theunknownmuncher
@theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 3 days ago:
Team Fortress 2
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 1 week ago:
Way too late to “fight” them this way, it’s already served it’s purpose for them. Everyone needed to have done this like a year ago, dummies. But yeah, still delete it anyway.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 1 week ago:
Well… I definitely wouldn’t say “always”, as he has taken some pretty gross stances on non-technical subjects wired.com/…/richard-stallmans-exit-heralds-a-new-…
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 1 week ago:
Stallman was right?
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure it’s still just twitter
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- Comment on Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 3 weeks ago:
It is not only more Rubles than currently exist, but more money than currently exists in any currency 😂
- Comment on Sugar vs baking soda to neutralize acid in canned tomatoes? 3 weeks ago:
Heat and time on the stove.
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 3 weeks ago:
I definitely understand where you’re coming from, but at this point I’ve had so many JustWorks™️ Linux systems, including set up on my parents’ PC for well over 5 years without one single problem or breaking update, and they certainly are never opening up the terminal.
I’ll stick with my suggestion that Linux is not for anyone with a strong aversion to terminals.
My experience tells me that this is just objectively wrong, or I’d be getting calls from my parents, HOWEVER, I will concede that maybe this is only wrong if you just want a bulletproof system that works without messing around much.
If OP wants to mess around and get dirty in settings, then I’ll give it to you that they might need to be a bit more open minded about the terminal. I haven’t really tried much GUI configs or settings besides really common, typical stuff, like network config or power saving modes/settings, because I just go right to the terminal regardless.
But its just wrong to claim that someone who doesn’t want to use a terminal will have a problem on Linux, it just depends heavily on what you are trying to do. For the tasks that most people use a personal computer for, there won’t be anything holding you back.
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 3 weeks ago:
Dude, reading comprehension
Mint isn’t based on Fedora either
Lol ironic. Where did you “comprehend” that I claimed it was?
So which GPU, and I’ll give you a leg up, don’t say “5700XT” because that one is notoriously broken for drivers, including on Windows…
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 3 weeks ago:
Now I just want to know what commands you thought you needed to run that you found randomly on the internet lmao, like what, you had to
chmod +xthe installer??It makes me sad that you’re totally soured on Linux now because you didn’t realize you could update your graphics driver or that it is officially written by AMD…
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 3 weeks ago:
I hate to say it, but… you sure about that? The Wikipedia article addresses this exact issue:
As AMDgpu is part of the monolithic Linux kernel, it is shipped by most Linux distributions directly. The package suite / install script amdgpu-pro, distributed by AMD directly from AMD Radeon Software, ships an AMDgpu kernel module somewhat reliably more up-to-date compared to that of kernels shipped in regular operating system distributions.
Yes, a version of the driver is included in the Linux kernel as part of Fedora, but it is likely slightly old and you can download the latest version from AMD.
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 3 weeks ago:
OMG you’re not even talking about NVIDIA… 🤦
My friend, AMD, the manufacturer that you trust, are the ones that maintain the open source drivers for Linux…
You spent 2 whole days, yet never found that you can download directly from the AMD website? What exactly were you doing for those 2 days??? www.amd.com/en/support/…/linux-drivers.html
…m.wikipedia.org/…/AMDgpu_(Linux_kernel_module)
AMDgpu is an open source device driver for the Linux operating system developed by AMD
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 3 weeks ago:
“Who the fuck knows what I just installed?”
This is honestly a great question; you’re on the right track here.
With closed source, the person that wrote the program decided that it should be impossible for you to answer that question.
With open source, the person that wrote the program wanted to make sure it is possible for you to answer that question.
Which of those 2 options is better and safer? I’ll stick with open source, personally, but install whatever you like on your own machine.
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 3 weeks ago:
and on Mint
So it runs perfectly fine on Linux! That’s great news
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 3 weeks ago:
Are we going to pretend that stuff being closed source prevents people from inserting bad shit in their code?
downloading home made drivers on GitHub 🙄 lol wut.
Open source isn’t perfect, but it doesn’t have to be because it is better than it’s only alternative.
There are literally only 2 options: open source or closed source. One option offers you and anyone the ability to see the code that you are running for yourself, the other option is “trust me bro, nothing bad is in here”. Which of those do you prefer? Which do you think ends up with more malware? You think computer viruses include a link to the code on GitHub? Lol
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 3 weeks ago:
Was this within the last decade? Sounds like a faulty GPU.
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 3 weeks ago:
You also have no idea what that file you downloaded from a website is doing, too. And we have AppImage now, so you CAN still download a file from a website on Linux!
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 3 weeks ago:
There’s a reason people have been “fighting” for, like, 40 years over which terminal text editor is the superior one…
There is no contest or fight. The best is vim, obviously! 😝
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 3 weeks ago:
I second the point to avoid dual-booting from a single hard drive. If you want both Windows and Linux, just get a 2nd hard drive and save yourself the inevitable headache. Windows doesn’t know how to share.
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 3 weeks ago:
I think this reply was mostly true ~10 years ago, but is not accurate today. Not using the terminal is not a deal breaker anymore.
But you’re not going to be doing anything you’re going to consider interesting from the GUI.
