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DupaCycki

@ DupaCycki @lemmy.world

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  • Do I dare say it 🥺

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  • This is just wonderful news.

    I've never used Zorin. It doesn't seem to match my preferences and needs. Regardless, anyone switching from Windows [and Mac] to any Linux distro is fantastic for all of us, including remaining Windows users (probably not Mac users though).

    Let's hope more keep switching, leading to a surge in Linux, and open source in general, funding. More people becoming interested in Linux development, potentially turning into more and more open source devs. I think we can be quite optimistic about this.

  • Do I dare say it 🥺

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  • That's why it's only ~70k downloads. Probably many more for Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Manjaro, Bazzite and so on.

  • An exclusive, members only restaurant with a limited menu. Some people pay top dollar for that

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  • Fun fact: people who don't look their age exist. In my case, at 18 I looked like a 15-year-old.

  • Barack Obama accuses Republicans of wanting to ‘rig the next election’ in ad supporting Governor Newsom

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  • As far as I can tell, Newsom is just a 'fascist, but not too obvious, so people won't protest' kind of candidate. A perfect pick if you want to salvage what remains of the empire and delay its inevitable collapse. But then again, it's not like Americans have any reasonable candidates. And we're also going on the assumption that there will be another election, so let's not get ahead of ourselves.

    Would he be an improvement for the American people? And for other countries? At the very least, minorities in the USA would be [mostly] safe for a few years.

  • Thou shalt not alter thy body? I don't remember that one

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  • To be fair, as long as they don't crossdress, don't have gay sex and don't undergo genital surgery, they should be in the clear.

    So as a trans person you're allowed to... change your name and pronouns? I think that's it, as far as the Bible goes.

  • EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you

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  • Huh? Do countries voicing their approval or disapproval not count as a "vote"?

    No. The stances of countries are the [leaked] stances of their respective governments. Which may or may not reflect the views of the country's MEPs. You can read more here: Fight Chat Control

    That's not even half...

    True, and that's indeed very concerning. However, it should be noted that this is not how many countries are against this proposal, but how many countries oppose it enough to reject it before voting. Many countries currently 'undecided' are likely to vote against the proposal in the end (if a vote took place). Likewise, some of them could vote in favor.

    Which, according to your own numbers, they already had.

    Not at all. I mentioned that, with Germany changing their stance to against, we had over 35% of the EU population against. Which means in favor and undecided both had less than 65% together. Right now I can't count the populations, but there's 12 countries in favor, 9 against and 6 undecided. This by no means gives the countries in favor a qualified majority. Unless all in favor and at least half of undecided (3 countries) fully voted in favor. Which is fairly unlikely.

    Additionally, as I mentioned above, these numbers are for the member states' governments, not their MEPs. Usually MEPs are more pro-people, but of course, it depends on the country and its current government.

  • EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you

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  • It was demonstrably not a lie. There were so many regions in support of it that it was dangerously close to passing.

    It really wasn't. It couldn't have been close to passing without a vote even taking place. The vote was scheduled for October 14th. However, since countries representing more than 35% of the EU population have declared their opposition to this proposal, it has been canceled.

    A lot of countries have indeed declared support, though this is completely separate from the vote. There, it'd require a qualified majority (55% of member states in favor, or countries representing 65% of the EU population in favor). Looking at MEPs' public statements, it's unlikely that the vote would have passed.

    Nonetheless, it remains troubling that they keep trying to force this proposal through. We have to push back every single time, but they only need it to pass once. Who knows what the future may hold.

  • Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state

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  • There is an important distinction between being religious and supporting organized churches. 'Religious people' aren't any more of a threat to you than gay people are. Churches, particularly the Catholic Church in Christianity, that don't even follow their religion's teachings, are the problem.

  • Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”

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  • Based on most smartphones being very insecure. Of course, iPhones aren't extremely secure, but the competition is practically nonexistent. Pretty much the only secure Android phones are Pixels. Samsung is considered one of the more secure manufacturers too, but according to GrapheneOS devs it's still way behind Google.

    Note that even police and government agencies sometimes have trouble getting into iPhones. They never have such troubles getting into Android smartphones, except Pixels.

    This is by no means meant to advertise iPhones. It's just a simple observation that security in smartphones is heavily lacking.

  • Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”

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  • In terms of security alone, iPhones easily beat most Android phones. Which may be a fair argument in favor of iPhones. However, to ignore Apple's policies and long history of delisting similar apps is delusional.

  • U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after

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  • True, batteries are quite expensive and very much not environment-friendly when built on such a scale. Though it should be noted good solar panels last longer than 15 years. Even cheap panels can last 20 years.

  • U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after

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  • This is an important point to consider. However, to me it seems somewhat separate from your previous comment.

    Of course, no sane government should push for a country to rely solely on wind and solar. Ideally you have a mix of various energy sources, even potentially including some fossil fuels. Hitting that 20-30% sweetspot, as mentioned in the paper, looks to be fairly cheap and beneficial for everyone.

  • If the EU forced Apple to allow side loading on iPhones, shouldn't the same rule apply to Android phones?

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  • Technically it will still be allowed. In reality, it will just be Play Store without a nice UI. Now question is whether or not it's enough for the European Comission to take action.

  • Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors

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  • I'm sorry, but who is "everyone involved"?

  • Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet

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  • U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after

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  • Batteries are nice, but they're insanely expensive at this scale and ruin the entire point of helping the environment. Carbon emissions from huge batteries are unbelievable.

  • U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after

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  • Solar panels crom China made it a lot cheaper than it used to be. There are also other major advatnages, such as increased independence. You just buy a bunch of solar panels and now you can indenepdently generate energy for the next 30 years.

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  • It's not bad for digging through error logs or otherwise solving simple to moderately complicated issues when it's 2 pm on a Friday and you stopped thinking about work 4 hours ago.

  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • Are you sure it won't apply? As far as I understand, it'll apply to all devices with Google services installed. Which includes most ROMs, as well as non-Google ROMs after you manually install gapps. Is my understanding off?

  • OpenAI says it's scanning users' ChatGPT conversations and reporting content to the Police

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  • Some things are - on purpose - made easy to misuse and - by design - accessible to people, who are likely to misuse them. All this money, this supposedly cutting edge technology, and reporting to the police, but they aren't able to tell when a child is at risk and report it as well?

    Smells like bullshit to me. More like they don't care. I'm not so sure children should even be allowed to use chatbots in the first place. Or only allowed to use versions specifically trained for interactions with children. But of course - banning children from accessing youtube and wikipedia is a much more pressing concern.