Is it not possible to require Proton, Mullvad, etc. to verify your age before doing business with you?

He’s a player, after all. 101010 (I assume that’s binary for 80085).

On the one hand, I am anything but surprised by such a development. But at the same time, this also sounds like typical disinformation.

Is there someone in the US with an iPhone, who’s willing to verify? Or, with a Android phone, who’s willing to test if a similar thing is the case on that platform, too?

I had that problem, so then I started using https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ - it works well.

I bought my secondhand OnePlus 6T only last year. Installed Linux on it, and I love it. I’m using it as my daily driver.

Sent from my OnePlus 6T and from my bed

Try taking a break from this post for the rest of today. Come back tomorrow, and read your own comments while genuinely pretending they were written by someone else. Take stock of the impression you end up with.

Try to honestly ask yourself, if you were a random person passing by, Linux user or otherwise, with as busy a life as anyone, would you feel particularly encouraged to engage with this commenter?

Avoid Ubuntu - it’s made by the Microsoft of the Linux world. If you want an easy transition from Windows specifically, then you really ought to run KDE Plasma as your desktop environment, as that is by far the most similar to Windows in terms of look, layout and workflow, and it is very flexible in what can be changed and adjusted. GNOME is the other big one, but it feels more Mac-like or tablet-like.

It’s preferable to pick one of those two, as they support the modern Wayland protocol, whereas other desktop environments still only support X11 or only partially support Wayland - I don’t want to infodump on you right now, but suffice to say that Wayland is more secure, and is widely regarded as the future of Linux, while the old X11 has security issues, and is only in maintenance mode now.

Mint, for whatever reason, and unlike almost every other distro, doesn’t come with KDE Plasma as an option. I would recommend Fedora - it’s very solid and well developed, an all purposes workhorse that can do anything you need it to, and it’s a first class citizen anywhere, since it is one of the most commonly used distros by far. My runner-up would be OpenSUSE. If you’re dead set on something Ubuntu-based, then I would take a look at Tuxedo OS, or perhaps just going back to the roots, and install Debian.

I really just want an encrypted portable linux device with a cellular modem. I don’t even care if it can SMS or VOLTE, I just need it to run a secure chat client, support Bluetooth headphones and last all day on a charge.

Then you’re in luck, because that’s something you can already have by now! Just get yourself one of the more recent-ish phones that are well supported by PostmarketOS. The things Linux phones struggle the most with these days, are the more traditional phone-things, such as text messages or calling, which may not be ready for production, as they say (although, both texts and calls have actually worked well for me as of late). But if all you want is a pocket Linux computer/PDA, and intend to carry another phone for calls and texting, that’s something you can have, for the grand price of an old, second-hand phone. I’ve been loving my (LUKS-encrypted) OnePlus 6T, and I do actually use it for calls and texts as well!

Indeed. It’s probably more that increasingly more commodities are becoming “smart”, including, but not limited to EVs. I think the reason people are specifically noticing or talking about the “ensmartification” of EVs is because cars are so vastly much more expensive than any other “smart” commodity that, and for most people, an investment of that size needs to be something you can either rely on working for X number of years, or at the very least insure yourself against that happening. But a gadget that can be turned hostile to you, at the drop of a single auto-update, is anything but reliable or dependable - and to my knowledge, becoming enshittified represents a “special” kind of broken, that you can’t insure yourself against.

Never fear! I will happily spare you the trouble, and take that old thing off your hands - free of charge! ;D

I loved that controller. Best damn gamepad I ever had. It was a sad day when it finally gave in, and broke, last year.

Is there life after death? Yes, there is Second Life!

That model’s name? AI Gore.

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Me too! So much so that I have sworn to name my first secretary Kate.

So you had an egg in these trying times, did you?

Lol

Me browsing Lemmy, finding this post

You’ve got three guesses!

That aside, I remember back in the day that Op4 received a lot of praise from fans, while Blue Shift was considered by many to be underwhelming. I love them both, but I always thought Blue Shift was the better game. Op4 might be longer and more full of new content, but it’s also all kind of thrown together, playing very loose with the universe. Blue Shift was, by comparison, short, clean, well told, and nailed the setting and gameplay. To me it feels like a very Half-Life game, whereas Op4 feels more like fanfic, like the most impressive single player Half-Life mod ever made.

Holy shit. I got Logitech peripherals, and an ASUS motherboard. I’m glad I’m on Linux. I still have Windows installed, and booted into it around 2 weeks ago, after it having lied dormant for four months. I didn’t notice anything being installed, but maybe I had to reboot first.

Quite possibly, my peripherals and motherboard are all too old to have this anti-feature. Do you know if there is a list of which of their hardware this is the case for?

Damnit, I always preferred Logitech mice. I guess I might have bought my last one.

When “supply” of “quote on quotes” is higher than “demand”. :p

And besides QMMP, Audacious also traces its code roots back to XMMS.