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  • F-droid exists as an alternative. Manually installing APK files is also an alternative. You can have a full and complete experience without ever touching Google Play or Google services.

    This is why nobody likes stallmanites. You can nitpick as much as you want with that attitude and find something non-free somewhere in the ecosystem, but that does not mean that the entire project is now non-free. Again, you are arguing in bad faith against the first guaranteed freedom of free software.



  • What is a “typical VM”?

    Qubes uses the type-1 Xen hypervisor that runs at a similar privilege to the kernel of other OSes. KVM is a type-1 hypervisor implemented as a Linux kernel module. VirtualBox is a type-2 hypervisor that runs in userspace. Of these three, Xen is the most performant hypervisor because virtualization is all it does.

    If by “typical VM” you mean a guest OS running inside a window of the host OS, then Qubes will always come out on top because the graphics pipeline is much less of a bottleneck.


  • rtxn@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlIs GrapheneOS not actually FOSS?
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    You can install and run non-free applications (like games or the nvidia driver) on Linux distributions. Does that make Linux non-free?

    I would argue that restricting an OS to run exclusively FOSS code robs the user of the first guarantee of free software: “the freedom to use the program for any purpose”.


  • rtxn@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlInvasive Species
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    Yes, but only begrudgingly.

    (edit) oh no, I’ve said something bad about the lesser evil, and the people who have made it their identity to violently cum all over the first thing that isn’t owned by Google are after me. I hope the pipe bomb hitman is at least polite.



  • This. I’ve had issues at work while imaging classroom computers where some would finish in ~30 minutes and a few would need hours. All of the computers used Cat6 cables. This being a classroom, and students being absolute wankbags, they kept yanking the computers and kicking the cables, so the wires came loose from the plugs. I later used ethtool to debug the slow computers – the switch would only allow 10baseT link modes.


  • rtxn@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldSuperheroes
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    is it Batman’s responsibility to decide who lives and dies

    I’ve had a profound realization while playing Ghost of Tsushima. If adherence to a self-imposed moral code causes unnecessary suffering and death that could’ve been preventable otherwise, then it’s part of the problem. Batman is not stupid, he has to know that the most significant villains will escape Arkham and go back to crime and terrorism. He has the means to stop that and is consciously choosing not to. Deliberate inaction is a choice all the same. Removing those elements might not be civilized, but Gotham is frequently closer to a warzone than a civilization.


  • rtxn@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldSuperheroes
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    • generational wealth
    • enough money, highly qualified personnel, and connections (both legitimate and clandestine) to bring real change to a blighted city
    • does none of the sort
    • dresses up as fursona to play vigilante
    • brutalizes mentally ill people (but it’s okay because he doesn’t kill)
    • crime lords and terrorists walk free because of notoriously terrible corrections system and no-kill policy
    • literally resurrects a dead terrorist in Arkham City
    • main appeal is cool gadgets made by other, more qualified people

    Batman’s appeal is fading rapidly.




  • I just simply set up a script to export my Trilium notes

    edit the notes with an external editor, and then you can just re-import the note

    Those two lines right there.

    I value interoperability between software. Using a container format to store plaintext files and metadata introduces an XKCD 927 situation where it’s just another reinvention of the wheel that requires additional software support or a whole other workflow for no real benefit. Why is it necessary, for example, to store plaintext data and the related hierarchical structure in a container format when the same feature is already present in the filesystem with files and directories? It adds unnecessary complexity, roadblocks, and points of failure.

    I’m using QOwnNotes at the moment. If I want to edit a note, for example, using neovim through SSH, all I need to do is navigate to the markdown file and open it. No scripts, no export/import. Only text files, and that is all it ever needs to be.


  • They all offer more or less the same network services with different UIs.

    OpenWRT is specifically designed to work as a lightweight system running on consumer-grade routers. If you want this, you’ll have to check the website’s Table Of Hardware to determine if your hardware is compatible.

    OPNsense and pfSense are general-purpose FreeBSD-based operating systems that you can run on discrete computers or in VMs that act as network gateways. All three are free/gratis, but you have to make an account and go through the store page to download pfSense.

    I personally use OPNsense in a VM.