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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like clockwork; wait till the outrage dies down, try again in a few months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Secure boot working as intended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sonos lays off 100 employees as its app crisis continues⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Image cropped thumbnail is perfect

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨snap rant⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Should I just give up on snaps and use Flatpack or Appimage?

  Use your system’s native package manager and repository unless you have a really good reason not to. Really good reasons include:

  • Proprietary software that can experience library incompatibility and should be used inside a runtime
  • You’re using something like Alpine Linux that uses musl libc and you want to install software that depends on glibc
  • The software isn’t ported to your distribution (though the better solution would be to just write a package yourself)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What have you been playing lately?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Binding of Isaac, Noita, Vampire Survivors

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Korean hacker got hired by US security vendor, immediately loaded malware⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  based

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch lifts its ban on Donald Trump⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  s/twitch/amazon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta removes special restrictions for Trump's account ahead of 2024 elections⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Suckerberg peed his pants a little at the idea of his favorite nazi acting against him if he wasn’t allowed on his platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon says it now runs on 100% clean power. Employees say it’s more like 22%⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  greenwashing go brrr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft hit with EU privacy complaints over schools' use of 365 Education suite⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is the ability to convert files relevant for the relevance of formatting text?

  If my professor wants a double-spaced document with Times New Roman in 12 point font and 1 inch margins, that’s very easy to do with a plain text file as input (They can load a template with all their defaults in their WYSIWYG editor and paste my text in). If I, as a user, want to convert a formatted document back to plain text to read/edit it (which I prefer), this is unreliable, and can lead to malformed output, especially with formats like docx that contain images.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft hit with EU privacy complaints over schools' use of 365 Education suite⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree, if only for the reason that you can’t easily and more importantly reliably convert document formats to plain text. On the other hand, there are plenty of good tools to convert plain text to printable formats (like pr from OpenBSD).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft hit with EU privacy complaints over schools' use of 365 Education suite⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a student I would love if this resulted in more software portability in education spaces. As it stands, have the classes I take only want Microsoft proprietary formats (docx pptx etc), which results in me having to use a giant nasty WYSIWYG editor that supports those formats like LibreOffice instead my preferred tooling (heirloom-doctools, mandoc, or even better, plain text). At least some classes support PDFs, but I’ve yet to see a class that takes plain text submissions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you still use your Steam Deck much?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I plug mine into a hub with hdmi and ethernet to use it for desktop gaming, and then use it as a handheld whenever I need to go on a trip. The performance is definitely… unusable in many games on the 1440p display I have it hooked up to, but I don’t mind running games at a lower resolution or with FSR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch terminates all members of its Safety Advisory Council⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did “Twitch” decide this, or did “Some exec at Amazon, who owns Twitch” decide this?