Fonzie!

My Dell XPS-15 9560 is my most loved laptop ever. Great Linux support, although not the fingerprint reader which does sting a bit. I’ve only needed to replace the battery after 5 or so years, it’s currently about 7 years old and running as new.

Literally any laptop will be able to run just Linux with TUI my dude.

I recommend against setting public computers to Dvorak.

Neither is the Linux one.

Also, why are you bringing keyboards to public computers‽

Doesn’t*

They’re so preoccupied with wether they could, that they never stopped to think wether they should

From what I can see it mostly does ease of development better; it’s a completely new and rather lean codebase, and it’s seen as an investment in compatibility with graphical applications.

Also, it has lock screens. X cannot do lock screens; it can have an app being full screen and pray to some collection of deities that nothing will come in front of it or that the fake lock screen won’t draw far too small, but it cannot natively do secure lockscreens that are guaranteed to work.
So there, it does something much better: security.

And because it looks like C, JavaScript, Bash and a few others all mixed up together.

I’ve heard Rust described as “Rust is what you get when you put all the good features of other programming languages together. You can’t read it, but it’s freaking fast!”

Borrow* checker, btw

Anyone with physical access to the computer also has full file system access and could wipe everything, even without password or technical knowledge.

You can also bookmark comments on Lemmy, and copy the comment URL and store that in (synced) browser bookmarks!

Oh, copy the comment text and save it in a text- or markdown-file on your devices, in case it gets taken down! You can even for the text in case you forgot where you kept it!

macOS can be a bit of a permission hell at times, but I’ll take it over having less control over the privacy and security of my system

Isn’t installing from the AUR equivalent to installing from a PPA, in terms of security and trust?

How do they make that illegal?

I can’t find much on tech impeding laws online, whatever search terms I enter related to China and privacy just leads me to articles about their data protection law.

It’s older than ChatGPT, but maybe this is true for their newer articles.

I also feel HowToGeek used to be great, now it’s just affiliations and misinformation. Shame.

could be some guy in China

I don’t see how that’s a problem, it’s not like it’s by a Chinese run company or like the Chinese government is spying on you; in the case you described it’d just be a rando with a hobby/vision.

The fact that it keeps getting hosted in countries that have freedom problems, such as China and Russia, does concern me, though.

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I did not mean it like that, at all.

You leave a comment saying these are special and all the others are more or less the same, but don’t explain how that’s the case.

I am genuinely asking.

(also sorry for posting thrice, internet issues)

How are each of those special? And how are others, inc. Gentoo, almost the same?

First off, the packages and libraries on the AUR are not scanned, and not all packages and libraries are well tested or maintained there, especially when building from their source yourself instead of relying on their releases. The more you install that way and the more depends on it, the more points in your system are likely to fail.

Your distro’s repos might not have everything and be a bit out of date at times, but they are scanned and usually better tested and maintained. Usually, not always.