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E_coli42

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  • Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany

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  • Interesting. I've never had any of these issues. It might be because I use a tiling window manager (shoutout Aerospace) instead of Apple's own window manager. Also, I've never really done any development on the mac itself. I just SSH into my Arch Linux server. MacOS is just a frontend to my browser and terminal basically lol. I don't really care about my laptop's OS since it's just a frontend for my server. I just bought whichever laptop was sexiest.

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"

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  • They don't because they are not allowed to. Valve makes game developers sign a contract that if they want their game on Valve, they cannot put it at a lower price on any other store.

  • Billionaire Ehud Laniado dies during penis enlargement surgery, surgeons banned

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  • Reporting for duty

  • Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany

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  • What is wrong with Mac? I find macOS to be very clean and nice. I find it similar to KDE Plasma.

  • TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover

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  • 99% don't know what the Fediverse is. I can't blame them for jumping ship to Upscrolled since it's what they have heard of.

  • TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover

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  • Isn't upscrolled created by a Palestinian? I doubt he'd be okay with censoring a genocide against his people.

  • France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials

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  • If is. It's free (orI guess libre makes more sense since they are French) under Apache-2.0

  • Anger as suspect in $100M jewelry heist said to be biggest in US history avoids standing trial – because ICE deported him

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  • extradition?

  • Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

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  • America bad so switch to EU. Oh no, EU bad now, so switch to something else?

    Just use something decentralized, fucking hell. Stop having such blind loyalty to countries.

  • What a joke, can't believe people still voluntarily use this OS

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  • No need to figure out WINE. Steam will figure it out for you. Just click the Play button.

    Linux today is VERY different from Linux 10 years ago. The switch won't take a whole weekend like it did for me when I first tried Linux many years ago. Just install something like Linux Mint (the most user friendly and stable Linux distro) and the set up will be as easy as something like windows or macos. You never have to touch the terminal if you don't want to.

  • What a joke, can't believe people still voluntarily use this OS

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  • So the power user uses Linux.

    The casual user uses ChromeOS (shitty Linux). Or preferably something like Pop_OS!, but I'm being unrealistic with this.

    I see no problem here. You could replace pretty much everyone's pre-installed OS with ChromeOS or Linux (or macOS I guess if they like MacBooks) and I don't think most people would mind.

    I have only ever seen someone use windows because they HAD to, not because they want to. Either they game, they use a software only on windows, it came pre-installed on their laptop and they don't know or can't bother to learn how to flash an ISO on a USB stick, etc.

    I am completely fine with, and in fact am grateful for, the enshitification of windows 11. It will push more and more people to Linux. The enshitification of windows 8 is what made Steam shift from windows to SteamOS. I'm sure future enshitification will do just that: make people question why they are using windows in the first place.

  • What a joke, can't believe people still voluntarily use this OS

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  • 99% of people just use their OS as a browser frontend. They don't care about freedom, privacy, security, etc. They will just use whatever OS comes pre-installed. Thats why Linux's greatest success on the desktop/laptop market as been ChromeOS. Not because it's any better than Pop_OS!, Debian, etc. It's literally just that ChromeOS comes preinstalled.

  • A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom

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  • It doesn't have to replace thinking if used properly. This is what schools should focus on instead of banning AI and pretending that kids are not going to use it behind closed doors.

    For example, I almost exclusively use Gen AI to help me find sources or as a jumping-off point to researching various topics, rather than as a source of truth itself (because it is not one). This is super useful as it automates away the tedious parts of finding the right research papers to start learning something and gives me more time to focus on my actual literature review.

    If we ban AI in schools instead of embrace it with caution, students won't know how to learn skills in order to use it effectively. They'll just start offloading their thinking to AI when doing homework.

  • A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom

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  • Interesting. The US is definitely not doing a good job at this then and needs to re-vamp their education system. Your example didn't convince me that calculators are bad for students, but rather than the US schooling system is really bad if they introduce calculators so early that students don't even have an intuition of 9 * 25 = (10-1) * 25 = 250-25.

  • ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid

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  • Hey, this is called the Nirvana logical fallacy. Just because I do other unethical things in my life, that doesn't mean buying an ethical ETF instead of a normal ETF is useless.

    For example, using the Nirvana logical fallacy, I could justify not going to the gym today because I already ate unhealthy food for lunch. It is impossible to be live a perfectly healthy life, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't focus on trying to be as healthy as possible within the confines of what we are willing to sacrifice.

    Same thing goes for living an ethical lifestyle.

    Hope this helps!

  • Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete

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  • That shouldn't matter. This is a huge gripe I have with FOSS in its current state. Most of the freedom/privacy/security respecting apps are not noob friendly. They are designed for tech bros and you have to download them from a git instance or F-Droid. Freedom is a human right. It should not be gatekept to the technology savy.

    This is why I love the Signal Foundation. They have truly beautifully written software and they have easy to follow UX. Anyone can enjoy the added benefits to their freedoms, security, and privacy without ever having to think about it.

  • Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete

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  • Ah the it for sure will be as slimy as possible. I hope people just wouldn't buy it then. Not too sure how much people outside tech nerds like you and me even care about this stuff, but I saw when the Oura ring came out, a lot of people were put off because it is subscription-based. I hope the enshitification hits hard enough that people move to more freedom/privacy/security respecting products.

  • ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid

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  • I'm actually Sikh, but I would assume that Muslims, Christians, and Atheists alike, also share basic human values like don't give money to companies that use child labor, sell weapons to terrorits, encourage dangerous addictions, etc. I don't really care if the ETF is targeted towards a specific religion or not. My main gripe would be seeing their stock exclusion list for haram stocks are based on generic human values and not banning companies that sell pork for example.

    I did a bit of research online and think EVIF might be what I'm looking for.

    Maybe using the word Halal and Haram was confusing since those are Arab words so mostly used by Muslims and Christians.

  • ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid

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  • Is that ETF (SNAW) you linked your default buy? I am relatively young and new to investing. I have some QQQM but wanted to move to something more ethical (ESG) and more diversified. Next paycheck I'll probably buy one of the ESG S&P 500 trackers like EFIV.