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  • Chipping in, I have no idea what Garuda is, but I also hated working with Fedora, probably because I started off on Debian-based systems and couldn't wrap my head around Fedora.

    Bazzite, being an immutable distro, is intended where you shouldn't need to use the Fedora package manager, so you instead install applications sandboxed like AppImages, flatpaks, etc. I've been fine with this for my gaming PC, but currently I still use and prefer Debian (LMDE) for my study laptop because I have easier control over it.

    Overall it comes down to what you want out of your computer and what works best for you, that's the beauty with Linux, but I thought I'd chip in and mention not to write off Bazzite for being Fedora based, as someone who couldn't get behind Fedora.

  • OK, which one of you is it
  • How does Microsoft manage to be both ahead and behind the curve? A decade before Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, they already were doing the same thing, and somehow blew it?

    Windows CE in general blows me away how the underlying tech is fundamentally the same as modern smartphones (system is a ROM, had ARM support, goes to sleep by default) and Microsoft was still too slow to react to the iPhone. God I miss my PDA.

  • Facial disfigurement: 'Restaurant asked me to leave over condition'
  • The paragraph after is golden:

    The Met confirmed to the BBC that officers had visited Mr Bromley about the incident and that although no arrests had been made, the force took "reports of hate crime seriously".

  • Emotional Support Vehicles
  • That's exactly what I do with my Forester. I live in a regional area of Australia so for me it's a daily driver and great for long trips, and if I need to pick shit up, fold the seats down and I effectively have my ute.

  • Texas resident used Apple AirTags to discover plastics taken to Houston recycling centers aren't being recycled
  • My initial thought of an "old" iPhone would be one without Touch ID (square home button), but it's actually insane to think that a 10 year old iPhone today is the iPhone 6. That iPhone has (had?) 3D Touch, Touch ID, and Apple Pay. Those all still sound like modern features to me.

  • Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Healthier And Better For The Planet, Report Finds
  • Do you have a source? I'd be interested in seeing how the numbers look at present. I otherwise looked into this briefly myself, and this article from ScienceFocus mentions a 2019 study by Oxford University that found more greenhouse gases are released growing lab meat than regular meat, although ScienceFocus argued that if mass produced on a similar scale to regular meat and if renewable energy was used instead, the emissions could be better than regular meat.

    Another website indicates in future tense that lab-grown meat "could cut down on water usage by 90%"

  • This Google Photos popup
  • It's ridiculous, its enabled by default on any new device you set up and sign in to. I could have missed turning off iCloud on my iMac, but I didn't have any problems before updating it, and then after I updated it I had iCloud full notifications, so I'm pretty sure it was off.

  • Please pick a password starting with ad and ending with min
  • I'm gonna be honest, for Vaultwarden I don't. However, a local cached copy of the vault exists on all my devices that are signed in via the official Bitwarden client, and I have recovered using this method before, so that's my backup strategy.

  • This Google Photos popup
  • I was feeling smug that being on LineageOS and now GrapheneOS for almost a decade I've never seen this.

    ..then I remembered my fucking iMac seemed to turn on iCloud photo backup last week after updating and next thing I know all the obsolete iPads I get from work are telling me how my iCloud storage is full

    Seriously this iCloud shit is on by default, predatory ass tech companies. I'm pretty sure I disabled it on that iMac but it's so possible that my own device can gaslight me that I'm left unsure. It's off now and I spent an afternoon removing all those photos.

  • Court orders X to reveal investors, links to Putin's allies found
  • Just my 2c while taking a shit, I think if the bot just printed the direct name of the news source ("Sky News Australia", "CNN", " The Guardian") and additionally said "This is the automatically detected source of this news. Please consider replying to this comment with a better source if you think one exists"

    It makes it clear there's zero bias and encourages conversation with other users here. It also is a reminder in case you might be skimming past and miss the domain it's from, and you personally can judge "Oh, that's what I think is a reputable source", "Oh, it's those wankers, this is garbage" or "I haven't heard of that source before, I'll be skeptical" as some examples

  • Found a security bug in LMDE6, need some help

    I have an older Intel laptop that has a 1600x900 display, and I find that if I put the machine to sleep, connect an external monitor with a higher resolution, and then turn it back on, the login screen doesn't adjust to the new resolution and it reveals what I had open (see photo).

    However, I'm not that familiar with Linux Mint (even though I've daily driven Linux for nearly 10 years, I very casually use LMDE) and I'm not sure if this is a Cinnamon problem or if the lock screen is under a different program.

    Looking at Linux Mint's webpage on reporting a bug (https://projects.linuxmint.com/reporting-an-issue.html) they seem to mostly use Cinnamon as an example, but I don't want to report this issue as a Cinnamon issue if it's the wrong project.

    In case this is platform specific, my device's details are below:

    • Host: Dell Latitude E6420
    • CPU: Intel Core i7-2630QM (Sandy Bridge)
    • GPU: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family
    • Kernel: 6.1.0-21-amd64
    • DE: Cinnamon 6.0.4
    • WM: Mutter (Muffin)
    • Display Server: X11

    I've never filed a bug report in my life before, usually I just put up with the issue until it's eventually fixed, but I feel this is a moderate security issue that should be flagged.

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