Help me choosing laptop
The keyboard is important ,for me atleast, the Lenovo keyboards i hate them, i like LG or Asus/Acer, all of these i would like to dont open/modify the base laptop, I dont like to open the pc.
I know the budget is impossible to catch something with all that but these are orientative objectives, and as I said it can go up to 1100€, one i've seen and i liked very much is these frame.work/es/en/products/lapt… the 1600€ but is so expensive for me, but i like it very much even the concept
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I am going to buy a InfinityBook Pro 15 - Gen9 - AMD by TUXEDO. A bit over budget for you, but i definitely think it's worth the price (1300€). The company is devoted to supporting Linux and offers a wider range of personalization on your laptop (Keyboard, OS installed etc etc).
Also, worth noting: 5 years of warranty is pretty nice.
EDIT: Framework is very expensive in my opinion. If you are willing to spend 1600€, then have a look at TUXEDO or System76. For that price range you will make more value out of your money.
frame.work/es/en/products/lapt… the 1600€ but is so expensive for me, but i like it very much even the concept
Have you looked at the DYI option instead of the pre built one? Assembling this laptop is doable in 5 minutes for a 3 years old kid ;) You can even find step by step guides videos and that will bring the price down to your higher limit of 1000 euro. That may be a good option if you like the concept so much.
I'm personaly looking to get one of those for my next machine.
Also, this discussion may help you. It's on the framework forum but comments are not only all positive which reflects liberty of speech. Another plus in my view.
Finally, always remember to compare apples to apples and take longevity in consideration. Not all processors with similar specs are the same for example.
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Can second this, OP. The DYI option saved me like $350 over the pre built and it took like ten minutes in between being amazed at the packaging. They even supply the only tool you'll need for it!
As for Linux, Fedora 39+ fully supports every aspect of the laptop OOTB. It's a wonderful experience.
Framework laptop has a nice concept and good Linux support in theory.
Sadly, I keep having heating problems with mine, currently in contact with their support again.
Similar. 95-100 degrees C under load, while 70-85 (or something like that) is normal according to the support. It's also very hot in idle (60-80). And when it gets hot, it throttles to unusable 400 MHz.
Still in contact with support, I have warranty, so I'm hoping they get me new thermal paste or whatever is broken. It's not a software thing.
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I'm personally a fan of NovaCustom; not as upgradable as Framework, however 7 years of parts are definitely nice to have. They also offer video tutorials on how to replace parts. Good stuff.
But, like any vendor targeting Linux, its devices can be more expensive than what you'd expect from Asus, Lenovo etc.
Perhaps the most important questions that need answering are the following:
- How much computation power is required? I.e. do 10th generation Intel chips suffice or not?
- Are you okay with buying devices second hand?
- How much explicit Linux support do you require from the vendor?
- Do you live in Europe or in USA (or close enough) to buy from Linux-first vendors and not be deprived from sending and receiving the devices (for reparations and what not) due to associated costs and time?
Distro
As for distro, it all comes down to personal taste.
- Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition if you require a popular, reliable and beginner-friendly base.
- If you don't like how Cinnamon (the Desktop Environment) looks and/or feels, perhaps consider Pop!_OS, Tuxedo OS or Zorin OS instead.
- However, if you prefer minimalism, then the likes of Debian and openSUSE Leap have to be mentioned.
All of the previously mentioned distros are known to ship older versions of software. This is excellent if you require stability above all, but what if you want a distro built on more up to date software? Well, consider the following then:
- Fedora; software found here is at max six months old. Relatively minimal. However, it may require you to fiddle with codecs and what not on first boot. Thankfully, there's a lot of documentation out there to help you with this. Just ensure that the documentation is written relatively recently.
- If you like what you see from Fedora, but would rather prefer a distro that's properly setup right from the get-go; then perhaps consider one of uBlue's images instead. These are known to provide the most stability out of the (relatively) up to date distros. Please ensure to thoroughly read through its documentation, though. The uBlue images are excellent, but their inner workings can be different from other distros. Hence, you should rely on its own documentation first. And only after you've determined that it's not found within should you consider consulting other sources.
Perhaps, you might prefer software updates as soon as they're available. Hence, Fedora (and derivatives) didn't quite cut it. Then, you should consider so-called rolling release distros. However, take note; every update comes with the risk of potentially breakage; i.e. something will misbehave that didn't before. The chance of this is relatively small; probs in the order of 1%. This chance persists; regardless of the chosen distro. Hence, with distros that update more often, it's more likely that some breakage will occur at some point.
