amanneedsamaid @ amanneedsamaid @sopuli.xyz

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Nope, just the reasoning behind it from the article.

Mangadex is the best online reading experience I've found. Use a unique random password with the site, they've had a plaintext password breach in the past.

Yup.

"Bringing in less-qualified agency staff to deliver important services risks endangering public safety, worsening disputes and poisoning industrial relations."

This was a total gamechanger for me, you get the best of both worlds.

Five Guys, Chick Fil-A, and McD's

I've found setting up gaming on Fedora to be easy, but if you want it to be even easier I've heard that's the entire point of Nobara.

Thats an unbelievably redundant thing to say at all.

"Colleges, you'd better follow the law!"

No fucking shit 💀

The most ridiculous part are services insisting you install an app when everything their app does could be in a progressive web app. PWAs are less work to develop as they can run on any device with a browser. For fast food and clothing brands especially, I think PWAs are a no brainer. (Unless you want to track your customers coughTimHortonscough)

Thinkpads are a particularly solid option for used, as a lot of businesses buy them in bulk and they end up on resell sites (in better condition than most consumer used models). Like you said, just has to be a credible reseller.

Im happy with my ROG Zephyrus G14, which I only chose because of decent linux compatibility and a sale at Best Buy.

I would say when judging the price of a laptop, whether it is Windows focused or Linux focused, make your decision based off of mainly hardware specs (and that hardwares linux compatibility). For example (assuming same price), if a Windows laptop has a great AMD CPU and GPU, I would take that over a Linux laptop with an equivalent CPU but an NVIDIA GPU.

My best advice is to read posts / watch videos of people using / installing / reviewing Linux on said hardware before you buy it. For instance, Asus ROG laptops (like I have) require a program called asusctl to control certain aspects of the machine that are usually controlled by Asus's proprietary software. I would not have known this if not for researching beforehand.

EDIT: I agree with another comment, used Thinkpads are awesome and usually old enough that there will be next to no compatibility issues with Linux. Also, they're tanks!

Lmao you're getting downvotes for the most innocuous possible comment.

What a weird response, three paragraphs and absolutely 0 relevant information.

The security risk their signing process introduces. My guess would be Signal wants a 0% chance of a malicious client being distributed, hence why they only allow direct apk downloads (which self-updates, essentially making an F Droid build obsolete) and Google Play. I would also guess this is why Signal only packages a deb package (if anyone knows a better way to run Signal desktop on fedora [besides the flatpak] than my current solution of spinning up a Mint Virtual Machine [maybe distrobox?] please let me know!) and literally has no official support for rpm based distributions.

What? Didnt you just dodge-and-cope? 💀

The lack of consistently in how Apple devices work, as hey truly feel like a black box where anything beyond basic functionality is held back from the user.

Not having any restricts placed on me as to what software I can install on my devices. Seriously, not allowing sideloading is ridiculous in 2023.

Easy support for the newest Linux desktop technologies, like Wayland and Pipewire. I fun Fedora.

SimpleX > Session > Signal in terms of metadata.

On Signal, your user id is your phone number, a directly identifying piece of information. That is a major point of weakness in terms of metadata reduction, usernames would remedy this significantly.

On Session, your user id is anonymous, a randomized string of numbers and letters. However, this user identifier is persistent, meaning if multiple people were found messaging that single randomized ID, that is data about that user even though it the id is randomized.

On SimpleX (although you do have to option to have a persistent ID on top of using this), every conversation uses a randomized user id you send to your contact via a QR code or link. This means in terms of identifying you're talking to the right person, SimpleX is weaker as if someone hijacks the link, they can impersonate you. The links are one time only, so you have to make sure you transfer the link securely (i.e. QR code via encrypted video call, a message on another secure messenger, or scanning the QR code in person). Once you establish the connection however, SimpleX is a more private experience because of the lack of a persistent user identifer. This also means no spam, ever!

Uninstall the app and use the web version if that's an option for you?

You can separate economics from race in the context of college admissions, that is not unrealistic.