Speaking of thwarting piracy, how about Japan stops slaughtering whales and respecting the treaties they have signed first?
monsieur_jean
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The 90s are calling, they want their UX back.
mindustry. I've kinda quit playing games. But still play mindustry on my ipad. :)
Windev and Wlanguage (French).
Look up your printer model number on Alibaba. Or better yet, on Taobao (but if you don't speak Chinese it's a bit complicated). Your options depending on the printer you have are going to be :
- Print heads conversion kits (a replacement of the complete print heads module with tubes feed from ink bottles attached outside your printer)
- Refillable ink cartridges
- ~~Counterfeited~~ Compatible ink cartridges that cost a fraction of the official ones while having 10 times more ink in them.
Now depending on where you live and the local laws it may or may not be legal to import those. In the country I live in there is no law against it. In most South East Asia the law doesn't care about that and if it does, law enforcement doesn't. :)
Since I've moved in South East Asia, I have discovered that:
- Almost every single printer that exists has a conversion kit available on Taobao to use big ink bottles
- There's not a single firmware that hasn't been hacked, nor a single part that hasn't been cloned
- Therefore, most printer manufacturers have a specific line of durable products that allows the use of third party ink because if they don't, other people will bank of their product maintenance and they won't sell much.
The only reason we in developped country get scammed like we are, is because of IP laws and governments that allow manufacturers to abuse them with no consequences at the expense of the customers (and the planet).
It's almost 2024 and we still don't have any significant open source project for cloud storage privacy.
Users are responsible for their own privacy.
Having Open Source projects providing the tools for that is extremely important. But ultimately the responsibility lies in the users hands. End to End encryption is the way. My files should 100% be encrypted on my side, with private keys that I own and nobody else. :)
I'm pretty happy with Linux actually. I've used a few distros and DMs over the years and honestly we're at a point in time where it's pretty nice. A more user friendly and robust connectivity management would be nice, and a few of the file browsers could benefit from a UX revamp. DMs could also enforce stricter design choices by default to gently guide developers towards a consistent UI/UX. But overall it's quite solid.
The same can't be said about most of the OSS that goes with it. Most of the apps available for Linux are garbage. I mean, they do some things well obvioulsy, but are overall terrible to use. With their crap UX and a UI stuck in the last century the only reason people use them is they have no other choice and are desperate...
Depends on the type of drives and your needs.
If the drive is big enough to be used as storage/back, get it out and in its own USB enclosure.
If the drive is either too small or you have too may already then :
- SSD : smash it to pieces with a hammer
- HDD : if you're sure it's not an hybrid (in which case the SSD process applies) then you can just fill it with garbage or use whatever "erasing" software out there. I would go for an open-source one.
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Same. i3wm first, or XFCE for a "real" DE.
I am currently running a debloated i3wm rig based on EndeavourOS/Arch and I really enjoy the low mental load of a truly minimal desktop. Only luxury I've allowed myself is CLI colors. I'm not ready for B&W yet.