Army stages live-fire rocket artillery drills near border with N. Korea
Army stages live-fire rocket artillery drills near border with N. Korea
The Army said Friday it has staged rocket artillery drills near the inter-Korean border, firing live rounds into waters off the east coast in a show of its firepower against possible North Korean provocations.yonhap (The Korea Times)
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chaftrix: image rendering + animation + matrix effect in terminal window (c, chafa)
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This program written in C will render the matrix effect in the terminal window in the background, while rendering an image in the foreground, allowing animation of this image in one or two dimensions.
Image rendering is done with chafa.
This program is the continuation and evolution of other projects:
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US, UK alone in expressing support for Israel's strike on Iran
US, UK alone in expressing support for Israel's strike on Iran
France issued a neutral statement calling for deescalation, while Arab and Islamic states harshly condemned the Israeli aggressionthecradle.co
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Looks like Germany also expressed support, France condemned, and the rest of the EU is silent so far.
Great to see even Israel's allies in the ME speak out against this.
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In 1979 the US and UK tried to fat the Iranian over, but the Iranian kicked them out.
These misery people must still be sour from their wounds
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The hypocrisy in this after condemning Iran for "escalating".
The amount of vassal states Israel controls is getting smaller by the day.
Britain's armed forces are not ‘ready to fight’ war, says Defence Secretary
Britain's armed forces are not ‘ready to fight’ war, says Defence Secretary
John Healey said the UK needed to be ‘ready to fight’ in order to deter other nationsSam Hall (Evening Standard)
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Can we start calling Amazon "AliExpress with American characteristics" now?
I can't see how this won't further undermine the value proposition of Prime, as yet more of their inventory is ineligible for "free 2-day shipping."
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Can we start calling Amazon “AliExpress with American characteristics” now?
No, that would be a compliment.
Point being, I'd rather order some random no name brand shirt from amazon because I know I can easily return it if the fit isn't right. Will amazon push this service on the vendor? Sort of like the eBay model.
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Live updates: Israel says it has completed strikes on Iran; Tehran says damage is limited
Live updates: Israel says it has completed strikes on targets in Iran
Latest news and live updates as Israel strikes at Iran in retaliation for an earlier launch of nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel.NBC News
Live updates: Israel says it has completed strikes on Iran; Tehran says damage is limited
Live updates: Israel says it has completed strikes on targets in Iran
Latest news and live updates as Israel strikes at Iran in retaliation for an earlier launch of nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel.NBC News
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A lot of interceptions from Iran. Their air defense system is unexpectedly decent.
Telling that the only period Israel is slightly reigned in is the election period when it can cost votes.
Federated social media from before it was cool
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i feel like the newsgroups could also be pegged as an early distributed/mass-audience environment similar to what we see today... multiple nodes sharing sometimes identical loads of content
i miss tagline management.. bluewave
e. ALso! the star trek nonsense was strong with alt.wesly.crusher.die.die.die!
Yeah, Usenet was where it was at back at the turn of the millennium. Then again, I had access through a university. Access wasn't free outside of places like that.
ISPs were spotty on coverage because even at that time, they needed at least a terabyte of storage to dedicate to it, and still not be able to cover everything that was on there. Of course, they might've got away with less if they decided not to carry the binaries newsgroups...
The way it worked was a lot like how Fediverse federation works now, or similarly, filesharing. It was possible to be reading a thread of messages and the older ones wouldn't be available on your local/ISP news server because their space had been recycled for newer data.
If you were lucky, your attempt to access that message might cause your host to grab it on a future request to upstream hosts or peers, but some Usenet messages are completely lost to time because everyone purged them.
Google buying Dejanews, the largest archive of all messages, and merging it with the travesty that was (and still is) Google Groups just about killed the whole thing.
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Google buying Dejanews, the largest archive of all messages, and merging it with the travesty that was (and still is) Google Groups just about killed the whole thing.
Well that and the fact that it was unmoderated which eventually led to it being populated almost exclusively with mentally ill troll savants. USENET by the end was the digital equivalent of a horror zoo of abused monkeys slinging shit all over everyone and themselves.
unmoderated
Fun fact: that's not strictly true.
You could have moderated groups, where a moderator/group of moderators would get sent every post via email, and they'd only be posted into the group if approved.
The vast, vast, vast majority of groups were not moderated, but that's not to say you couldn't do so.
