The purpose of his channel is to make money. Not spread any sort of awareness about what would be generally good for “consumers”.
His attitude towards Linux makes it very clear how much of an expert he is of the more social and economic issues with computing being a monopoly of a handful of corporations.
Some more relevant discussion: https://lemmy.ml/post/161629
I see this being mentioned a bit in American media. I understand why this can happen. Capital does not want to pay living wages to the working people and workers do not want to work for pennies. There is no such thing as labour shortage, only capital not willing to pay. …
@dessalines@lemmy.ml what about allowing federation on an allowlist-only basis?
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I have tried to use fast fingers to preorder a PS5 as soon as it restocks and have failed. Now I want to turn to the dark side. …
I am absolutely garbage at cooking nor do I have the desire to get better at cooking intricate dishes. But I still prefer making food at home as much as possible. So I was wondering what your favourite easy dishes are. …
I feel tangibly anxious when playing horror games so trying to understand how people who enjoy horror games do it. …
Just want to listen to that lofi stream while studying. …
Someone in my family uses Alexa to do things like control lights and some other electrical appliances in the home. I don’t know anything about this smart home trend, but I immediately disliked Alexa because: …
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I’ve been setting up Prosody today and it’s been a struggle. I have gotten to about 55% compliance. I not aiming for 100%. If there is a sample config I can refer to that would be helpful. …
I want to stop using WhatsApp because I fuckin hate it. Does anyone use XMPP regularly? It allows encryption so I was considering it. …
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I personally use passwordstore.org with a git repo on a personal VPS. But I wanted to set up a password manager for my boomer parents and looks like Bitwarden is one of the better options out there. …
- Twitter website for mobile sucks donkey balls. Sometimes it doesn’t load at all until I refresh.
- Nitter is significantly faster than Twitter website…
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Playing GOG’s Disco Elysium distribution via Lutris. The game itself starts and runs okay but I can’t get it to detect my controller, a DualShock 4. …
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Trying to play Hades but the my controller (DualShock 4) won’t work with it. …
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I use one called X-Plore. It’s actually very good. Even has a WiFi server, conpressed archive support, etc. but the downsides are that it’s close sourced and some features are behind a paywall (though IMO they are worth it). …
With this whole debacle brewing, I was browsing /r/ModSupport (since all the good subs I know went private). There I saw a post from someone saying that Reddit admins are affecting discourse from the shadows and pushing their left-wing agenda with little accountability. …
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I gave it a go last night and it is way trickier then I expected. Simple things like setting options are not very convenient at the moment. I also tried to get packer.nvim running but the README was not very helpful. …
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Right now I have a Nokia 8 and it cannot be rooted because the bootloader cannot be unlocked. Which sucks a lot. …
I got my start into i3 window manager with this playlist of videos though I had to learn a lot after these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1I63wGcvU4