BreakDecks

Realistically, Debian, because it existed when the movie was set.

fwiw, OP wrote the article himself and then spammed it to lots of different instances. Definitely worth blocking this spammer.

Antivirus software is really useful if you’re running a lot of workstations and/or severs and you can’t trust the users. It is just another layer of security.

For a single Linux user, there’s really no need for one.

Let me guess: you own real estate in neighborhoods you wouldn’t want to live in in hopes of extracting enough capital from your tenants so that you can buy your own home in a neighborhood you do want to live in.

You’re exploiting people poorer than you so that you can become richer.

You’re not one of the good ones…

You already own real estate, why exploit people with it when you can just live in it and stop renting?

Do you own a residential home for a purpose other than you or your family living in it? You’re a landlord.

If you were born in the USA, lived in Germany your whole life, and only recently learned of your US citizenship, you need to seek legal advice from a German law firm or from the government. I suspect that getting your US passport was a huge mistake. You may want to contest the validity of your citizenship, as it doesn’t sound like it offers you any benefits, and might actually be a financial liability.

This is interesting. This incident resulted in the Video Privacy Protection Act. I wonder if you could apply this to streaming providers who sell your watch history to advertisers.

Repeating what everyone else has said, and strongly recommending that you see your doctor.

But if it eases your mind a little, I had a similar experience that was ultimately diagnosed as tinnitus, and treated effectively with behavioral therapy. It’s scary thinking something is wrong with you, but getting diagnosed is great because you get to know more than you did before about what is wrong.

I am unwilling to learn.

This is the only thing you’ve said that matters. Nobody should ever make any effort to help you, because you expect to spoonfed like a baby.

Setting up WINE, in my experience, is as easy as just installing it and running EXEs and MSIs with it. I just set wine as the default handler for those file types, and things mostly just work.

There is some tweaking that is sometimes necessary, but it’s easier to tackle that on a case-by-case basis. I hardly have to do anything for the handful of Windows-based tools I keep to work, and there’s usually someone online who has already figured out a workaround so I don’t have to.

Demoscene stuff. Basically just digital art written for fun and to show off your coding skills. People have been doing it since the Amiga. If you’ve ever pirated software in the 90’s to 00’s, you’ve probably seen a realtime animation and mod-based techno track accompany the keygen - that’s an example of Demoscene art.

I can’t find anyone in the US, not even one of the nerds that works in tech with me, who gives a single shit about this stuff. There are parties and conventions all the time, none of them in North America…

I’m traveling to Germany at the end of March to go to a Demoparty just for the chance to meet a single other person who cares. It should be fun.

I made my own prod discovery service if you ever want to check it out: https://prods.page/ (Yes, I need to update it).

ChatGPT will mock up a python script pretty quickly given a basic english description and reference materials like API docs, sparing me the burden of doing something tedius, but that’s about the extent of its utility for me.

Extremely uncharacteristic of X’s critics to point out X’s flaws.

The name of this project is a death sentence. F5 owns the NGINX trademark. A successful fork of this will need to have a new name.

When Oracle ruined Hudson, the community forked it and renamed it to Jenkins, and Oracle lost their investment. The same should be possible with NGINX (BSD vs. MIT, IANAL).

Sorry, are they claiming that they own the rights to lists of publications, not just the publications themselves? Like, I’m not even allowed to have the titles of books without their permission?

Nobody said Apple was good, they’re just noting that nobody is going to force you to use an Apple Vision product. You can go your whole life without putting one on if you like.

Honestly, most people just use their computer for documents and the web. If they have their browser of choice, Libreoffice or equivalent document suite, and whatever file manager comes with the window manager they’re using, so long as they’ve used a computer at some point in the last couple of decades they’ll be set.

I feel like the techy people oversell Linux because they don’t know how not to be a power user. We tend to teach things the way we do them, and that’s not good for beginners to learn things that way.

I try to make Linux sound boring. I establish that it will do everything that someone currently does, and show them that it will be in-support on their computer longer than Windows 10 will be, and it usually works out.

Get someone logged into Chrome, show them how to install Spotify so they can see that it is easy (and doesn’t require the command line if they don’t want it to), and get any other basics like messengers and cloud storage stuff worked out, and most people will be sold.

Getting into the weeds about how how FOSS is superior, or how you can customize everything can come later. Let a person actually get comfortable using Linux before you try to upsell the libre movement. That shit definitely scares people off.

Most importantly, remember that software freedom includes the freedom to use proprietary software. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink. People will use Chrome, Discord, Spotify, and other closed source tools, and we should be happy they can do so on an open source OS.

This is why you should follow hundreds to thousands of niche, mostly-inactive YouTubers. Every day you’ll get a couple new videos that only you and 17 other people will ever see, with content unlike anything anyone else is making, and if you’re lucky the video might even be good too.

It’s not a transportation device, but I can put people in it one place and take them out at another? Does everyone/everything else follow a different set of rules than me, owner of the pocket dimension?