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I get the argument, but email is also very different to the kind of open-web network that the fediverse resides in. There are problems the fediverse faces which email doesn't like discoverability. The emails either come to you or they don't. With federated social media, you have to find the content you're looking for first. Maybe you use a search engine, or somebody gives you a business card with their handle and instance, whatever. Then you have to figure out how to view those posts from your home instance if you want to actually interact in any way. There's browser extensions and stuff which try to make this easier, but that's another thing that has to be explained and set up, plus not everyone is visiting from a web browser with extension support, or a web browser at all for that matter.
It's not fundamentally impossible to understand the fediverse, but there's more of a barrier than email, which can be explained in a single sentence like "Your email provider gives you a unique address that anybody else can send emails to and vice versa." I don't think convincing ourselves that the fediverse is actually very simple is going to convince people outside the bubble that that's true.
Well with email if you want emails to come to you you also have to search for it and sign up your email to a list to receive them or give your email to people for them to send you stuff.
In lemmy you need to go to a community finder and find communities you want then you copy their link and paste it in your home instance search bar and hit follow. With email you need to search the web for a sites email list then paste your email in their and say you want to receive their email
Mastadon and Lemmy use the same protocol.
You can even see accounts and posts from Mastodon on Lemmy, and the other way around too.
But yes, email is great.
> I’ve heard it’s (currently) impossible to post on Mastodon with a Lemmy account due to how both are differently built, unless you’re referring to seeing a Lemmy discussion from Mastodon
I'm trying to reply to this with a Mastodon account. I'll be interested to see if it appears in the discussion on Lemmy instances, and if replies to it from Lemmy appear in my @mentions here.
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Well that worked, I can see my reply as a comment on both Lemmy.nz (where I found the thread) and on lemmy.eco.br where @P4ulin_Kbana is posting.
Now someone reply, I want to see if this works.
... but lemmy and masto do completely different things
masto's a microblogging platform like twitter and lemmy is a link aggregator like reddit
honestly i kinda wish there were a rebuild of email that is compatible with the old system but was redesigned from the ground up to do the job better
Yeah man if I were in charge of the post office I'd definitely push for that AND the return of postal banking. Every post office in the United States would be your one stop service for this email so if there are authentication issues or anything you can actually go there and talk to a PERSON, IN-PERSON.
You would use this system specifically for official government correspondence, and also it'd be better for job seeking too - any situation where you need to be communicating as YOURSELF, fully verified.
I'd even throw in social media features. Forums, microblogging, live chat groups... however, everyone's identity is clear and certain. No anonymity here. There is privacy insofar as what's between you and the government stays between you and the government, but if you want anonymity and to express opinions without someone knowing who you are, that's to be done elsewhere.
Instead of a social media website that lies to you and pretends dishonestly to give you privacy, this would have to be up front about the fact that it's public property. A town square where you're wearing a name tag. If you don't want your neighbors knowing your rhetorical positions, post them elsewhere. Those other places, private services, and important and need to exist as counterbalance.
I'm sure many criminals would be stupid enough to use it for human trafficking and contraband smuggling shit though so that'll help uncover and discipline rogue elements.
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If other federated services gain dominance, they will go the same route. And due to the same pressures. (Spam, bad actors, misbehaving servers, etc)
We already see defederation drama.
This really underscores that "The Company Town" is very much alive. Also move over East India Trading Co.
We've let the Internet too few big players. It used to be more diverse, more federated. Now it's just the New TV for Advertisers to shit down your neck.
I'm not even sure if we can go back without inventing new technologies not captured by bureaucratic establishments.
You CAN do the full list of things to get accepted there. But you only need to fail a SINGLE test to get sent to junk mail jail.
To not be put to junk you need all of the following (oh and this can and will change one day and you'll go straight to junk)
- SPF configured
- DKIM configured with valid keys applied to DNS
- DNS secured with DNSSEC, with validated keys passing all minimum requirements
- DMARC configured for domain
- Your mail server NOR the entire network on a DNSRBL. For example right now my mail server is hosted on OVH (moving soon) and it will go to junk, and in the hotmail/outlook headers it makes clear this is the only failure (-0.2 points, enough to go straight to junk mail jail)
Not sure if I missed any there. It's been a while since I set all this crap up.
