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  • META data collection - a post from Mastodon

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  • Unfortunately your less cautious cohorts can reveal much of this about you as well. Privacy is a deep rabbit hole. Do what you can, try to educate your peers.

    Also, link to the original post: https://mstdn.ca/@Linux/114899148717382605

  • Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

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  • Tried to persuade him. He's an adult son, so I wouldn't force it on him.

    Grandma's using it just fine though.

  • Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

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  • As more people learn bazzite just works, it's going to grow. If I hadn't rescued my son's windows license he would have switched.

  • I just spent four months in hospital in the UK. How screwed (financially) would I be in the US?

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  • Adding this for extra absurdity: going in no one knows, no one at all, how much your fees will be. Prices are negotiated between the insurance companies and health care providers. Until they send in the billing codes, pray they get them right, get proper authorization (from insurance, not your doctor) then go through with the treatment and finally issue a bill, which gets processed by the insurance company again - at that last step then and only then do you get a surprise bill for your share of the costs. It can take months. For a stay like yours, it would be anybody's guess.

    Simple procedures planned in advance, you MIGHT get a price, but that will almost certainly miss things like incidental costs or direct fees from doctors or other practitioners who all invoice separately.

  • I just spent four months in hospital in the UK. How screwed (financially) would I be in the US?

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  • It depends on your insurance. You might hit a deductible and only owe a few thousand dollars, or you might be bankrupt.

  • The Billionaires Are Abandoning Humanity

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  • If robber barons could have become immortal steampunk machines, we'd never have been born and they'd have killed our great great great grandparents long ago

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  • Doing better until you happen to incur a medical emergency, then bankrupt.

  • Pope Leo's First US Bishop Calls on Priests to Escort Asylum Seekers to Court: 'People of Faith Stand with Immigrants'

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  • He's as Catholic as Trump is born-again evangelical. They are just pandering

  • Google has made it much harder for GrapheneOS & CalyxOS to update to Android 16

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  • Yeah they really need better PR. They have a strong persecution complex and lash out at everyone. It's worse than normal Linux distro flame wars

  • We're learnding.

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  • This is pretty much all you need to know about the state of the United States. It's being run by 10 year old imbeciles.

  • Musk blows up online as ‘ketamine’ dinner clip resurfaces

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  • I doubt he'd accept organs of a different race.

  • By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall

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  • Time to sprinkle DRM magic on every Windows application

  • ‘Don’t Copy That Floppy’: The Untold History of Apple II Software Piracy

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  • In ye olde days software was obscenely expensive. That $74 is $260 inflation adjusted. Imagine losing your Word Perfect disks to an accident. That was a $2000 investment in today's dollars. Which means Zork II cost more than the latest Zelda. There was a reason people tied up phone lines for hours to get on the local BBS.

  • Can someone get through college on GNU Linux?

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  • Replying to give you an extra boost. If your courses are remote or have online exams, you may need to install spyware onto your computer. I'm re-imaging my wife's computer this weekend because of it...

  • me_irl

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  • I bookmark subreddits and read them without logging in. Every time I feel the urge, I've got a hurdle to cross before I can type anything. Then it's immediately a "fuck it" moment and move on

  • License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows

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  • Yeah but private enterprise didn't. And if commercial, Leo can buy it without a warrant

  • Fedora Atomic is the bomb

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  • Agreed - for someone moving from Windows / Mac, the immutables and flatpak are the way to go now. It's going to take a bit for the Ubuntu / Mint crowd to change their song. Bazzite in particular is a huge olive branch to the gamers. Even for someone who is "tinkering" learning distrobox and/or flatseal can enable most things you would ever want to tinker with on a desktop. If you are really developing something, chances are that you use containers or a VM anyway.

    I have to concur on flatpaks though: they have room for improvement. More validation / trust is needed, and the options are wide open. For non-technical users, the *surety and security *isn't necessarily on par with the app stores of Microsoft, Apple & Google - though the experience is getting there.

  • What is the dead-simple(est) way to onboard compeltely new people to Lemmy/Feddy

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  • Mass adoption won't come easily. People treat social media just like broadcast and print mass media: they want to follow big names and brands. It's a change in mindset looking for niche communities instead. Look at Bluesky, it didn't really take off until big Twitter accounts moved and brought their minions with them.

  • What helps people get comfortable on the command line?

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  • Using computers since before GUI was available... Sometimes I think we ought to go back to it