But also, why is everybody so offended by censored words here?

I think because it’s a sign how social media corps have trained us to avoid certain words or even create new ones (for example “unalive” instead of “kill”).

The title is shit but they explain why they think it’s illegal: https://browsergate.eu/why-its-illegal/

https://browsergate.eu/how-it-works/

I can’t tell you if that’s technically sound but that’s what was said on the page linked…

Thanks for the explanation!

Serious question: Why do you need to remind yourself where north is in your house? Is this important somehow?

Just a curious European here who thinks about cardinal directions about once a year…

Aha! I figured it out. Apparently my Tor browser got old extensions in there from older Tor versions (Tor Button and something i can’t remember, they were set to deprecated and were disabled). I had Tor literally installed for… over 10 years or something, so I would imagine it didn’t reset itself properly after doing one update or another. After removing the Tor Browser data folder and reinstalling it (for good measure, don’t think that was necessary), I get random values on the page.

EDIT: One additional thought on that… I feel this is something Tor Browser should consider automatically when applying updates. At least a warning would be good to reset your data once in a while to stay non-unique.

I can actually replicated that. Tor Browser without extensions (only the default https anywhere and noscript) on Mac OS. Pretty scary? Wondering how this works.

Making art is not about making “good art” (whatever that means anyway). As long as you enjoy making it or it helps in some other way, it is great. Go and make some shitty art! Or good art. Or weird art. Or whatever kind of art it will be, but don’t be stopped by the idea it has to meet some quality standard.

To be honest it is not as big of deal. I have a MacBook M1 with 8 GB of memory and my swap is regularly 20 GB but I don’t have any problems when actually working with the system. It’s handling the low memory situation very gracefully.

For browsing, office and some media it’s totally fine.

Interesting, I feel like it is not easy at all to switch between DEs. Going from KDE to Gnome? Better rip out KDE first before you install Gnome, no way to keep them both. I really want to try more DEs but for me it feels like work to figure out how to do it without breaking anything existing.

Haha, you can! But other programs which don’t have built in network share support can’t use those. Also a bit annoyed by this, but it’s an easy fix.

Had dualboot for years but gaming on Linux finally got good enough to just… never boot Windows again. I need to delete it, it’s sitting there for a year now without booting. Switched from Endeavour to Cachy and I’m very happy with it. Everything just worked without configuring anything (and I have nvidia!). Didn’t switch on my notebook yet, which I mostly use for browser and chat on the sofa, mainly because I have quite a history with touchpad issues (also, it’s a M1 Mac, might need to give Asahi a bit more time).

Touchpad: No matter what I did, the touchpad is always so bad on Linux (tried on different devices, different hardware, different distros). Two finger scrolling is not consistent, movement doesn’t feel right, gestures are not precise enough. Tried to get the “two finger swipe back” on the browser on my old Intel Macbook Air and it was just horrible. Could only get three finger swipe to work and recognition of that was just not very consistent. At the moment I have a old notebook sitting here to set up for one of my family members and could only get somewhat smooth scrolling to work on Mint by using some arcane workaround… but only in Firefox, scrolling anywhere else still sucks. Apparently touchpads on Linux are still my nemesis.

I would love to use Linux on my notebook too, but I also don’t want to fight with my main input all the time. :( Will try Asahi linux on the M1 Macbook as soon the battery issue improves, but I have a feeling that the touchpad problems will drive me back to Mac OS again (which sucks, because they keep locking Mac OS down more every year…).

Is it? Got a 3080 and my pc goes to sleep and wakes up without issues. Or do you mean a specific mode? I just use whatever cachy with KDE uses as standard.

That is really a lovely thought and exactly what everyone should aim to do in my opinion. :) Thank you very much for trying to make a difference.

That was a really interesting read, thank you for the insight.

I was blown away by it. Just install steam and maybe proton-ge and good to go. I recently installed CachyOS and that way I even skipped the driver install chore I usually had to do. Anno 117 just works out of the box. It has gotten so good and easy!

It’s really the most annoying thing. Spotlight was so trustworthy and now I can’t find shit. Half of the time it can’t even find applications I know I have installed. I guess time to switch to Linux, but Asahi is not really finished yet, and I just hate how the trackpad feels on Linux installations.

Kodi (formerly XBMC) is still there as far as I’ve seen. So if you liked XBMC give it a try maybe.

Pop!_OS might also be an option.