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majster@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•Twitter founder Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit to build Nostr-based social media appsEnglish9·11 days agoIt’s so “decentralized” that political activists from authoritarian countries get deplatformed on request of the government.
majster@lemmy.zipto Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's howEnglish22·11 days agoThere is already plenty of malware targeting devs on Linux where is it’s strongest userbase.
I really liked my Nokia 5800. I just checked online and see that it retailed for almost half the price of an iPhone. No wonder it was popular where I’m from. It seems if you loose in USA market you loose everywhere.
majster@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•Google Keeps Making Smartphones WorseEnglish79·12 days agoMS keeps making Windows worse but that is not a problem because Linux is great on PCs. The reason is that PC is made out of standardized plug&play components that you can make generic OS image for.
There is no such thing in smartphone world. Each chipset is it’s own Linux fork that gets only most crucial bug fixes while in warranty. Same is true for ARM SBCs where I believe the only board that supports generic image are new RPis.
majster@lemmy.zipto Linux@lemmy.ml•[theoretical] What would the real impacts of FOSS software becoming more prevalent in all segments of society?English22·18 days agoFrom enduser perspective the most visible change would be that all software wouldn’t be hostile to users because with propreitary you have to be very picky to get that.
In the long term we would see that companies could not build walled gardens to block off competition. Contrast Windows & MacOS vs Linux with its different distros, DEs, toolkits etc.
The least difference would be for enterprise because support is expensive either way.
majster@lemmy.zipto Linux@lemmy.ml•Installing Guix as a Complete GNU/Linux System - System CraftersEnglish2·19 days agothats it :) Now you need to pin package versions to guix versions via inferior so that you can share the manifest and be sure you have exact same stuff on the other machine. Otherwise the specified packages get updated everytime you update your system. I learned that the hard way by having to wait for latex to download everytime I updated my system.
majster@lemmy.zipto Linux@lemmy.ml•Installing Guix as a Complete GNU/Linux System - System CraftersEnglish0·20 days agoyes, you would share with him guix manifest which is a file that specifies which packages should be present. What is important to note are inferiors which is a mechanism to version lock the packages.
majster@lemmy.zipto Linux@lemmy.ml•Installing Guix as a Complete GNU/Linux System - System CraftersEnglish2·21 days agoI love it especially because of the guix shell and guix shell container for dev environment isolation. It is a whole different ecosystem from the ground up though so it’s not an easy ride. But those two features make it worth it for me. Also it’s GNU distro which imo is a plus.
majster@lemmy.zipto Linux@lemmy.ml•GNOME 49 Alpha Released With X11 Support Disabled By Default, Many New FeaturesEnglish31·21 days agoI used Ubuntu 24.10. on new Ubuntu certified Intel Thinkpad and exeperienced system hangs every few weeks. The only solution was to reboot. Frustrating to say the least. On that system also webcam didn’t work so maybe it was kernel fault somehow but still very disappointing given the “certified” status.
majster@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclearEnglish2·24 days agoFirewood from your own forest is the only one and it’s carbon neutral too. This is meant more as a joke but still.
majster@lemmy.zipto Technology@lemmy.world•DOJ Announces Coordinated, Nationwide Actions to Combat North Korean Remote Information Technology Workers’ Illicit Revenue Generation SchemesEnglish1·28 days agoAt the company I work for we had one best korean for two weeks before he got suspended. From what I understand the providers of corpo spyware that they put on your laptop enables them to detect patterns that are common in setups like that.
Brave search has its own index and it works for me. Pretty good way out of big tech for web search.