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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, because proprietary software is never abandoned. At least foss leaves you with the source code so you or other folk can carry on the torch in the original dev’s absence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bluesky will be in the same boat given enough time. Mastodon is the only proper stand-in for twitter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Call it fewer options, I call it curated options. Yeah, I don’t get to install every piece of software I could on windows (though that list is shrinking really fucking fast), but i also don’t want to. I don’t need to put energy into cracking adobe software so they can steal my licensing and farm my data to sell or train their AI on.

  I don’t want to use a drill that only works with screws that are officially approved for DeWalt drills, and I don’t want to hack a DeWalt drill to make it work with other screws. I want a drill that fits whatever screw I want. People aren’t switching to Linux because of the vast amount of software available for it, it’s because it’s the option that actually respects us as consumers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Im not even gonna try to learn music creation again, just assuming ableton and flstudio would both be issues.

  I understand that more conventional software is proprietary and not released natively for Linux, but it seems unfortunate yo me to let proprietary software stop you from making art. Ive got friends who produce music exclusively on Linux machines using qtractor, which is free and open source, so there’s no need to crack it. I can’t speak for the rest of the tools you mentioned but maybe it would just be worth exploring some of the Foss options to see what you can do with them? I haven’t bothered cracking software since I made the move over to Linux because I just haven’t found any piece of my workflows that actually depends on non-foss software. Turns out tools developed by the communities that use them rather than corporate entities typically turn out to be pretty good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - SinTan1729/chhoto-url: A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I find dockerization tends to make things waaaay easier to bring up/take down with simple yet consistent configuration schemes. I distribute all my self hosted stuff across a small cluster of machines- if I want to move a service from one to another it’s as easy as moving the config folder and the docker-compose. Don’t need to have startup scripts, or remembering installation steps after a fresh install, or worry about python/package versions. Plus it helps keep track of what services are set up, soni don’t have to worry about leaving anything unused but still installed and running. And updating is as easy as pulling the images and recreating the containers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And FOSS is just cool.

  It’s such an underrated feature of desktop Linux. The fact that if I experience an issue with a piece of software, I could find the program’s source code and browse issues to see if anyone had a shared experience. And if not, I could publicly submit an issue which the developers and other users/contributors could help resolve.

  On windows/macos which both fail to foster robust foss communities remotely comparable to Linux, the best option more often than not was sending an email to some support address that either never gets checked, or only replies with canned messages. After which you’ll never know whatnif anything happened to your report.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of the most best tools for desktop Linux are free and open source, so you really don’t need to pirate desktop software. As far as multimedia goes, I generally find it much easier to sail the seas on Linux as opposed to Windows where everything felt hacky and difficult to isolate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean compared to some elements of windows, yeah Linux is more similar to macos. But compared to other elements of macos, Linux is more similar to windows. But to say it’s super similar to either one in particular is kind of missing what makes each of them what they are.

  Macos and Linux skills and fluency aren’t significantly more transferable than between Linux and Windows. They’re three pieces of software that ultimately try to do the same thing, but go about it in drastically different ways. There are only so many ways from your house to the grocery store, so some of them are bound to cross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If Microsoft keeps fucking up at every turn, it seems like at some point the only thing that’ll keep them afloat is workplace/education investments in their environment. Seems like they’re even losing their grip on being the default OS preinstalled on non-apple PC hardware and the advantage that provided.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that’s kind of a whole separate thing. An account in a mobile food ordering app is significantly less invasive than an account on your whole entire operating system- like, laughably so.

  Never mind that one is on your mobile device, which is an incredibly invasive surveillance device as-is for all except those with enough dedication and paranoia. Conversely, a desktop is at least conceptually much more practical to harden for privacy.

  For what it’s worth I guess, I do not use mobile food ordering applications or accounts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servo vs Ladybird.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody ask this person their thoughts on federal marriage law conventions in the us in the year 2015

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I recommend against Brave.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Last I used it, it didn’t have nearly the functionality that ubo does

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I recommend against Brave.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the phrase ‘sane defaults’ comes to mind

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, yeah like another user said, ideally it would be in the interest of groups which allege to have am interest in some form of democracy. But additionally, the ability to set up browsable partial mirrors which could be hosted by miscellaneous nonprofits and individuals both within and outside of the US would be a massive first step to preserving the information that IA stores. The fact that attacks on their servers can eradicate all access to the information they store is troubling given how many enemies they’ve made simply through the work they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s cool but I’ll check back in to see which fascist technocrat is running bluesky in 8 years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the IA but they need to be infinitely more decentralized like yesterday

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The number of times I’ve heard that by people expecting it to win them arguments is incredibly discouraging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Started out in Plex when j knew nothing about self hosting, very quickly made the switch to Jellyfin and haven’t looked back. If I’m hosting my media, storing it locally, and running my own server, I’m much better off not integrating the software of some company that feels entitled to bleed some extra revenue from me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Guidelines For Europeans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to discredit your experiences with Linux but you just listed Ubuntu four times