First community rule in the sidebar:

Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology

in response to Windows 11 users getting mad about a pride icon appearing on their task bar.

I didn't hear about it, but the usual thing is that people get annoyed if you add unsolicited useless icons in the taskbar, especially if you do it with motivations related to politics or ideology.

If anyone is naive enough to think this is going to support us in any way, I encourage you to just do something like change the wallpaper, and never run random executables, ever. Or, you know, you can also do something that has SOME impact.

Telepathy is typically used for mind-to-mind, but here there is an intermediary. I guess better something like mind-reading.

She/he

Why?

The importance is being “fully reproducible” in order to make the model trustworthy.

Well that's a problem, because even with training data that's impossible by design.

Dual boot, although I usually prefer to drop it rather than go to the trouble.

I wouldn't recommend virtualization, not only do you lose performance when you need it most, but (depending on the devices and system) setting everything up properly can be very tedious.

Secure boot is still problematic, but it has also become much easier thanks to sbctl; in the best case you only have to delete the keys in the bios and run 3 or 4 generic commands.

bunch of minor incidents not worth reporting

That the personal data of millions of people are leaked is newsworthy, even more so if it was hidden from the victims.

as we’ve worked extensively to optimize performance and deliver the best possible experience on these devices.

Hard to believe.

“Everyone” who wants to be informed, but linux is also for the unconcerned or for newcomers.

Not to mention the monopoly that nvidia has on laptops.

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They are actually quite aggressive about blocking disposable emails, most free services don't work. I have used protonmail a few times for semi-disposable accounts that used disposable emails to sign up, and some of them were banned later.