Also if you're running an email server for others, it takes very little from single individual, like a small webshop newsletter, which enough people manually marks as junk and you're on a block list again. Latest one with microsoft took several days to clear, even if all of their tools and 1st tier support claimed that my IP isn't on a black list.
I've jumped all the hoops and done everything by the book, but that still doesn't mean that any of the big players won't just screw you up because some of their automaton happens to decide so. That's why I'm shutting my small ISP business down, there's no more money to make on that and a ton of customers have moved to the cloud anyways, mostly to microsoft due to their office-suite pricing. It was kind of fun while it lasted, but that ship has sailed.
Filtering incoming spam, while not 100% correct, is a pretty straightforward thing to do. Use DNSBL and other lists from spamhaus and it takes care of 90+% of the problem. Incoming spam has not been a huge issue for me, but when people try to send mail to someone in M365 cloud or to Gsuite and they just decide that your server isn't important enough they just block you out and that's it. Trying to circumvent that takes a ton of time and effort and while it can be done it's a huge pain in the rear. And trying to fight your way trough the 1st tier support to someone who actually understands the problem and attempts to fix that while you customers are complaining that "problem with email" is actually affecting on their income is the part I'll happily leave behind.
I'll set up a couple of new VPS servers to host my personal and friends emails, but if they complain that the service I'm paying from my personal pocket isn't what they're after then they're free to switch into whatever they like. And as infrastructure for that is something like 100€/year I'll happily pay it by myself so that no one has an option to say 'I paid for this so you need to fix it' anymore. On commercial case that's obviously not an option and I've had my share of running a business in a very hostile environment.
I wouldn't be surprised if some people setting up their own mail server were made aware of these things because of being blocked.
Firstly, that would be awesome, but imagine the spam.
Secondly, I'm a proponent of thorn, I get it. But ð was almost exclusively used medially and terminally in English. In addition it didn't last nearly as long, and is much less recognizable as a letter in English. Þ was used initially, and is far more commonly seen in English. I get that you're using them for voiced and unvoiced like in Icelandic, but that wasn't so much the convention in English. I'm not against it, I'm asking to be sold on it. Lol. Sell me on why I need eth instead of just using thorn for both voiced and unvoiced, please? I'm willing to be converted.
And third, I'm having trouble finding it, was eth on it's own ever used as a single letter spelling of the, or is that your own addition? I like it. When writing (by hand) notes or things only I'll be reading, I use the þe shorthand that looks like an e cradled in the crook of a y, like was common in colonial America.
IRC was "kinda" federated. You needed to convince a server already in the network to accept your server. But in the early days requirements were quite low.
BBS was not really federated (except Fidonet I guess).
Usenet, I guess it kinda was. But only ISPs were really running NNTP servers. Only they and unis really had the resources to too.
It's funny when armchair experts insist that the fediverse won't catch on because "federation is too hard to understand" when arguably the most widespread communication system on the internet follows the same model
Because you don't need to understand email to use it.
There have been decades of software and user interface advancements that have made the usage of email extremely simple and straightforward.
People also inherently grasp the idea of it because they understand the real world concept of mail.
Email is also one way. You aren't sending mail to and receiving mail from everyone at once, or reading mail one person sent to another and interjecting. You're just sending something to an address, not CC'ing literally everyone all the time.
Email also doesn't have any confusion around which mailboxes are allowed to speak to each other.
The fediverse is nowhere near that simple or intuitive.
Particularly Lemmy because Lemmy admins have fundamentally broken the idea of federation with defederation. It generally doesn't matter what email you use or what email the receiver uses, baring more niche services. It does actually matter what instance you're on.
We try to sell people on this comparison, try to explain to them that it's simple, but it's really a half-truth at best, or a lie at worst.
When you joined reddit, you know for a fact you're seeing everything, and the same thing as everyone else. The same posts, the same comments, the same vote counts. A simple, shared, unfiltered experience of everything was the default, and then you shaped it yourself.
That's not the case with the fediverse. There's no simple default. You have to build it yourself.
Lemmy admins have fundamentally broken the idea of federation with defederation.
How very IRC of them.
Be a better admin. I'll join your instance once it's set up.
Particularly Lemmy because Lemmy admins have fundamentally broken the idea of federation with defederation. It generally doesn’t matter what email you use or what email the receiver uses, baring more niche services. It does actually matter what instance you’re on.
