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That you Dexter?

I'm one of the weirdos that should be on board with this, but I'm against it. This will do harm to marginalized youth and push younger people to lie and find ways around the ban. P…

Money laundering, I think. AML = Anti Money Laundering

We were gifted our old work laptops. My partner and I work for the same place. She gave hers to the mother in law after I wiped Windows and put Linux on it. I gave mine to my son. …

The "16 companies" blocklist is pretty extreme too. I sometimes want to exclude sites from it, but that would be against the spirit of the list.

The first list on the thread is not the greatest advice, in my opinion. But, I suppose that is a good way to start a thread: mix reasonable with unreasonable. Later commments mix s…

I used to be a try-hard. I'm not infosec or a programmer, I'm just a person with a computer. I would install every extension possible that claimed to do something, I encrypted ever…

I do remember Knoppix. In particular, being able to recover my very important data (ok, fine, it was pirated music) from a computer that wouldn't boot anymore.

I'm a professor. At my school we would never let a student record us. Hell, the school had to force some of the teachers to give out their PPTs so the students could study them. Th…

I was just thinking about Sonic Pi the other day and watched a few videos online. I only ever played with it briefly years ago(busted out the classic Old MacDonald and Hot Cross Bu…

Sorry, that comment is solely based on "desk-study". I've heard lots of positive and some negative about Linux Phones---and I do want one so bad. I think many of those comments com…

A Linux phone might not be the best bet, yet. Especially if this is a daily driver. Any "degoogled" phone should be able to access f-droid and get the task app (I use the same app …

Total hodge podge but mostly standard end-user tech gripes and howtos with a splash of education https://bbbhltz.codeberg.page/blog/

agreed If the number of articles in my RSS feed that I need to mark as read isn't an indicator of wasted CO2, it is an indicator of how boring my day will be.

Some are just being hired by competition, some are even being hired overseas [1]. Key word being "some," obviously. [1]: https://neuters.de/technology/they-fire-we-hire-germany-sei…

Not the biggest distrohopper on the planet, but I have been using GNU/Linux since around 2006 so I will throw my hat in the ring with some comments and answers I have seen to simil…

Is this a "Curse of Knowledge" kind of feeling? Like, when you are talking to someone you begin by thinking they will understand, but then realise they do not. Or is it really just…

> they have to be put on watch to check their health condition so they will be separated from their parents side. This is the North American way, I guess? So the question should be…

Yep. (NOTE: Nope.) First you ask Reddit, then ChatGPT, then HN. Then you bikeshed the answers until someone points out some language quirk that passed unnoticed and reveals the ans…

If anyone is wondering, there are a number of choices out there for DAPs and portable music devices. https://www.head-fi.org/threads/hi-res-portable-daps-compari... I have a Shanli…

> I want my private messages to never be seen or recovered by anyone That might be hard, you know, because of screenshots. I am not at all a pro on this, but if you look at the tra…

Not an answer, but https://xkcd.com/936/ (and https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/936:_Password_Str... )

Koyaanisqatsi: haven't seen someone mention that in forever