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  1. Comment on Less than a year on, Microsoft tells Mico to pipe down in ~tech

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    In case you missed it, Mico is (was?) Microsoft Copilot's mascot that resembles a blob of semen.

    In case you missed it, Mico is (was?) Microsoft Copilot's mascot that resembles a blob of semen.

    13 votes

  3. Comment on Another week on Linux in ~tech

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    Nothing, really. As I wrote in the article, it's more a desire to rely on FOSS than anything. I have a small home server running Debian 12 headless. It's a great match with macOS, indeed. (But I...

    Nothing, really. As I wrote in the article, it's more a desire to rely on FOSS than anything.

    I have a small home server running Debian 12 headless. It's a great match with macOS, indeed. (But I use MacPorts; Homebrew looks too much of a mess for me.)

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Another week on Linux in ~tech

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    Plasma is way past its day of exaggerated RAM consumption. I've read many DEs comparisons and they all kind of align in this regard. I've tried Gnome in a VM before trying Asahi. It's mostly fine,...

    Plasma is way past its day of exaggerated RAM consumption. I've read many DEs comparisons and they all kind of align in this regard.

    I've tried Gnome in a VM before trying Asahi. It's mostly fine, but I thought it to be too opinionated, in a way that didn't click with me. But maybe I really should give it a shot, right?

    2 votes

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  6. Comment on Another week on Linux in ~tech

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    I'm fully aware. I was trying to use what I already have, since there's no way I'm buying a new (or used, for that matter) computer right now.

    I'm fully aware. I was trying to use what I already have, since there's no way I'm buying a new (or used, for that matter) computer right now.

    5 votes

  7. Comment on Another week on Linux in ~tech

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    Here's the thing: macOS is fine. I'm a fairly average users that browse the web, do email, write a lot of txts in default Text Editor; some light image editing (in Pixelmator Pro). Things work,...

    Here's the thing: macOS is fine. I'm a fairly average users that browse the web, do email, write a lot of txts in default Text Editor; some light image editing (in Pixelmator Pro). Things work, and I love all the keyboard shortcuts it offers for writing. They're very useful and no Linux DE comes close to them.

  8. Comment on Another week on Linux in ~tech

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    Bare metal or VM? In my (admittedly limited) experience, VMs have all kinds of quirks compared to bare metal.

    Bare metal or VM? In my (admittedly limited) experience, VMs have all kinds of quirks compared to bare metal.

  9. Comment on Another week on Linux in ~tech

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    I gave it a shot because it's the laptop I have, and despite not being fully functional yet, Asahi went great lengths to be daily drivable already. (Also, MacBook Air's hardware is so good, and...

    As far as OP / using Linux on modern Macs go- I don't mean this in a mean way- but isn't that still pretty "alpha/beta/uncharted" territory? Linux on Apple Silicon I don't think has remotely come close to the maturity of Linux on other systems, so I think it's naive to go into such a dive without expecting a bunch of issues and then blaming Linux for them (?)

    I gave it a shot because it's the laptop I have, and despite not being fully functional yet, Asahi went great lengths to be daily drivable already. (Also, MacBook Air's hardware is so good, and other brand's equivalent so more expensive where I live, which led me to try it out anyway.)

    5 votes

  10. Comment on Another week on Linux in ~tech

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    Once again, I found myself installing a Linux distro with the intent of freeing myself from macOS, the first step out of Apple’s walled garden; I thought I was standing at the door of a digital...

    Once again, I found myself installing a Linux distro with the intent of freeing myself from macOS, the first step out of Apple’s walled garden; I thought I was standing at the door of a digital utopia, something like the modern-day dream of dropping everything to go live off the land.

    (Spoiler: it was a short, but enriching journey.)

    7 votes

  12. Comment on DuckDuckGo's normal sunglasses in ~tech

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    Oh, I missed this one. Moderators, can you close and redirect this post to the older one?

    Oh, I missed this one. Moderators, can you close and redirect this post to the older one?

    4 votes

  13. Comment on DuckDuckGo's normal sunglasses in ~tech

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    Oh, that's weird. Can you send me more details (device/browser) and screenshots to ghedin@manualdousuario.net, please?

    Oh, that's weird. Can you send me more details (device/browser) and screenshots to ghedin@manualdousuario.net, please?

    1 vote

  14. Comment on DuckDuckGo's normal sunglasses in ~tech

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    Sorry about the X(cancel) link. If you prefer, I hosted the video in my blog.

    Sorry about the X(cancel) link. If you prefer, I hosted the video in my blog.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on BasicSync and Synctrain: solid apps for bringing Syncthing to phones in ~tech

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    I use BasicSync with an E-ink Android tablet (Boox Go 10.3 gen II) and battery draining is pretty normal.

    I use BasicSync with an E-ink Android tablet (Boox Go 10.3 gen II) and battery draining is pretty normal.

  18. Comment on I don't really like the "Human-made" badging trend in ~tech

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    Water shortage isn't a Californian thing. Some places in Global South, such as Chile, Brazil's Northeast, and Uruguay, were elected destinies for AI data centers even without abundance of water....

    Water shortage isn't a Californian thing. Some places in Global South, such as Chile, Brazil's Northeast, and Uruguay, were elected destinies for AI data centers even without abundance of water. Karen Hao's “Empire of AI” has a very detailed report on this.

    3 votes

  20. Comment on Unreleased OpenAI model escapes containment and hacks into Hugging Face in ~tech