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Beginner in need of real help!
I've been interested in self-hosting for a while, but didn't really know where to start. I've never messed with Linux before and wanted to jump ship from Windows since Microsoft decided to start putting ads everywhere....
Windows 11 is now an ad platform--this is why we're here (www.ghacks.net)
The writing is on the wall--I suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service. Gather your ISOs while ye may.
We were in a discussion about preffered standard salt (Sea Salt) when.. (lemmy.ca)
I was once a streamer, I understand how low they can go...
Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them (arstechnica.com)
I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams (arstechnica.com)
Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining (www.neowin.net)
Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.
Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?
I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?
Top post of PCMR on Reddit today XD (discuss.tchncs.de)
Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. (www.texasmonthly.com)
The “Texas Miracle” loses some of its magic as Oracle announces it’s moving its new HQ out of Austin and Tesla lays off nearly 2,700 workers.
Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL?
Next year Windows 10 goes End of Life. Microsoft will undoubtedly push windows 11 hard, but a lot of machines won’t support it leading to a few economic points of interest:...
FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote (arstechnica.com)
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president....
I swear credit card companies make log-ins fail on purpose.
I pay all my bills online so I'm used to navigating logins and payment apps. I never have nearly as much trouble paying credit card bills....
cromch (i.imgur.com)
ruling the same food (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband (www.popsci.com)
OpenWRT on a Raspberry Pi, is this enough?
I will be located in a country where the Internet is EXTREMELY controlled and filtered. Not sure if I can even bring my current router with me(seems forbidden), so turning my RPi4 seems a good idea... Don't you think?
Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites (arstechnica.com)
Self-hosted IP-phone network
Just for fun, a few associations I'm part of want to set up our own IP-phone network, with our own phone numbers and such....
NYC’s AI Chatbot Tells Businesses to Break the Law (themarkup.org)
The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take workers’ tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income
AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them (www.theregister.com)
What non-FOSS software have you been unable to quit?
For me, Google video search, Google books (Internet Archive is good, but doesn't always have the same stuff), Adobe InDesign (but in the process of learning LaTeX), and Typewise. As for the Google stuff, I liked Whoogle a lot, but almost all their instances seem to have been blocked or shut down. Also, apologies if this is...
FCC bans cable TV industry’s favorite trick for hiding full cost of service (arstechnica.com)
Can ChatGPT help me with a programming problem with Python and GTK? [video] (tube.jeena.net)
tl;dr: No...
What advice can you give to a beginner?
You may have noticed a few of my posts here, I am very interested in self-hosting and what advice can you give to a newbie? maybe some literature, video, I don’t know~
But with serverless you don't pay for idle time ! (jlai.lu)
10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox. (www.howtogeek.com)
10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.::The best browser sync out there.
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
If you can, use Firefox.
Started looking into ente to replace Google Photos and Gmail marked them as spam (files.catbox.moe)
Coincidence? Surely Google knows this is a legitimate company.
reasonable (lemmy.world)
Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models (mashable.com)
DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. (programming.dev)
Switch to Linux!...
Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED (youtu.be)
The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.