Mindlight

When I started playing around with Linux 25 years ago Debian and APT was a small revolution in how good it worked out of the box.

I tried to get into Red hat and SUSE and I always wanted up in trouble even before I got any Windows manager up and running. Don't get me started on RPM and dependency hell

Debian just worked. I had stuff up n running BEFORE I had to go down the rabbit hole to understand how all things was connected.

For a beginner that was a game changer.

Unfortunately this is coming and a majority of people are going to happily step on to the train.

Think of it like this: 99% of all apps could have been just web apps in a mobile browser (Hell, a majority essentially are just a wrapped web app) but because of companies offering more/better functionality people choose to use the app.

All that needs to happen is sites starting require DRM functionality for "security reasons" so that the end user can enjoy more features.

A majority of end users don't understand the implications when making choices like these.

Slovakia will ending their support for Ukraine isn't a problem as to what will happen when the US and EU stops supporting Slovakia.

The amount of money the US and EU has poured into Slovakia the last ten twenty years is far from insignificant.

If Slovakia decides to stop believing in Europe then Europe will stop believing in Slovakia.

It seems he used this url: https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=mozilla.com

The tool just analyzes the Mozilla webpage and have nothing to do with Mozilla Firefox web browser.

Old timer here.

In the old days Microsoft essentially conquered the web by creating specialized features only available for their web browser.

This is the reason why we still suffer with IE compatibility mode in Edge. A lot of corporations still have systems that rely on clients being IE compatible.

Google essentially does the same with their services and Chrome.

As I understand it it's the anti-cheat that is the problem. If this is the only problem there is essentially only two possible ways to get Fortnite running in Linux:

1. Get Epic to support Linux
2. Crack the anti-cheat.

Since a major part of anti-cheat systems is preventing people circumventing it I would say that the easiest path would be getting epic to support Linux. One valid argument would be to play Fortnite on Steamdeck .

I'm pretty sure it has been proved that the weapons supplied by the US dismisses the importance of Putin.

Essentially it only moves the borders of the partitions and "repairs" the filesystem inside each affected partition.

If there is data in an area inside the partion you are manipulating gparted has to move the data to an area inside the partition that is unaffected or move it to the new parts of the partition. This can take a long time even if modern PCs easily move 100MB/s

Also, even if gparted is mature software and the devs probably have implemented a lot of security measures you should always backup your data before manipulating the partitions. Especially when you're playing around with filesystems that aren't native like NTFS or more complicated filesystems like ZFS. I know people often nag about this but trust me... Blow 2TB of your data and you really really regret not spending 10 minutes backing up the essentials.

I've been using gparted for as long as I can remember and only once or twice has it caused dats loss. Since I'm very old school (started playing with PCs when 386DX 16MHz was fairly hot and RLL disks were a thing) and nerdy I was able to use data rescue software that looked for filesystems over the whole disk and guessed where partition borders should be.

Avoid this type of anxiety by backing up all data or at least backing up the data you can't live without.

Also, if you have a spare disk, it's faster and much safer to partition the spare one and just clone each partition. Sometimes it's even faster to clone the disk this way and then clone it back.

"The countries of Central and Latin America "threw cold water" on the EU's efforts to unite the continent to support Ukraine and call for colonial reparations in a counter-proposal to the draft declaration of the upcoming EU summit."

So on one hand they are not interested in standing up against the Russian attempt to colonize Ukraine but on the other hand they are very interested about colonial reparations?

So... are they pro colonization or anti colonization?

So it's only when it comes to the right to bear arms that the constitution actually matters?

As a non US citizen living in Europe US Republican things are confusing to say the least.... 😂

So it is a conflict and not a "special military operation"?

Time for the closed subreddits to let the users have a vote on full reopen or a reopen with a touch of John Oliver.

After all, Reddit is just doing all this with the interest of the users in mind....

Greed and people not understanding that it's not a coincidence that there is 1% owning 99% of wealth. A large majority of the 1% are not "self made men" that "built an emporium from nothing".

I'm not talking about some communistic solution where we hunt down Elon Musk and take everything from him.

I'm just say saying that it's fucked up that a lot of people think it's ok that Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Steve Bezos etc have or have had periods where they built extreme wealth and paid no taxes at all.

It's a well known fact that every second major release of Windows is crap.

