carlytm

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[–] carlytm@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago

Am I having a stroke, or is this headline horrendously written?

[–] carlytm@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

GrapheneOS has been basically flawless for me, most of the time I forget I'm even using a custom rom. Using the Aurora Store, along with a few select apps in a work profile with sandboxed Google Play services goes a long way in terms of plugging the usability gap. I know there's supposed to be issues with banks, but at least in my anecdotal experience, I've used accounts from 3 different banks and haven't had any issues.

[–] carlytm@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

At last, the Year of the Linux Desktop.

[–] carlytm@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

NVIDIA's Debian repo for Cuda has more up to date GPU drivers, if you don't wanna manually install from the .run file. Documentation here, its not reflected yet in the docs but there's a Debian 12 repo.

[–] carlytm@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm also on NVIDIA, I tried the Plasma 6 Alpha last night (on KDE neon unstable) and to my utter shock, Wayland was pretty goddamn close to flawless.

[–] carlytm@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

LibRedirect works for not only redirecting YouTube to Invidious (or Piped if you prefer) but also for alternative front ends for other services, like Nitter for Twitter.

[–] carlytm@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It has the brand recognition of being "the" Linux distro, even though it doesn't deserve that title these days (if it ever did at all).

[–] carlytm@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

"Surely all the people who share subscriptions because they can't all afford 25 streaming services will each get their own accounts if we block password sharing, as opposed to just not using our services any more!"

[–] carlytm@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Yep, pretty much. If your system works, no need to change it.

[–] carlytm@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The biggest advice I can give is to start with something like, as has been mentioned, Linux Mint, but also, don't buy into the idea that you eventually need to move to a more "advanced" distro. If Mint, or wherever you wind up, works for you, and you have no compelling reason to switch, then don't. All Linux is Linux, so to speak, the only things that distinguish distros are packages/package managers, default settings/configurations, and pre-installed programs. There's nothing preventing you from eventually becoming a power-user on a "noob-friendly" distro, if that's something you desire in the first place.

[–] carlytm@lemm.ee 93 points 1 year ago (32 children)

Do...do people really think Microsoft is stupid enough to kill off non-cloud based Windows? There are a lot of Windows users who, for either performance reasons, lack of reliable internet, etc. who would never get good use out of a cloud version. Microsoft is more than aware of this and there is no way in hell they'd shoot themselves in the foot like this.

 

Been using SearXNG for about a year now, and I just can't deal with instances constantly getting blocked by search engines anymore. So I'd like to find something a bit more reliable. I've read that DuckDuckGo has had some controversies in the past, and I wouldn't touch Brave with a 39 and a half foot pole.

[–] carlytm@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Here's a couple of fairly comprehensive recommendation flow charts I grabbed off Reddit a while back (well before all the recent shit):

https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/d7ogclnrbwy.png

https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/pyq9cznb394.png

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