With that out of the way, we should mention noteworthy rolling release distros:
- openSUSE Tumbleweed is for those that absolutely require a rolling release, but desire as much stability as possible. Both openSUSE's testing as well as built-in Btrfs + Snapper work hard to ensure a smooth ride.
- EndeavourOS or Garuda Linux are the entries from the lineage of the (in)famous Arch (btw). EndeavourOS is primarily known for its easy installation towards a minimal Arch system. Garuda Linux, on the other hand, is more opinionated and therefore comes with all the bells and whistles you'd expect from a distro oriented towards gamers. Still, it comes with Btrfs + Snapper built-in. Which is exactly why it's mentioned here. Note that you can setup Btrfs + Snapper yourself on EndeavourOS.
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CachyOS Introduces New Repository Optimized for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 CPUs
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Starting with this release, CachyOS will automatically enable a software repository on new installations that will be used to provide the best performance for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 machines. In addition, the ISO now features automatic architecture checks for the Zen 4/Zen 5 repository and CachyOS’s hardware detection tool (chwd) received support for AMD GPUs for better detection of official ROCm-supported GPUs.
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It is time for Linux distros to target the latest tech.
It is hard though, as you either get duplicated packages or need to let old hardware unsupported.
But see, on the Intel side, even my 2012 Thinkpad is x86_66-v2 or was it v3?
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Enlisted is now available on Steam with native linux build and it's free
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No idea, but one of the most recent (negative) reviews says:
you may wonder how its possible to make something more pay to win, non-functional, scummy and devoid of anything resembling fun than war thunder but gaijin manages to make lightning strike twice. if you are somehow able to take one look at the 2nd-to-none worst ui in gaming with less readability than mobile games, and continue to press the play button. you will be met with the most uninteresting cluster♥♥♥♥ of tanks and planes raping the handful of players and their army of bots.lets also not forget the initial steam launch of this game, which was met with overwhelmingly negative reviews, was taken down because you couldnt get this free game on steam without also paying for a dlc(which by its nature is non refundable). Now the game has been re-listed under a different name specifically so that negative reviews and associated community news/discussions are lost to time and not carried over onto this page.
But I mean, it's free to try if you have time to spare...
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New Release Audacity 3.6
Audacity 3.6 | Audacity Support
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Optional crash reporting was merged. Most of the backlash in the PR is about the significant dependencies (Google's BreakPad) which were pulled in with it.
However, by default Audacity isn't built with it, you need to specify a CMake with the URL to send data to. No distros that I know of enable reporting.
Breakpad integration by vsverchinsky · Pull Request #836 · audacity/audacity
Adds crash reporting to Audacity Crash reporting allows developers to have more details on the current problems in Audacity, understand whether they are platform/OS version specific, etc. Implement...GitHub
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Ahhh I see. At least from Wikipedia, it looks like the auto-opt-in telemetry was dropped, which is good.
Wierd that it's owned by Muse group now, but glad it's alive and well.
Audacity is now basically part of the Muse family, which is a for profit venture, with it's own - wait for it 🥁🥁🥁🥁 store front launcher
Nothing makes me hate music software (or games) more than yee old SaaS/DRM pile-on, especially when you add another goddamn launcher. I'm trying to lay low latency buffers here, not facilitate another UI stack and background processes. I nuke the printer spool, and you think I want more? I will download the cracked version, even if I own the damned software, to get rid of all that.
Jokes aside, considering the whole funding issue in the open source world, MuseHub (the "plugin boutique") takes a fairly common route in the audio software world, since pretty much every single one of these DAW, plugin or sample pack outfits have a storefront - or use one, if not several.
If say the Audacity we know is still free, but the add-ons cost money, that's fine. It's very "freemium", but as long as they don't remove VST3 or CLAP support, it's fairly harmless.
In regards to tracking, is it opt-out, opt-in, identifiable or anonymized telemetry? It's contentious, to say the least, but if it's a concern, you could always block domains - even though the average user would probably not concern themselves, and at that point I wonder if it's better than other creepy freemium models that are even more predatory.
Though it could be the type of telemetry used in most modern DRMs to confirm ownership by using plenty of CPU cycles and network communication to validate identity.
Because DRMs is the worst technology segment invented in all of modern history, and it needs to die in a fire - I swear * TO GOD* you do not need to hit several friggin domain many times a day, once is enough - in fact, once is too much! You can take your iLok and shove it. I paid for this software, and if I put a Jolly Roger in it, it's because your DRM drains my soul.
your launcher is bad and you should feel bad
I swear, this heckles my kekles sooo much.
I feel like we should be promoting the fork that was created during the drama some years ago, rather than audacity. They really have lost faith in the community and every time they are mentioned, basically there is no love.
