Unless there’s a stipulation, there’s no reason you must do it the way they suggest. Fuck off with that my money my rules shit.

Hyprland is transphobic

I never exactly paid for any. Didn’t exactly steal. Didn’t exactly pay. I’d call it “appropriate”

Does anyone have a few optiplexes lying around?

Idk about Mint in particular. There’s a way to do this in most de/wm. I would start in the system settings where you can choose light/dark themes. Then just go top to bottom in the system settings.

Sorry I couldn’t help more

Edit: If you don’t go through settings systematically like this often, it’s good practice. You always find things you’ll use later.

I think there is an option if you right click the toolbar and the go to customize toolbar

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/techtips/customize-toolbar-firefox/

Stop giving new people choices! (Quasi facetious)

AI Austin Powers should stfu

Fairphone4 user here. Fairphone is the kind of environment you go into knowing there are tradeoffs (e.g. the camera sucks) but for me, what you gain in terms of privacy and the downright respect they have for you as a customer are worth those tradeoffs.

Sucks to be an unemployed professor

Super cool!

Doesn’t have to be

Given the state of the united states, and the world in general, gaining control over your personal privacy and security are fundamental to any other initiative you undertake

I’m confused by the goal and the plan. You have to get pre check for your job, but you find it invasive. So you ruin one of the biometric samples they take? Won’t they look at it more carefully? I doubt they will just throw their handd in the air and say fuck it

It’s almost like if you gut the people who know what they are doing you can’t do the things that you want to do

Not if it’s rubbing someone’s face in it

Ask it was llm it is derived from. Spoiler. It won’t tell you

Excuse me. ‘Free Software’ is capitalized. It is a proper noun. Do I need to explain to you the differernce between ‘Free as in Freedom’ and ‘free as in beer’?

Once you download wikipedia, you can edit it and distribute. Other people with their own copies can merge your changes into theirs, or you can push your changes upstream. Even if they need to be signed to accepted. Doesn’t that make Wikipedia more like the Linux Kernel and less like The Encyclopedia Britannica? Sure, for the kernel there is a “main and central” repo, but the whole point of git is that it isn’t centralized. It’s distributed.

In fact, in a loose way, wikipedia meets the criteria of Free Software. You can:

1. Read the source code
2. Modify the source code
3. Distribute the source code
4. Distribute your modifications to the source code

edit: wikipedia is predominately licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)

I have a fairphone 4 with /e/OS. It’s been everything I’ve needed without being spectacular.

A big complaint is the way you get apps. I don’t add apps often, and often I use adb, but the App Lounge is slow af. I predominately use obtanium to get the apk’s directly. It has F-Droid built in, but if that doesn’t work I use F-Droid proper. This splits my apps into 4 separate bins which I absolutely hate.

The camera also sucks. Stabilization, quality of images, low light, images with motion. They are all bad. Luckily for me, I don’t take pictures of people often. This applies to most camera apps. The default camera app has been patched to eliminate some of these problems, but I haven’t applied it. I’ve heard past the fairphone 4, these problems have largely been fixed.

What could be a dealbreaker for some is something I haven’t verified nor use. (If this is important look into it. I don’t want to spread rumors) The voice typing on the default keyboard now has/will have telemetry. Potentially to Google? I understand Murena needs to make money, and it isn’t personally a dealbreaker, but it is opening a door to other privacy violations. Many people in the community see this as unacceptable and once you’ve violated trust, you never get it back. For me, I’ll hang in there until I see a more substantial reason to switch (same as Proton, but leave me alone about that)

Those are all the negatives of the Fairphone 4 and /e/OS I can think of, but there are many other positives that imho outweigh the negatives. And depending on where you are coming from (e.g. google/samsung android or ios), you have to realize that with phones like the fairphone and roms like /e/OS there are large pros, but there are often large cons. Here, I’ll gladly accept those for what I’m getting in return.

LMK if you have other specific concerns. I might have just left them out. There are also ways I better secure my privacy, but you didn’t ask about that 🙃