You've probably never tried using email outside of Google, Outlook, Yahoo or Proton but let me tell you it doesn't just work. A lot of the servers have been blocked by the big first 3, sometimes soft-blocks being redirected to the Spam folder, but often times hard blocks where they don't get through at all.
So it very much does matter what email service you do use, as many of the smaller ones and domains you might obtain to set up your own have been defederated, much more aggressively might I add. It doesn't take much for a domain to end up on spamhaus' or other spam lists, and it's a big pain to get them off said lists.
Let's compare with Defederation of activitypub services (because Lemmy devs didn't invent the idea of deferation, it's part of ActivityPub standard and is a thing on all activitypub platforms), something that typically happens when a server is spamming, spreading violent or hateful messages, or otherwise engaged in unproductive or harmful behavior (i.e. trolling, rudeness towards others, etc.). We don't use spamhaus or a similar equivalent service to filter "spam" automatically, much of it is done by server admins themself, there are tools like Fediseer meant to keep track of instances which are trusted as well as identifying known bad actors, but since this is community driven and not monolithic it is different from spamhaus and the like.
In all honesty the Defederation boogeyman is a very stupid argument, especially when comparing it to email which has ironically been hit the hardest by it. It has effectively been reduced to a handful of big players while all the other smaller ones out there find themselves unable to compete.
Meanwhile on the activitypub side defederation is still an issue but it is a minor one and is limited to edge cases or bad behavior.
One thing that is important to note, and why it isn't talked about more frequently to other people is this. When people invite others to join the Fediverse, they naturally assume the people who are joining are NOT trolls, alt-right sociopaths, neonazis, pedophiles, spammers, etc. and thus are not likely to have their accounts banned or the servers they start get widely defederated.
If you are one of those people chances are you aren't the target demographic for most fediverse servers out there, and thus you will face friction, bans, and mass defederation because people do not want you in their spaces or to listen to your dogshit propaganda.
The Fediverse was never about freeze peach, it's about collaboration and cooperation between services, and most services do not want to collaborate with people who are assholes. The people still claiming that it is for free speech are lying or misinformed, because on most servers if you speak your mind and say things that are unacceptable or evil, there will be consequences. That means bans from those servers or defederation if you run your own.
It does not though. I made a post the other day from the StarTrek.website instance and couldn't figure out if nobody had upvoted or commented on it, then tried to look it up on my regular discuss.online instance where it didn't exist, then went further to look it up on Lemmy.world (where the community is located) and saw that tens of people had. I wasn't able to respond to any of those at first though, until it caught up on an instance where I already had an account (edit: except I could not do that from the StarTrek.website instance where I had made the post from, bc it hadn't seen the comment yet even the next day - so I had to do it from a third instance involved in all this.)
And that wasn't even the only time that very same day that I saw a post existing/not existing and/or having a different number of comments and differences in voting counts. Perhaps 0.19.6 will help with some of these issues, at least on Lemmy but then PieFed, Mbin, and eventually Sublinks are still going to have to figure things out on their own as well.
So I am glad that things are going well for you who I note is on Lemmy.world, but the rest of the Fediverse is definitely struggling, in part because rather than in spite of that centralization. Also I note that Lemmy.world federating smoothly within itself doesn't even count in my book as "federation" at all! That's just Reddit 2.0 with everything on a single server, with all the benefits and pitfalls which that entails.
More generally when the subject is man vs. bear, and someone chooses bear, it doesn't help to simply laugh at those making that choice. Maybe we should listen, and maybe even expend efforts to make changes to become more welcoming for more people that would absolutely love to get off of the likes of Reddit, X, Threads, or Facebook?
That's my 2¢ anyway.
It was.
In fact, for about 3 weeks, Facebook and gtalk could exchange message seamlessly and easily over their fed gateway and xmpp.
Seeing a problem with this, FB changed. With it being at least 4.5 weeks since the last complete redesign incompatible with the old, Google also changed to something that sucked.
As an example Reddit uses Matrix in their awful chats function, but you can't message other matrix users there or message reddit users from Matrix. That doesn't make Matrix not open, it means someone is using it in a way that isn't open to others.
The ability to defederate arguable makes it more free & open even if it isn’t what I would prescribe.
I recall having some fun with League of Legends when you could just join chat & chat rooms thru a regular XMPP client. This was convenient at work on Linux to not need a working client to catch important messages from teammates. But everyone wants a walled garden now.
