But are people on their phone since they can’t sleep? Or can’t they sleep because they’re on their phone?

I think Nobara is the other most(?) popular choice by gamers.

I don’t have much experience with gaming distros. I just think whatever it is, a computer shouldn’t bee too locked down for a kid so they can also install other things, try other tools like an office suite, video editing or content creator stuff and maybe even have the experience of messing up. Within limits of course.

Well, I think we have to come up with a lot of answers to the new questions AI raises… But that’s kind of always the case with fundamentally new things. Even more so if they’re disruptive. I certainly wouldn’t like to see proper art (like the Ghibli movies) getting replaced by AI. But we somehow need to deal with it. I believe AI is here to stay.

I believe the main issues currently are, AI lacking depth, so if it replaces things, it replaces them with inferior things. And secondly, this makes it more difficult to make art. Both to reach an audience and to earn money with it. I’m (personally) not directly opposed to AI, the issue is just that it tends to drown out other things. Often at the cost of quality (currently) so it’s bad as of now. In the long term the question is slightly different: What aspect of humanness do we value? Why? What’s our place and the place of AI and what’s our incentive to do things? I mean if AI can properly replace humans, we can’t earn a living with labor anymore. And the same applies to art. It needs to have a different motivation than money anyways. But none of that applies currently. AI needs human content to be trained. And companies just take that (without consent) and they’d need to contribute something back for it to be healthy. Either some form of direct compensation. Or something meaningful. And I think once the copyright issue is settled and the companies stop to steal everything they get a hold of, but instead start to license that content for training purposes… We can start to discuss whether generative AI contributes something meaningful to the world.

Last time I checked, Waydroid was one of the more common ways to launch Android apps on Linux. I mean you can’t just package the bare app file, since you need all the runtime and graphical environment of Android. Plus an app could include machine code for a different architecture than a desktop computer. So either you use some layer like Waydroid, or bundle this together with some app in a Linux package…

Android includes lots of things more than just a Linux kernel. An app could request access to your GPS, or to your contacts or calendar or storage. And that’s not part of Linux. In fact not even asking to run something in the background or opening a window is something that translates to Linux. An Android app can do none of that unless the framework to deal with it is in place. That’s why we need emulation or translation layers.

Yeah, those are the first ones I could come up with from the top of my head. I just wrote that sentence because I watched hundreds of other German movies and TV series, some italo-westerns, fairy tales from the soviet block when I was young, Netflix recommendations from Scandinavia… And I’m pretty sure I left out many good ones. Whether the subjective answer helps you, also kinda depends what genre you like and which languages you’re able to understand.

• https://www.imdb.com/list/ls054109514/
• https://www.imdb.com/list/ls066522530/
• https://www.netflix.com/de-en/browse/genre/109012

Doctor Who, The IT Crowd, Bernd das Brot, Dark, Raumpatrouille Orion, Real Humans, Le Cinquième Elément … plus hundreds of others.

I went with the option with keyfiles. I keep backups of LUKS headers and keyfile in case a harddisk gets damaged. Currently have that stored as a file attachment in my password manager.

I’ve been using it for quite some time now and I don’t see the issue. I mostly use Gnome and that’s kind of polished and minimalistic(?) looks very cohesive to me. But I believe the same applies to other desktop environments as well. My package manager mostly gets out of the way and I don’t have to pay too much attention to that. I even get browser extensions and all the stuff that ties into another from one and the same distro maintainers. I’ve tried other operating systems as well, but for the other ones I needed to install 50 small utilities to make it usable and those kind of fight each other as well. On Linux, I try to avoid Flatpak and I wouldn’t use Snap at all. We still(?) have most software available as proper packages.

I can see how image editing might be an issue. We have what we have and for the rest you need to get one of the commercial products running.

Hmm, I haven’t really switched much. Our car is from a Korean manufacurer, my email and webhosting providers are from Germany, I selfhost some services and use a lot of open source software, use a metasearch engine, OsmAND… And while I still have accounts on Facebook, X, Reddit, you-name-it, I’ve been trying to avoid them for years by now. I wonder if there’s something left for me.

Though, I seriously doubt it’s a legitimate study. Standards dictate you’d do it with people’s consent and inform them what’s up. You’d get scolded by your professor if you did it like this. And I believe we do studies without explicit consent, but that’s university level stuff and I suppose you’d have to file a request with the ethics committee and have someone look at the study layout. I’d say if it is a “study”, it’s probably illegitimate and done by someone without much academic background. Or they don’t abide by the same standards all students do for specific reasons.

Hmmh. I have uBlock and LocalCDN installed in my browser because I’m more worried about all the Google and Metas out there. Most of the news articles linked here are on websites with like 3 different trackers. And Google and Meta definitely have enough info about everyone to correlate minor details.

I must say I’m not super worried about my IP leaking into the Fediverse. I mean the pictures as a direct message is yet another thing. But generally speaking, we have some trade-off here between privacy and spreading information across a distributed network. It’s not a good thing, but I think the benefits outweigh the downsides.

Yeah, I can see how exploration for further things could be the case.

I just wonder, do people also install browser extensions to cache all the google fonts, jsdelivr urls etc? Or do they just give away the same data to every link on this link aggregator platform and it’s just when it becomes very obvious as with this weird thing?

Location would be possible. For me it’s a few 100km off, but usually the GeoIP databases are more accurate.

Piefed doesn’t do much image caching or proxying. It only keeps thumbnails around. Once you open a post with more than a thumbnail in it (a full picture), your IP is revealed to the image hoster.

Sure, back when I was young enough to do really stupid “pranks”, we tried to vandalize Wikipedia once or twice. You get banned and re-try one day later. That’s kind of how it works with IP bans. But it gets rid of 99% of people who aren’t super persistent. And that’s enough. And also why they do it even if it’s not “perfect”. Our school had one static IP for the entire computer room, so over there Wikipedia wouldn’t accept edits for a whole week or two, until the ban properly expired.

Yeah, I heard it’s different with some providers in north america. But then again, it’s not very straightforward to track which IPs belong to which provider, in which timespans they get renewed and then match that to other info.

I mean for most users worldwide, the IP changes every 24h or so, maybe every few days. So I doubt it’s of great value unless you have access to another big database of current logins to match this against. And if you already have that database, I don’t see the value of recording the IP again. Only added info is that the user uses Lemmy, if there isn’t any identifier in the image URL.

I wonder what the use case is for gathering IP addresses of random internet connections.

I use KaniDM and configured everything with OAuth2. That was the easiest and most straightforward I could find. But I don’t think they bothered implementing LDAP. Other platforms I tried are Authentik, Authelia, Keycloak, Zitadel… They’re all a bit heavier and have other/more features, but there wasn’t one I really fell in love with.

I’d say use something like zeroconf(?) for local computer names. Or give them names in either your dns forwarder (router), hosts file or ssh config. Along with shell autocompletion, that might do the job. I use scp, rsync and I have a NFS share on the NAS and some bookmarks in Gnome’s file manager, so i just click on that or type in scp or rsync with the target computer’s name.

I’m not sure about anything useful. Best thing would probably be to install Linux and donate them to people in need. For experimentation, sure, set up a Beowulf Cluster, learn FreeBSD, Orchestration, Kubernetes, Ansible… Use them to test your microservice architecture software projects, software-defined networking…