[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

A VPN has it's advantages, mostly to avoid your ISP snooping on you (while having to trust another party not to snoop) and giving you access to stuff in the internet that may be geoblocked.

A solid DNS provider with Doh or DOT will encrypt your browsing, so I also believe it's better than a VPN, but I use both.

It's a matter of not overdoing it. Do it one step at a time. I feel you on the ADHD, I am also diagnosed, and now I inly check Lemmy and Mastodon every now and then. My mental health has improved dramatically since I dropped all the mainstream social networks.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

When I look at my gut, I ask myself the same question 😭

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

I did the same on a PC I built like 10 years ago just because "why not?" 🤣

[-] [email protected] -5 points 8 hours ago

They sold their soul. I don't trust them farther than I can throw a fully loaded 787. On that same note, fuck Google, fuck Apple, fuck Adobe, fuck LG, I can go on forever.

Now keep down voting me, fuck those who do too. 🤣

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I'll watch it right now and come back. BRB.

Edit: now I have to "arrr" that series and watch it. 🤣🤣

[-] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago

There are many reasons Microsoft software is only "good" (and I'm using that word loosely) in business and home settings. Can you imagine a rocket taking off and windows suddenly "rebooting to complete updates" (or whatever it is that it says along those lines)?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I've no idea what happened either, as I'm not that smart, lol. I just tend to move away from stuff that breaks easily. I searched a bit around to see if I found anyone else with this issue, but found nothing even remotely similar.

Could be that my hardware is the issue? I was running it on a Gazelle 16 (System76) with an RTX3050Ti. But Fedora Workstation has always worked flawlessly on it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Since Fedora 37 I had issues waking up from sleep and hibernation only on my laptop with an NVIDIA card, never on my 2 Ryzen PCs.

Since Fedora 40 it works everywhere now. I've always been on Gnome, so that could be a factor as well.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Here's the deal, most people from yesterdays started on Ubuntu or something similar. So, they suggest what worked for them. I just moved my wife away from Windows and straight into Fedora, I haven't had to help her on anything other than once she could not find the printer (it's on another VLAN and she was not connected to it 🙄). She is loving it and just last night told me, and I quote, "I should have changed sooner".

Fedora just works, but another factor may be that Debian and Ubuntu based distros are LTS what le Fedora is more semi-rolling, this helps with stability, thus it makes sense to suggest something with less probability of breaking suddenly than something they may need to roll back.

As for atomic distros, YMMV. I find them sluggish during install, boot and when starting an app for the first time, and in my case, broken after a few updates (would not work on Wayland forcing me to log in over X11).

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That has not been the case anymore for months. We have 3 different Fedora Workstation 40 computers/laptops and 1 Nobara laptop, and they all sleep and hibernate just fine, and wake up just as well.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

That's to be expected. Linux distros are barely just getting their feet wet in the tablet/mobile world.

I have no use for tablets, but if I did, I'd certainly go the Linux way and deal with whatever I have to before ever thinking to use Apple, Microsoft or any Google OS.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I just got this email from Sony. My kids use their profiles offline (meaning they don't even have a playstation account) on their PS4, and use my games. And now they want to allow kids to link their other accounts (my kids only have a SimpleX user to chat with their family, LOL).

The sad thing is that a lot of parents will go: "Nice, they can now have it all in one place!"

Love how they say this at the end:

Stay tuned for more details. In the meantime, we recommend talking to your child about account linking so that they can safely enjoy these new features while playing on PlayStation.

They fucking call these FEATURES!

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submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I just love this guy when he's riled up. Makes me feel all warm and cozy 🤣

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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

This may end up being a bit convoluted, so I will do my best to keep it as short as possible and to the point.

I have a US number with Google Fi, have had it for about 8 years.

This is the only reason why I still maintain that one Google account. The benefit is that I only use it when I am in the United States, and when I'm not, I just pause the service and don't get charged.

However, I feel the string need to completely eliminate Google from my life permanently.

Does anyone know of a service similar to this one? It can be an MVNO or VOIP for my phone, and I would like to port my number as well. I found "phoner", but I can't pause the service, so I would be stuck paying a bill I don't use as much or loosing my number.

If the service is private (not to be confused with anonymous, of course) even better.

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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I need some help figuring out how to install all the DKMS drivers, and firmware manager, firmware daemon, etc on Silverblue.

It's easy on Fedora but I haven't found a single instance explaining how to do it in a Fedora atomic distro.

These are the instructions for Fedora.

https://support.system76.com/articles/system76-driver/

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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Finally got my wife away from Windows and on Fedora 40 (Gnome 46).

Now, when her PC goes to suspend and when she wakes it up, one of her 2 monitors doesn't wake up.

Both are connected to HDMI ports (no dedicated video card, just the integrated card in her Ryzen 9).

Any ideas on what could be happening? I wouldn't want her to go back to Winblows over something so insignificant, but she would.

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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13523342

I made wanderer - a self-hosted trail and GPS track database

Over the last two months, I developed wanderer. It is a self-hosted alternative to sites like alltrails.com or in other words a self-hosted trail database. It started out more as a small hobby project to teach myself some new technologies but in the end, I decided to develop it into a fully-fledged application.

Core Features:

  • Manage your trails
  • Extensive map integration and visualization
  • Share trails with other people and explore theirs
  • Advanced filter and search functionality
  • Create custom lists to organize your trails further
  • Chique design with a dark and light theme
  • Fully mobile compatible

wanderer is completely open-source. You can find the GitHub repo here: https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer

wanderer is still under active development so if you encounter any bugs/errors or have suggestions please let me know here or open an issue on GitHub.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR7D6Fx0fTQ

Not 100% in agreement with some of her videos, but I believe this one is spot on, and probably easier to understand by regular folk.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I set up a Raspberry Pi 3 with AdguardHome for a friend of mine, and told him to disconnect everything at home and try to watch anything on his phone, being the only device using his home's internet.

He just sent me this, and now he's ready to #degoogle 🤣🤣🤣

He says there were hundreds in less than 5 minutes.

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