ISOmorph

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[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There are a lot of issues with your post imo.

First, cash is going away, soon. Sweden has done it years ago. Europe is now playing catch up.

Second, a universal digital currency will remove all system heterogeneity. Yes money is already digitalised, but across several proprietary environments. I can and have set up several accounts across several banks so my spending cannot be fully tracked by a single corporate entity. This will be moot once everyone has to use the same harmonized system.

Third, one of the sponsors of the universal European currency has been caught talking about time limited digital currency. As in, spend your money or it just disintegrates after a set amount of time. Which really destroyed a lot of trust in the endeavour

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 40 points 5 months ago (10 children)

To the surprise of no one, it's just a matter of time until local accounts in personal windows editions are removed entirely.

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago

Especially as a new linux convert I would say wait a bit before switching to an immutable distro. They have their advantages but the concept probably feels pretty alien for most windows users, where you can install whatever and it just works. I've been a long time Nobara user and it's pretty good, especially considering it's basically just one guy maintaining it. But it does break on updates from time to time. My personal recommendation after getting used to linux would be opensuse tumbleweed. It's constantly updated but never breaks. You generally don't need a gaming centric distro, especially if you're rocking an AMD card.

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Where did you get the game from? Most platforms like steam don't actually sell games. You pay to rent the game for life, which is different. Those platforms can change the terms of service for your rental whenever they like. If you prefer to own your games you need to visit actual shops, like GOG.

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 8 points 5 months ago

I think you're hitting the nail on the head. A lot of publishers are blatantly misusing EA to put out an unfinished piece of software to socialize the testing, and hope for a more understanding playerbase because of the EA status. Not only is it manipulative, it also skews reception like it does here. Personally, I categorically skip all EA because I only buy finished products. Doesn't mean I wouldn't be interested in a good tribes game.

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Can anyone tell me if it's worth playing now, if you never played those games when they came out and don't feel nostalgia while playing them?

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And now we know why the original was delisted on steam. Don't buy into this crap. Buy the original on gog for 1,50€

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They've been around a bit now. Everyone seems to be pretty satisfied. Desktop app could use some improvements, which is already on their roadmap

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'm curious to see how the combat mechanics will be accepted. Reads like Mass Effect in a high fantasy setting. Could be cool, but at the same time, Dragon Age fans will come to expect something more strategic.

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think that take is short sighted. Because the next obvious step to "no right to online anonymity" is "online anonymity is illegal", and it's pretty obvious we're headed that way. In that case, courts can make it pretty fucking hard to protect your right to privacy.

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago

I started it as well. Had weird sound issues that I had to fix by downgrading my system sample rate. It looks and feels amazing now that it works.

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.de 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Money transfer platforms are even worse than chat apps in terms of how acceptance dictates usefulness. You might convince a couple of friends to use xmpp instead of whatsapp. But its near impossible to get major outlets to integrate new payment methods. Especially if that platform advocates privacy and therefore doesn't offer a return on invest based on user data. I don't think we're gonna see true alternatives without government regulation, and even then...

 

I'd like to harden my device and put some of my apps (mail & chat mostly) behind an additional layer of security. I found this app, that comes pretty close to what I had in mind.

However, it hasn't been updated in 5 years and some options in the app are still flagged as in development. Anyone know of a maintained alternative?

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ISOmorph@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Since I upgraded all my devices to KDE 6 I have this weird issue with my laptop and media PC. The software update icon that sits in the tray and starts Discover seems to think I'm using a light plasma theme. It's only this one icon, and it's the same for all icon themes. I do not have this issue on my desktop, which has the same updates (comparison in screenshot).

I have tried the following to no avail:

  • switching between multiple icon themes
  • switching between KDE light and dark plasma themes
  • deleting ~/.share/icon-cache.kcache

Anyone have any further ideas?

