Bots turn down from 10 to 3

Trolls turn down from 11 to 4 (depending on the instance)

Downvotes don’t mean anything and your comments can’t generally be buried.

Mods/Admins are generally far less petty

Most instances are more open about things that are posted, even if the inhabitants of that instance are less accepting of it.

Every instance has it’s own ettiquite, be sure to read the stuff in the welcome.

They want a safe place to vent. I’m split on whether they leave it open so that guys can read/understand or whether they just like kicking out guys that try to defend themselves. Probably a bit of each. Good for them :)

You mean besides the fact that the IDF has been selling ICE software specifically to compromise android phone and now they’re forbidding their own forces from using Android…

That’s not much of a stretch IMO, but you do you.

I can get a data sim card and put it in a laptop right now. It’s just an inconvenient form factor.

If all I needed was five hours worth of battery would be a great fit.

Both post-market and nix are great options if you want to run a really old phone, but neither one can last even half a day.

I mean it’s not just that. Probably not even mostly that. Security is really not great on Android far beyond the AI. I’ve been running Android for years and probably won’t change until Linux with LUKS is a reasonable alternative, But from a hardware level on through to the software, there are so many holes in the OS and ways to access privileged information. Even the top end of the Samsung line is largely rootable at this point, not without concessions, mind you, but as far as an enemy getting a phone and gaining access, or the company itself getting your data even without AI, I’d probably be concerned enough for ANY military org not to allow them to be used.

Apple has a hell of a lot of issues, might even be overly friendly with Israel, but from a security standpoint, it’s probably safer for secrets than android at the moment.

I really just want an encrypted portable linux device with a cellular modem. I don’t even care if it can SMS or VOLTE, I just need it to run a secure chat client, support Bluetooth headphones and last all day on a charge.

We need the disclosures now to slow the pace of the bullshit taking over, but it will not be stopped.

I mean, fuck, at this point if they’re using photoshop to extend a background, it’s AI. It’ll just end up becoming the California this contains items known to cause cancer logo all over again. It’s still the right thing to call it out, but everything, in short order, will require the label.

So why the fuck are they fighting to not do it? I’ll be a couple of billable hours and everyone and their brother will either disclose that they’re doing it or lie about it and we can move on with life.

People didn’t have printers when I was born, I figured them out myself in my teens.

I was wondering how long before they dropped that other shoe.

I bought Plexpass when it was $70. Got my money out of it. The centralized login, ssl, caching and proxy are probably worth paying something for.

That said, I’ve mostly walked away from them over privacy concerns and an utter refusal to add community-requested features while removing actively used features.

I just want my AHK stuff to work again. They’re dragging us kicking and screeming into un-avoidable security that breaks software that noone is up for fixing.

Sounds like a steve jobs reality distortion field.

Yup, Adobe and Microsoft def a no-go. Especially Outlook.

For MS, the o365 web apps work as fine as they do on windows. Outlook is nearly at parity with the windows app. (I think they’re slowly making the windows apps web under the hood)

Adobe has to be pre creativecloud

You can run a windows VM, then use remote-desktop but it completely defeats the purpose unless you’re just trying to edge into privacy.

To be clear, I do not advocate tailgaiting or passing on the right, I pretty much always leave early, always use GPS even for local trips (I’m in the middle of a bunch of suburbs and highways and there’s always a slowdown/accident) and I don’t generally go more than 10 over.

If you’re slower than the flow, you should be in the right unless you know you’re going to need to be on the left. You should not be going slower than the people on your right, legal, not legal, doesn’t really matter.

Those people blowing by on the right are riskier than riding in the middle. Sooner or later, they’ll overtake on the right, find there’s a car in the blind zone ahead, and swerve back into the person running in the middle.

Unknown sudden lange changes? use GPS

Clunker? don’t drive a car that’s unsafe

Already speeding? doesn’t much matter, if everyone else on the road is going faster, you’re putting yourself in danger.

Driving slower in the middle should only be done as an exception, for your own safety.

there are to many options and preferences

What you need isn’t what everyone needs. I suspect you’ll have a very hard time finding massive numbers of windows users who only need a terminal.

I sincerely hope that you don’t need one distribution for games and another for developers, Having to reboot to play games is why we’ve had such bad penetration for years.

Every distro needs to be able to handle all the video cards from the last decade. Lutris and Steam need to run really well everywhere or we’ll take forever to get proper market penetration.

They literally nauseate me. I would assume that wasn’t the intent, but to each their own.

I see your /s but we all watched Linux Sebastian burn an easy distro to the ground with ample warnings while refusing to read any information about the distro. And he’s on the long side of the Dunning-Kruger curve for windows.

I think we need everything to work out of the box on all major hardware, no terminal commands, video accelerators working by default and steam to be a one-click install.

Easy for Arch. The Arch community is far too hostile for the first run for newcomers

I REALLY hate the new fight montages where they jumpcut every punch like in Matrix 4. They never let it settle enough for you to get your berings, feels like it’s just a rabid weasel with a gopro starapped to it.

Honestly, Day 1’ers, I’d rather they run Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, or Fedora. There are strong communities that are noob friendly. Go ahead and install Steam, get some games working, get their feet wet. 99% of the time, they don’t need more than basic stuff. Once they’re over being afraid of not being in windows, then start distro hopping to whatever they want.

I think we need a new worm