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[–] communism@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it would be fine if it were opt-in, but then you wouldn't get enough data to get accurate traffic estimates

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's not what "imperialism" in the context of "imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism" means. Britain is still doing imperialism/in the imperialist stage of capitalism, it just doesn't have an "empire" in the same sense as the Romans had an empire.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Most 10xx work perfectly fine, and were also still being sold till recently.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can I ask what the job was?? That sounds like such a dream job if you can do other work at that job and pays well

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

I've had mixed experiences myself. Sometimes it works, sometimes it randomly breaks. I just wouldn't recommend it to someone who wants it to "just work" and be stable and not do maintenance. For me, I'm someone who's happy to do maintenance, but I don't want that to extend to my graphics card, which in this day and age ought to just work.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)

nvidia cards are always giving people grief, especially on Wayland. Technically supported but practically not recommended if you want an easy time

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was also confused at first, but OP is using "plausible deniability" to mean "depending on what decryption key you attempt to use, you get different 'decrypted' data", so you can have an alibi I suppose. Not "plausible deniability" in the sense of "plausibly this isn't encrypted at all".

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

I think it can count. It's not an organised boycott, but the devs have asked people to pirate it/not pay for it, and people seem to be following suit, so I'd say that counts as a boycott.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And of course Disco Elysium if you haven’t played it

Are we still boycotting? If so you wouldn't want to get it on Steam then

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

I think those three will be completely fine, but also I think base Arch would be completely fine for you. I have no idea why it's a meme that Arch is so "hard". I wouldn't recommend it for someone coming from Windows or Mac who has no idea what they're doing and had no poweruser tendencies on Windows/Mac either. But for someone who's used Linux for a few years, I think doing a base Arch install is no biggie at all. It's got a very annoying meme reputation but I think it's completely inaccurate.

That's an aside, and I'm not saying you should use base Arch, just that I don't think there's anything wrong with it if that's something you're interested in. Although if you're coming from a "beginner" distro and your intent is to learn, I do think doing a base Arch install (even if you don't stick with it) is a good idea. You'll be entirely capable of the install process and probably get a better understanding of how your system works. Then after you install it you can switch to some other distro you prefer.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it only asking for "books" in general that makes you a turbo-nerd? Tbf I find it weird for an older child to ask for "books" instead of specific books. But I have asked for specific books as gifts my whole childhood... I think when I was like 6-ish I would ask for "books" because I just knew I liked reading but not any specific books. But by that age I was asking for specific books.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh amazing. Seems like it's still in early development and only supports Stardew and Cyberpunk but I look forward to it being more mature and supporting more games.

 

You still have to pay for it because it costs money to make. But it's completely open-source beer so you can recreate it yourself if you don't want to buy it pre-made, or you want to modify the recipe.

I have no idea how to make beer otherwise I'd have a crack at this shitpost myself...

 

I'm having a bit of trouble researching what country would be best to rent a VPS in, in terms of not getting communist content on there censored. Because obviously if content is deemed illegal in the country the server is hosted in, the VPS host is obligated to take it down (understandable enough, you can't really ask a company to break the law for you).

I'm also concerned with privacy laws too and protection from them.

I've heard various good things about "freedom of speech laws" and privacy laws in Iceland, Romania, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Finland, but I don't know the details.

Does anyone have any input? And if you recommend a certain host country, do you know of reputable VPS providers in that country?

 

I've only ever used desktop Linux and don't have server admin experience (unless you count hosting Minecraft servers on my personal machine lol). Currently using Artix and Void for my desktop computers as I've grown fond of runit.

I'm going to get a VPS for some personal projects and am at the point of deciding what distro I want to use. While I imagine that systemd is generally the best for servers due to the far more widespread support (therefore it's better for the stability needs of a server), I have a somewhat high threat model compared to most people so I was wondering if maybe I should use something like runit instead which is much smaller and less vulnerable. Security needs are also the reason why I'm leaning away from using something like Debian, because how outdated the packages are would likely leave me open to vulnerabilities. Correct me if I'm misunderstanding any of that though.

Other than that I'm not sure what considerations there are to make for my server distro. Maybe a more mainstream distro would be more likely to have the software in its repos that I need to host my various projects. On the other hand, I don't have any experience with, say, Fedora, and it'd probably be a lot easier for me to stick to something I know.

In terms of what I want to do with the VPS, it'll be more general-purpose and hosting a few different projects. Currently thinking of hosting a Matrix instance, a Mastodon instance, a NextCloud instance, an SMTP server, and a light website, but I'm sure I'll want to stick more miscellaneous stuff on there too.

So what distro do you use for your server hosting? What things should I consider when picking a distro?

 

I use a 14px bitmap font as part of my system theme. It is set to display at 14px in my gtk theme which works for tabs, bookmarks, right-click menus, and other parts of Firefox UI, but the Firefox address bar doesn't seem to be the same size and is blurry.

How do I change the font size of the address bar? Is there an element I can target in userChrome?

 

I've been reading through Signal's government requests and couldn't find a similar section on Mullvad's website. I'd be curious to read about them if there are any. It would seem unlikely to me that Mullvad has never received any kind of court order for information about a user.

 

There are other FOSS real-time voice changers for Linux, but the others I found either seemed to have fewer features, be less polished, or be abandoned.

I'm not really a voice expert or anything so I'm not sure what aspects of voice a, like, forensic voice analyst or something would look at. I've just changed the pitch and I sound different enough that I wouldn't recognise the voice, which is good enough for me. Open to suggestions as to what effects would give the most privacy in terms of making it harder to identify your voice (while still being intelligible)

Also, for people's reference, if you want mic input to be changed for all apps, go to three dots > Preferences > General > Audio > Process All Input Streams and enable.

 

I sometimes get linked google docs links and would like to view them without visiting a google site directly.

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