Everything. Software, usability, customization, community, you name it. Using Linux has advanced and keeps advancing my computer literacy skills. This would have never happened if I kept using Windows. There’s also the “activist” angle. By using Linux and other FOSS software, I feel like I’m disengaging the worst parts of modern life and society and taking power away from the corpos even if it doesn’t have huge impact.

Henry would’ve been proud!

(he’s mostly retired so his hobby is old atari, amstrad, and spectrum computers)

Your husband is an absolute legend.

Nevermind @slazer2au@lemmy.world answered it.

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I am a technology journalist – I like to think I am thoughtful about what data I share with corporations.

My brother in Christ, if you are a tech journalist then you, out of all people, should know not to give ANY data to corporations. That is a massive fuckup regarding your job.

OK, its just a deer…

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I really hope the GrapheneOS team succeed. Custom ROMs are reason I’m really into tech today. Coding, FOSS, Linux, etc. all that came from rooting my dad’s HTC phone back in the day. Google shouldn’t cannibalize its children.

Deploy database? You mean something like SQL?

1. What are basic Linux permissions?
2. What does chmod 777 do?

As much as I to be optimistic, I doubt this will pass. So long as Wall Street is still a thing don’t expect any sort of regulations. Continue to buy second-hand, OEM unlocked phones on eBay.

UNDER JOLLY ROGER!

Hackers are the only saving grace in this increasingly dystopian world.

That’s the thing: I don’t have Windows installed on that SSD. I double checked.

Best ways to circumvent this:

1. Buy a pre-2000s car. Sure, cars were going high tech before but this was long before IoT became a thing.

2. Ditch the car all together and get into to cycling and e-bike culture.

This fiasco demonstrates why open source is the superior software model.

We will miss you. We won’t let those corporate egomaniacs take over.

I don’t want Congress raising our nation’s children. They always use their “protect children” dog whistle to cause panic and yet get nowhere. Parents should really stop asking the government to raise their children for them.

Of course. Just remember this when buying a laptop (and by extension a printer): FUCK HP!

While I’m yet to do it myself, I would suggest getting a Thinkpad T480 and upgrading its RAM. The reason you want a T480 is because it was the last Thinkpad to have user removable parts. One tip: when using eBay, make sure you filter out the T480s. The T480s is not the same as the T480 since it doesn’t have user removable parts.