They believe, apparently, that collecting information is more valuable than being legal

Woah woah woah there cowboy! That’s only ok when you’re big tech, not when you do it against them. Sheesh, the nerve on this guy…

300km***

*Downhill

**On ice

I think it should be a CH, like cheese. Not Romanian, just how I’ve heard it pronounced.

I agree, my point is that safari’s dominance on iOS is not the light at the end of the tunnel, it does very little to offer alternatives to chromium.

That traffic only skews the graph like a false positive. While WebKit itself is oss, apple’s tendency to just separate itself from the rest of the world makes it largely irrelevant. There are very few alternative browsers based on webkit for other platforms and the expected benefit of developers having to cater to apple’s choices are thus negligible for the rest of us.

This comment made me double check if I hadn’t accidentally opened Reddit

Indeed that was my intention. I just never thought that he wouldn’t be familiar with something so ubiquitous in today’s world, so I didn’t even think to ask. That’s why this situation is so infuriating to me, not so much that he didn’t know, but that my assumptions prevented me to resolve it

A friend of mine finally decided to heed my advice and try it out. He successfully installed fedora and was pleasantly surprised by the ‘clean’ design (of gnome). He then enabled his Bluetooth headphones and DMed me that they won’t connect. The BT menu wouldn’t show them.

Now, I wouldn’t call him stupid, so I committed a grave sin of troubleshooting when I decided to not offend his intelligence. We hopped on a call and started debugging. Looking at drivers, support for his hardware, logs for any errors… He didn’t have another device to connect through BT at the moment and I was out of ideas, so we called it a night and decided to try again tomorrow.

By the time we reconnected the next day, he had already reinstalled windows, but was suffering from the same issue.

And then it downed on me… “Did you pair your headphones?” I asked, afraid of the answer. He just blinked twice and the “what do you mean?” hit me so hard I couldn’t even laugh. “I’ve never had to do that before…”

Some painful explanations later, or an argument really, and his headphones were paired. But by that time he had had enough and didn’t want me to bother him about Linux again. Needless to say, pointing out it was his misunderstanding of the technology that ultimately led to this outcome didn’t really help.

This memory still injects fury in my veins as I fall asleep, right there with fumbling my words when speaking with my highschool crush…

Indeed, wanker’s cramp is expensive to treat

ELI5 please, didn’t this just get voted down?

How is harmony better? Aren’t you just trading one vendor lock in for another?

The uruk-hai are among us

Ha! Look at this pleb, using poor man’s Photoshop instead of fully embracing the AI age and just vibing his intentions into existence.

Very much this. See UK’s legislation for terrorism and activism and how it’s being used to squash peaceful protests for a current example.

What you should want instead is widespread independent journalism along with a transparent government, national broadcasting and a well educated, critically thinking society. If you try to control information by omission and restriction, you only make it more appealing as it seems like a cover-up. Example: how many times have you heard of the Epstein files in recent months and years? It could’ve been a grocery shopping list and the effect would’ve been the same because of how it’s been handled.

It’s the pro-china propaganda that’s been swarming Lemmy. Mind you, they are not pro communism, they are pro Chinese government.

If you find torrenting and running a VM too technical, I’m sorry to say you’re better off not trying to identify and remove any malicious code.

Don’t put yourself down and waste your money, you can get over the learning curve for this, it’s not that steep.

To elaborate, as the previous reply stated, running the cracked programs inside a virtual machine allows you to isolate an environment specifically for this usage. Configured properly (another reply went into more detail here), even if the cracked software has something malicious, it can’t harm you. So you can safely ignore wether there’s a virus or not.

Umm, no, they don’t. The PRC is about as far from communism as the US.

Run it inside a VM? If you’re suspicious or just worried, this would resolve most if not all of possible worries you may have.

Been rocking the app for months, this will be a nice refresh. Thank you!