How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To (www.wired.com)

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[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 12 points 1 day ago

no longer safe

it never was and simply changing who you trust doesn't mitigate that risk in the slightest.

[-] DicksAndPizza@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

Please excuse my rudeness. But people who, right now, after all that has happened; buy a new PC with windows pre installed. I mean…. How fucking retarded can you be.

I know that Linux sucks. I’m suffering throug it at the moment. But I’m getting there! It just takes patience. Fuck windows and everything American.

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago

Linux doesn't suck. What sucks is using anything new after using something else for years. As a long time Linux user I am used to its idiosyncrasies and having to use Windows or Mac is painful.

[-] DicksAndPizza@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

I generally agree with you and I am trying to love Linux. But it’s hard when even the RBG keyboard doesn’t work. Just one example. Not gonna go on a rant. But yeah. On windows that stuff just works.

And it’s the small things that eventually turn people away.

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

On windows that stuff just works.

Not really, it "just works" after you install some sort of proprietary crap software that is a couple of hundred MB from the hardware vendor, that opens up a few security holes and is never patched and is constantly in your system tray.

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 6 points 21 hours ago

I would phrase it as "this vendor refuses you support me as a customer". It's not Linux that doesn't play well with X device, is X device manufacturer making the conscious decision of not caring.

Similarly to how Apple watch doesn't work with Android phones.

[-] snuggledick@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

openrgb.org

[-] NotLemming@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

What about Linux is hard for you? I switched and barely noticed any difference, honestly. Even installing it was easy... Even my printer works and I was expecting to have to go back to wires for that lol.

[-] Pepuvend@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

My problems that I haven’t managed to fix/are unfixable on Linux Mint.

-unfixable - no fractional UI resizing that works. If I use the experimental UI sizing it starts tearing and also locks 60hz. I could resize stuff manually but then some other stuff would still be wrong size.

-fixable but not with my skill - audio randomly starts playing static and then is gone until next restart. Messed around with googling and AI-ing for a few hours but still broken. No idea if it has something to do with Dolby Atmos.

I would be really glad if tomorrow these problems would randomly be gone. I actually love how snappy and clean everything is.

[-] Libb@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

Same here, a few years ago I made the switch and never regretted it (from Mac, not Windows though) ;)

It's not perfect, but neither was macOS (or Windows) so I'm OK with that.

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