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  • roadkill@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Hackerman
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    1 year ago

    Kiddies who like the idea of using a ‘hacker’ distro even though they’d never exceed a Ubuntu LiveCD usecase.

    I’ve gotten a few to reconsider after pointing out that all the tools in Kali rely on lax permissions and security flaws remaining on their system for them to be effective when targeting others.

  • roadkill@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Begun, the format war has
    1717·
    1 year ago

    More open formats, more open Internet! Down with Google!

    Erm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP

    WebP was first announced by Google on 30 September in 2010 as a new open format for lossy compressed true-color graphics on the web, producing files that were smaller than JPEG files for comparable image quality.[9]

    For as long as they continue to support and release code for open formats, there’s hardly an argument here. There are many complaints to be had about Google.

    Yours are none of them.

  • roadkill@kbin.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Say it ain’t so
    94·
    1 year ago

    Take care not to make statements so inaccurate they are effectively meaningless.

    1. “US white bread” isn’t a singular brand and most brands don’t “contain[s] a carcinogen”…

    2. You never mentioned what the carcinogen was. Probably because it would compromise your argument that “US white bread” as a whole contains it when it does not. (It’s Potassium Bromate/Bromide (it’s used interchangeably online sometimes), for those wondering.)

    3. It’s not limited to white bread in where it can be used. It was an additive to flour in general.

    4. A lot of the fear mongering blogs, written by ‘influencers’ whose research consists of 10 seconds of Googling but not verifying a single fucking thing they write about, name brands that contain potassium bromate… but actually don’t. Example: Wonder bread (https://wonderbread.ca/our_products/white-bread-675g/) Chex Mix. Looking up their ingredients list shows the item in question is not used at all. https://www.chexmix.com/products/chex-mix-traditional/

    TLDR: Think before you repeat vague, meaningless shit next time.

    BTW, You should look into the horrors of Dihydrogen Monoxide.

  • roadkill@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Is it the end for linux distros without systemd? Is doomsday near?
    29·
    1 year ago

    Right. What’s stopping anyone from maintaining the ONE PURE SYSTEM-FREE DISTRO ™? If it’s -that- much of an issue, surely there’s enough of a userbase to justify maintaining such a distro and suite of apps? We’re running an operating system whose very foundation exists due to forks and splits… some of which went on to be extremely popular defaults. Instead we get an insufferable rant blaming millennials for everything. Literally. Author blames millennials for Firefox, Librewolf and Thunderbird apparently expediting the death of non-systemd setups.

    And then we have a spiel about Chrome… “which is a violent security violator bootstrapping itself deep into the base system”… oh lord. Yeah. Someone forgot to take his meds. We’re about one step away from someone asking him where on the Android plush doll the author touched by the Big Bad Google Man in a Trenchcoat.

    Angry old man angry that the world hasn’t remained exactly the same for his benefit alone.

  • roadkill@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Android compatibility is insane!
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    1 year ago

    15 years and the EU has to force Apple to allow users to sideload apps of their choice… To have something we’ve had from the start on Android.

    And for those who want to complain about what sideloading brings… No, nobody is going to force you to sideload apps on your precious iDevice. It’s just preferable to have the option in the first place.

  • roadkill@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•[Question] to Linux from Windows as a daily driver
    18·
    1 year ago

    I first ran xUbuntu as a main on a Chromebook that loaded it as a ChrUbuntu install so that I could use Linux on something dedicated and full time while also keeping my desktop intact.

    Once I got used to the workings of the system, I came to prefer it in every way.

    Want vlc? Install it from the software center gui or use apt. No need to download the exe from a shady download reposting site. Same for every equivalent app that was (exactly or close enough) available for Windows. Never had to worry about the integrity of the apps in the repositories.

    Then the Windows 7 updates happened. Forced telemetry, Win10 installer preloaded. An accident later and Win10 was on my system. It pissed me off so much that I wiped the SSD and installed xUbuntu on my desktop. Had already been running it on the Chromebook for a few years so the switch was painless. Didn’t miss the games I could no longer play, not in the least, just for the added stability (no random restarts due to updated, especially not when rendering a multi day job) and ease of being able to install nearly everything I wanted from the repos.

    I grew up on windows. Used dos, win 3.0 through NT4 to 2000 to 7…

    I wish I had started using Linux sooner. It’s just easier.