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Why on earth do they need to know hostname? MAC addresses?

We don't replace prisons, because putting people in cages is bad. There's nothing to "replace" them with. If I wanted to "replace" prisons I wouldn't want to abolish them. That's like asking what you'll replace slavery with, how on earth are we going to get cheap labour otherwise.

Bourgeois law should be abolished too. I have no respect for "the law".

I exported my K-9 settings and imported them to Thunderbird and it works fine

Idk about other sources, but I get my apk directly from GitHub via Obtainium, and my app recently changed from K-9 Mail to Thunderbird. Icon, app name, and app theming changed. This has been in the works for a while but seems like they're officially switched the apk.

I don't have many so I just put them all in ~/own_repos (as opposes to another directory I have for other people's git repos). Maybe if/when I have more projects I'll have a more elaborate system.

Finally, the year of the Linux desktop

No worries, was just confused lol

I... never said it only synced with Nextcloud? Or are you just providing additional information for people?

Recently started using this synced with my Nextcloud. Really happy with it, only complaint is the fact that I can't remove their "Regular event" calendar

Well I know that, that's kind of the point of any encryption at rest that isn't also E2EE. I am the server admin in this case so I trust my own pinky promise that I'm encrypting emails at rest.

Yeah you should turn it off, Mullvad's DNS servers already give you DNS privacy. I forget which DNS servers Firefox's DoH uses, but it will use some other DNS servers for Firefox with DoH enabled, which presumably you don't want if you went out of your way to set your DNS servers to Mullvad's.

I don't think the bottom of the meme suggests that dropping support for old versions is inherently bad. It's part of a larger image; in combination with the other screenshots it suggests people being forced to have Recall/other Win11 enshittification.

Fuuuuck there goes my plan to get this monkey to write Hamlet within the lifetime of the universe...

Out of curiosity what's your use case for dual booting? I know it's a common choice for new Linux users and I did it too out of fear that I'd be missing something I need Windows for, but I've been completely Windows-free for a while and much happier for it. When I did have a Windows partition I never booted into it.

For games, Steam's Proton works pretty well for most games these days. You can check https://www.protondb.com/ to see if your game works well with Proton.

I've also had good experiences with Wine for productivity software. Similarly, you can check https://appdb.winehq.org/ to see how well your program runs on Wine.

Worst case scenario, if you have a decent enough PC, you can always run a Windows VM and that should run more or less anything.

And all of these avoid any trouble with Windows eating your grub install etc

I don't think the issue is dropping support, but the ridiculous requirements to upgrade to Win11, plus the fact that more recent Windows have serious enshittification that means users don't want to upgrade in the first place.

Thanks for all the links!

I read it as a jokey community and maybe you took it too seriously. Regardless that's a kinda silly comment to leave. That's a community for, ironically or seriously, hating Linux, so obviously it's not in the spirit of the community to leave a serious comment defending Linux.

I see a lot of Windows hate on Lemmy. If someone made a post here complaining about how much they hate Windows, and a Windows fan replied explaining why Windows is so great, I would say it's kinda heavy-handed but not totally ridiculous for a mod to ban them, since a Linux community is probably not for this person.

Well, fundamentally capitalism involves the deprivation of the means of subsistence and production from one class so that they are forced to sell their labour-power to the capitalist class in order to obtain the means of subsistence. You could define that as "mistreatment" or not I guess, but whether or not you do, personal treatment by your capitalist does not change the form capitalism takes. Workers' power comes from combining. Capitalists are already combined—they work together to keep wages low and prices high. Unionising only levels the playing field in that regard.

I'm not saying that you should always focus on unionisation in every situation—sometimes there is more important political work to be done. But if you have nothing else to do, it's often the most accessible starting point.

I would disagree, and I personally know people who have unionised IT workers. I also personally know people who have unionised workers at small companies. I don't understand why you would say unionisation is not relevant to you? If you're a worker then it is relevant.

Linux distro shouldn't really matter here. Given what you've said, I would recommend using Debian just because it's the most popular server distro and a lot of server guides will either assume you're on Debian, or have instructions for Debian. For instance, if you see suggestions to install software using sudo apt install software-name-here, that's for Debian.

You would probably want to use Docker for this. There are instructions on how to install Jellyfin with Docker here.