Say you are working for a family member (helping your dad with his company or sth.). A colleague once had to go help his parents with their small company and no one questioned it a bit. No “better pay?” or “man you are moving far away!” just “oh, well good luck”.
Doesn’t look like it, but you can be the one writing one.
Why do people still host their stuff on github if they know its illegal?
How would you play a DRM-free game bought through steam without steam? (Genuine question)
Mullvad is the most private a VPN company can get. They literally accept cash by mail.
Mullvad is RAM only for a few months by now, no log since forever and regularly contributes to privacy related topics.
The thing is: you can’t trust a company when they say they are no log or RAM only. But you can trust what info you give them. Mullvad only has my IPs. No info about who I am otherwise. I send them 30€ twice a year and that’s it.
BUT: they don’t allow port forwarding anymore, if you need that, so they are not perfect.
Now what most people don’t know is that websites can insert arbitrary text when you copy stuff of them. A malicious site will abuse that.
It works like that:
You follow a tutorial online or search for a code snippet. You copy some code/said snippet and paste it into a terminal or the browser command line. This copied text is altered by the site to be a one line command to install malware or grab passwords or cookies. All of that is followed by a line break and maybe your real command to lower suspicion.
Some of the terminal or browser shells interpret a line break in the copied text as enter which then executes the command.
To prevent that, get a shell, that doesn’t just execute what you paste (fish shell) or a terminal program, that warns you about line breaks (Moba xterm).
And please check text from unknown sites before pasting it into a program that may execute it right away. (Just paste it into a text editor or look at your clipboard manager like Win+V in windows)
They implement ActivityPub and connect to all the available servers. A load of new users will see the content here and all the communities here will be absolutely flooded with new content and users.
ActivityPub will be extended. Many new features will be added, that don’t really match the standard, but they are mostly useful so some developers will try to add them to let’s say Lemmy. They won’t be blr to develop new features on their own and some stuff with threads will always be broken or half baked. Threads users will belittle the users here, some will maybe go there, cause it just works and is otherwise the same.
New users at the same time will most likely go directly to threads cause it’s backed by a giant company, always works and has more features.
They will cut the federation.
Communities here will feel empty and most users will just leave. Only the hard core will stay and that won’t be sustainable. The fediverse becomes even less attractive for new users and will devolve into a niche community.
Sorry, but Looper is like the worst kind of time-travel movie. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
A rental car from Sony?
Are you in the wrong thread? (I mean I responded to you but still…)
Yeah, but renting is not purchasing.
(Yes, I am fun at parties.)
There are a lot of big ones like Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora or Arch. Arch is for users with a little more experience. But funnily enough Arch has like child-distributions, that build upon its core. Ubuntu is also a ‘child’ of Debian an Mint builds onto Ubuntu.
It’s kind of like three or four big families, that had lots of children. 😂
(and then there are NixOS, OpenSuse and lots of others, which I forgot)
It has to do with Linux.
Linux itself is not a fully fledged operating system as most people would expect it. Since Linux has to work on servers and microchips as well as on desktop PCs, lots of stuff is not shipped with it.
For example Linux is missing a way to display windows and has no real package manager.
A distro (or distribution) is a predefined set of of software, that makes it easier for a user to use Linux.
This is mostly a window manager or desktop environment like KDE or GNOME, a package manager like apt or pacman and useful software like an office suite, a browser and other stuff.
Distros also exist for servers, the ln they don’t include a way to display images, but still have a package manager and other useful stuff preinstalled.
That’s of course not all, but maybe gives you a little overview.
I have rephrased the text.
Okay, I actually never tried that. Thanks.
Okay, I am intrigued and did not find anything right away. Can you give me a link?
Yeah, but I want to get rid of my wireless keyboard in favor of a small website/app for my phone.
Can I run Jellyfin on my laptop, but close it up and choose the video to watch via a different browser on my phone?
Of course. I donate to the Lemmy developers, Wikipedia and a few others.
But donating is kinda hard sometimes because I would really like a system, where dependencies also get some.
Take Lemmy for example. It’s built with rust and uses lots of crates (libraries). So why not give like 50% to Lemmy and the other half to the used crates. And those also split with their dependencies.
I don’t use obsidian. I use Joplin. It has nextcloud integration and works flawlessly.
For the rest (e.g. Tasks, Collaborate Office) I use DAVx5 and the nextcloud App to sync.
But connections is so much more fun. Wordle is a solved game unfortunately.