I just can't remember the name of the fork.
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For those, like me who entered this chat wondering why the hostility? Here is a great write up of what happened in 2021.
hackaday.com/2021/07/13/muse-g…
Muse Group Continues Tone Deaf Handling Of Audacity
When we last checked in on the Audacity community, privacy-minded users of the free and open source audio editor were concerned over proposed plans to add telemetry reporting to the decades old ope…Hackaday
Recursive execute(x) required to enable nginx to read a directory !?? [ SOLVED ]
Hi,
I've noticed something quite odd, but I don't know if the problem come from Linux itself or nginx..
In order to grant nginx access to a directory let say your static
see: stackoverflow.com/questions/16…
These parent directories "/", "/root", "/root/downloads" should give the execute(x) permission to 'www-data' or 'nobody'. i.e.
but it seem not only the direct parent need to be given XX5 but all the chain
for example
example
└── sub1
└── sub2
└── staticit seem you need to set allow
others to read and execute 5all the parents example, sub1, sub2
Why is that !?? I've found it so akward and unsecure !
is there a workaround ?
Thanks.
Nginx serve static file and got 403 forbidden
Just want to help somebody out. yes ,you just want to serve static file using nginx, and you got everything right in nginx.conf: location /static { autoindex on; #root /root/downloads/Stack Overflow
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~~Probably a bit of a TL:DR of the other answer, but the short answer is:~~ the execute bit has a different meaning for directories - it allows you to keep going down the filesystem tree (open a file or another directory in the directory). The read bit only allows you to see the names of the files in the directory (and maybe some other metadata), but you cannot open them without x bit.
Fun fact, it makes sense to have a directory with --x or -wx permissions - you can access the files inside if you already know their names.
Edit: not a short answer, apparently
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Thank you all !
Indeed setting execute perm on example, sub1, sub2, static
The program/user have now access to the directory.
In order words all the parents directory need at least execute in order to have access in the targeted directory...
Now I gave 751 for static. Meaning than others (here nginx) cannot list the files within. But never the less it works\
the static files are appearing when requested (HTTP) but forbidding nginx to list the directory is changing something ? (performance/security)
Thanks
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Thanks for reading through it and giving your thoughts!
Could you elaborate on the mistakes/oversights found in the "Stable vs bleeding edge" section?
IDK. Gentoo is considered stable, but fedora "leaning unstable"?
Anyway what is that whole un/stable supposed to mean anyway? All non-rolling distros try to be stable. What can break are third party repos and stuff you compiled yourself. With fedora that can "break" twice a year. With a rolling distro that can "break" on every updates
Gentoo is considered stable
Honestly, I'm too unfamiliar with Gentoo to make a proper assessment on this. Though, even my (simple) understanding allows me to understand it as follows:
- Gentoo is not a point-release distro. Hence, by definition, it satisfies the definition of a rolling-release distro.
- Furthermore, regarding Portage's branches, this page suggests only two branches; Stable and Testing. With Stable being set as the default one. Furthermore, AFAIK, tests occur for over a month over at the Testing branch before updates enter the Stable branch. Hence, more time is taken compared to other rolling-release distros.
Which, I believe is what's alluded to here:
"The update philosophy of a distro is generally not related to its release cadence, as you can have rolling release distros that are relatively stable (for example, Gentoo) and point release distros that are relatively bleeding edge (for example, Fedora)."
Is there any reason why you would deem Gentoo as not stable? If so, what?
but fedora “leaning unstable”?
For the sake of completeness, proper quotation would have been "leans bleeding"
I'll give you that the article is definitely not exhaustive and/or properly clarified. Perhaps for the sake of brevity, idk. Hence, I believe that this confusion is justified. However, again, I think the raised point is justifiable based on the following:
- Fedora is known to push new tech first. Heck, it even adopts it first; e.g. PulseAudio, systemd, GTK4, Wayland, PipeWire etc. Hence, this causes Fedora to feel bleeding edge; i.e. because its users are literally the first to test it en masse.
May I ask why you think Fedora does not lean towards unstable?
Anyway what is that whole un/stable supposed to mean anyway?
I agree it causes more confusion/conflation that it has any right to.
All non-rolling distros try to be stable.
It depends on the used definition of "stable" 😅.
- If "stable" is used here in the context of name for used branch (of the repository). Then yes, but this also satisfies rolling-release distros; as they, by default, ship software with their own designation of "Stable" (even Arch). (For the sake of completeness, I'm aware that some distros default to testing/unstable branches.) Hence, using this definition of "stable" is not very productive.
