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Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by tedunangst »

clarkm wrote: post #187
DannyBee wrote: post #137

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" Traffic generated by users being misled into going there is not legitimate in terms of the trademark." FixUbuntu is a very very very very clear case of nominative fair use. I can't think of a less close case in recent memory. They are using the trademark as it should be used - to describe the product they are talking about. The fact that Ubuntu may not like what they are saying makes no difference. The disclaimer m…

Then how was Facebook able to force the extension FacebookFixer to rename itself to FFixer?

They were also using the Facebook name to describe their own product. Fix Ubuntu is not (yet) the name of a separate product. When they start hosting a downloadable UbuntuFixer package, expect more trouble.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by codygman »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #245
codygman wrote: post #240

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For a typical user figuring out the command that this site provides to ensure their privacy is most certainly not "easy enough".

Luckily enough for them, turning off the Amazon search lens can be done through a GUI, and not just shell commands...

IIRC (please let me know if I'm wrong) not everything is disabled through the GUI.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by dysoco »

zx2c4 wrote: post #102

Solution: stop using Ubuntu. There are lots of other very able distributions out there, many of which not only have better privacy features but also are technologically superior in one way or another. In no particular order, these are all very capable operating systems for a variety of needs: * https://fedoraproject.org/ * http://www.centos.org/ * http://www.opensuse.org/ * http://www.mageia.org/ * https://www.archli…

I used to be an elitist and dump sh*t in Ubuntu, but lately I've been running it on my Desktop.

I mean, it works, it's pretty, it's used... plus there's something in Unity which I like, it just gets out of the way (most of the time).

Of those distros you've posted there, I'd consider OpenSUSE, Mageia and Debian. OpenSUSE and Mageia are KDE-Centric and I'm not a big fan of it, and Debian is OK although had problems with it in the past.

I'd stay with Funtoo if I could, but honestly I don't have the time anymore.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by taeric »

codygman wrote: post #241
taeric wrote: post #69

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Since it is basically possible to get an "ad free" version by disabling that feature, and it is possible to donate to them. Yes?

That isn't the same thing as you clearly know... Paying to have things privacy infringing settings disabled and donating and then having to disable said privacy infringing settings are very different things.

I am somewhat sympathetic to your point, but do feel it is overstated in this case. It would be one thing if there was some indication of ill intent. From all I've seen, I just don't see it as an attempt at being deceptive. Marginally useful? Sure. Trying to trick people into thinking their computer isn't sending data back? This is akin to hating cell phone providers for creating tracking data on you. It is rather obvious that the data has to have been sent across the wire.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by J_Darnley »

sandGorgon wrote: post #60
nisa wrote: post #29

My personal fix Ubuntu: Be careful, this is pretty rude and may break stuff - it is also not complete but some dependencies are too entangled. Only geoclue and indicator-datetime still annoy me. The idea to poll the internet regulary to check for the timezone of the machine is beyond me. apt-get purge ubuntuone* # I don't use it apt-get purge unity-lens-music unity-lens-video unity-lens-photos # I don't need the inte…

here's mine - http://www.lambdacurry.com/super-fast-lean-ubuntu-setup/ It removes Unity and switches to gnome-shell, removes nautilus and other stuff and replaces it with nemo, geany, etc. I do have some additional tweaks to improve wifi, etc. but the base install brings my RSS with firefox (I consider that a minimum) to about 500 mb on 12.04

Are you aware that your page there just seems to spew the raw HTML source to a page it looks like it should be embedding from Github?

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by sixbrx »

johnsea wrote: post #205
bcj wrote: post #136

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I don't think its a privacy violation, and Canonical has been open about their actions, but I think it's a crummy setup. On my mac, both spotlight and alfred (the 3rd-party application launcher I use) are capable of searching both my computer and the web, and neither send my file searches to the internet.

crummy setup... oh come on, on your mac spotlight is a bloody binary program and you have no way to check the sources. And you critizice the default configuration of an open source program?

Don't need to see the source, just need to watch the network traffic. The source wouldn't be any additional help anyway, unless you compile it yourself again with a known good compiler on a known good system fresh from read only media.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by nisa »

philjackson wrote: post #132
nisa wrote: post #29

My personal fix Ubuntu: Be careful, this is pretty rude and may break stuff - it is also not complete but some dependencies are too entangled. Only geoclue and indicator-datetime still annoy me. The idea to poll the internet regulary to check for the timezone of the machine is beyond me. apt-get purge ubuntuone* # I don't use it apt-get purge unity-lens-music unity-lens-video unity-lens-photos # I don't need the inte…

apt-get purge friends :(

It's used for social media accounts. I don't really use social media and and I don't use the dash in a way that I expect social media. I still have friends through ;)

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by sandGorgon »

J_Darnley wrote: post #265
sandGorgon wrote: post #60

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here's mine - http://www.lambdacurry.com/super-fast-lean-ubuntu-setup/ It removes Unity and switches to gnome-shell, removes nautilus and other stuff and replaces it with nemo, geany, etc. I do have some additional tweaks to improve wifi, etc. but the base install brings my RSS with firefox (I consider that a minimum) to about 500 mb on 12.04

Are you aware that your page there just seems to spew the raw HTML source to a page it looks like it should be embedding from Github?

Ummm.. no. Let me check that.

EDIT - just checked on my phone and it seemed ok. Could you detail what you are seeing and what browser.

Thanks!

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by sandGorgon »

rthomas6 wrote: post #95
sandGorgon wrote: post #60

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here's mine - http://www.lambdacurry.com/super-fast-lean-ubuntu-setup/ It removes Unity and switches to gnome-shell, removes nautilus and other stuff and replaces it with nemo, geany, etc. I do have some additional tweaks to improve wifi, etc. but the base install brings my RSS with firefox (I consider that a minimum) to about 500 mb on 12.04

Why even use Ubuntu at this point? Why not Debian? Or even something totally different?

Good question - and I have no answer. Im just too used to ubuntu and all the default repositories, etc.

However, I primarily intended this setup for someone like me - who sets up a default ubuntu install and then finds himself slowed down. So these steps are intended to be run safely from a fully working ubuntu install.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by sandGorgon »

japhyr wrote: post #100
sandGorgon wrote: post #60

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here's mine - http://www.lambdacurry.com/super-fast-lean-ubuntu-setup/ It removes Unity and switches to gnome-shell, removes nautilus and other stuff and replaces it with nemo, geany, etc. I do have some additional tweaks to improve wifi, etc. but the base install brings my RSS with firefox (I consider that a minimum) to about 500 mb on 12.04

I'm an emacs person myself, but when I teach Python I have students install Geany. I love it for working with beginners. I'm curious, what do you use Geany for?

I'm using geany as the default text editor instead of gedit - I am really loving it and it is much lighter. gedit pulls in a whole bunch of background processes that I wanted to eliminate.
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