I read that they walked it back but only partially. And the fact they tried it tells me they can’t be trusted with my data.
They also make it very difficult to move your data off their NAS once it’s on there, because everything is proprietary.
Your best option remains open source with commodity hardware. Had I known what I know now in 2023, I would have probably just built a low power PC server with TruNAS.
Synology has started enshittifying their products lately by forcing you to only use their hard drives, etc. I have a DS933+, but I’m only using it for file storage and trying not to lock myself into their apps. It works well, but to avoid lock in your only real option is open source.
Yes, you can get around it that way. You can also just disable it in VSCode settings. I could also just not use VSCode or CoPilot at all. It’s not that can’t be worked around; it’s that we shouldn’t have to. It’s the violation of trust we’re having issues with.
If I copy a solution from SO I usually put in a comment with a link to the answer to cite my source. I don’t mind crediting where credit is due, but claiming co-author for a spelling correction is a bit much.
The bug was fixed, but it still adds itself as co-author by default if you as much as use code completion powered by Copilot.
Combined with the fact that this doesn’t show up in your commit message dialog, and that is nothing but blatant advertising, this is just unacceptable.
I don’t necessarily mind crediting Copilot if it did substantial amount of the work, but it also seems redundant nowadays when AI has become as ubiquitous as using an IDE. Having used it for code completion just doesn’t seem to warrant co-author credit in that context. In other words if I had been able to edit that part of the commit message I’d probably be a lot less annoyed by this.
As it is, it’s just blatant overreach by Microsoft. Microsoft doing Microsoft things. Nothing has changed since the 90s.
Location really matters in Norway, too. On the coast, the climate is pretty temperate with lows just below freezing, whereas up North (with the reindeer), the temperature can drop below -40 in the winter.
Married with five kids?
best known for his ability to roll cigarettes with his lips.
I see.
No. You should scrape off chunks but you should not rinse them off completely.
Like others I highly recommend seeking the wisdom of Technology Connections on YouTube, but if you prefer reading over video, here is an article from The Spruce that covers the main points.
Octopi launcher is looking good so far! Thank you for the suggestion.
Ugh. I’ve been holding out until now.
I’ve tried a ton of others but the only one I even half like is Lawnchair. The others are too restricted, too annoying or too creepy.
Does anyone know how to replicate the custom groups/tabs of apps inside the app drawer?
The app drawer and ability to choose my own search engine are what keeps me on it. I don’t want “smart” anything, just let me control it.
They have many ways to do this if they want:
Even if they don’t go after individuals they can do a lot of damage in restricting trade and business use of something. The mere threat of legal action is though to make business owners nope out.
It’s already risky to draw attention to yourself by using privacy focused phones when traveling. It’s the ultimate “if your have nothing to hide why are you worried” situation.
They’re forcing legitimate users to either give up or go underground and risk being seen as criminals.
It really depends what you want out of your computer, how much you like to tinker, and how comfortable you are getting your hands dirty. I got back onto a daily driver Linux desktop a little under two years ago, but I’ve been running Linux on servers since um…mid 90s? I’ve had Linux desktops mostly on secondary computers, but didn’t go back fully until more recently.
I don’t run Arch, but I feel like that community is probably closest to the feeling Linux had back in the day–when we recompiled the kernel with the specific drivers we needed for everything to save memory, I knew every process running, every program I installed. I compiled most of my own programs from source. Or maybe Gentoo is the current version of that. If that’s your jam, go that route.
For a while in the early aughts I ran a ton of servers with RedHat and developed an aversion to rpm and its mess of dependencies. Debian felt so much more stable and I’ve been picking Debian for servers ever since. If you want boring and stable, you can’t go wrong with Debian. I have many times just set up Debian with automatic update and reboot, and those things just keep going for years. I can’t remember when a Debian update broke my system, which I definitively can’t say for every OS.
Then, I started wanting to game on Linux. The flip side of boring and stable is outdated. So when I planned my new Linux desktop build I went distro shopping a bit. I tried out a few live distros at first. I knew I wanted up-to-date drivers (for new hardware), but not a lot of tinkering, because I got a lot older and less patient at this point.
I ended up on Fedora this time. My choice was driven by the balance of being up to date enough for my (simple) gaming needs, yet mainstream enough (read: boring) that if anything broke, there would be forums available and I could get back to just enjoying my computer. I prefer KDE Plasma over Gnome, so that’s what I ended up with.
I’m happy with it and not planning to change. But I do get that sinking feeling of not really knowing what my computer is doing, because, just like on Windows, there are a hundred processes running in the background and I don’t know what half of them do. It’s just that at this point I’m not curious enough anymore to go digging into the man pages and the wikis and peruse the source code to find out. I just want it to work and let me get to my doom scrolling.
So for mainstream and boring, I recommend Debian or Fedora, maybe one of the Arch derivatives like CachyOS. If you want to customize and tinker, probably plain Arch or one of the smaller distros that are well documented and less opinionated. I didn’t mention Mint, because I think it’s a bit too simplified for someone with some Linux experience. I would install it for my parents, though.
Unfortunately I don’t think the latest SDL works with the Linux console frame buffer anymore, but thanks for the links!
Back in the olden days we used to run games buikt with SDL on the console without a desktop. But they have to be built for it and Steam doesn’t fit that bill.
Vennligst stable stolene når dagen er over. 🇳🇴
No. Rules vary country to country. My children could have filed to get one of they did before age 21 and had spent something like 6 months total in Norway before that age. They’re past that and they didn’t have enough time in the country, though they have visited. They can still apply on grounds of my citizenship at the time of their birth, but it’s a much longer process and they’d need to learn the language. If they have a spouse or children, they would have to go through that as well. Norway is harder to immigrate to than most countries.
If I had only predicted the demise of democracy 28 years ago, when I moved, I would have made sure they learned the language and had dual citizenship. Alas that didn’t happen. These days there are online schools and such we could have used so it’s a little easier and I see that lots of parentsb these days do exactly that.
That was from memory. I’ll have to find it. My understanding (I’ll try to find references or retract my statement after work) is that at a minimum you have to file a tax return or submit some other form as long as you are a US person or up to 7? years after renouncing your citizenship or losing green card status.
Even if I was mistaken, it’s hella complicated and expensive.
Edit: Okay, tried to find where I originally read that and came up empty. I found that there is expatriation tax and a form 8854^1^2 you can file. There is a 5-year compliance rule that maybe is what I was thinking of. Either way, talk to an accountant if you’re planning to move. I think I’d rather piss off the Yakuza than the IRS in terms of who can make your life suck more.
I’ll admit my evidence is only anecdotal, but it was what pretty recent (many others said they had no problem some years ago) and as mentioned in Norway not Germany.
My impression from that discussion is that the requirements have become stricter and the banks etc have no obligation to do business with you and will simply say no. That still leaves them open to allow it if they want your business anyway.
It may depend on the country and even the institution. I know of dual citizens from my home country, Norway, who were denied financial services there despite being born there and having citizenship.
If you’re moving back permanently the only sane thing to do is to renounce US citizenship ASAP to get the clock started on becoming a non-US person.
However, I’m staying, because I have a wife and children here who are all single-citizenship natural born US citizens.
Yep. That is the simplest answer. From the link, directing stdout and stderr to a file:
GNU Screen is an alternative.
You can also use tmux and just disable the mouse by adding this to
~/.tmux.confset -g mouse off