Yes.

Here’s the thing: sodium chloride aka table salt is extremely abundant. We are not expected to run out of it in any measurable timeframe, and the effect of sodium mining on the oceans or ecosystems at large is negligible.

Same cannot be said of lithium, which currently forms the backbone of battery tech. It is rare, and its extraction is extremely polluting. In fact, lithium is responsible for a huge chunk of renewable energy’s ecological footprint.

Switching to sodium technology is like switching from silver to sand. It’s just one thing we truly have enough of.

While both groups have serious issues, I’d join tankies over fascists any time.

Tankies are sometimes misguided and heavily mob-minded, but at least they come from a decent premise.

Fascism is terrible start to end, I cannot think of a single thing they got right.

Also, depends on what you define as “left extremism”. Far left simply advocates for human decency, mutual aid and solidarity.

Linux is exactly where you should go with old computers.

With a proper distribution/DE combination, you can run it on 20+ year old computers with no issue.

But overall, if your laptop runs Windows 10, it will likely run every Linux distribution easily.

That’s fair! :)

I have the absolute opposite of your opinion :D

Immutable distros are not good for beginners, for two main reasons:

• A lot of general-purpose Linux guides just don’t work with them, making newbies confused and forcing them to learn a lot of new stuff when they’re not ready
• Some software just doesn’t run with immutable distros - for example, most VPNs are not ready

Setting btrfs snapshots on respective directories, so folks can rollback unwanted changes? Great! Tying people’s hands? Might come with complications.

KDE is a brilliant DE for people coming from Windows: it has similar layout, it stands out of your way, and overall has a very easy learning curve. I’ve never seen anyone seriously stuck with setting up anything it has to offer, and yet, it’s very, very customizable. Folks I offered it to either stayed with the defaults and were totally happy with it, or immediately started tuning everything to their liking with no issues whatsoever.

After all, someone who didn’t touch Windows for a while might forget how much convoluted are settings there, and how Windows users are ready to dig through them.

If we Americans

It’s not you, it’s Big Tech. There’s no use bundling yourself with greedy billionaires, and it may actually harm you in the long run, IMO.

Combat the inner enemies in the ways you can. You are not the one.

Made me wonder if they introduced CSAM detection to fill their collection…

Yeah, not the most impressive hardware, but it is what we have

Solid option

This is meant for beginners in the privacy space, and as such, it tries to minimize complications and barriers to entry.

Installing Linux is a nuclear option for most people. Of they see that, they just…won’t, and also won’t complete the rest. Make it easy.

Also, the article mentions this is not the end. Next year may come with harder things, including - yes - Linux.

It essentially is multiple OSes, one host and plethora of separate virtual machines that only communicate what they were designed to communicate.

This way pretty much nothing can get access to userspace.

App that mimics wireless debugging device and allows you to access ADB functionality locally. Widely used to perform actions that are normally unavailable on non-rooted devices. Some apps rely on functionality provided by Shizuku - for example, Canta, which allows you to delete any app, including undeletable pre-installed ones.

True

But I don’t expect for many people to conduct complicated debug on the go.

Though the FSF audience is quite geeky indeed.

When I first tried it out in a VM, it was just a pinch of curiosity. Some people argue for Linux, so, maybe there’s some merit to that? And, unlike MacOS, you can install it anywhere without all the hackery.

When I actually tried it (my first one was Manjaro KDE, and that’s what I stuck with for my first 1,5 years later when I decided to go for a real install), I was amazed at how smooth and frictionless everything is.

The system is blazing fast, even on a limited VM, there’s no bloat anywhere, no ads, no design choices to trick you into doing something you don’t want to. The interface is way more ergonomic and out of the way at the same time. Seriously, Microsoft, do learn from KDE, pretty please.

So, when I moved to a new home, I decided that my virtual home needs an upgrade as well. I installed Linux alongside Windows (on two different physical drives), and ran it as dual-boot ever since. Not that I address Windows that much (normally about once in two to three months), but it’s handy to keep around.

Later, I went into some distro-hopping and also got a laptop, which has become my testing grounds. After trying various options, namely Mint, Arch/EndeavourOS, Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE, I gravitated towards the latter, and I use it as my regular daily driver on both my desktop (Tumbleweed) and laptop (Slowroll). I love how it manages to keep the system both up-to-date and extremely stable, and has everything set up just right (except KDE defaults, what the hell is wrong with SUSE folks on that end? Luckily, it takes 5 minutes to change). So, there it is!

Bought a 19-year-old secondhand Brother printer 2 years ago, still working flawlessly, and everything (drum, toner, etc.) is available when needed.

I’d rather see feature parity so that Fediverse and Threadiverse in particular won’t EEE itself.

Longer translation without commonly accepted terms:

I’d rather see Lemmy/PieFed/Kbin/Mbin have the same features overall, so that there wouldn’t be one of them trying to extend on others and then make it standard so that others die out because they lack something that is now important

If only we had more content not related to “look we’re free!”, “look Linux is freedom”, “free free free!”, “MAGA bad, but we’re independent and free!”, it would be even more awesome (not a pun to your side, just a piece of frustration)

Also, for those saying “create it yourself” - I do