nottheengineer @ nottheengineer @feddit.de

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Keychron and nothing else. None of the gaming branded keyboards even come close, the value is insane.

I chrooted in about 30 times on my first day.

Is there anything other than Google maps that can pull google's traffic data? There's a lot of construction on my way to work right now so I rely on that to not get stuck in traffic.

Linus of LTT has his rig in a server cabinet and runs an optical thunderbolt cable to his desk. That's probably easier to pull through conduit than an HDMI cable, so it might work for you.

Those people are the reason why we need fewer cars and more trains.

But those few users are usually the most knowledgable ones and can report bugs properly.

Any concrete examples on that? I feel like FOSS is what pushes people towards making modular software with APIs in the first place while proprietary software is usually monolithic, probably because all the devs are colleagues and can just talk to each other.

I don't quite get what you're trying to say. Those issues exist both in Germany and Sweden, so they are similar in that regard. I'd even be more comfortable with everyone knowing my income instead of just the state.

Doing it online instead of on paper doesn't compromise privacy any further.

Doing bureaucracy online versus in person is just a convenience thing, German government agencies still enter your data into computer systems, they just have a massively convoluted process for it. I expect no privacy in those cases anyways.

But bankID does seem scary. A single point of failure for basically everything and centralized tracking of every transaction.

If the past two decades have shown me anything, it's that I definitely don't want my data in any government's hands.

How is scandinavia more connected? I know cash is dying out everywhere but here and that everyone's earnings are public, but those aren't too important to me. Private communication and browsing (and generally not being spied on) are what I mostly care about.

The current german government is trying to build a surveillance state and force chat apps into adding backdoors to their encryption and the culture is shifting for the worse with stuff like tiktok still growing.

Right now I'd say switzerland is better in the privacy department (and a few other ones, but that's beside the point).

While I agree that a clean install should be the goal, an OS Backup allows you to go back if you screw up or forgot to backup a specific file.

My company recently enabled windows defender's ASR and it caused a shitload of issues, so they had to disable it again for half the company.

Windows also does shit like turning up my volume all the time and some update broke lightshot in a weird way where some people who had it installed before the update can use it, but when you install it after the update, it just won't launch. This crap is impossible to troubleshoot.

Meanwhile on Linux, I can fix pretty much everything with a bit of googling and if I can't figure it out, I can post on the arch forums and get help for free, usually very quickly and by people who really know their shit.

I use tailscale to access my PC from anywhere and good old VNC to control it. Tailscale literally takes 5 minutes to set up, it's incredibly easy and completely free for what you're trying to do.

For the VNC setup I run krfb on the desktop and AVNC on the phone.

You'll be fine if you read the manual properly before flashing. I've done some very sketchy shit to my Oneplus 8 because I knew I could save it with EDL if I screwed up, but that never ended up happening.

Those are valid points, but windows has the exact same issues. Updates break stuff so often that many people have just adopted a habit to never update if they need to rely on their machines. The same is true for me, I spent many hours trying to find a version of the nvidia driver that has no issues.

But the good thing is that it's usually super easy to fix if something does break. The amount of headaches I had with PPAs and snap are worse than having an arch update break something. You can usually roll back the packages with issues (namely anything from nvidia).

That's why I carry a ventoy with debian LTS. I went with the full KDE pack, so I get the KDE partition manager in a live boot environment.

I highly recommend it.

I found that it's different from windows, but not really more work. I get annoyed by small things easily, so finding out you have to tweak the registry to set some things in windows has just been frustrating while I can just customize the little things how I like them on linux by changing a config file or even find that there's a good GUI for it, like with the task bar for example.

If you're fine with ignoring the little annoyances on windows, you won't have issues on Linux either.

The LTT videos assume that you are unwilling to spend a bit of time learning your OS. If you can accept that it won't be a perfectly smooth experience from the start and that you'll have to put in a bit of effort to make it do what you want, there's no reason to not try it out.

I recently went for it and left windows for dual-booting, but the only time that I had to boot it was after finding out that if you mount an NTFS partition in linux without first disabling fast boot on windows, it'll get broken sooner or later.

Now I'm at a point where troubleshooting stuff on linux is far easier than on windows. Because it's modular and community-driven, you can always get to the root of a given problem with some googling or asking on one of the many great forums. Windows on the other hand is a proprietary monolith and if something stops working, you can only fiddle around with settings or hope for microsoft to fix it.

Getting there took me about 50-70 hours of troubleshooting total spread across a few years. I wasted a lot more than that trying to troubleshoot windows.