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Certainly, although OSX has enough closed source parts, and obfuscation is good enough to let a supply chain attack live in Go's module ecosystem for years. Obfuscation is reasonably effective, especially when the DMCA in the US makes reverse engineering legally hazardous, and it's iffy in the EU as well. Anyone who found an issue would have to make it public very anonymously.

Oh. Yeah, probably. I can never remember how Lemmy does communities; with a bang, maybe?

!selfhosted@lemmy.world

I wish the OSS communities would get together and pick a lane. Matrix uses #room:server, Lemmy does !community@server; does Mastodon use the same as Lemmy?

Standards, people. Let's have some standards. Shame on whoever designed their protocol second.

There is little better for ebooks than Calibre, and Calibre Web if you're into web apps.

For the audio book discussion, OP should use the "search" function, because there was a robust discussion about this in @selfhosted@lemmy.world within the past two months.

It's not a grub function? Bummer. My rescue images are either Arch or Alpine.

I can think of plenty of reasons, e.g. NSA, or any US institution interested in intelligence gathering, paying for it.

But why would the do it in hardware when they can do it in software? Again, the number of people running Asahi Linux is minuscule.

I dunno about such an exposure tanking their stock. Sure, some privacy advocates would be disappointed, but most Apple users would shrug it off. I doubt a significant percent of people using Apple products are doing it because of privacy concerns. And what are those people going to do? Switch to Microsoft? If they were ever going to switch for privacy reasons, or had any willingness to switch to Linux, they probably already would have. But it's all speculation, because getting statistics on this would be almost impossible. My opinion is, it might make a temporary blip in their stock price, but there'd be no enduring impact on their bottom line. Adding hidden telemetry to their chips, however, would add significant cost to every chip.

"A beautiful size." I like that. It describes the phenomenon exactly.

Like, Gemini (the protocol) is too small. It's below the threshold is usefulness. I still cross publish (serve) my content in Gemini format, but I never actually browse it anymore.

(Tiny rant) That said, I think Gemini went too far; gmi is smaller than it needs to be, and it was locked down and made immutable prematurely. Client/server interactions need to be a little more complex; I think the extreme simplicity has contributed to its lack of adoption: it's almost impossible to serve a functional and user-friendly search engine with, leading to what's largely a dark network - not intentional dark, but filled with isolated, unreachable nodes and practically no discovery. And with its failure, it shut the door on that solution space. It was popular enough that early adapters who tried it are going to shy away from something Gemini-like, but a little more full-featured. I'm bitter about Gemini; if only Solderpunk had had a little more vision.

My reasoning goes: they have no reason to. They're not making commodity hardware; they're making machines with an integrated OS, large parts of which are closed source. Why go through the cost and effort of doing something in hardware when you can do it more inexpensively and more flexibly in software? They do not support, nor do they expect, anyone to run anything but OSX (or iOS) on their computers. I doubt that they consider the folks hacking Linux onto their hardware to be worth worrying about: that's a very short long tail, and almost certainly not worth the extra cost of doing it on-chip.

China does it because they're selling commodity chips used in a variety of machines, running a variety of OSes, over which they have no control. They do it because there's no other way for them to get telemetry from Apple computers, because they don't control the software.

Can you think of a reason why Apple would need to do it in hardware, given that it's hugely more expensive?

That's fantastic. One of the best moments in my life was discovering a comprehensive archive of Apple ][ game images. So. Many. Games. So many, sometimes it's hard to find a specific one if you remember the game but not the name.

Your first Linux install? Definitely Mint.

Dude. I've been using Linux since 1995, and I never knew about rd.live.ram.

I don't use grub much anymore with UEFI around, but for those bootable USBs that's gold.

MVP

The games on those old computers were better, too, proving you can't make something good just by throwing power at it. Emulators are popular for a reason.

If you frosted a muffin, would you call it a cupcake? What if you baked a really tiny sourdough loaf, with garlic and onions. If you frosted it, would it be a cupcake?

Completely different batter, so no. You would have a deconstructed cupcake.

That will drive so many people to IPFS and darknets like Freenet. And with population, businesses will come. You may never be able to access Wells Fargo from it, but there will be options.

Mastodon exploded with the Twitter drama. Lemmy's grown substantially with Reddit fuckery. Neither are exactly mainstream, but you know what? I lived through the time when banks weren't online, and shopping wasn't online, and the internet and the web were much smaller: smaller is in many ways better. Sometimes having just enough, and not everything and everyone, is better.

