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And what was she doing with it? /s

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Forgot to add /s on my post. Sorry!

I was only aiming for the lulz because cities outdoor particulate matter or PM 2.5 is terrible, and mostly generated by cars. But their sales/ companies lobby are stronger than those of nowadays tobacco brands…

You don’t need to announce every time you’re blocking someone, it’s a bit obnoxious to all the readers. I’m not going to moderate the insults at the moment but this thread is on the verge of being locked or whatever… and this is not meant to you. Everyone should try keeping it a little bit more civil. Chill, this is just a bit of news, no need to start a war between smokers and non smokers.

Why don’t we start by banning outdoor use of fossil fuels? :)

We can’t recommend Arch to beginners. The maintenance is too high.

But yes, the support on rolling distros is great.

In any case, I’m surprised all the issues OP gets are from support for a fan? Something is terribly wrong here. I’d rather switch to any other fan (they’re cheap!) and blame the manufacturer. Move along.

For windows9x UI there are retro themes (e.g. xfce4 as DE can be themed with https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 ). For a distro, try zorin os maybe? Is focused on giving a modern windows-like UI and feel. In any case, my recommendation goes to debian or mint.

Desktop environments are tightly coupled to distros. At work, I got ubuntu. Got root, installed kde plasma. It works, but only because ubuntu is huge and has a “meta package”, and if you’re experienced enough not to switch the login to sddm, is all good. But even so, this goes to show that even if you can build your own system by swapping parts, this doesn’t mean is simple. Most linux users simply take a distro and don’t wander too far from it…

Actually, drinkable water is one of the major difficulties during a a flood. So they’re not awfully wrong to carry those beers.

Mullvad is trustworthy (imho, and because of audits).

Anyway, you can have both, and run purple i2p with blackjack and torrents!

The closest would be a folder, synchronized between phone and computer (e.g. using syncthing) where you save the torrent files. Then the client scans and automatically adds torrents from there. It will remove such files, so while at it, you should also configure to save completed torrent files somewhere. When possible, torrent files are a better option (they bring metadata, required if you ever wanted to re-share some content).

Ohhh. This is great!! Thanks :)

They were cutting files in smaller parts and spreading over multiple locations and countries. At least that was the claim in the early days, so anything illegal would require lawyers on many jurisdictions sending the same letter (e.g. DMCA takedown)

Ironically, it did work but now that Durov is in jail channel admins would do good to take precautions.

In case anyone needs the clarification, facism is not about exposing who thinks what. Facism is about extermination of the opposition, and minorities. And, one huge point against facism is that they can stop being bigots. Meanwhile, minorities that would suffer from a facist regime have no real option to stop having a skin color, religion, or sexual orientation.

That’s the whole point about exposing these “customers”. To make them feel shame (or threatened, if that works) so they disengage any political actions. It’s about disjointing fascist activities and the danger they pose to society.

I wish him a happy life, it would be great if he abandons his faith now that the farce is over. And it’s not late to repair on the damages he’s done during his political career.

Oh… I just saw your point. I’m comparing to Android (LineageOS) when it should be to iOS… void

Well, then this news are just sad.

I’m absolutely with you on point 5. As for the rest, I will have to admit that I may have said some things plain wrong. I’m just trying to drive the point that it’s not inmoral and people should be happy anyway. Perhaps in 10 years this is the OS we are all using on our desktops, phones, and wearables. It would be a pity that’s not GPL and it has ads, sure (like maybe Android on x-brand flagship mew phone). But we could then have the LineageOS version of this. And I’d be happy. My poiny being, if that happens (it turns out to be the biggest OS), it will be thanks to its license, allowing it to be a thing for both people, and companies.

We can’t really know if BSD “lost” a sell to Sony. Right? I ask sincerely, maybe there’s more to the case you cited.

From my naïve view, this new project can win new associated companies and get some income to pay new devs when some maturity is achieved on this framework since it’s quite innovative and those companies can really participate whereas with a GPL they would just be left out.

I only mean to say that we might be discussing if the glass is half empty or half full. That’s why I’m trying to put into this new perspective (like considering GrapheneOS as an example. In the long run, the license might not be that much of a hurdle. At least let’s hope that’s the case since they probably won’t change to GPL.

Linux made huge strides in the last years. But if we go back 10 years, or 15 things were quite bleak. And there are many reasons to that. It’s license is one. That’s my point. Correct or not, okay.

And Linux never embraced GPLv3 for reasons that are in common probably as to why this project chose a permissive license. So, I think we should all support them in that regard.

I’d love to live in a solarpunk world where intellectual property was abolished. In the meantime, compromises are met and it’s no horror at all.

I feel you, but maybe GPL is just an unpopular option (linux kernel never upgraded to v3, only a few oss web apps use affero, etc.)

As much as I love libre software, I have to say that Linux had bad support for drivers because of it, and its mainstream adoption for desktops was hindered for decades because of it. Only today, we celebrate a 5% user share.

An alternative permissive license doesn’t immediately mean companies will do the worst. We live under capitalism, perhaps we can’t just change that with a license. Their decision might future-proof the project to higher heights that are hardly seen today.

Look at Android, yeah it’s a hell of a locked down system when you buy a new phone. But it works quite well, and their user share is at the very top (or second to Apple? Maybe, if you’re American). However, Android allows us to have LineageOS and Graphene (which is MIT license, but that’s beyond my point, iiuc it could very well be GPL for all of its customizations), and no matter which license these forks(?) use, privacy is preserved and taken to new levels. Meanwhile, Android or any of these alternatives support ARM architecture with great integrated video acceleration that is low power. These are not simply “nice features” but a requirement (e.g. saves energy, improved user experience, competitive to other platforms, etc.) and privacy is not really compromised.

P.s. I’m suprising myself with this comment, nearly 10 years ago I was obsessed with libre software. Today I find it more of a niche hobby, or intellectual challenge. Valuable nonetheless, sure. And hell yeah I’d like to have a linux phone which fully supports all software and hardware… But then, reality.

Oh, it’s already happening. Discussion here: https://programming.dev/post/19211993