- If, instead, "stable" is used in the context of stability. Then, also yes. And, yet again, this also satisfies rolling-release distros. It's not like any reasonable distro is out there to deliver software that's known to cause issues and whatnot. The distros only differ in how exhaustive their testing is. Which gets us to...
- If, finally, "stable" is used in the context of how well-tested the distro is. This also ties in to the earlier presented definition for name of the used branch (of the repository). Because we all know that Arch's Stable repository is wildly different from Debian's Stable repository. And here, unsurprisingly, we find wild differences that are also actually helpful in a productive conversation.
- (Surprise,) tied to the previous point, "stable" could also refer to how often the distro requires you to update. With "stable" being used to indicate that updates are only required between (infrequent) point-releases. However, non-intrusive security updates should be able to get through regardless.
What can break are third party repos and stuff you compiled yourself.
Sorry, I can't agree with you on this. Even if this is said in the context of non-rolling distros, my experiences with Fedora suggest otherwise. Granted, Fedora is sometimes referred to as semi-rolling release distro. So, perhaps it (and direct derivatives) are the exception.
With fedora that can “break” twice a year.
Agreed (with earlier mentioned caveat*).
With a rolling distro that can “break” on every updates
Agreed.
phew long answer. I wouldn't call Gentoo unstable. I was rather interested in why it's supposedly more stable then Fedora.
I just wrote from my limited experience. I never had something break on Fedora. I just updated a system from 35 to 41. The stuff that broke was something I compiled against old dependencies. (That's why I didn't update so long)
My Gentoo experience is >15y old. I had numerous incompatibilities, because I used the tools the system gave me. But sure that's on me if I cutomize my system with USE flags. And it's probably better now.
phew long answer.
Yeah, lol. My apologies 😅. Thank for reading through all of that 😊!
I just wrote from my limited experience. I never had something break on Fedora. I just updated a system from 35 to 41. The stuff that broke was something I compiled against old dependencies. (That’s why I didn’t update so long)
Interesting. Within the last two years, we had issues with mesa and codecs; some devices couldn't even boot up. I'm glad to hear you haven't had any issues though. BTW, for the sake of completeness, I've been daily driving Fedora Silverblue for over two years now*.
I just updated a system from 35 to 41.
LOL, my first version was version 35; which is a curious coincidence. With 41, do you mean Rawhide?
My Gentoo experience is >15y old.
15 years is a long time 😅. Do you recall if Gentoo had dependency resolution back then?
Was on the phone and only quickly looked up the latest version. So I only updated to 40, not rawhide.
Sure Gentoo had dependency resolution. Does Gentoo still have use flags? Because that makes dependency resolution much hardere It's not enough to know the dependeicies, you also have to know all the use flags you dedend on. And if a maintainer adds a use flag for a feature you depend on, you have to add that dependency as well or people who disable that flag break with your package.
I'd be surprised if gentoo was considered stable, if you make heavy use of use-flags - if they still exist.
edit Maybe your "dependency resolution" is a new automatic thing that identifies dependencies including use flags automaticallt? It was automatidally done, only if the maintainers put the right stuff in their ebuilds.
Does Gentoo still have use flags?
AFAIK, it still does. Though I wonder if it still comes with a lot of added complexity that you note. I've yet to give Gentoo a good try. Therefore, you could be totally right with the following:
I’d be surprised if gentoo was considered stable, if you make heavy use of use-flag
Regardless, it was an informative talk. Thank you for that! Have a nice day 😊!
Current Linux market share worldwide for desktops is at ~4%. There's also ~2% ChromeOS which is Linux based so I don't know why it's listed separately. As well as ~6% other which is probably Linux with privacy settings turned on.
If we go back 5 years in Linux desktop usage, the high end is including the "Other" category.
2019: ~2% to ~9%
2020: ~2.5% to ~5%
2021: ~3.5% to ~11.5%
2022: ~4.5% to ~10.5%
2023: ~6.5% to ~10%
2024: ~6% to ~12%
There is definitely a growing trend, the user base has grown somewhere between 33% and 300% depending on whether you include the "Other" category, which I personally think is a pretty safe assumption since for most PC users if it's not Windows or Os X, it's Linux.
Here's where I got the data from: gs.statcounter.com/os-market-s…
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Firefox enables user tracking
... I mean, WTF. Mozilla, you had one job ...
Edit:
Just to add a few remarks from the discussions below:
- As long as Firefox is sponsored by 'we are not a monopoly' Google, they can provide good things for users. Once advertisement becomes a real revenue stream for Mozilla, the Enshittification will start.
- For me it is crossing the line when your browser is spying on you and if 'we' accept it, Mozilla will walk down this path.
