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  • Is this just Linux propaganda, or how much of it is true?

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  • Since you covered AMD and not Nvidia: pre 1650 cards are completely unsupported (some distros keep old drivers in their repos, for how long - nobody knows), RTX20xx is like a corncob up your ass on Linux, RTX30xx and above start to handle things better, with RTX30xx losing up to 20% of performance and 50xx about 5-10%, in extreme cases (iirc The Last of Us) you will be lucky to break 20 FPS. There's no Nvidia App, no Broadcast App either. There are currently a few versions of drivers, open source (not made by Nvidia), half open (made by Nvidia) and fully closed source (made by Nvidia), which only adds to the annoyance, as some drivers might work better for certain games, but obliterate performance in others, not to mention random crashing issues.

  • Users of Arch-based distros, why don't you use pure Arch?

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  • Not a masochist and Arch is the only distro I'm aware of that comes close to Windows in terms of package availability (i.e. if it exists and is either open source or prebuilt I can get it on Arch). Cachy specifically for their optimized custom kernels, but lately I've been really wishing they had a bigger team and were sponsored, as some packages can lag behind for quite some time. Same for packages in the Arch repo.

  • Stop Killing the Internet: Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions — and building a better internet.

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  • Still don't understand wtf do you want people to do with Tor if Tor itself gets blocked (yes, their obfuscation methods are also very trivial to block), not to mention the reality of some countries not allowing any cross border traffic.

  • Russian Spam & Profanities Are Now Plaguing The Arch Linux AUR

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  • Arch attracted a lot of newbies to the distro thanks to SteamOS being Arch based and CachyOS being extremely easy to get into and maintain, unlike the heavily gatekeepy "fuck off if you can't solve literally everything yourself" base Arch. With that came a lot of demand for all sorts of packages that are not and will not be included in Arch/Cachy/whatever distro's repos, prompting heavy AUR usage. As well as some people promoting the AUR as one of the benefits of Arch - "everything is on Arch". And in my personal experience - Arch itself tends to drop a bunch of packages into AUR, and other 3rd party devs treat AUR as an easy distribution platform for Arch based distros, which gives AUR an undeserved amount of trust.

  • How would you feel modern medicine advanced to the point where doctors believed it was too arduous to try and fight diseases and instead would replace people with healthy copies?

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  • A high-profile Chinese activist in the UK, who was inundated with deepfake posts on X portraying her as a sexually promiscuous drug addict, told by X that abusive deepfakes do not breach the rules of

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  • If you observed anything the right wingers did in the last few years, you'd know they already are doing that themselves. Vance literally wore his South Park baby face photoshop for Halloween. They are perfectly ok with everything you listed, in fact they believe it's a huge own that it bothers you and they get away with it. Trump said he could shoot anyone in the middle of the street and not lose any votes the first time around, this time he could literally nuke the US and still keep his voters.

  • URGENT: We’re one bad D.C. deal away from the era of online government censorship.

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  • Unless there's also a flawless system that can decide what is and isn't AI generated, it will just be used to shut down anything anti government, while keeping pro government slop up. The way EU did it sounds better, but could still be abused in the same manner - just take down anything the government doesn't like and say it was because they didn't label it as AI generated, have fun going through the court system trying to prove it wasn't.

  • Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow - Neowin

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  • Don't recommend Mullvad Browser to people who just want a regular daily driver browser unless you want them to freak out and never try anything again.

    To anyone uniformed - Mullvad Browser, while technically Firefox based, is actually a fork of Tor, and by default wipes everything on exit, as well as expects users not to tinker with it or install any addons to avoid fingerprinting.

  • Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere

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  • Steam lets publishers include Steam keys if they don’t sell them for cheaper than on Steam.

    Then how come official retailers like GMG are consistently able to sell Steam keys at 10% discount for nearly every new AAA release on launch?

  • 'This game is extremely broken': The dev of VKD3D-Proton, software for running Direct3D 12 games on Linux, isn't enjoying Forza Horizon 6 very much

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  • And it does seem to be working on SD. SD verified != Linux verified.

  • 'This game is extremely broken': The dev of VKD3D-Proton, software for running Direct3D 12 games on Linux, isn't enjoying Forza Horizon 6 very much

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  • The game made by MS for Windows runs very well on Windows, as pointed out in the article as well, so is it "extremely broken" or MS simply couldn't give less of a fuck how it runs on an endless stream of Linux distros?

  • Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache

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  • Except the way it's done means everyone on the internet is by default a child, including the pedophiles. There isn't a single purpose for the age checks, it's useful for (wannabe) authoritarians, its profitable for the companies, it's convenient for child abusers, it's data galore for 3 letter agencies etc. The current big wave of it is known to be sponsored by the american megacorpos, so pretty much all the reasons apply.

  • California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages

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  • See you in a year or 2.

    Play as old as times:

    1. Company announces garbage change
    2. People freak out
    3. Company says ok we will only do half of the garbage
    4. People calm down and forget
    5. Company later does the rest of the garbage
    6. Nobody cares because half of it is already there

  • Systemd v261-rc1 is out with the 'birth date field'

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  • Idk how many times we have to go over preemptive compliance with fascism before you all get it 🤦

    Don't expect any help when the field is enforced with a TPM signed by MS, otherwise 95% of the web won't let you in, because you can't verify with your government ID linked phone app that needs an OS level verification step.

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    What to do?

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  • I don't know you so I can't tell you how to feel, but I can share how I see it - you can die literally any time, so what's the rush? Might as well keep going on and see where it takes you. There will always be moments when you feel like shit, but when you're dead - there won't be any moments at all.

    To answer your question - if it's real bad then try seeking professional help, regular people are simply not well equipped for dealing with mental crises and could accidentally make things even worse. Otherwise on an "easier said than done" side - learn to be self sufficient, have hobbies, do things you enjoy just because you enjoy it and people will naturally gravitate towards you, you'll get to know more people who can become real friends and you wouldn't feel as lonely anymore, and if not - you will no longer depend on others so much that bad moments turn into tragedies.

  • Valve removes free horror game from Steam after players discover it contains malware that steals your data

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  • Valve removes free horror game from Steam after players discover it contains malware that steals your data

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  • Would that even help? Windows malware can run on Linux precisely thanks to Wine and Proton.

  • Bitwarden New CEO has extensive M&A, Private equity experience, Removes Transparency from its Motto

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  • All the attachments, though... man this is going to be such a pain :/

  • OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google

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  • Lol. Your mom is accused of handing over your intimate personal information to your dad and grandma.

  • Privacy @programming.dev
    alakey @piefed.social

    Any app on recent Android versions can leak certain traffic

    mullvad.net /en/blog/2026/5/12/any-app-on-recent-android-versions-can-leak-certain-traffic
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    alakey @piefed.social

    Any app on recent Android versions can leak certain traffic

    mullvad.net /en/blog/2026/5/12/any-app-on-recent-android-versions-can-leak-certain-traffic