Rikj000

Rikj000 , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Does ubuntu still install snaps when you use apt?

Flatpak:
To limit shady proprietary software from accessing your full storage / hardware.
You can manage the sandbox access through tools like FlatSeal.

Snap:
To ruin your day / user experience.

Both where introduced as a universal way to distribute packages on various distros.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago to Privacy in Reddit started blocking VPN users on old.reddit.com

RedLib, the continuation of LibReddit,
still works:
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

I use it in combination with this GreaseMonkey script,
to redirect me to a random RedLib instance:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469587-reddit-to-libreddit-redirect

Due to instances often going down and/or stop working.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago to Privacy in Firefox failing several privacy tests out-of-the-box, according to Brave article

This is not a fair comparison.

Instead you should compare Chrome with FireFox.
And Brave (privacy focused Chrome fork)
with LibreWolf (privacy focused FireFox fork).

I'll stick with LibreWolf,
no way I'll drive anything Chromium based as my main browser.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in The installation process of different Linux distributions

Enuf with the Arch hate already..

Fedora and Debian are cool,
but Arch is too,
their Wiki is amazing and so is the AUR.

And no I don't use Arch btw,
I use Manjaro,
which has suited me fine for years now.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Genuinely the only time Arch has broken something I can't fix myself

You can try rolling back to a previous version though.

By checking the log section in the AUR,
you can see all the commits (changes) done to the build files.
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=util-linux-selinux

Clicking on a commit message shows you the diff.

Start by the last commit,
undo the changes (green lines),
re-apply the removals (red lines),
then attempt to re-build.

If that did not work out,
do the same for the commit before that until you rolled back up to the latest working version.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Genuinely the only time Arch has broken something I can't fix myself

If working with the AUR,
you can alter the PKGBUILD and other build files on your own behalf.

To either fix what's wrong,
or to roll back to a previous version of the package.

I've did both a few times already,
however I'm on Manjaro.
Pamac, their graphical installer,
prompts me if I'd like to edit the build files before starting the build/install process, unsure how to do it in Arch, but the ArchWiki should be able to tell you.

Also, if you'd fix what's wrong,
please post your diff on the AUR package thread, that can save the maintainer some work / help with rolling an updated package out to the other users faster.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago to Technology in Kids Online Safety Act gains enough supporters to pass the Senate

Figure out which politicians are behind this.
And throw them out,
since they are trying to take away your rights (to privacy).

They are looking to apply mass surveillance upon you guys wrapped into a "For the kids safety" package as usual..

Rikj000 , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in I can't use AMD

It automatically happened,
I believe with every install of an updated Flatpak, which is rather often.

Been a while though, since lately I've been happily using AMD for quite some time.

But I do recall Nvidia driver updates slowing down my update process by a lot,
while I have none of that with AMD.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago to Technology in 😠Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time😠

Thank you for sharing that link.
And man happy to be on tchncs lately! :D

Rikj000 , 3 months ago to Technology in 😠Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time😠

Hope my and other instances will de-federate from Threads/Meta.

We don't need that spyware giant in the fediverse..

Rikj000 , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in Current situation on FOSS Discord replacements?

You can try to convince the Discord server moderators to bridge their servers to Matrix with something like T2Bot:
https://t2bot.io/discord/

That's what I did when I was running a Discord server,
worked nicely in both directions.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in I can't use AMD

Even not the "issue" that basically every time you update something, you have to wait a long time to download proprietary nvidia drivers?

That's what annoyed me the most back in the day with the Nvidia drivers,
so many hours wasted on updating the drivers.

With AMD, this is not the case.

And haven't even talked about my issues with Optimus (Intel on-board graphics + Nvidia GPU) yet, which was a true nightmare, took me weeks of research to finally make it work correctly.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in I can't use AMD

In my experience,
AMD is a bliss on Linux,
while Nvidia is a headache.

Also, AMD has ROCM,
it's their equivalent of Nvidia's CUDA.

Rikj000 , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in Why can't I just buy it without being charged for preinstalled spyware?

Lol, I'm done discussing with you fruity.

You're blatantly ignoring / laughing away evidence to protect the image of a bad, but for some reason, you're favorite spyware slinging company.

And on top of it,
now also bashing the privacy and linux communities since you can't make valid debunkments :P

Instead of bashing,
to suck up to that spying company,
perhaps you should try defending your rights to privacy for a change.

You may rant in the void now,
I won't waste time on your fanboy nonsense anymore.

Rikj000 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to linuxmemes in Why can't I just buy it without being charged for preinstalled spyware?

What are your sources for debunking mine?
Besides you just not liking to face the truth?

Blanket surveillance is not clickbait,
it's spyware, and a problem.

But sure continue to stick your head in the sand,
that will surely help humanity beat this problem.