- This will only be an additional data point for companies spying on you, it will replace none of the existing methodologies. Learn about fingerprinting for example
- Mozilla needs to make money/find a business model, agreed. Selling you out to advertisement companies cannot be it.
- This is a very transparent attempt of Mozilla to be the man in the middle selling ads, despite the story they tell. At that point I can just use Chrome, Edge or Safari, at least Google has expertise and the money to protect my data and sadly Chrome is the most compatible browser (no fault of Mozilla/Firefox of course).
- Mozilla massively acts against the interests of their little remaining user base, which is another dumb move made by a leadership team earning millions while kicking out developers and makes me wonder what will be next.
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This is after they bought an ad company last month, Mozilla is compromised now
Edit: Somebody pointed out the reason: Mozilla Foundation has no members. It's just the executives, no one in the actual community has any input in Mozilla's direction, and considering how wildly out of touch tech executives are this explains it all
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yea. but they get to claim like they fund the opensource world. like come on… stop posting fake funding claims on an anonymous forum and hire yourself a developer team if you're so invested in this.
But whaa… developers salary aren't funded by your $2 dollar donations, even with 100s of donations. oh geez… who woulda thought.
In general I agree: Open source projects are super hard to monetize and too much work does not get donations, flowers or even thanks.
For Firefox specifically I am not so sure, especially when Thunderbird seems to be doing good with their donation based model.
As long as Firefox is run by Mozilla throwing millions at their incompetent leadership, I will not donate a cent to Firefox.
If Firefox would get forked by some developers I'll happily donate money to them and given Firefox high visibility/importance, this might work out, like Thunderbird did.
Proton did something similar.
This poll shows promise:
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5$ a month seems reasonable, but I am more the pay 250$ for lifetime type 😄
... first of all, providing a new API to give out information about me is not a good thing in my mind.
Second, this would be the first time in human history, the advertisers would not simply add that APIs information to everything else they aggregate including fingerprinting of your browser.
So, serious question: How is this good for me?
Edit: typo
It does not collect any more information about you. It provides far less information than pretty much every ad is already collecting, and that information is anonymized. It does not affect ad blocking solutions.
So, serious question: what are you not understanding here?
... as already mentioned above:
- This will be just an additional data point about you sold out - no advertiser will dial back on all the other ways to collect data about you.
- Mozilla shows that it willingly and silently will sell your data out and they will increase this over time to make money/try to be the man in the middle.
- It does not matter at all if it affects ad blocking solutions, this is about tracking and profiling. Learn about browser fingerprinting and other techniques.
- This is built in to your browser, which is crossing a very important line.
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This does not prevent regular ad tracking, this provides additional data to advertisers. It also means Mozilla is now tracking me, and then Mozilla does this "anonymizing" on their servers. I do not trust Mozilla with this data, and I don't trust that no way can be found de-anonymize or combine this data with other data ad networks already collect.
This is not in my interest at all. This data should not be collected. The ad networks can suck it, why should I help them?
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"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again
"No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers" proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128.Jonah Aragon (Privacy Guides)
... No, it does not. The ads are currently already tracking clicks and conversions, on top of a whole boatload of other personal data. This API instead provides them with just the click and conversion data, divorced from the personal data and then aggregated with all the other site visitors.
Being against this proposal basically means you trust random websites and ad companies more with your data then you do Mozilla and LetsEncrypt.
This API instead
Instead of what? As I said, this is in addition to existing tracking, with some vague promise that if current tracking methods were banned or abandoned, this could be used instead. Except it's not getting banned (Mozilla is not going to out-lobby Google) or abandoned (market forces prevent that), and why oh why would I want some alternative way for ad companies to get my data in that situation anyway? Let them die.
Now if another person is going to repeat this nonsense talking point, which you have picked up strait from Mozilla's corporate PR, I'm going to lose my mind. Have some critical thinking skills. They are giving away your data right now and they give you nothing in return except a nonsense promise of a fairytale future.
Please I just want a browser that acts in the user's interest only, does not work with Meta on adtech, and does not think it's their duty to save the ad industry from itself.
github.com/mozilla/explainers/…
Check out the second and third paragraphs in particular.
This initial implementation is just to test the actual API, so I don't believe sites using it will be blocking the other tracking yet, but once this API is tested and starts to see adoption, the goal is replacing tracking with this anonymized attribution.
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You said:
Again, no, that’s not true. This API is only used by sites that opt into it, and in so doing, they are disabling the normal tracking which is far more invasive.
