DarkSideOfTheMoon
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- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 2 weeks ago:
Yes, and comparing resources it issues much less CPU while “idle”
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 2 weeks ago:
On my laptop, I was using the tool available on Mint to find ans install drivers and after I reboot I was losing the WiFi drivers
This laptop did not have an Ethernet port, so I needed to re-install the OS and try again
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 2 weeks ago:
Do all updates first, save a snapshot of the system, than install the latest Nvidia driver.
For me, installing Nvidia drivers before the system update was the issue
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 2 weeks ago:
I am conflicted about Zorin, they are selling something using free software… but somehow, maybe marketing a not sure… they are able to get people on Linux that never did before. So you know, seeing people ditching Windows for Linux might be the first step… maybe someone start with Zorin, get comfortable and jump to something else.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 2 weeks ago:
I am a macOS user for work and had windows mostly for games on my personal computer, when I got a new laptop last year it came with win 11… it was so annoying to need to skip literally ads for Microsoft services… that even being my “leisure” computer… I spent the time getting Linux Mint, deal with Nvidia drivers on Linux just to have steam there
The games I am playing recently are working great on Linux and my computer feels faster now.
This particular laptop had a problem with WiFi drivers and Nvidia drivers, but getting past this first setup, I must say Linux Destop is easier and fast to use.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 2 weeks ago:
The people that need to understand this, will not understand this.
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 2 weeks ago:
Would be a big plot twist if Mamdani is aligned with Saudis and he start to help Trump…
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 3 weeks ago:
I must say on mine laptop it took fewer tries to have Linux mint working. When I was installing the Nvidia drivers I was losing the WiFi ones and couldn’t do anything to fix without internet there
So after some reinstalls I learned I need to update mint first, than do the Nvidia update, this did the trick for me.
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 5 weeks ago:
They don’t need to “hand online servers” just publish the API and do one last update to accept self hosting.
And new releases should always support self host.
- Comment on US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router 5 weeks ago:
It’s not only about spying but about negligence. TP-LINK routers were found with many security issues and no patches. Some accuse them of do that porpose but might be negligence. Anyway they really do have bad security
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 1 month ago:
AI got tons of money from investors they will eventually want ROI… this why they are trying to force it down our throats
- Comment on ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media 1 month ago:
Maybe community needs to work in a way lemmy does not have too much loving of posts, so protects privacy. It’s possible since it’s open source.
- Comment on ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media 1 month ago:
What about the Aligator Alcatraz (or something) that 800 bodies disappeared?
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 2 months ago:
I don’t get why people prefer to go to an unsafe version of windows instead of trying Linux. Nowadays there is many friendly distro.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 2 months ago:
Google start with open source so they can use open source tools and get a lot of work for free.
But they use the famous Elbrace, E tende and Extinguish. See the things they are doing with the web with Chrome.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 2 months ago:
This is because the community did not spent too much time optimizing for this goal. This is what I am saying, the open source community should invest more on Linux phone.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 2 months ago:
Android is so big because the community let them embrace it. Since the beginning the community should have worked in a true open solution. Now it’s really late to try to make a Linux phone
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 2 months ago:
Open source community keeps trusting Google and they keep using the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish …wikipedia.org/…/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
Oh so we graduated almost at the same time it seems.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
For me, it’s not about boycott to affect. I just don’t want to give my money to what I do not believe. It’s a personal choice, I can’t control anything, I am just trying to live my life. This is a small thing I can control.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 months ago:
I think many does. Specially with tech stuff when it’s not really an advantaged. Like take 6 inch screen phone. Some companies put a 4K display, but the distance we normally use phones at this density it does not have real benefit. While the more pixels on screen will use much more processing power and battery, the trade off does not worth. But “nerds” will see big 4K and think it’s better
Or like a phone with 200MP camera, if the system does do a good job balancing and processing all this pixels you get much much more noise, the noise reduction can create washed photos with huge file sizes, again the trade off is not that much.
And I think engineers in this companies knows that, but marketing pushes for “big numbers” for “nerds”
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 2 months ago:
What if devices would have a private chip to have the ID, so the website would just request if user is underage or not. Would this be private? Instead of sending the whole id to the online platform?
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 3 months ago:
Wait HDMI 2.1 does not support uncompressed 8K? How much data rate you need for 8K?
- Comment on Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case 3 months ago:
Who would buy a browser for billions and billions of dollars? Just see who has this amount of money and how aggressive they would need to be to get return of investment.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 3 months ago:
Even 4K is not yet easily available . I mean except from AppleTV plus that all content is 4K and it’s part of basic subscription, every other streaming charges much more for 4K content, most people don’t want to pay more every month for 4K
So 8K is just a distant reality that content makers are not really wanting to happen
- Comment on Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case 3 months ago:
With reports of Elon Musk eying to buy Chrome or OpenAI… sorry but I believe this was the best outcome, what we need is people using more Firefox that is one of the few non-Chromium browser out there.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 3 months ago:
I think the instance owner would be responsible, but what if the instance is out of the state?
Unless the instance owner is on a visa, with a criminal record they could get him. But otherwise it’s hard to be enforced.
Maybe they could ask the app stores to ban apps in that states. Something like that.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 3 months ago:
More like a love and hate relationship. I normally turn off my work computer and turn on my gaming one. Most of my time I am using one. Or a pocket computer some call it smartphone.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 3 months ago:
As programmer. It’s helping my productivity. And look I am SDET in theory I will be the first to go, and I tried to make an agent doing most of my job, but it always things to correct.
But programming requires a lot of boilerplate code, using an agent to make boilerplate files so I can correct and adjust is speeding up a lot what I do.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 3 months ago:
This would make even a dark mode extension something illegal.