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  • I love taking a casual drive to nearby small towns, especially on less busy freeways at non peak hours. And I also love using my 30 year old nugget that’s getting rarer to see around. I do also love a good road trip across states.

    However, I really don’t like driving in cities or basically when I have to. The city I’m in at the moment leaves a lot to be desired for bike lanes (unprotected bike lanes on the shoulder of a major highway is the only route into town for me) so its a toss up between do I ride there exhausted and trusting idiots in high speed boxes, or do I join said idiots.


  • Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is my pick.

    I’ve got two study laptops and apart from Tailscale giving me some grief very recently with DNS resolution, I literally haven’t had any problems with either machine. Both have been going for 1.5 years.

    I like the LMDE route for the DE already having pretty decent defaults and not requiring much tweaking from the get-go. Xfce (as it ships by default in Debian) absolutely works, but I end up spending an hour theming it and adding panel applets and rearranging everything so that it… ends up looking similar to Cinnamon anyway, because default Xfce looks horrible in my opinion


  • JustARegularNerd@aussie.zonetoPrivacy Guides@lemmy.onePrivacy — why should I care
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    …and this is how you keep people using mainstream services instead of FOSS / privacy respecting ones.

    The actual answer is convenience and not wanting to make their life more difficult, which brings ignorance into it.

    Not everyone is ready to flip their whole digital life upside down based on the privacy principles you and I care about - that’s why I too use the approach the parent commenter mentioned, and I’m also okay with people who just won’t make any switches, because while I don’t support it, I understand it.

    The long and short of it is don’t think of this as “us vs them” - we’re all people together and understanding and gently making people aware of these privacy principles and giving them realistic private solutions is, in my opinion, way more effective than saying “fuck 'em”







  • Seems that everyone else has said the same as what I mostly already do, but I’ll just make a couple comments on the student communication topic:

    My university already created a Microsoft 365 account for my university user, which included Teams. For my threat profile, I don’t consider Teams a terrible option if I’m only using it for study purposes, so I’ve communicated over that for assignments before (web UI only).

    Otherwise like others have suggested, some students are open to something like Signal (a fellow student got me onto it years ago) if you kindly ask and mention upfront that it just requires a phone number. I did an assignment over Signal with two other students, so it’s very doable.


  • Everything but the fingerprint readers just works.

    Good to know the struggle for the fingerprint reader wasn’t just me. I did “get it working” but it was extremely hacky and it wasn’t what I was after; I only wanted fingerprint for login, not additionally for sudo, but that’s not how it set up and I didn’t want to spend even more countless hours trying to fix that


  • Hey guys, my Dad was always a neck bearded Unix admin so I’ve grown up my whole life on FreeBSD, then moving over to Gentoo during my teen years.

    I’m starting to have thoughts about switching to Windows given that’s what my new job uses, but I couldn’t find any instructions on compiling Windows outside of very outdated releases like 2000. Also, does anyone know if emacs and htop are compatible, as those are my most used applications?






  • For devices I need to be productive on, I have LMDE 6. It is rock solid being based on stable Debian, but with the niceties you expect from Mint.

    For my gaming PC, I’ve got Bazzite on it and so far so good. Just used it for entertainment and gaming but if I were doing coding or app development I’d either have to adjust how I do that to suit an atomic distro, or I’d just use LMDE as I feel I have easier control of what I’m doing on there


  • Its pedantic and distracts from the real conversation happening. I’ve always considered “stock” to mean how the device ships from the factory (that’s how the term is used in the automobile world), whereas I would think it fair to consider AOSP a standard, it’s something you can compare other ROMs against.

    Regardless of mine or anyone else’s opinion, we’re just ultimately wanting to talk about how GrapheneOS is much closer to the clean and uncluttered experience AOSP offers