OK, your source for this:
A full version of an in-browser attribution API will offer strong privacy protections, while providing considerable flexibility in how to measure ad performance. Our long term goal is a standardized attribution solution. We believe that a good attribution system will give advertising businesses a real alternative to more objectionable practices, like tracking, which should allow browsers to further restrict those practices.
Nowhere does it say websites are disabling other tracking methods.
It says that browsers could (maybe, in the future) restrict other methods of tracking, if this gets widespread mainstream adoption. Why are these things related exactly? Mozilla could presumably implement these tracking restrictions right now. The reason they are related in the minds and PR of Mozilla drones is that they don't dare do this without providing an alternative for the ad industry. Their corporate overlords won't "allow" it.
But right now, this restricts and replaces nothing, they literally are giving you vague promises about future improvements, while already collecting your data, like I said.
I will remind you that you accused others of spreading misinformation in this thread. I will accept your little mea culpa song and dance now. Gimme!
Nothing in this API can do that.
Can you imagine a world where Linux wasn't directly getting paid by Amazon to hook all your machines up to AWS? You can't! And how could vim possibly be developed without dropbox integration and sponsorship, that would never work. There is no way a world exists where Krita doesn't sell all your drawings to OpenAI, how are they going to make any money?
None of these nice things could exist if they weren't selling out their users, that's just reality.
Yes I get your point. Some software can run without a large income stream, on a volunteer basis.
You’re using that fact to say that Firefox also can. And if you care to look at my profile you’ll see I’ve argued time and time again that Mozilla is an overblown organisation and should be slimmed down to a couple of hundred, working solely on the browser.
I doubt, however, that you can build a modern, up-to-date browser on a volunteer basis.
How many full-time people do you think it takes?
Linux has full time developers. Blender has full time developers. Lots of other projects have full time developers. They still don't sell my data to Google.
A web browser is a very visible piece of software, relied upon by end users, businesses and governments alike. I'm sure enough people and organizations would donate their time and money to fund this, if it existed.
"Firefox is just another US-corporate product with an 'open source' sticker on it."
unlike EU-corporate products
But what are real alternatives that ...
- support MV2 and MV3 WebExtensions
- are not Chromium-based
- are open source
- do not spy on users
Safari too: clearcode.cc/blog/privacy-pres…
This was a webkit proposal from 2019: webkit.org/blog/8943/privacy-p…
And it has been a W3C draft since 2021: privacycg.github.io/private-cl…
How Safari’s Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution Works [infographic]
In this blog post, we’ll look at how click-through attribution works now and how Webkit plans to run click-through attribution in Safari with its proposal.Mike Sweeney (Clearcode)
The way it works is supposed to anonymously allow the measuring of advertising performance. Which ads do well with which kinds of users. Instead of tracking each individual user this tracks context, meaning what site the ad was seen on etc. Thereby providing a way to know what kinds of ads work with what kinds of users without profiling every individual in the world.
That is what it's supposed to do. Data still goes to an allegedly "trusted third party" (let's encrypt, apparently) which then does this anonymization.
The idea is a lot less egregious, but it's still only a good idea assuming you agree ads would be a good and ethical way to make the internet go round, if only they weren't profiling everyone. I don't.
I think this a problem with applications with a privacy focused user basis. It becomes very black and white where any type of information being sent somewhere is bad. I respect that some people have that opinion and more power to them, but being pragmatic about this is important. I personally disabled this flag, and I recognize how this is edging into a risky area, but I also recognize that the Mozilla CTO is somewhat correct and if we have the option between a browser that blocks everything and one that is privacy-preserving (where users can still opt for the former), businesses are more likely to adopt the privacy-preserving standards and that benefits the vast majority of users.
Privacy is a scale. I'm all onboard with Firefox, I block tons of trackers and ads, I'm even somebody who uses NoScript and suffers the ramifications to due to ideology reasons, but I also enable telemetry in Firefox because I trust that usage metrics will benefit the product.
Ok idealist.
What is your alternative funding stream for Mozilla?
It's bad.
Is it worse than the advertising owned browser that gives your information directly to said advertiser?
I used to say the same, but now I wonder if they need as much as they have?
I am genuinely curious. There have been a lot of threads like this full of criticism for not spending enough on the browser.
It seems the browser is plenty funded, so maybe the org and co have too much and are in search of where to spend it?
Maybe it's just the company with too much and the org is still struggling?
I mean, that argument starts to wade in to the Mozilla foundation as a whole, and what their purpose is, and that's a giant kettle of fish.
Theoretical game. They lowball Google on how much Google pays them. How do people react? I don't see them doing that and say, "Man, I'm glad Firefox is reducing Google's influence over them". I see them making a thread about how Firefox is giving Google a discounted rate because they're all corrupt technofacists.