How long has she been doing the job?

Ours is very good with time. I'm not sure he knows it's Saturday except we get up later; he's not thrown off by holidays, though.

However, he can tell time, in a way. He is overweight (it's a journey, ok‽‽), and when we put him on a diet he was regularly waking us up in the middle of the night, begging. So we got him an automatic feeder, to distance ourselves from being food providers. One day, my wife notices him sitting in front of the grandfather clock, staring at it... and a couple of minutes later it chimed and the food dispenser went off! He'd only do it around feeding times. I think he could kind of tell by how hungry he was, and he could tell where in the hour it was because of the different chimes on the quarter hours. So - my guess - is that based on how hungry he was and how long the chimes went, he could figure out that the food would go the next time it chimed. So about 10 minutes before feeding time he goes over and watches the clock. It's kind of amazing.

He doesn't do it as much anymore; I guess he's figure it'll go when it goes, but he absolutely stops and listens for the food dish, whatever he's doing, when the grandfather clock chimes the hour.

Maybe your's is still figuring out the pattern.

During COVID, my wife gained a supervisor; one of our's appointed himself to the job and sleep in a corner on her desk and complain loudly if she left the office during office hours. He was a fair supervisor, though, because he'd also get irate when she worked past 5.

Lost his job with the RTO policy, poor guy.

Oh. Oh, have I got a story.

When Star Wars came out, I was 11. It was making a lot of noise, and my mom kept trying to convince me to go see it, but we'd driven by the theater and I was convinced - convinced - that it would be boring, and refused. Of course I did end up going, and spent the summer in the theater; this was before they kicked you out and made you buy tickets for each showing. I ended up seeing it 16 times in the theater, that summer.

Anyway, fast forward a couple dozen years and I'm watching an 2001, and I notice that it was originally released and advertised as being in "stereophonic sound." Checked with mom, and she confirmed that they had taken me to see 2001 in the theater at some point, and I realized that I must have recognized the "In Stereophonic Sound!" on the Star Wars billboard and made the association that that meant "boring."

Nice color combination. We're constantly fighting monochrome meals.

Also: I just figured out how to reliably sauté beautiful scallops, and I'll say your's are glorious.

It doesn't. That's why I said "what they're not telling us".

It was a joke.

I solved this by adding a layer for games.

Since I use Dvorak, games usually meant reconfiguring every game key layout, and with Factorio, that's every key, and key combination. So I made a QWERTY layer and bound a layer switch to pressing both shift keys at the same time. I just toggle between the layers between games and non games.

Edit I haven't tried this myself, but from what I can find the gparted part is not necessary. You can get rid of Windows and re-use it for Linux with a single command: btrfs device add / /dev/old_windows_partition. The rest of the considerations below still apply.

The answer to the question you asked is: make sure you know which partition it is and run dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/<partition> bs=1024. Then you'll probably want to find which boot loader you're using and remove the Windows option. That will delete Windows.

To re-use the free space, which most folks are focusing on, might be far easier than all of the other comments.

Odds are decent that you're using btrfs. Most reasonable Linux distros default to it, so unless you changed it, it's probably btrfs. With btrfs, you can simply change the position type and add it to your existing filesystem.

1. Use the program gparted. You can do all of this on the command line with fdisk, but gparted is a GUI program and is easier if you're more comfortable with GUIs. Find the Windows partition, make sure you now it's the Windows partition and not the boot partition (the boot partition will be the really tiny one), click on the Windows partition and choose the "change partition type" function to switch it to a Linux partition. There will be warnings; heed them, double check, and then save and exit.
2. Add the old Windows partition to your existing filesystem with: btrfs device add / /dev/sdx2 . This adds the partition /dev/sdx2 to the filesystem mounted at / -- your root partition. Replace /dev/sdx2 with whatever partition Windows used to be on.

That's it. Now your Linux filesystem is using the old Windows partition. Without changing the boot options, when you reboot your system may still believe there's a Windows to boot into. If you're using EFI, it should just disappear, but with grub you'll have to tell grub that Windows isn't there anymore or else it'll keep offering it to you at each boot.

You are almost certainly not using RAID, so you don't need to worry about rebalancing.

Summary: it is very likely your distribution used btrfs for your Linux partition. In that case, the absolute easiest way to get rid of Windows and use it for Linux is to add the partition to your btrfs filesystem. No reformatting, repartitioning, reinstalling; just tell btrfs to use it and you're done.