Wait, how does Google make money off of paywalled contents?

Even ignoring the surveillance aspect of ads, which I could go on a massive rant about, Google and other ad platforms themselves doesn’t seem to care about harming people with malvertising and scam ads. Why should I care about their revenue?

I know that some manufacturers ship QubesOS, those are intended for people with high threat models afaik.

Time to poison their data, I guess.

Wayland have worked flawlessly for me, but I do understand that I have a very simple use case, so ymmv.

I found that, at the cost of a few months of absolute suffering, using Gentoo as my first distro fasttracked my Linux learning.

I find ZFS rollbacks to be easier but setting up ZFS can be a pain (other than in Gentoo and NixOS from my experience), so take your pick

As someone who’ve tried Gentoo on systemd and OpenRC, as well as Void with runit, I don’t see any reason to use OpenRC over systemd. I never noticed any performance difference, and it has far less features. As for runit, if half the boot time for half the features is what you need, then go for it.

I feel like common knowledge of all the shit big tech companies have pulled throughout their history is sufficient justification for giving massive fines.

Wish GDPR had the same kind of teeth.

I use ZFS, not BTRFS, but both have snapshots, and if you’re someone who likes to tinker with their system like me, it lets you do so without worrying that it will break.

Imagine banning books, at all. Sure doesn’t sound horrificly authoritarian to me /s

This is free and pretty effective advertising for Telegram, really.

As it very well should be. Fuck Google.

Copilot doesn’t work on VSCodium from my experience.

Yeah, that is so unfortunate. As someone who really wants to move to Europe someday mainly because of their excellent regulations regarding tech, Chat Control has certainly made me rethink that decision, though not really cancelling it outright.

Well nixpkgs and NUR should be big enough, and you can just quite literally use Nix to grab stuff from Github anyways.

well, that’s the centralised implementation, which i also don’t like. iirc there’s a decentralised implementation where, instead of tracking your location and sending it to a central server, each device would have a uuid. whenever you come near someone, both of your devices would just swap uuids and take note of them, and if either of you catches covid, they can just open that list of collected uuids and use that to notify the people who came into contact with them. imo not only is this more privacy-friendly, but it saves infrastructure costs from not having to host centralised servers.

right, this would be cool if it’s self hostable. i wouldn’t hold my breath though, knowing microsoft.