The core problem there still exists IMO. Funding.
What we really need is a reasonable way for open source, free, software, that exists for the good of the whole, to get money. But that has it's own kettle of fish, where does it come from, how big is big enough to get some, what if they charge for support, how open is open enough.
Something something, seize the means of production, communism, etc.
Plus, Firefox do maintain their own web-engine, while KDE just use the WebKit one, so even more reasons that Firefox can't substain with the resources KDE currently has.
What?
uBO absolutely helps against tracking. It is at least half of its reason for existing.
The two primary lists are an (1) an ad block list (2) an anti-tracking list.
And used in medium or hard mode uBO categorically blocks many methods of tracking.
But also, if you use Firefox, this is layered on top of Enhanced tracking protection, blocking of 3p tracking cookies, and total cookie protection (dfpi)
Kinda, we're all a little confused here.
uBlock will stop websites from tracking you.
uBlock will not stop your browser from tracking you
That’s true, but this feature doesn't involve your browser tracking you or profiling you. It only relates to anttribution. And if you don’t trust that, it’s an easy 1-click opt out.
There is a good high level explainer here:
andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/mozil…
Misconceptions about Firefox's Privacy Preserving Ad Measurement
Mozilla's Privacy Preserving Attribution is an important step forward towards eliminating invasive tracking by AdTech companies. Unfortunately, it is being loudly contested by individuals that prefer to spread fear instead of learning about it.Andrew Moore
Everything wrong with DroidCam and how to solve it
DroidCam is a freemium application which allows you to use your phone as a web camera (thus getting a better picture quality for meetings than ordinary webcams)
So, needless to say, it's very helpful.
Now, I have been facing a number of issues with this application for a few days and I felt it would be best if I just share stuff regarding how I make it work seamlessly, it won't look good when you are late for a meeting because you are troubleshooting droidcam, so here's how I use it.
- v4l2loopback package can cause a lot of problems, so, I would suggest you to download it from source, you can do that using this script given below (this also installs droidcam on your linux computer)
This isn't the most efficient script there is, but it works.
First, run the command
vim installation_droidcam.sh && chmod +x installation_droidcam.sh
(you might have vi editor installed by default, so if you don't have vim, just replace vim with vi, if neither are available, run sudo apt install vim, I personally use featherpad)
Now, paste the below script into your text editor (this doubles as a reinstallation script too, but if you want the latest and greatest, you would have to replace the installation commands of droidcam given below with whatever is available here on the official website
\#!/bin/bash
cd ~
pkill droidcam
sudo /opt/droidcam-uninstall
# installation script for droidcam
# if you want the latest version, go to
# https://www.dev47apps.com/droidcam/linux/
cd /tmp/
wget -O droidcam_latest.zip https://files.dev47apps.net/linux/droidcam_2.1.3.zip
# sha1sum: 2646edd5ad2cfb046c9c695fa6d564d33be0f38b
unzip droidcam_latest.zip -d droidcam
cd droidcam && sudo ./install-client
# end of installation script
cd ~
sudo rm -r v4l2loopback
pkill droidcam
gh repo clone umlaeute/v4l2loopback
cd v4l2loopback
make && sudo make install $ sudo depmod -a
cd ~
sudo modprobe v4l2loopbackNow, save the script and exit it.
Everything required for droidcam to work has been installed on your laptop (you would still have to install Droidcam (green) on your android device and set it up over there tho, I am not gonna guide with that)
Here's a video for that
Now, you would have to edit the desktop entry for droicam on your laptop to include sudo modprobe v4l2loopback command, because this needs to be running for droidcam to work. So, to do that, we will create another script
run vim /home/$USER/droidcam_start_menu_libre_desktop_file.sh && chmod +x /home/$USER/droidcam_start_menu_libre_desktop_file.sh and paste the below script and save it
\#!/bin/bash
sudo modprobe v4l2loopback
/usr/local/bin/droidcamAfter this, menulibre if you don't have it already by doing
sudo apt install menulibre and edit the desktop file entry for droicam such that it looks like the image below (make sure you Tick Run in Terminal) as you need to have v4l2loopback running in the background for droidcam to work.In the command text box, you much have /home/$USER/droidcam_start_menu_libre_desktop_file.sh (location of the script we just created) and now save it.
And that's it!
From now on, you would be able to start droidcam (while keeping droicam on on your android device)
The terminal would open, enter your password and you can now connect and use your phone as a second camera (a much better second camera)
I haven't been very articulate, so doubts are welcome
GitHub - tsujan/FeatherPad: Lightweight Qt Plain-Text Editor for Linux
Lightweight Qt Plain-Text Editor for Linux. Contribute to tsujan/FeatherPad development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
wot!? Scrcpy can double as a webcam, God, kill me now.
