linux

    You make it sound like it's a matter of taste rather than a technical one (and I suspect it actually might be just about taste in the end)

  • The Secret Maze of Debian Images

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  • I stopped at "secret" (yes, the occurrence in the title) :)

    TBH the checksums are pretty useless for humans who download an .iso and install it... they are mainly for mirrors and similar that download files without using them

  • Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal - Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.

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  • He never said he wants free speech for everyone :) TBH the shame should be on those who believed that Musk could somehow be the first right-wing extremist in history that wished the people at large had more rights and more freedoms.

  • Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal - Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.

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  • Circle jerking, I guess? Same reason I use lemmy :)

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  • Yank is Copy, you heathen!Only in inferior software it is Paste.

    (for the uninitiated: it's Copy in vim and Paste in emacs; also if it wasn't clear, I'm just joking)

  • A few beginner questions about the differences between distros.

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    1. By and large, distros package the same software so which one you pick is a matter of taste. As a beginner, you won't have the knowledge to take advantage of documentation/instructions that are not written for your specific distro, so pick one of the more popular ones.
    2. No, distro owners won't be a problem in the same way that Microsoft or Apple are. Don't worry about that: the moment they do something unsavory (even remotely) their projects will be forked, and switching to a different distro is not that big of a deal anyway.
    3. If you like to tinker you will break your system, not because linux is fragile (it is not) but because knowledge of low-level stuff is widespread and the temptation to thinker with it is too great. I recommend you look into system snapshots and how they integrate with boot options (eg. opensuse tumbleweed automatically snapshosts your system when you update it and during boot you can choose to boot into a previous state - surely other distros do the same and, if yours doesn't, you can set it up yourself).
    4. The short answer is "use KDE" :)
    5. KDE is great and seems to suit you. The DE you choose matters (IMHO) more that the distro, because once you are familiar with a DE and its shortcuts it's a pain to switch, and also because once you are used to some feature it's enormously frustrating to switch to a DE that doesn't have it :)

    From what I hear (I switched to AMD years ago), it's not hard to make the Nvidia cards work properly, but it's a recurring hassle and there are lots of things that are more fun to thinker with. Unless specific reasons you need an Nvidia card, I'd suggest selling it off and replacing it with a second-hand AMD/Intel one.

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  • I'm sorry if this sounds rude, especially after not reading what must have taken you a long time to write...

    Have you tried writing "distro that looks like macos" into a search engine?

  • Cross culture colloquialism and dubbing?

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  • The last name thing is true: outside family and close friends, that's what people call each other by.

    I have no idea what the wiener thing was originally :)

  • What to do, with a TP-Link Archer C7?

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  • Configure it like the current router and keep it as a backup?

    You can run a lot of stuff on it, but those boxes aren't really that powerful... a cheap, old raspberry pi from ebay (or anything really) will serve you better.