CarbonScored

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[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As a daily Fedora user, this is annoying. I totally support the push for open-source, but enabling RPM Fusion on new installs to do standard stuff is a royal pain in the butt that will immediately turn off new users.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Always gonna note too that Google Chrome (and chromium + derivatives to a lesser extent) kneecaps adblock plugins so that up to 50% fewer ad domains are blocked, blocklists are out of date, many in-page ads can't be caught, it's slower, and invisible trackers can bypass it.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I remember them telling us covid was low risk, that it would be contained, and not to panic.

I agree a lot public health management really fucked up in a big way, and we could have handled even the initial response a lot better. But in their defense, these statements had been true of every other overblown novel contagion in the past century. In the past couple decades there have been a few diseases which were touted as the new global pandemic and they came to very little (on the grand scale, not saying they weren't serious for the people who suffered them). I also agree the mask shit was totally mishandled.

I think it's impractical to call for a full-blown reaction to every new disease out there. Unfortunately then reacting to stuff when it does become big will take at least some time.

Personally wouldn't currently advise anyone to "prepare" for it in any way beyond how they should already be as standard - Just always have a few days worth of canned food, supplies and masks.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

While I am usually resistant to change, I remain ever vigilant to try not be that XKCD guy

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

It's already been proven that piracy is a causal factor in more sales. Any self-interested dev should be promoting piracy of their game.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Windows -> Fedora

Been almost 10 years and no thoughts of changing. What can I say? I lucked out first time.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The only download software I used was the DownThemAll Firefox extension, which has always been real good. It works on all sites I've tried it with, it's a very customisable interface, I don't really know what you mean by not copy-pasting links but you don't gotta do that.

You're not likely to find an exact copy of the software for another OS, wine probably is your best bet if you just want IDM in Linux form.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

In Europe, these blocks are typically just IP bans, so secure DNS no helpy. You need a VPN or other proxy.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

Is mass killing children via deliberate targeting not just like.. automatically evidence?

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Automated tests are cool, but they definitely aren't a panacea in place of humans

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is it possible to.. boot into a LUKS in a LUKS?

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For techy people, sure. But in 90% of cases, people moving from Windows are looking for as little a paradigm-shift as they have to endure. I'm sure most regular Linux-users wouldn't disagree that other distros are cool, but telling someone "use this thing it's literally nothing like anything you know" is not going to get many takers from the population of people who just want their tech to do everyday stuff.

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