• Windows 95 was not the best.
• Windows 95OSR2 was the one you wanted.
• Windows 98 sucked.
• Windows 98 2nd ed. worked as the former should have.
• Windows 2000 was great but had no support for running games.
• XP solved that and made people leave Windows 98 (I deliberately left out the clusterf... Windows ME.).
• Windows Vista sucked balls.
• Windows 7 was what Vista should have been.
• Windows 8? Metro on phones, yes! On desktop? No no no.
• Windows 10 got Microsoft back on track again.

I thought the new upgrade scheme (2 editions per year) Microsoft introduced with Windows 10 would be like "every second release will suck" but it started to look like Microsoft were able to break the curse....

...and then Windows 11 happened.

She obviously wants me behind bars

That's because you have been doing some criminal shit and I promise you that she's not the only one who wants you behind bars.

Isn't "anyone can fork if a project doesn't really fit their taste" sort of the curse of open source?

Swallowing your pride, merging into another project and taking a less glamorous role in that project is not as easy as it was to fork when steering your project.

This is generally speaking. I'm definitively not saying any of this is that case with the XFS project.

Ps. Murdering your wife is also something that seems to be bad for filesystems....

Well.. that's convenient.

So then the colonization of Latin America was a Latin American problem and not an European one.

My Samsung Omnia 7 was friggin awesome. Metro was kicking iOS and Androids butt.

I noticed right after replying. However, It's still important to crumble the ridiculous attempt to stain Mozilla and Firefox.

In Sweden, where I live, the equivalent of FDA (I guess) says that firm cheese is fine too eat as long as you cut off 2 cm from the moldy part.

Care to elaborate?

I'm pretty sure it's a Samsung thing. I'm located in Sweden and they've done this on my unlocked (not locked to a specific operator) Samsung phones ( S5, S8, S20 and S20FE 5G).

one thing that I've noticed the last week when using Lemmy is that content is slowly coming along but the discussions are somewhat lacking.

Reddit offers a shitload of topics and content but the real reason we were there was for the comments and the discussions.

Bots reposting material can be a way to artificially secure the constant flow of topics but we need to throw some gasoline on the discussion bonfire....

This post is 3 years old but the replies are at the most days old.

What is happening with Lemmy?

I see what you did there...

Exciting times!

Will this be the first time Lukasjenko tells the truth?

No one knows.... Only time will tell.

Footnote: why do we still publish and read news based on what dictators or influencers have to say? Humanity is doomed 🙂

Yup. I think we'll just have to a) wait until other people arrive and b) stop pushing subjects such as "how much do you hate Reddit", "Reddit have big problems now because....", "Spaz is an a-hole"

Either Lemmy is a sustainable ecosystem (posts causing discussion which then causes more posts) or Lemmy exists only until Reddit is good again.

I'm here because I believe that Lemmy is big enough to stand on its own feet.

So the method has passed animal testing... What are the next steps in your opinion?

"There's no chance NATO'll grant Ukraine membership. It is right next to Russia, and NATO is scared to upset Putin."

While I agree that the chances for Ukraina bring admitted is next to slim I definitively don't agree with your opinion on why it will not happen.

You do understand that Ukraine is literally the only democracy in Europe that shares borders with Russia and is not a member of NATO?

Tiger Lily?

Du you have any like about bios and sloppy engineering that I can read up on

I second number 4.

Since Microsoft does what Microsoft does you might run into trouble with not being able to boot Linux after the first time you bored into windows again. It's not a biggie. Google solutions and you will be able to restore Grub easily.

I run dual boot and I've been doing it for over 10 years. Best of two worlds.

I'd rather have to open up stuff my self then have an uninvited visitor doing it without me knowing about it.

What does it do better than Audacity?

Intel is pulling out and ASUS continues, how is that more competition?

Not a thing in Sweden.

It's always something that doesn't work and I can't get working. Right now (I dual boot) it's my 4G modern in my laptop that I don't seem to understand how to activate the GPS receiver in. Even if I got it to work I wouldn't know since I have no idea on how GPS is supposed to work on Ubuntu...

I just hope Mr Dawson magically creates support for Lemmy in Sync for Reddit....

I second this. Here in Sweden we used to have a movie site where they applied some magic to the calculation and presented how you would rate a movie on a scale 1-5 and they were always correct within ±1 point. So fx a 3 could be either 2, 3 or 4 etc etc. While the site still exists it has seen better days so RT had been my go-to site for movie scores and reviews.

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