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Both Windows and Mac come with package managers of sorts. Windows has WinGet and the Windows Store. Mac has the App Store.

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You can use Asahi Linux on an M1 Mac.

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Inb4 an oracle kidnaps her

Google's "Manifest V2" Chrome extension phaseout next month is expected to impact the original uBlock Origin extension, which still uses the V2 framework and has 37 million users (www.theregister.com)

The new MV3 architecture reflects Google's avowed desire to make browser extensions more performant, private, and secure. But the internet giant's attempt to do so has been bitterly contested by makers of privacy-protecting and content-blocking extensions, who have argued that the Chocolate Factory's new software architecture...

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Use librewolf-bin or just use the flatpak

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You don't need to compile it. There's a flatpak, and the AUR has a binary package

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It's really nice. It's compatible with all Linux distros and it provides some configurable sandboxing via bubblewrap that you don't get with other repos. The sandboxing is easilly configurable using a GUI like Flatseal.

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I'm guessing you don't already use Linux? Just keep in mind that with a VM, the GPU has to be emulated (except for edge cases, like passing through a hardware GPU or going headless), which will heavilly impact performance. There is also the option of dipping your toe using a live USB stick (basically every distro has this as an option), but that has its own performance penalty due to running off of a USB stick.

I'd recommend actually installing it to try it out to get the full performance of your hardware, and to make sure that everything you have is compatible (most hardware is compatible out of the box)

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I'd recommend NixOS if it weren't for the hell that is the Nix language itself. It completely solves dependency hell, and everything is able to be reverted with a simple reboot or by modifying a config file and running one command.

If you are trying to learn something new that might be a bit of a headache, I'd recommend it. I've been daily driving it for a few years now. It's also compatible with flatpaks.

If you're not comfortable with Terminal and configuration files, I'd recommend staying away.

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I have. The Steam Controller (and Steam Deck) trackpads are very nice, mostly because there are two of them and they are thumb operated. The haptic feedback is really nice as well.

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JonTron made a video about him recently.

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Plot twist: it's none of them since girl's penguin is the one taking the picture

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You mean like IPFS?

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Next up, Pepsi AI Linux

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BeOS, OS/2, NeXTStep, DR-DOS, CP/M, BASIC, Xenix, SGI's UNIX (IDR the name) all died pretty suddenly

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"Mata AI"

Subtle...

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Inb4 Pepsi AI flavors become a thing

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Evil will not succumb unless we as a society organize en masse to sieze control.

If we try, evil will do everything in its power to stop us. We must overcome.

Organizing is the hardest part. Evil has prevented us from organizing throughout the history of modern society, and it will only get harder as time progresses.

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Why use a private tracker when soulseek allegedly exists? There are also Telegram bots that can allegedly download FLACs from Deezer

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Until the next thing comes along in a week. Windows doesn't respect user freedom, because it is not the user's OS; it is Microsoft's OS.

If it's not FOSS, you are the product.

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If you're the kind of person who uses laundromats, you're not the kind of person who can afford to open one.

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Why did you leave a blank comment?

/s

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This should be required reading in every school

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We need to seize the means of reproduction

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You can't unlock the bootloader on specifically USA Samsung devices, for reference.

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Microwave it for a bit and it becomes a chewy snack

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You should consider passing through your Nvidia GPU to a virtual machine in order to do compute tasks on; that way, your host machine won't be infected with proprietary Nvidia drivers (I'm assuming you need CUDA for your compute tasks). The only performance differences you'll notice is less available system RAM (you will have access to all of your VRAM), and very slightly less CPU performance, due to running two operating systems at the same time (barely even noticable, TBH). This is the option that I would personally recommend.

If you want to try a super hacky solution which might not work for everything you need, you can try using the open source, recently released ZLUDA translation layer to perform CUDA tasks on your AMD GPU.

https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA

The reason Hyprland doesn't work with proprietary Nvidia drivers is due to Nvidia refusing to implement the accepted Wayland standard in favor of their own, home-rolled solution which is incompatible. AFAIK, only GNOME and KDE implement that standard.

