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Oh, so it’s all about consent? Huh.

Chais,
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pavucontrol probably the best option given your distro. Go with that.

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When the Munich public transport introduced new trains around 20 years ago some of them had porn images stuck to the inside of legs of some of the benches. You can be sure that teenage boys find them.
The numbers quickly dwindled but it took the company years until they had them all removed.

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I never learned how that happened. We suspected that someone might have sneakily applied them during production or before delivery, as the trains were brand-new.
I doubt they were “official” stickers 😉

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Ain’t that the truth. But I love the workflow they offer. You don’t have to go looking for new windows. You can easily pin applications to virtual desktops and I prefer the multihead model they use over the one used by gnome or KDE.

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Yea, but people don’t play the same game non-stop for 8 hours… actually, never mind.

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I don’t know what gave you the idea that a particular distro would be an especially good/bad choice for privacy, etc. They’re all GNU/Linux with only minor differences in compile-time options in the kernel and different defaults in user-space. But they’re just that, defaults. You can reconfigure them to your preference.

With that out of the way, the issue NixOS attempts to address is reproducibility. You get a central configuration infrastructure that defines everything, from partition layout, through user creation and package installation to software configuration. The central idea being that migrating to a new machine or setting up a new development environment should only take a few commands.
What you do with that is up to you. You can barricade the whole system if you like. The defaults are sane, but not overly focused on privacy, etc.
Also it’s quite a learning curve as the documentation/wiki is incomplete and/or outdated.

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Not to mention that they’re still considered experimental.

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Obviously

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So we have to piece information together from the manual and random blogs? Like cavemen? Or worse, like Windows users??

Louis Rossman/FUTO's YouTube app, GrayJay, now supports Sponsorblock... and shames you if you use it

Seriously this was very surprising. I’ve been experimenting with GrayJay since it was announced and I largely think it’s a pretty sweet app. I know there are concerns over how it isn’t “true open source” but it’s a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced. Plus, I like the general design and philosophy of the app....

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With the Fairphone you get more than just a replaceable battery. You get replaceable nearly everything. Also they do their best to ethically source the materials. In terms of ROMs there is also Iodé, also based on LOS, and if you go with a FP4 instead Ubuntu Touch.

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I’d low-key like to learn a Scottish accent. But I doubt it would ever be good.

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Take a look at Simplex.

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That’s probably the flipside of polling-based updates.

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If I learned anything from Luffy it’s that you can call any ship a boat 😁

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Accidentally flashed a live image (PCBSD, IIRC) onto my 1TB external HDD instead of the thumb drive. Lost years of collected music and movies that night. I learned two things:

  1. Don’t do this sort of thing in the middle of the night, when you’re tired and should be sleeping.
  2. dd is nicknamed ‘disk destroyer’ for good reason.

Is an unknown supervisor password for ThinkPad bios an issue if I've already installed linux?

I purchased a second hand ThinkPad from an ebay outlet. When it arrived I wiped windows 10 from it and installed ubuntu with no issues. It runs perfect without any weird fixes needed. However, after just checking the bios to see if I could change some settings, I realised it has a supervisor password....

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You can either try to contact the seller and ask for the password or just erase the UEFI settings by shorting some jumper or something. There should be instructions how to do that for your specific model.

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Imagine being too stupid to properly hold your phone.

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Nothing and everything. The trick is knowing which is which.

Edit: I see someone couldn’t tell the difference.

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Brother’s cannelloni?
Sister’s orzo?

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