Federation really isn't hard to understand especially when you dive in and start using it. I don't understand anyone who says otherwise.
Somehow this sentiment exists in the selfhosted subreddit and is why the community didn't move to Lemmy. One of the last places I'd expect to let something kinda technical scare them tbh.
It's an excuse, people don't want to just say they don't want to do it, so they make an excuse not to, saying it's ""complicated"". They don't feel like it or hate it for some irrational reason, possibly a misconception or just hate change.
If you see someone making excuses like this, or even casually making fun of the idea of decentralization and the fediverse, challenge them on it, point out how they are making excuses simply because they don't want to do it, or say no. Ask them how it is "complicated" and make them give an explanation. 90% of the people I've done this with couldn't come up with one and just acted embarrassed after, because they couldn't come up with one. It's a mindless excuse.
Yeah and then google+microsoft rolled in and killed the decentralized nature of email with gmail and outlook.
Only sign left of the good ol days is merged accounts with @ old domain names and the few that self host.
It's not really like they were evil about it though. Google attracted customers through its huge (at the time) 1 GB email storage space, which at the time, was unbelievably generous and also impressive in that it was offered for free. Outlook (Hotmail at the time) also drew in customers by offering the service for free, anywhere in the world, without needing to sign up for Internet service. Remember, at the time, e-mail was a service that was bundled with your Internet service provider.
Into the mid-2000s and 2010s, the way that Gmail and Outlook kept customers was through bundle deals for enterprise customers and improvements to their webmail offerings. Gmail had (and arguably, still has) one of the best webmail clients available anywhere. Outlook was not far behind, and it was also usually bundled with enterprise Microsoft Office subscriptions, so most companies just decided, "eh, why not". The price (free) and simplicity is difficult to beat. It was at that point that Microsoft Outlook (the mail client, not the e-mail service) was the "gold standard" for desktop mail clients, at least according to middle-aged office workers who barely knew anything about e-mail to begin with. Today, the G-Suite, as it is called, is one of the most popular enterprise software suites, perhaps second only to Microsoft Office. Most people learned how to use e-mail and the Internet in the 2000s and 2010s through school or work.
You have to compare the offerings of Google and Microsoft with their competitors. AOL mail was popular but the Internet service provided by the same company was not. When people quit AOL Internet service, many switched e-mail providers as well, thinking that if they did not maintain their AOL subscription, they would lose access to their mailbox as well.
Google and Microsoft didn't "kill" the decentralised e-mail of yesteryear. They beat it fair and square by offering a superior product. If you're trying to pick an e-mail service today, Gmail and Outlook are still by far the best options in terms of ease of use, free storage, and the quality of their webmail clients. I would even go so far as to say that the Gmail web client was so good that it single-handedly killed the desktop mail client for casual users. I think that today, there are really only three legitimate players left if you're a rational consumer who is self-interested in picking the best e-mail service for yourself: Proton Mail if you care a lot about privacy, and Gmail or Outlook if you don't.
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In NZ instead of AOL it was xtra and Paradise.
It is also worth considering that yes, MS and Google have definitely dominated the market through superior products, but the standards they've pushed for and established have also made it difficult for other players to enter. If we wanted to say that the federated nature of email is dead, I think that's a fair argument still.
Hosting your own email server is quite difficult. You have to jump through a lot of hoops to land in anyone's mailbox without assistance. If you want to make a mailing list, you basically need to use a mailing service, lest you get blacklisted by major systems owned by MS and Google. Much of this is a byproduct of spam, by which I don't blame Google and MS for doing their best to protect against, but at the same time they have more or less neutered some core aspects of what made email accessible.
Google and Microsoft didn't "kill" the decentralised e-mail of yesteryear. They beat it fair and square
Sure, they might've cornered the market fair and square, but they're certainly doing anticompetitive things in keeping it cornered.
Just try setting up a mail server not connected to any of the big corpos (Google, MS, Cloudflare or their clients with more niche marketing) and see who will actually recieve your mails. You most likely won't land into the Spam folder either.
Networks don't, but many servers are used to create a single network.
Efnet isn't a single server. Freenode isn't a single server, etc.
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I guess, it looked better on GNOME:
But yeah, I'm hoping this rebranding means we'll see appropriately set light and dark default wallpapers...
