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Soon to be 4 months exclusively on Linux in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (9 children)

The Steam UI thing sounds like an issue like maybe hardware acceleration being disabled?

Windows 11 is getting a new start menu. EDIT: this replaces the "all apps" page by default, not the home screem in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Then you wouldn't notice all the fun and exciting recommendations they have for you! /s

My boss gifted me an old thinkpad x31 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They generally have really great linux support for all of their hardware (touchpads, fingerprint readers, etc.), and provide bios updates via fwdup. They are also just nice laptops.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Lenovo

Idea: hardware manufacturers should publish RSS feeds for firmware updates in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It does support bios updates. That's how I do mine on my laptop (a Lenovo).

The country’s most conservative court just reinstated a Jim Crow-era voter suppression law in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago

Well, we can't have felons voting. They should only be allowed to run for president!

FTC study finds 'dark patterns' used by a majority of subscription apps and websites | TechCrunch in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hmm I haven't tried this. Thanks for the suggestion.

FTC study finds 'dark patterns' used by a majority of subscription apps and websites | TechCrunch in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 months ago (20 children)

So, a dark pattern is a design that tries to trick the user into something. But what is the word for "knowing what the user wants, blatantly ignoring it and imposing the companies will anyway"?

Example: I think YouTube shorts are a terrible format, and I find them generally irritating. So I click the X on the element in YouTube that has a bunch of side scrolling cards, where each card is one of these shorts. YouTube informs me it will hide them for 30 days and then they'll be back.

Another example, Windows Update. I've set all the group policy settings so it should never restart and update without me triggering it. But, if I allow it to download the update, then damn my group policy settings, it is going to apply that update and restart whenever it wants.

Panic "Screen of Death" To Gain Monochrome Fat Tux Logo In Linux 6.11 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (10 children)

This is making me realize that I have never encountered this equivalent of a blue screen of death on Linux.

YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes in c/[email protected]

Nephele WebDAV Server now supports deduplicated file storage. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Ah that makes much more sense. I think I crossed my wires. You mentioned backing up the Minecraft worlds and so I thought "deduplicated backups... so borg."

I appreciate your explanation.

Nephele WebDAV Server now supports deduplicated file storage. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is there a link?

Also, how does this compare to something like Borg?

why do I get this message to upgrade to ubuntu pro after sudo apt upgrade? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ubuntu/Canonical is the Microsoft of Linux distros. It's no surprise they were the choice for WSL.

Ubuntu has been forcing decisions on users and embedding advertisements for a long time.

Examples that immediately come to mind...

When that Amazon search was embedded into the app launcher search.
These sorts of self promotions.
Quietly installing snaps instead of debs when using apt install