I have been using scrcpy to open the phone so I can turn on droidcam on it! :')
scrcpy --video-source=camera --no-audio --v4l2-sink=/dev/video0 --no-playback this is the command I use. There are a few more config options for orientation and to select the camera.
PeerTube 6.2 is out! | JoinPeerTube
publication croisée depuis : lemmy.world/post/17613422
PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols.Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.
If you are curious about PeerTube, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server.
The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!
Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup.
If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:
- report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums
- submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform
- Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide
- Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube.
What is PeerTube? | JoinPeerTube
A free software to take back control of your videos! With more than 600,000 hosted videos, viewed more than 70 millions times and 150,000 users, PeerTube is the decentralized free software alternative to videos platforms developed by FramasoftJoinPeerTube
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ThemeChanger 0.12.0 - now it can set the theme of libadwaita apps
Hello. I released a new version of my theme changing app for Linux.
It adds the feature to (force) set the theme of gnome libadwaita apps without libadwaita patches, among other minor tweaks. Besides that, it can change GTK2/3/4, Kvantum, icon and cursor themes, GTK CSS and some appearance settings across GUI frameworks.
Hope this is useful.
GitHub - ALEX11BR/ThemeChanger: Theme changing utility for Linux, etc.
Theme changing utility for Linux, etc. Contribute to ALEX11BR/ThemeChanger development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Does GNOME really need an app to change the theme?
KDE plasma has this natively...
Does GNOME really need an app to change the theme?
You can also do what this app does manually. The point is that "themes" are an hack and not officially supported, as such it doesn't make sense to provide an official interface to set them.
KDE plasma has this natively...
Do you mean for global themes, application styles or plasma styles? All application styles I can find either use Kvantum or require you to compile them manually...
Looks nice and useful thanks
I get this error using it for the first time.
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/xxx/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css'
Considering that file doesn't exist the app might create it if necessary?
Cheers
Thanks for checking.
I just checked as well and on my system (arch, xfce) the file exists but it's a symlink, created by a theme I tried but doesn't exist on my system anymore ("qogir-gtk-theme-git"). After removing the symlinks it works.
I clicked apply in the app and a gtk.css and settings.ini files was created. The gtk.css file it's empty. Is that the intended behavior?
yes it works on all desktop environments.
gtk4 themes are similar to the gtk3 ones - it's still css, maybe with some addidtions
github.com/GradienceTeam/Gradi…
GitHub - GradienceTeam/Gradience: Change the look of Adwaita, with ease
Change the look of Adwaita, with ease. Contribute to GradienceTeam/Gradience development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Tre män dömda för mord på en 72-åring. En 21-årig man har av Helsingborgs tingsrätt dömts till fängelse i 16 år för att ha utfört ett mord på en äldre man i Hyllinge utanför Åstorp den 3 augusti 2023. Mannen fick ett lägre straff då han lämnat uppgifter om andra personer som lett till att även deras brottslighet har klarats upp. Som en följd av det har två män, 20 och 38 år gamla, dömts till livstids fängelse för anstiftan till mord.
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Jag har förut testat Pixelfed, Friendica och Hubzilla och hur de fungerar ihop med WordPress, Mastodon och Lemmy. Nu har jag genomfört lite mer tester i Fediversum och också testat mikrobloggen Akkoma. Detta genom att öppna ett konto hos Disroot som driver en Akkomainstans. Det fungerar inte speciellt bra.
Jag har förut testat Pixelfed, Friendica och Hubzilla och hur de fungerar ihop med WordPress, Mastodon och Lemmy. Nu har jag genomfört lite mer tester i Fediversum och också testat mikrobloggen Akkoma. Detta genom att öppna ett konto hos Disroot som driver en Akkomainstans. Det fungerar inte speciellt bra.blog.zaramis.se/2024/07/23/lit…
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Jag har förut testat Pixelfed, Friendica och Hubzilla och hur de fungerar. Nu har jag genomfört lite mer tester i FediversumAnders_S (Svenssons Nyheter)
Jag har förut testat Pixelfed, Friendica och Hubzilla och hur de fungerar ihop med WordPress, Mastodon och Lemmy. Nu har jag genomfört lite mer tester i Fediversum och också testat mikrobloggen Akkoma. Detta genom att öppna ett konto hos Disroot som driver en Akkomainstans. Det fungerar inte speciellt bra.
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Lite mer tester i Fediversum - Svenssons Nyheter
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