haven’t booted up my PC since July

Do you not need to do like… productivity stuff?

How is that inconsiderate? That’s just informal

(Using “bi” to mean “bisexual”, I mean, not “business intelligence” lol)

Sorry for not committing voter fraud… I’ll do better next time libs

I’m doing my part by not voting in an election in a country that I don’t have citizenship nor residency in and am probably banned from crossing the borders of anyway 👍

Yeah you should turn it off, Mullvad’s DNS servers already give you DNS privacy. I forget which DNS servers Firefox’s DoH uses, but it will use some other DNS servers for Firefox with DoH enabled, which presumably you don’t want if you went out of your way to set your DNS servers to Mullvad’s.

I don’t think the bottom of the meme suggests that dropping support for old versions is inherently bad. It’s part of a larger image; in combination with the other screenshots it suggests people being forced to have Recall/other Win11 enshittification.

Fuuuuck there goes my plan to get this monkey to write Hamlet within the lifetime of the universe…

Out of curiosity what’s your use case for dual booting? I know it’s a common choice for new Linux users and I did it too out of fear that I’d be missing something I need Windows for, but I’ve been completely Windows-free for a while and much happier for it. When I did have a Windows partition I never booted into it.

For games, Steam’s Proton works pretty well for most games these days. You can check https://www.protondb.com/ to see if your game works well with Proton.

I’ve also had good experiences with Wine for productivity software. Similarly, you can check https://appdb.winehq.org/ to see how well your program runs on Wine.

Worst case scenario, if you have a decent enough PC, you can always run a Windows VM and that should run more or less anything.

And all of these avoid any trouble with Windows eating your grub install etc

I don’t think the issue is dropping support, but the ridiculous requirements to upgrade to Win11, plus the fact that more recent Windows have serious enshittification that means users don’t want to upgrade in the first place.

Thanks for all the links!

I read it as a jokey community and maybe you took it too seriously. Regardless that’s a kinda silly comment to leave. That’s a community for, ironically or seriously, hating Linux, so obviously it’s not in the spirit of the community to leave a serious comment defending Linux.

I see a lot of Windows hate on Lemmy. If someone made a post here complaining about how much they hate Windows, and a Windows fan replied explaining why Windows is so great, I would say it’s kinda heavy-handed but not totally ridiculous for a mod to ban them, since a Linux community is probably not for this person.

Well, fundamentally capitalism involves the deprivation of the means of subsistence and production from one class so that they are forced to sell their labour-power to the capitalist class in order to obtain the means of subsistence. You could define that as “mistreatment” or not I guess, but whether or not you do, personal treatment by your capitalist does not change the form capitalism takes. Workers’ power comes from combining. Capitalists are already combined—they work together to keep wages low and prices high. Unionising only levels the playing field in that regard.

I’m not saying that you should always focus on unionisation in every situation—sometimes there is more important political work to be done. But if you have nothing else to do, it’s often the most accessible starting point.

I would disagree, and I personally know people who have unionised IT workers. I also personally know people who have unionised workers at small companies. I don’t understand why you would say unionisation is not relevant to you? If you’re a worker then it is relevant.

Linux distro shouldn’t really matter here. Given what you’ve said, I would recommend using Debian just because it’s the most popular server distro and a lot of server guides will either assume you’re on Debian, or have instructions for Debian. For instance, if you see suggestions to install software using sudo apt install software-name-here, that’s for Debian.

You would probably want to use Docker for this. There are instructions on how to install Jellyfin with Docker here.

Join an organisation agitating for proletarian revolution. If there aren’t any near you, you can start with trade union work to build a mass of militant workers that can form the base of a political organisation.

I don’t upload photos anywhere public for this reason. For screenshots I just strip the exif data, and if it’s a screenshot that goes from edge to edge of a screen, I resize it so as to not give away info on the size of my screen. I also don’t share the same image in multiple places. If I have any kind of custom theming (fonts or colours) in a screenshot I also usually change it to something more generic, unless the point of the screenshot itself is to showcase the theming.

I just use my note taking app

When the workplace is assisting the genocide of the people the vigil is for.

Hosted by someone else: Codeberg or Sourcehut.

Self-hosted: Forgejo

None? I’ve never felt the need to. I’m not categorically opposed to it, but it’s never occurred to me that I should block a particular user.