They’re going to be able to do just as interesting stuff from a Linux GUI as they are already doing from the Windows GUI, so I’d say this is just not valid.
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 3 weeks ago:
I DO NOT want to be forced to use a terminal just to get the most outta my operating system. I like having some kind of UI to use.
Hmm… I want to ask why you feel this way and if you already have tried using a terminal at all, but it sounds like your mind is already made up on this. You can definitely get pretty far without ever opening a terminal, using modern DEs like KDE or GNOME. I think you’ll have the best experience if you keep an open mind and accept that there could be times when the terminal might be the easiest way to go. Disclaimer: I am biased towards using the terminal and prefer to use it instead of GUIs.
I’d encourage you to try a LiveUSB. The way this works: you copy a full, working Linux system to a USB flashdrive (this will overwrite all data on the drive) and boot directly from it, so that you can play around with it a bit like a trial without modifying anything on your computer. If you don’t know what distro to go with, personally I recommend starting here: fedoraproject.org/spins/kde/download This will have the KDE Plasma desktop environment which should feel pretty familiar to Windows. If you don’t instantly fall in love but still are curious, you can always overwrite the USB again and try a different distro or even Fedora with a dfferent desktop environment (the official “default” desktop environment for Fedora is GNOME, but PERSONALLY I am not a GNOME fan, and its workflow will be slightly different than what you are used to from Windows). One caveat to this is that running from a USB drive will likely be pretty slow, so keep that in mind and try not to worry about the performance/speed during this trial. Linux can be extremely performant, and is used to power the world’s fastest supercomputers. If you decide you want to stick with it and install Linux to your hard drive, it will be a lot snappier than running from USB.
There are a lot of distros out there, and that is understandably overwhelming. So basically what is going on here, with Linux there are many many options and choices for different software for everything from system tools, desktop environments, package managers, text editors, whatever. It’s like how you can choose from Firefox, Edge, Chrome, Brave, etc for your web browser on Windows, except there are potential choices for pretty much ever part of the system.
Each distro will have already made a lot of these choices for you, so that you can just get started using it out of the box. If you don’t know much about Linux, then you probably really don’t have an opinion yet or care about these choices yet, for example, which package manager you are using. If you want to be making some choices now, I’d focus on choosing a distro that comes with a desktop environment that appeals to you, as this will be the most visible difference between them to a new Linux user.
Some distros are geared for specific use-cases, like Kali Linux is for hacking/security testing, so comes pre-packaged with a lot of tools that hackers and security professionals would use. Some distros aim to be very stable and offer a system that you can rely on to JustWork™️. Others are cutting edge with the latest, brand new versions of software, but this is not as stable or reliable. Some allow you to build much of your system and make most of these choices for yourself. More recently, there are some gaming focused distros.
I linked Fedora Linux above, which is a good balance between stable and cutting edge IMO. Mint is another that is great for your first time trying Linux. A lot of people love Mint, but my personal opinion is that I do not like it as much as others, but I’d still take it over Windows.
- Comment on YSK about JShelter, a browser extension that attempts to protect you from being fingerprinted online. 4 weeks ago:
You’re asking the right questions!
- Comment on YSK about JShelter, a browser extension that attempts to protect you from being fingerprinted online. 4 weeks ago:
LOVE jShelter. Use it on all my devices (woooo mobile firefox addon compatibility!!).
It is an EYE OPENER to see all the websites that will refuse to serve you when they can’t identity exactly who you are…
- Comment on Users Claim Apple Watch Can Help Predict If You Have COVID Or The Flu, Here's How 4 weeks ago:
This is a bot account used for astroturfing. Just block and report
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Check out their post history. Clearly an advertisement bot. What the block button was made for
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Wowee look at the OP’s account history 🤮
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- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 4 weeks ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
Shit, forget phones and AI, let’s go even more basic. Your brain still has essentially the same neocortex that people around 250,000 years ago had, and it is evolved to only be capable of processing/understanding a maximum of around 150 interconnected social relationships, the number of people a hunter-gatherer 250,000 years ago could expect to know and interact with over their lifetime.
We haven’t had time to adjust to meeting and knowing more than about 150 people total in your lifetime. I had like 500 facebook friends as a teenager and they were all people I knew outside of social media… Our current lives are extremely different than the life that our brain is prepared for.
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 4 weeks ago:
The technological progress is what is not normal. Modern humans have been walking around, living their lives for 300,000 years. Agriculture is less than 12,000 years old, basically still brand new in comparison to the span of time that people just like us have existed for.
For nearly all of human history, generation after generation after generation for thousands of years lived very similar lifestyles with marginally improved, but familiar technology.
It is only in the last few hundred years, a tiny tiny sliver of the human timeline, that we have seen rapid technological progress that has completely changed the way people live their lives. Lifestyle changes and paradigm shifts that used to take many many generations is now seemingly happening several timea within an individual’s lifetime.
We have barely even had any time to adapt to agriculture, let alone capitalism or air travel or instant global telecommunication. So don’t be too hard on yourself about feeling fatigued. I feel it too. We are living in an alien world that we aren’t really “meant for”. You’re “supposed to be” a hunter-gatherer.
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 4 weeks ago:
Be careful to never shine a 20mW green laser into the lens of a camera!!