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Is it really a 'move to allow' style prompts? They're just no longer preventing people from doing that.

It's weird that people who profess to be staunch defenders of art don't understand that stealing styles is fundamental to art. If enough people steal a specific style then art history just labels it a 'movement'. Look on this page: https://magazine.artland.com/art-movements-and-styles/ and you can see that the thing they're describing is a lot of people copying the same style.

Drum and Bass, a music genre, was essentially built on a """""stolen"""" clip from The Winstons in a song called Amen, Brother. The Amen break (you've certainly heard it even if you don't know the name) is copied over and over and over.

This is just the latest social media trend trying to shoehorn issues into the 'AI-bad' meme. Stealing styles is not unusual or even immoral. It is literally the foundation of art.

This is just outrage farming, because 1. People are familiar with this style and 2. The primary artist who made the style popular is against AI.

You gotta do it like this:

Protonmail doesn't enforce that ToS option in any way, UNLESS you're making a lot of accounts.

If you have two, they don't really care. If you have 200, then they're going to point to the TOS when they ban you.

They're really playing with fire here.

So many MAGA supporters are seniors who are entirely dependent on OASDI. If Trump's minions break this, we're going to see torches and pitchforks strapped to electric scooters and golf carts coming out of Florida retirement communities in droves.

I learned to fix so many problems in order to get free music, movies, tvshows and gamesviruses.

I do understand their perspective.

It's just that their expectations do not align with reality and they're only going to hurt their experience by thinking that there is a path to using Linux without using the terminal. Some distros do a really good job of creating something that seems like a pure GUI experience, but that illusion only lasts right up until there is a problem that the UI designers didn't anticipate and the only way forward is to type terminal commands.

I'm not trying to be an asshole when I say this kind of thing.

It's just disingenuous for people to recommend Linux and also say 'Don't worry, you won't need the terminal' or to foster the illusion, in new users, that their fear of the terminal is justified. I get that, of all things Linux, the most alien thing from a Windows/Smartphone user's perspective, is a text-based interface.

It seems difficult and social media is full of people acting like the terminal is incredibly difficult to learn so people believe that they can simply opt out of using the terminal. You can't, and trying to do so is going to make users have a horrible experience. It'd be like telling people that Windows doesn't require a mouse, that's possibly true but if a person artificially limits themselves in that way, they're going to have a much harder time than they would have if they'd spend the time to use the OS properly.

It's like when they say "We value your privacy" it really means "Selling your data is worth a lot of money/value to me".

"User Security" means "We want to secure customers/users for our cloud services by forcing a login to a microsoft account"

Most people are more worried about remote attackers than someone physically putting hands on their PC. But, yes, you should pretty much without exception be using full disk encryption.

It's very assholish of Microsoft to lock bitlocker behind the Pro license.

If you use Valve’s game mode, (which is possible to get either using steamos, bazzite, chimera OS, nobara, or you can manually set it up. You should be able to get it to work. This should work for windows games that support HDR. AFAIK there are no Linux games yet supporting HDR. It should be possible to get videos playing with HDR also, but that would be an exercise for the reader, or wait until people make it easier.

gamescope is what you're going to want to search for if you're attempting this exercise. I just set gamescope in the launch options for the games where I want HDR.

Wayland has had HDR support for around 6 months (using Arch, btw, so YMMV depending on how current your distro is). The issue has been that there is no way for an application to determine if your hardware supports HDR because Wayland doesn't have color management protocols.

The Wayland color management protocols are done and are targeted for the next major release of Wayland (in a month or two, roughly). In the meantime, in applications that supports it (like mpv if you want to watch movies) you can launch it with ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 to let it know that your setup can use HDR. Once the protocols are released you won't need to do this.

You can edit/create a .desktop file for HDR mpv like so:

        Exec=ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 mpv --player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui --vo=gpu-next --target-colorspace-hint --gpu-api=vulkan --gpu-context=waylandvk -- %U


  

Here's a link to the topic on the Arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HDR_monitor_support

TL;DR: Official support in a few months. But this is Linux, so you can get things sooner if you want to tinker.

My brain knows, but my fingers get lost along the way.

My TUI would be better if I could remember how to spell ncmpcpp without tab completion

actual Redditors

I'll save you a spot at the bingo table

And now we move on to the second item on the agenda: Advanced Protection against Shrubbery and Why We Need It

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TL;DR?

Dionysus*

to prevent exactly this scenario

I'd love to be in the group that brainstormed this exact scenario

Linux is the terminal.

The GUI applications are just terminal applications where you press buttons instead of typing. Creating the buttons and UI is extra overhead for developers.

CLI folks have invested the time to use terminals effectively and view overuse of the P&CI as beneath them, and P&CI folks have no interest in dumping time into learning CLI to do something they could do on Windows with P&CI.

There are people who have learned to use Linux, using whatever tools are best for the job and people who have decided that the only way to interact with a computer is with a mouse and refuse to learn anything else.

You don't have to swap away from Windows. But, if you choose to, know that you will have to learn a new operating system and, on Linux, this means becoming familiar with the terminal.

If you're going to artificially limit yourself, despite the chorus of Linux users telling you otherwise, by deciding that any terminal use indicates a failure of the OS or of developers, then you should not use Linux.

It's hard enough to learn a new OS. Artificially restricting yourself to only using your mouse is going to severely limit your ability to function.