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What advantages does Linux have over other operating systems?
When people talk about switching to Linux from Windows/macOS, especially for those inexperienced with Linux, the conversation often becomes mostly about drawbacks: all the things you'll have to...
When people talk about switching to Linux from Windows/macOS, especially for those inexperienced with Linux, the conversation often becomes mostly about drawbacks: all the things you'll have to sacrifice, that don't work outright, or that aren't as smooth.
On the other hand, if you had to highlight the advantages of Linux to a newcomer, what would you say?
What might someone gain by switching to Linux, rather than lose?
What are some of the drawbacks people are currently living with on other OSes that they might not be aware of simply because they're used to them?
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Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke
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French authorities arrest Telegram’s CEO
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“Disenshittify or die” a rant about the history of tech, how it is bad and how it might get better
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The US DOJ files an antitrust suit against a software company for allegedly manipulating rent prices
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Microsoft to host security summit after CrowdStrike disaster
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Top companies ground Microsoft Copilot over data governance concerns
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“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update
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What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care?
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"A total of 203,946 employees have been laid off across more than 165 tech companies worldwide since the start of 2024, with firms such as Dell, Intel, and Tesla leading the cuts"
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Google must destroy $5 billion worth of user data illegally collected in Incognito Mode
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What happened to “personal computing”?
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Former US President Donald Trump’s post of fake Taylor Swift endorsement is his latest embrace of AI-generated images
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Condé Nast joins other publishers in allowing OpenAI to access its content
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Sweden and Denmark will summon tech companies over ads on their platforms that are posted by gangs to recruit young Swedes to commit violent crimes in the Nordics
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What happens when influencers turn off comments
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A professor is suing Facebook over its recommendation algorithms
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Microsoft will train AI on user data
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Which content-recommending algorithms are actually good?
For the end-user, that is. I'm sure Meta and the like think their algorithms are fantastic at what they want them to do. I find myself routinely asking why I get so many suggestions I have no...
For the end-user, that is. I'm sure Meta and the like think their algorithms are fantastic at what they want them to do.
I find myself routinely asking why I get so many suggestions I have no interest in when using all types of websites. I haven't used social media since the early years of Facebook, but I imagine most recommendation algorithms are tuned much like the ones on those sites, i.e. to offer more of the same, whereas I'd prefer something to introduce different stuff I'd probably like. Maybe that differentiates me from the average user, but there should be enough people like me that it'd be factored in, no? Just because I watch a cat video doesn't mean I'm all in on cats.
I mostly like Pandora's service but it feels like their music library isn't huge for my fav genres. Steam regularly tries to interest me in the most insipid games based on superficial commonalities to what's already in my library. Youtube can be good, but it can easily be echo-chambery. Shopping websites of all sorts are usually a crapshoot. What gives?
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Self-hosting a podcast server
I am wanting to setup a personal podcast server but I am not really sure how to go about that. I have my own server at home with docker and I am not sure if there are any well-known FOSS...
I am wanting to setup a personal podcast server but I am not really sure how to go about that.
I have my own server at home with docker and I am not sure if there are any well-known FOSS (preferable dockerized) podcast server applications that I can spin up and load some podcast episodes into so that I can create my own custom podcast feed that only I would subscribe to?
and I want to be able to support video podcasts.
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The LLMentalist effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
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The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be
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The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
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Google threatened tech influencers unless they 'preferred' the Pixel
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US FTC bans fake online reviews, inflated social media influence; rule takes effect in October
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Digital apartheid in Gaza: Unjust content moderation at the request of Israel’s cyber unit
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Looking for an Android keyboard app
Hello friends, and thank you in advance for any help on this topic. I am looking for an android keyboard that does not have emoji, stickers or gifs, but also has long press options for special...
Hello friends, and thank you in advance for any help on this topic.
I am looking for an android keyboard that does not have emoji, stickers or gifs, but also has long press options for special characters like dashes, slashes and colons etc.
Searching online for variants of "no emoji keyboard," only floods my results with the opposite and it's beyond frustrating!
I realize that the answer is likely right under my nose and I'm just missing it for whatever reason.
I would glady pay money for such an option if only I could find one.
I'm sorry if this question is silly or posted in the wrong thread, but I'm at my wits end.
Again, thank you for any help or redirection to my query!
Cheers!
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Predictions of AI doom are too much like Hollywood movie plots
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Sustainability of FOSS: The Next Generation Internet ecosystem
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Inside the "three billion people" National Public Data breach
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Syntax highlighting in hand-coded websites
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Tubi explodes in popularity, outranking Max and Apple TV+
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The US government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button
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AltStore PAL drops its annual subscription thanks to a grant from Epic
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GitLab is reportedly up for sale
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Police in Denmark to implement facial recognition technology to combat violent crimes – recent increases in crime in Copenhagen involving gangs from neighbouring Sweden
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Google Pixel 9 launch event live coverage: all the news
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Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says it’s okay if we end up marrying AI chatbots
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Apple’s requirements (subscription model only) to hit creators and fans on Patreon
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EFF’s concerns about the UN draft Cybercrime Convention
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Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO, dies at 56
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Brussels slaps down Thierry Breton over ‘harmful content’ letter to Elon Musk [as it was not approved by the European Commission]
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Been considering cutting down on YouTube
I find myself scrolling through YT hoping to see something to play in the background, occasionally checking things like TechLinked or MichaelMJD with occasional PointCrow and Dougdoug. But really...
I find myself scrolling through YT hoping to see something to play in the background, occasionally checking things like TechLinked or MichaelMJD with occasional PointCrow and Dougdoug. But really just wasting time doing nothing, just scrolling.
So I want to cut it off but I want to fill in that time with something else.
Anyone else has tried to cut off YT(Or at least minimize) YT from their life? I’m probably using YT the wrong way.
I would like some RSS feeds or podcast to make me go on YT less. Or thoughts/opinions/experiences from other people that used to have YT on almost all the time but minimized the time on YT.31 votes -
Front Porch Forum is the friendliest social network you’ve never heard of
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Public Work: a search engine for public domain images
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Over fifteen million passwords were temporarily inaccessible in Chrome's password manager
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Another post about bulk deleting content from Reddit
Is there a utility that will bulk delete threads and comments I made, but from 1 subreddit only? Thanks for any clues.
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[SOLVED] Help me find a website
I remember seeing a fun website somewhere which was basically an isometric animation of a space station or something like that. It had a lot of tiles with a lot of fun stuff happening on it, it...
I remember seeing a fun website somewhere which was basically an isometric animation of a space station or something like that. It had a lot of tiles with a lot of fun stuff happening on it, it kinda had a "Where's Waldo" vibe. I think it had a number in it's name, like station42 or something like that. I can't find the website now. Does anyone remember what it is?
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Saluting the Chromecast, one of the great HDMI dongles
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