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DefederateLemmyMl

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  • UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill

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  • The problem is that content filters don't work all that well in the age of https everywhere. I mean, you can block the pornhub.com domain, that's fairly straightforward ... but what about reddit.com which has porn content but also legitimately non-porn content. Or closer to home: any lemmy instance.

    I think it would be better if politicians stopped pearl clutching and realized that porn perhaps isn't the worst problem in the world. Tiktok and influencer brainrot, incel and manosphere stuff, rage baiting social media, etc. are all much worse things for the psyche of young people, and they're doing exactly jack shit about that.

  • EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

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  • Except this isn't even the right wing nutters doing it. These are mainstream politicians executing their power grabbing neolib agenda, with very little democratic oversight or public debate.

  • Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update

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  • The battery of my Pixel 6 started to bloat and leak last week. I contacted support. After a bit of back and forth where they asked me to provide proof of purchase and pictures of the phone, they sent me a brand new Pixel 6 and told me to just recycle the old one.

    I reported the issue on Tuesday, received the new phone on Friday. That's not bad support for a 4 year old device that's long out of warranty. I fully expected them to tell me to go F my self.

  • Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate

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  • Write speeds on SMR drives start to stagnate after mere gigabytes written, not after terabytes. As soon as the CMR cache is full, you're fucked, and it stagnates to utterly unusable speeds as it's desperately trying to balance writing out blocks to the persistent area of the disk and accepting new incoming writes. I have 25 year old consumer level IDE drives that perform better than an SMR drive in this thrashing state.

    Also, I often use hard drives as a temporary holding area for stuff that I'm transferring around for one reason or another and that absolutely sucks if an operation that normally takes an hour or two is suddenly becoming a multi-day endeavour tying up my computing resources. I was burned once when Seagate submarined SMR drives into the Barracuda line, and I got a drive that was absolutely unfit for purpose. Never again.

  • Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate

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  • That depends entirely on your usecase.

  • Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate

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  • It matters to me. I got stuff to back up regularly, and I ain't got all weekend.

  • Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate

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  • The first copy of anything big will suck ass.... and why else would you get a 36TB drive if not to copy a lot of data to it?

  • No wonder people were hoarding it during COVID

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  • Instructions unclear. Brown marker stuck in my ass.

  • Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate

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  • monkey's paw curls They're SMR

  • Like its a drag race

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  • Yeah, if this kind of thing happens to someone often enough that they deem it worthy to make a low effort meme about it, they're the kind of person who obliviously holds up traffic everywhere they go.

  • Plex has paywalled my server!

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  • Libre (from French) is sometimes used to solve the ambiguity of the word free in the English language, but it sounds kinda awkward in English and there's certainly no consensus that this should be the official replacement, or that the term free even needs replacement.

    Furthermore, the FSF who originally came up with the idea of "free software" still exists and is still called the Free Software Foundation, though Stallman uses both terms interchangeably.

  • Plex has paywalled my server!

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  • Free as in freedom, not as in free beer.

  • The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice

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  • So you're considering the 22H2 builds et al. separate versions, I just consider them service packs. They come with the regular updates, and the user experience doesn't significantly change. I couldn't ever tell you what "build" of Windows 10 or 11 I was on, but I usually know pretty well which distro version I am on.

    But I guess it's true that they contain more feature updates than typical Linux updates.

  • The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice

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  • I think you misunderstood. Windows 10 was released in 2015, and will have general support for all versions until October 2025. That's 10 years.

    The current version of Mint, 22.1, was released in January 2025, and will receive support until April 2029. That's 4 years.

    Had you installed the latest version of Mint in 2015, it would have been EOL in 2019. Had you installed Windows 10 in 2015, it would only be EOL later this year.

  • Xlibre, a new fork of the X.org X11 server, announced

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  • but when you explicitly state you are against it in the README of your project that is just wild

    It's called a dogwhistle: they're letting other racist scumbags know that they are also racist scumbags and that their racist scumbag views are welcome, without saying anything overtly racist scumbag-y.

  • The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice

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  • I use Arch myself (BTW :p), but I wouldn't really recommend that for users who freshly migrated over from Windows.

    Yes, there are ways to get extended support (on Windows too btw), but a thing that should also be kept in mind is that "support" only means security patches and bugfixes, and not feature upgrades. There is also no guaranteed continued hardware support, nor guaranteed support from third party applications. On Ubuntu there's at least the HWE kernel, but that's also limited in time.

    It's not criticism btw, it's just worth mentioning that the support model on Linux looks a bit different than what you get with Windows, and users should generally be encouraged to keep up with the latest release of their chosen distribution.

  • The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice

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  • True, but often the distributions have an upgrade plan (for free). In example you can install an Ubuntu LTS and upgrade 4 years later to the next major LTS release. However, sometimes this has problems, because so much time and changes are in between. This is for sure.

    Yes you can and should upgrade, which is what I was trying to say really. It's less set and forget as in "just let it update and it will keep on trucking for 10 years".

    There are distributions with longer support period. Debian comes to my mind. But I don’t know how long and there were 10 year supported distributions too.

    I think only the enterprise distributions (RHEL etc) do 10 year support, but they are not very usable for a desktop system, and I can tell from experience you start to run into compatibility and support issues with software if you actually use it for that long.

    Debian is +- 5 years by the way.

  • Ghostty in review: how's the new terminal emulator?

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  • foot is such a lovely little program. It has everything I want for a terminal emulator: it launches instantly, it has zero lag, no fluff, excellent font rendering, excellent copy/paste handling, excellent compatibility, and it's easily configurable and themable via a sensible, well documented config file.

    TFW I realize I am a foot fetishist ... 😮

  • The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice

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  • If you install Linux Mint today, you’ll still be able to update it in october and beyond, for the foreseeable future

    One caveat: Linux distributions, even LTS variants, usually have a shorter support period than Windows, after which you have to upgrade your distribution, which is much like doing a Windows upgrade.

    A particular version of Linux Mint, the example you mentioned, is supported for 4 years, whereas Windows 10 was supported for 10 years.