It’s background being so dark really clashed with the default light theme for KDE:
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Hello! My girlfriend bought a new pc, an HP pavilion x360 with the touchscreen, and asked me to install her kubuntu as in her previous non-tablet pc, and so I did. It works very well, except for the fact that I tried really hard without success to setup a virtual keyboard. fcitx5 was already installed, but I couldn't find a way to use it as virtual keyboard, and apparently it does not bundle a UI. i then installed maliit (the one that I use on my EndeavourOS 2in1 laptop flawlessly) but it seems to have a strange bug where it only works once, then after you close it it will never pop up again. I tried the workaround suggested here but it works once every 4 tries and the keyboard pops up but is unable to write anything.
Has anyone achieved to install a virtual keyboard on Kubuntu 24.04? I'd rather not switch to X11 because except for the keyboard, the touch support is way better under wayland
thanks in advance to anyone!
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The keyboard situation on Wayland and especially KDE is abysmal. Through a workaround I managed to get Onboard working. But it often crashes for me when using it with touch.
The keyboard from Steam actually works best for me. But I don't know how to pull it up without a gamepad. I've got a post showing how to get it working outside of the Steam Deck. swg-empire.de/post/853437
All in all I actually think that Gnome is better suited for touch devices. But I just don't like how it works overall. But maybe your girlfriend likes it.
Afaik, Maalit is bundled with Plasma Wayland already. It's there in Virtual Keyboards for me on Nobara, though I don't have a touch device available to test it right now.
That might be a problem with Kubuntu. It's been a while since I tested Kubuntu, but the last time I tried it a few years ago, it was a trainwreck.
Yo, I found this for 380$ should I buy it and how well does Linux run on it, if you have one of this is it a good in term of build quality
CPU : AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 2.9GHz (16 CPUs)
Ram : 16GB DDR4 3200 MHz
Hardisk : M.2 512GB Nvme SSD
VGA 1 : AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics UpTo 8GB
VGA 2 : AMD Radeon RX 5500M UpTo 12GB
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Even a potato can run Linux so regardless of a distro it should be all fine.
A potato with a GPU only compatible with deprecated Nvidia drivers would still be just that and a hard pass for Linux.
Luckily this notebook is AMD-based, so should be fine. Maybe the WiFi card could cause trouble.
I have an MSI Bravo 17 for work since this month,
quite happy about it so far.
My experience with MSI is best price/value for hardware specs, but with shitty build quality.
However this one feels quite sturdy compared to earlier MSI laptops.
It can get loud under heavy duty,
but it goes quiet again under low workload,
for now at least, my previous MSI laptop sounded like a jet engine whenever it was powered on.
The one you posted seems particularly suited to run Linux upon, since it's an all AMD machine, and their Linux support is great.
This thing isnt very old and AMD GPUs are well supported by linux drivers so there shouldnt be an issue there.
comparable to RTX 30series
That sadly doesnt mean anything. That would range from 3050 to 3090 so its meaningless.
According to userbenchmarks, the more powerful desktop version of the RX 5500 is still weaker than a Nvidia 3050.
gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/…
So its pretty weak, comparable to a Nvidia 1060 roughly.
Which is still fine for 2D games and most 3D games at low settings.
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I'm not really sure, but wasn't userbenchmark biased in favor of nvidia gpu?
In any case, I agree that an rx5500 is on the weaker side, so don't expect much, but it shouldn't be a lot worse than an rtx3050 (i'm not an expert tho)
Yup, no doubts there.
Anyway, OP, if I were you I'd buy that laptop (not for gaming tho, or at least not if you're looking for something more than "good enough")
I haven’t worked on this particular model, but gaming laptop build quality is generally very bad.
Msi build quality is also generally pretty bad.
With that said, most people don’t need build quality because they don’t actually take their computers anywhere.
It's about right for the price.
If they have $380 and what a $380 computer it will serve.
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Honestly build quality matters more than specs if you're not gaming in my opinion, that's why old thinkpads are so popular
I personally got burned by a shitty modern laptop because I only looked at the specs and nothing else
I'm talking about things like:
- chassis sturdiness
- laptop foot grippiness
- hinge quality
- touchpad quality/has trackpoint
- battery longevity (very important)
- display colour accuracy/viewing angles
- keyboard tactility/travel/flex
These things are harder to research but they're imo way more important than specs
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Yeah I’ve fallen into this trap before as well. When I shop for a desktop, I tend to go as high-end as I can afford and then sit on the same machine for 7-10 years until it becomes unusable/support begins to wain. That desktop sits under my desk and doesn’t move that whole time, it is in a very controlled environment.