OS: Nobara release 39 (Thirty Nine) x86_64
Kernel: 6.7.6-201.fsync.fc39.x86_64
Shell: bash 5.2.26
Resolution: 2560x1440
DE: Plasma 6.0.1
WM: kwin
Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: Papirus [Plasma], Papirus [GTK2/3]

 

Ich habe seit Monaten eine Kuriosität bei der mir weder mein Telefonanbieter noch der Hersteller meines Routers helfen konnte / wollte.

Ich habe eine FRITZ!Box 7490, die mir regelmässig unter Internet > Filter > Listen > Erlaubte IP-Adressen selbstständig Adressen hinzufügt. Entgegen dem Namen des Menüeintrags sind diese Adresse gesperrt sofern man dort kein Häkchen bei jedem einzelnen Eintrag setzt. Dieses ist mir nur deshalb aufgefallen, weil ich meine Box so konfiguriert habe, dass ich wöchentliche Auswertungen per Mail bekomme (siehe Screenshot).

Ich bin der einzige Admin für das Gerät, das Passwort habe ich bereits mehrfach geändert und dennoch füllt sich die Liste bei jedem Leeren nach einiger Zeit selbstständig mit den gleichen Adressen. Laut whois.com handelt es sich um AliBabaCloud IPs, was alles und nichts sein kann.

Ich habe keine Nachteile durch die Sperrung, mein Browsing-Verhalten ist davon ungestört. Nichts desto trotz würde ich gerne Verstehen, was da passiert.

Das einzige was mir vielleicht noch dazu in den Sinn kommen kann: Ich habe meinem Netzwerk-Drucker auf der Box den Zugang zum Internet gesperrt. Kann es sein, dass der nach Hause telefoniert, die FritzBox das sperrt und mit den IPs die Liste füllt? Ich würde ungern den Drucker Zugriff gewähren nur um das testen.

EDIT

IndigoAmber hat die Lösung geliefert: der Gastzugang war Schuld. Standardmässig ist dort die Einstellung "Internetseiten filtern" aktiv. Selbst wenn wie bei mir die Filterlisten leer sind, werden direkt aufgerufene IPs (im Gegensatz zu URLs) kategorisch gesperrt. Diese werden in die Liste "Erlaubte IP-Adressen" aufgenommen, wo sie auf eine manuelle Freigabe warten bevor sie tatsächlich erlaubt sind. Irgendwie schade, dass die AVM Mitarbeiter das scheinbar nicht wussten.

 

Started to get this message when accessing Reddit. I use LibreWolf as a browser, which does indeed provide a more generic user agent to combat fingerprinting, but nothing out of the ordinary either (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0). Anyone else experiencing this?

Edit: seems to have resolved itself. Thanks for confirming I wasn't doing anything wrong. Let's hope this isn't some new algorithm to test if for insufficient fingerprinting so Reddit can kick ad-resistant users.

 

I recently was able to acquire an older Dell Venue 11 Pro 7130 with an Intel i3-4030Y and 4GB of RAM.

I installed Fedora GNOME spin thinking GNOME might be the right DE for touch interfaces. Sadly it behaves sluggishly and the touch capabilities are lacking. Nautilus for example can't deal with long clicks to simulate right clicks, making file browsing a chore since I need to plug in a mouse and keyboard.

Does anyone have any experience with older convertibles? What distro do you use to make use of the touch interface while keeping a snappy system?

 

I've installed Fedora 38 with an encrypted system partition since I'll be traveling with my device. OS is running fine but now I'd like to have a more human readable label in dolphin for that partition. All renaming attempts in the terminal with "e2label" and "btrfs filesystem label" failed. The KDE partition manager didn't help either. Disks at least shows me the option to add a label, but can't unmount the partition to do so (Error unmounting, udisks-error-quark, 14).

Does anyone have any experience and would like to share?

 

Article is from a renowned german IT centric media outlet. Topic is a new ruling that allows for government spying through trojan horses on the press. This ruling is highly alarming.

 

A group of filmmakers wants Reddit to disclose the identities of several users who made piracy-related comments. Reddit objects, citing its users' right to anonymous speech.

 

Apparently Reddit is now preventing people to anonymously browse NSFW posts in the browser. Instead they invite you to download the app.

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