This guy screws
This guy screws
Ahh the ol’ Lemmy WhyTheFuckDidYouPhraseItThatWay
HDR is a big deal here, right? I didn’t think HDR was widely available on linux.
Liftoff is the only one I’ve found that lets you hide read posts like the website does, which is the most important feature for me.
Well put. I’m a privacy-conscious Linux user, but I’m constantly frustrated by the lack of technical understanding in the privacy community, especially towards Apple solutions. They’re not perfect but they are very good. They have made major investments in improving the privacy protections for their users in a way no other major company has that I know of.
Are you a very technical person who wants to improve their privacy and have fun figuring out technology? Great, me too, run Linux and GrapheneOS.
But, if you’re not highly technical or you don’t enjoy it you run a real risk of misconfiguring something and being far less private than you think. The truth is you might be better off with Apple’s “Advanced Data Protection” (E2E encryption), Private Relay (VPN + Tor hybrid on Cloudflare CDNs to avoid VPN blocks), “Hide My Email” email masking, disabled telemetry, fine grained app permissions, etc.
At the end of the day, all this stuff is good for is pushing back a bit against corporate advertising profiles. Focusing on it too much isn’t healthy for anyone.
I agree - while I am very frustrated with Adobe’s practices I can’t deny that their creative software is very, very good. They have managed to build software suites that have been stable, consistent, and near the cutting edge of their industry for decades while avoid significant bloat and legacy hangover.
There is clearly a market for alternatives and we’ve seen some interesting packages come out but nothing has been a proper replacement yet. The barrier to entry for alternatives hasn’t been a legal barrier - it’s been a lack of design and development expertise.
I lift weights btw
Ha that’s a great point, Acrobat is garbage. I was talking about their creative suite with Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.
This is an important point - it’s the difference between emphasizing critical thinking skills vs falling into conspiracy theories, or being privacy-conscious vs being paranoid.
I think starting critical thinking with empathy is incredibly important. E.g. “What’s motivating this person to write this?” Are they trying to get clicks, are they trying to move the needle on an issue, are they meeting their word count quota for the day? Are they just lonely or isolated or scared and lashing out because they can’t find affirmation? Or even, are they paid by a foreign state to post controversial things and stir up dissent in another country because it helps their country economically?
There are many possible motivations, but it’s not going to be a big global conspiracy dedicated to manipulating you personally. Understanding a person’s starting point and motivation helps you critically think through their points and decide what you agree or disagree with.
100%, I will die on this hill.
Which will be sooner than later, because I’ve been eating Great Value Mac and Cheese since the 1900s.
Fantastic read, I’ve never seen that
I honestly love this, it could be a great “desktop” underneath all of your windows with some small tweaks. Widgets to show import system stats, shortcuts, and an always available tabbed terminal.
Do you have any more info on how you measured the db reduction? I love my AirPods Pro for reducing noisy environments but avoid them any time I actually need hearing protection because I’m not sure how effective they are.
I’m very sorry to hear that, and I’m sorry that today is one of the bad days. Sending you support, and I hope that a better day is around the corner.
Hot damn, I’ll try this out tomorrow. Thank you!
I was hoping to find Dungeons and Daddies here. Anthony Burch is hands-down the best improvisational storyteller I’ve ever heard. An absolute legend of a DM.
I tried gaming on Linux on a whim a few months ago and was blown away. Every Steam game I wanted to play worked as expected. Things have changed dramatically over the last few years.
It’s not for everyone and there are still some anti-cheat systems that reject Linux, but it’s worth trying if you prefer Linux.
Thanks, I agree with you and have a similar approach. I'm mostly interested in learning best practices, I don't bother hosting juicy targets like Bitwarden. If an attacker really wants to put in the work to get the scanned manual for my 2009 Black & Decker toaster oven I probably can't stop them.
Question from someone learning security - if no firewall ports are opened and UPnP is off, does running these sorts of services on your LAN substantially increase your attack surface? I imagined risks were minimal outside of running a compromised application.
I’m going to go against the grain a bit here - while there were some nuggets of truth, there was also a lot of insufferable behavior from someone who’s job it was to teach technology to people who don’t know technology. This person recounted so many great teaching moments in such a dismissive way, it just made me sad.
I absolutely get how frustrating it can be to work in customer-facing technical roles, and to get dismissed for it. But if one of my customers was smart enough to embed a YouTube video in a PowerPoint slide, they’re smart enough to understand when I say “it looks like PowerPoint is trying to load it from YouTube every time you hit play, but YouTube is blocked on our network. Let’s think through some other options”. Not only that, it’s critical information the next time they want to present a video, and it’s information they can share with others around them too.