thatonecoder

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Sorry for chiming in at about a year later, but I see some issues with the state of "Free Software":

1: IMO, Libre Software is a better way to say it, since it doesn't have the ambiguity that "Free Software" does. 2: Revolt is a perfectly fine replacement for Discord - it has almost no bugs, and works identically to the latter. 3: The average person does not, and will never code. Libre Software movements like the FSF should focus on more practical benefits of Libre Software, although not ignoring ethical concerns (e.g. never being locked out of your software is a big benefit, that covers both practical and ethical considerations)

Please do correct me if I'm wrong about something I said, but I wrote this with all the knowledge I currently have.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

That hardware is very powerful, so Linux Mint (maybe Debian Edition) will do the trick.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Keep in mind my response may have things added, as I verify and look into what you said, but here it is:

1: The Supreme Court is dominated by Republican Justices, which, if you take Trump's stance about judges being corrupt and bla bla bla, that also applies for his judges - and Trump never accepted the election loss, so the abortion right removal technically happened in his presidency.

2: I never did imply that abortion has anything to do with DOGE, I separated those two things with something called a comma (which you haven't used at all - oh, that explains it!). Medicare and Medicaid are, however, likely going to be cut off to save those juicy $1T to then give more money to the wealthy.

3: The rights being removed are not all by DOGE, but all are tied to the Trump administration, which does include DOGE.

This is officially rambling territory, but did you that if 99.99% of Elon Musk's money (assuming he has between 300 and 400 billion dollars) was evenly split between every US citizen, everyone in the US would get 1000+ dollars, and Elon Musk would still have 30-40 million?

Even if he just lost 99.8% of his money, he'd have an enormous amount of wealth ($800M), and the US citizens would still get a lot of money? Do that but 6 times (to count for every billionaire, making each keep $800M), and uni-statians would get $5K each!

P.S. Poverty only happens because the wealthy want to subjugate the working class, and make rebels not make it through.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The right for abortion, healthcare (by the DOGE bullshit), among other rights.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I understand where you're coming from, but there are some flaws with your reasoning:

  • About Kernel anti-cheats: if you wish, you can dual-boot Windows and any GNU+Linux distro, without any issues.
  • The LibreOffice thing: there is OnlyOffice, and even M$ Office has Open Document format compatibility.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I think so too. I just checked his profile, and it's riddled with overly controversial opinions, to ridiculous extents.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not that bad - the start menu opens in about 2 seconds, but some apps can take much longer (highly depends, but up to 6-10 seconds). I can easily work with a minimal, Windows 9x layout, if that means I will get a significant performance boost.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

This. Any many laptops use eMMC, meaning that you can't just increase the OS storage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I was thinking of asking this too, but I honestly wasn't sure how to - especially since I'm not even close to the Middle East and Asia, so I didn't want to come off as insensitive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How are you dealing with the fact that your family doesn't respect your sexuality?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I prefer something that has the same functional layout as Windows, but is as lightweight and minimal as possible (a Windows XP-like Start Menu is fine, I just need something that is configurable enough and doesn't blow up my laptop).

 

Background: I am a lifelong Windows user who is planning to move to Linux in October, once Microsoft drops support for Windows 10. I use a particularly bad laptop (Intel Celeron N3060, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, 64 GB eMMC storage).

I do have some degree of terminal experience in Windows, but I would not count on it. If there are defaults that are sensible enough, I'd appreciate it. I can also configure through mouse-based text editors, as long as there is reliable, concise documentation on that app.

So, here's what I want in a distro and desktop environment:

  • Easy to install, maintain (graphical installation and, preferably, package management too + auto-updating for non-critical applications)
  • Lightwight and snappy (around 800 MB idle RAM usage, 10-16 GB storage usage in a base install)
  • Secure (using Wayland, granular GUI-based permission control)

I have narrowed down the distributions and desktop environments that seem promising, but want y'all's opinions on them.

Distributions:

  • Linux Mint Xfce: Easy to install, not prone to randomly break (problems: high OOTB storage usage, RAM consumption seems a little too high, kind of outdated packages, not on Wayland yet)
  • Fedora: Secure, the main DEs use Wayland (problems: similar to above except for the outdated packages; also hard to install and maintain, from what I have heard)
  • antiX Linux (problems: outdated packages, no Wayland)

Desktop Environments:

  • Xfce: Lightweight, fast, seems like it'd work how I want (problems: not on Wayland yet, that's it)
  • labwc + other Wayland stuff: Lightweight, fast, secure (problems: likely harder to install, especially since I have no Linux terminal experience, cannot configure through a GUI)

In advance, I thank you all for helping me!

I appreciate any help, especially in things like:

  • Neofetch screenshots, to showcase idle RAM usage on some DEs
  • Experiences with some distributions
 

Is it a good idea to crank up the settings in Argon2id to max (20 iterations, 100 length, salted) for applications? I'm new to the cybersecurity subject, but I assume keeping the hashing as slow as possible (and a longer hash length = fewer chances of collusion) helps fight against brute-forcing. Is that correct?

Also, what is the security of having a password logging in system that: 1: Uses the max Argon2id settings, to make the authentication slow 2: Makes it take 1–2 seconds (in a circle loading style) for it to either fail, or succeed 3: Adds a 1-second cooldown, increasing by 0.5s by every failed attempt (any successful attempt in that cooldown is ignored, it just says that it's on cooldown nevertheless)

I'm open to suggestions! (I'm not implementing everything, but thought experiments are a good place to start, IMO)

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

As the title goes. This would involve turning the tax levels / brackets into an exponential mathematical curve. One of the benefits off of the top of my head, is that people wouldn't be scared of their salary increasing just enough, to actually lower their clean income. Another one would be that you can lower even further the tax rate for middle / low class, because you (the government) would receive more from taxes. Any opinions/ideas for this?

 

As the title goes - I think it's a good solution for some of the Western World's problems, like politicians not following their campaign promises. On the other hand, conflicting politics are a big possibility, which would create further problems. Any ideas?

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