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Always wondered where I could find the magical RTFM potion. Now I know.

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Hail, emax_gomax

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Me too, thanks.

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Boeing has since been expanding who they kill to include passengers on their commercial airplanes along with whistleblowers. Can't say they're not trying.

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Or better yet, that, plus guaranteed housing, food, and utilities (including, but not limited to, water, waste disposal, sewage, electricity, internet, and anything else that might be considered necessary in the future), and for a transitional period, worker ownership over the corporations that they work for (basically forcing companies to be worker-owned co-ops), so business decisions aren't exclusively decided by short term profitability, and so that people who decide to work will be given an incentive to keep working there, even after automation fully takes over jobs. Also on top of that, citizen-ownership over natural resources, kind of like how Alaskan citizens own the oil in Alaska.

And on top of that, change the voting system to a ranked choice one, such as STAR, and ban all private money from elections, having publicly funded elections instead. Also regulate promoting electoral candidates to two weeks before an election, that way people aren't constantly exhausted by every elections. Some countries already do this.

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The board of directors probably plays bigger roles when it comes to layoffs than the C-Suites.

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There's a reason uBlock Origin overtook Adblock Plus in popularity.

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There's also Playlet for Roku users, which is an Invidious client.

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I miss the xda of old, where shitty clickbait articles and ads didn't rule the front page.

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ActivityPub gives me hope for the future of the Internet. I was able to completely replace Reddit with Lemmy after the exodus last year. I never used Twitter, but Mastodon seems like an alternative that's gaining popularity.

The one that seems the hardest to replace is YouTube, since hosting and serving video is very expensive, and many creators have come to rely on monitization.

I'm not sure about I2P being an alternative to the clearnet. It helps prevent censorship, sure, but I don't see how it provides anything that you can't do on the clearnet already, other than anonymity. It's also much harder to set up than Tor for non-tech savvy people. Anyone can already host any website they want on the clearnet.

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Wonder if there's an alternative nowadays, not counting Telegram or Discord channels.

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Check out NVK and Nova.

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Every person is going to have different opinions as to what distro works best for them. What exactly are you looking for in an ideal operating system?

Best would be to try different ones and see which one works best for you, but if I had more of an idea of what you're looking for and what kind of hardware you're using, I'd be able to recommend some distros to try out.

Are you a power user? Do you prefer stability or always having the latest software? Do you value ease of use or do you consider yourself more of a power user? Do you want to learn how to use the Terminal, or whould you rather avoid it and use graphical tools instead?

Also different desktop environments, even on the same distro will provide vastly different experiences.

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As a NixOS user myself, I wouldn't recommend it to someone new to Linux.

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How comfortable are you with using the Terminal and learning a new scripting language (called Nix)?

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The latter is still mostly copying and pasting too FYI, along with reading error messages that generally tell you exactly what's wrong.

Also, NixOS, is not FHS-compliant, so regular Linux binaries will not run without pagching or running it through a wrapper. AppImages work, but needs appimage-run. Flatpaks work fine as well.

I would only recommend NixOS if the concept of everything being inside of a configuration file that you can copy between machines sounds intriguing to you; otherwise, if you still want ultimate control over everything and want to use a Terminal, Arch. If you just want something that works without having to worry about configuration or copying Terminal commands, I'd go with Pop OS or Linux Mint Debian Edition.

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Does it have to be Ubuntu, or would Debian be fine? If Debian is fine, check out KickSecure.

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Hopefully this means Qualcomm is going to support mainline Linux instead of just supporting their downstream fork.

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Rooting an Android TV gets you there, plus you get a TV that you actually own. It's super niche and difficult to do, though. Hard to find info on which TVs can be rooted.

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I personally just had to figure it out for myself.

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Socialism is when government does stuff /s

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Or just abolish copyright law altogether.

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