nottheengineer @ nottheengineer @feddit.de

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Ads are the form of payment for the service and using a paid service without paying is piracy. How do you think this is any different?

They already have plans to DRM the entire fucking web. That's why I am currently cutting google out of my life step by step.

Oh, that's from the installer and not one of those warnings you get after opening apps. Makes sense.

I missed that, thanks for pointing it out. The one without S is the correct one.

But that makes me wonder, how did OP not end up with two signal apps then?

The package name is correct, but signal was never on F-droid.

Do you have a third party repo that might be compromised?

Edit: Package name isn't correct, so that's almost definitely a compromised version. Get rid of it ASAP.

They'd do what they are doing to android. Make it as unusable as possible without their proprietary crap.

Thanks, I use KDE on X already (thank you nvidia) and find gnome's design absolutely asinine, so I'll try to fiddle around with the compositor settings.

Great, I play a lot on it and the only game I had to use windows for so far was titanfall 2 because it kept stuttering on linux and troubleshooting stutter is hard.

Welcome to modern politics, where the range of opinions that a person accepts is so small that it doesn't overlap with the range that a person on the other side accepts.

If you have an opinion in the middle, everyone will just hate you and having a discussion is impossible.

Classic microsoft move.

Linux has gotten great over the years and keeps improving while windows gets worse and worse every day. This has been going on for many years now.

I switched already and suggest you give it a shot as well. It's honestly much easier than windows if you know the basics and understand how things are done there.

Ripped right from wikipedia: "A backdoor is a typically covert method of bypassing normal authentication or encryption in a computer, product [...]."

Given you can't be arsed to google that on your own, I don't see s point in arguing.

An OTG setup needs all 5 pins of the micro-B connector. USB A cannot be used for OTG. If a USB-A port can act as a client, that's not OTG, it's a botched implementation.

Downloading and running binaries isn't anything to worry about. Many apps do that to circumvent the update delays that apple and google put in place.

Browsers also download and run code from any website you visit. The security measures make sure that this code can't just do anything, just like on android.

Same, but just at home unfortunately. Using windows for the occasional game that doesn't run properly on linux is fine, but actually engaging with OS stuff is just hell.

Today at work I spent an hour fixing onedrive and it turns out that the permissions for the root folder of onedrive are just fucked most of the time. Team microsoft's solution is to just put everything into the documents folder because that's usually fine.

I feel like windows specifically interferes hard with my ADHD because I keep thinking about this crap. My colleagues just deal with it and then do something else, but my brain keeps getting stuck on it. I'll sometimes even do stuff that would definitely work on linux just to test windows. Sometimes it feels like I actually learn something, but more often than not I just find another broken thing and get frustrated.

Today I even caught myself checking out the vscode-nvim extension just to use my mouse less but the setup for windows was two pages and the one for linux was like one command.

Now I'm looking for a different job and I hope they have proper tools. Not sure if I can bear much more microsoft crap.

Sorry for the rambling, in the middle of writing I just felt like I need to get this off my chest and kept going.

Found out two weeks ago and don't have a diagnosis yet, but I've been very open about it.

I struggled hard at work before and my boss is excited that I now know why and very keen on helping me deal with it. Unfortunately those kinds of bosses are rare and we'll be parting ways in a few months, so I'm unsure about how I'll handle it next time.

Those are a massive security problem if you connect them to the internet though because they never get updated and we tend to use them for much longer than any phone.

As someone who studied data science up until a year ago: Consider that carefully. The whole space is moving so ridiculously fast that half the stuff you learn will be outdated in 2 years.

If you want to get a job in the field right after getting that degree, it makes sense. But if you already know how to program, learning AI stuff for 2-3 months can also get you that job. It's quite a new field, so the requirements aren't formalized yet. That path would probably make more sense for ADHD.

Here's another random thing you should know: In the windows 11 explorer, you need to right click on the filename to get the proper menu. If you right click somewhere else on the line that isn't the filename text, it gives you the menu that is supposed to show up when you click on empty space.

Windows just isn't for ADHD people. There's so much crap you need to keep in mind to use it and every little thing is a distraction.

ADHD and mental health in general. I just found out two weeks ago and now I'm binging Dr. K and whatever similar stuff youtube recommends.

I reckon it'll be a challenge to stay mindful of all that stuff when I find something new to hyperfocus on, but at least I know in advance this time.

Tiktok is indeed more malicious than any other app I can think of, but it isn't a backdoor.