You cannot shop that way for a laptop that will be moved and handled and charged and stowed and scratched and bumped and bent and twisted. Even if you take excellent care of it.
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I have the b5dd model (with the 5600h processor) and linux support is good. Just find out what is the make and model of the wifi card. B55D came with a mediatek card which had problems with older kernels.
Build quality is average at best and it is fairly heavy but when you are going for a budget laptop, you have to sacrifice something. As another commenter said, if you are not gaming or video editing, you could go for different model with a smaller footprint, and better build.
My friend had an older MSI gaming laptop and it was built like SHIT. He didn't use it a whole lot until he started working at our company and it lasted maybe 4 years of reasonable daily use. Physically it was fine because he never actually touched the laptop. But that thing was so incredibly unstable and eventually ended with it's M.2 and it's internal sata slots being unusable, and making the machine take 5 minutes to boot.
I also bought two MSI "business" laptops and those things were absolute junk too. The touch panel came from the factory broken. Thankfully nobody wants to use that shit so we just disabled. But my co worker dropped one the other day and we need to replace the whole display assembly but I can't for the life of me find parts for the machine. After about two weeks of searching my only options were A. a whole ass laptop for $500 (thankfully they depreciate lick a rock) or B. A complete display assembly for $375. No thanks, we're replacing those pieces of shit.
Unless you want to game on it save yourself the suffering and just get a used thinkpad. The T14 gen 1 goes for $200 easily and it's quadcore CPU is sufficient, and you can find it with the 6 core. I bought a T14 s gen 2 AMD for $300 and it's 6 core blows that T14 out of the water and gets far better battery life, plus it's iGPU ain't no slouch. (All prices USD, can will probably be higher)
Side note are there any good hardware swap communities on lemmy? I have a number of old machines I need to get rid of.
Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza
Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel’s war with Hamas. Both workers were members of a coalition of employees called “No Azure for Apartheid” that has opposed Microsoft’s sale of its cloud-computing technology to the Israeli government.
But they contended that Thursday’s event was similar to other Microsoft-sanctioned employee giving campaigns for people in need. Mohamed, who is from Egypt, said he now needs a new job in the next two months to transfer a work visa and avoid deportation.
Google earlier this year fired more than 50 workers in the aftermath of protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war. The firings stemmed from internal turmoil and sit-in protests at Google offices centered on “Project Nimbus,” a $1.2 billion contract signed in 2021 for Google and Amazon to provide the Israeli government with cloud computing and artificial intelligence services.
Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza
Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel’s yearlong war with Hamas.The Seattle Times
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Why would Microsoft fire an employee for holding a vigil, it's not like they ...
...called “No Azure for Apartheid”
Oh. Thanks for drawing attention to this, Microsoft!
I appreciate that they're so willing to invoke the Streisand Effect.
I hope those employees land somewhere where they build something that costs Microsoft a lot of profit.
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Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company’s headquartersBut they contended that Thursday’s event was similar to other Microsoft-sanctioned employee giving campaigns
Seems like employer approval is an important piece.
But I think the most interesting part of the article is
Nasr said his firing was disclosed on social media by the watchdog group Stop Antisemitism more than an hour before he received the call from Microsoft. The group didn’t immediately respond Friday to a request for comment on how it learned about the firing.
Öppet brev till LO, Saco och TCO om Israels folkmord. Kampanjen Stoppa Israel har gått ut med ett öppet brev till tre fackförbund med kritik av deras tystnad och passivitet om det pågående folkmordet i Gaza. Stoppa Israel består av 66 organisationer kring en plattform, och stod tidigare bakom Eurovision-kampanjen och ytterligare en kampanj inför riksdagens öppnande.
Till Saco, LO […]
This week in Plasma: all screens, all the time
This week in Plasma: all screens, all the time
We continued fixing bugs and making UI improvements this week. You’ll notice a good many of them are about screens somehow! Ah, screens, the magical windows to our computers. They are amazing…Adventures in Linux and KDE
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in reply to NightOwl • • •So nk makes a defensive move to prevent invasion and sk responds by firing artillery near them to discourage invasion???
I think NK finally broke SKs propaganda machine by being overtly defensive as they have always been.