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Some of us are forgetful!! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Looks like your 'y' key isn't working. Might wanna look into it.

I Will Not Be Responsible for Repeating History in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

You can bridge your Bluesky account to the fediverse and all your future posts will be visible on the fediverse, though you'll only be able to interact with people who have bridged their fediverse accounts back to Bluesky.

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How do VPNs operate legally? (sopuli.xyz)

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

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ISPs get legal notices from companies and are liable if it is found that their users are downloading illegal torrents and they don't take action against those users.

How are VPNs any different? By using a VPN, aren't you essentially transferring your accountability to the VPN provider? Wouldn't courts find that since this or that VPN service's exit server was used in ____ illegal online activity, they're responsible and must cease operations?

How do VPNs operate? Are laws different for them? If yes, then how does that benefit the state? Wouldn't the state benefit from treating VPNs the same as ISPs so they get more control?

Pixelfed just overtook Lemmy as the 4th most used Fediverse software. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

The @ is only required for making posts on Lemmy from Mastodon, not replies AFAIK.

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Shrink size available is very less compared to the free space available in the drive (sopuli.xyz)

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

0 comments fedilink

I wanted to dual boot fedora with Windows 11 and decided to partition my C drive but it shows the size available to shrink as around 900mb even though I have more than 250gb of available space in my drive.

I have already dual booted once before on this machine before switching back to Windows only and I would like to get back into linux but I can't seem to solve this issue.

From my research, the problem is caused by some immovable files resulting in discontiguous space in the drive? I have tried various solutions available online like disabling page files, deleting restore points and using 3rd party software (but all of them required paid plans to defrag/shrink my drive), none of them helped (though I think disabling page files got my available shrink space from 500mb to 900mb, essentially the problem still persists). I have also tried the inbuilt defrag utility of windows but the problem persists.

One thing that I haven't tried is trying to shrink through GParted because I have to boot using a USB stick in order to use it so I'm concerned it might break my existing windows install or personal files. Can anyone confirm if it is risk free? Or any other solutions I can try?

What pieces of software can you recommend that's free, efficient and does not bullshit around? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Did you mean Krita instead of 'Keira'?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Not to discredit your arguement but isn't Signal also centralised?

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Is CalyxVPN reputable? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I came across CalyxVPN while browsing through F-droid, it seems to be offered by the same people who make CalyxOS. I couldn't find much discourse about it online, is it reputable enough to use?

My use case would be to hide whatever I do online from my ISP (I'm not torrenting, just browsing).

And yes, I know free VPNs are untrustworthy in most cases but this seems to come from a somewhat privacy respecting background so I was curious.

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Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema (threema.ch)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What open-source software would you like more people to know about? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You don't need internet to access the passwords stored in Bitwarden if you have their local clients installed. It stores an encrypted copy of your database locally to your device which syncs (updates) over the internet.