wuphysics87

wuphysics87 , 19 days ago to Privacy in Do you think people would be okay with 'Recall' if Apple did it?

I'm not familiar with all of them, but I know several of them are tools. Isn't it in apple's best interest to open source the tools if people use and improve them, and subsequently it means they get more money from the app store? And if these are the only things they open source, they still have a tight fist on the vast majority of their code base.

While on the subject of apple and FOSS. They may open source some tools, but do they give back to other projects? I.e. does apple push upstream? Substantially less than google and ms. And I would go so far to say almost never.

wuphysics87 , 19 days ago to Privacy in What is the best cloud storage provider right now?

I've enjoyed Proton for several years, except there ia no Linux desktop client. I intend to test installing the client in a virtual machine running windows, and then use shared folders.

wuphysics87 , 2 months ago to Privacy in Is there a way to download a Windows.iso anonymously?

Someone else's computer. Like a library

wuphysics87 , 2 months ago to Privacy in Secure Operating Systems (Microkernels seems to be the future)

Gnu Hurd

wuphysics87 , 2 months ago to Privacy in Discord alternatives

It looks like it is supported via pluggins unfortunately

wuphysics87 , 2 months ago to Technology in A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions

You'd need a massive increase in tech support. Likely more than you'd spend on ms in the first place. Seems a political gambit or a political gaff.

wuphysics87 , 2 months ago to Privacy in DuckDuckAssitant is back!

That thing needs to summerize it's own shit.

wuphysics87 , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Technology in A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions

I love this, but having used ms office extensively for work, we all know it has many more features. Libreoffice isn't a drop in replacement, but maybe with the increased user base it can become one.

wuphysics87 , 2 months ago to Memes in Why still using the imperial system?

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/80332edd-392e-4538-8f2e-0a589f711d33.jpeg

wuphysics87 , 3 months ago to Memes in Why still using the imperial system?

Perhaps I'm biased, but sometimes it's easier to work in fractions. Also, setting room temp is objectively better in F. I can tell the difference between 74 and 75. That said, I'm also a scientist so I'm permitted these opinions.

wuphysics87 , 3 months ago to Memes in A retro problem

I dealt with this yesterday

wuphysics87 , 3 months ago to Privacy in Discord alternatives

I've used Revolt before. It's very similar to Discord superficially, but lacks a lot of features. Even though it's more similar to slack, I've found Mattermost to have more feature parity.

wuphysics87 , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Simple authentication for homelab?

It was a bad joke because you said you needed something for your homelab

wuphysics87 , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Simple authentication for homelab?

Padlock

wuphysics87 , 3 months ago to Memes in Happy Pi day!

The part of me that loves when kids like math says yay! Every other part of me died when I say you called the height A in a problem that has an area