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floofloof, to programmer_humor in Infinite Loop

Can we arrange some swaps? I’m not getting paid enough and neither are you.

floofloof, to programmer_humor in Programming: The Horror Game

Makes a change from Visual Studio turning white because it has hung yet again.

floofloof, (edited ) to privacy in There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data – The Markup

Your location can still be triangulated from cell towers. But maybe fewer companies have access to that info.

floofloof, to linux in Yubikey on Linux?

I’m afraid I can’t remember how I did it, it was some time ago on a machine I no longer have. There is some advice here:

…yubico.com/…/360016649039-Installing-Yubico-Soft…

There’s an appimage for their manager app there. You might also try using Distrobox to give yourself access to a distro that uses apt, and then add Yubico’s PPA and install the software from there. I don’t know whether it would work but in principle it should.

floofloof, (edited ) to linux in GNOME and AppIndicator/system tray

It seems to be characteristic of the Gnome project’s philosophy to do things in what they consider the best way rather than the way a new user might expect. It’s an admirable commitment to deliberate design rather than copying, but it may also make it unappealing to some users. Personally I don’t enjoy using Gnome, but I know people who love it. Thankfully in the Linux world we have options.

floofloof, (edited ) to linux in What's your current favorite distro that isn't Arch, Debian or Fedora?

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has been my desktop home for the last year. It’s very up to date, yet it’s somehow solid and reliable despite sometimes receiving hundreds of updates per week. And if anything goes wrong with an update you can easily roll back to a BTRFS snapshot. It has a good repository supplemented by Flatpaks, and I haven’t had any problems finding software, yet it’s not a hassle like some other cutting-edge distros. It uses KDE Plasma by default, which I consider a plus. I came to it from Mint, which was my go-to distro for a long time, but I enjoy Tumbleweed more for its up-to-dateness and configurability, and I have (surprisingly) encountered more software gaps on Mint.

floofloof, to privacy in Can I edit .docx files without a Microsoft 365 subscription and if not are there any alternatives

I think they recommended Only Office, not Open Office.

floofloof, to piracy in The New Yorker paywall.

Firefox Focus on Android - just keep deleting history.

floofloof, to linux in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month

They’ve learned from their mistakes, and concluded that Clippy failed because there was no Clippy key.

floofloof, to programmer_humor in Happy New Year Coders.

Oh, those are arms. I thought the moustache was a bit too stylish for the character.

floofloof, to piracy in Prime is adding ads to their streaming service

It still has a better selection than Netflix.

floofloof, (edited ) to linux in KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future

why I should bother

Bother to do what? As you said, when your distro switches you go with it and notice no difference. You don’t have to bother to do anything.

floofloof, (edited ) to news in Heads of 3 top US colleges refuse to say calling for genocide of Jews is harassment

Here’s a fuller account of what was said:

archive.is/Z9vMg

(Original URL: washingtonpost.com/…/3-elite-college-presidents-a…)

floofloof, to news in Swiss bank will pay $122.9 million after helping U.S. citizens hide billions in assets

A cheap price and a great return on investment for them.

floofloof, to news in Israel orders more Gazans to flee, bombs areas where it sends them

It came as Gaza’s health ministry said that at least 15,899 Palestinians, 70% of them women or under 18s, have now been killed in Israeli air and artillery strikes on the enclave since Oct. 7. Thousands more are missing and feared buried in rubble.

Whatever this is, it’s kind of walking like a genocide and quacking like a genocide.

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