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FOSS and art enthusiast, chilling in the fediverse.

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c/theydidthemath

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Does the Minecraft launcher flatpak (com.mojang.Minecraft) count as a paid app?

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Not a tiling window manager, but would Cosmic possibly serve your usecase?

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.mp3 + Gapless (on desktop) / Gramophone (Mobile)

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Most of these points are fair, but.. wine is not an emulator!

UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones ( arstechnica.com )

“The UK government wants technology companies to block explicit images on phones and computers by default to protect children, with adults having to verify their age to create and access such content,” the FT report said. “Ministers want the likes of Apple and Google to incorporate nudity-detection algorithms into their ...

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I thought the "hardcorer" alternative to Arch was LFS

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Hmm, I personally place Nix at the same level as Arch, because I see both distros being hard to get into because of how different they do stuff when compared to the average OS.

Maybe the real level up is trying to run BSD on unsupported hardware?

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Nice to know you're enjoying Linux :P

I think that later on in your adventure, you'll notice that you don't actually need a distro that's hard to maintain in order to do the hardcore stuff.

Going back to more tame distros (Mint, Debian, Fedora, Solus) may actually suit you better, even for said tasks.

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Text editors are bloat, I only use punch cards

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Cybersecurity and "stopping hackers" are very extensive and complex topics. It's kinda like a mix of many areas of knowledge (software, hardware, coding, internet of things, etc...)

So one advice I think I can give you is that there is a "tool" of hacking that is often overlooked: Social Engineering.

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Bro is being sent to the "boy-kissing" floor

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lisbon 🥀🥀

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"In My Head" is also a certified banger from them

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Anyone who uses this font in their phone deserves to be kept offline 🙏

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Megaman X9, pleaaaase!! 🥺

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It's been about a year or so since I've played Genshin, but I played it exclusively on Linux through Bottles while a friend of mine played through Heroic and we had no issues.
Did something change since then? What would be the benefit of playing it via Waydroid? (Except for testing, of course :P)

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Sad to hear 😕

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I thought about it too 😁
But it also (presumably) means somewhat inferior graphics. So it's a benefit with some cost if you care about extra polygons

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Mint + I3 is quite the unique setup.
Just out of curiosity: How does it perform? And was there a specific reason to choose Mint?

It looks very pretty btw

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I see :)
Fedora is a pretty solid choice. But if you don't mind a suggestion, I think arch could fit your needs as a tinkerer!

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I haven't tried it personally, but there is a Linux software called QMMP, which is kinda like a winamp clone.

Maybe it has compatibility with said formats?

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Howdy 🗣️‼️

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I know Google is bad and all, but in the case of Fennec, is it really that big of a deal?
I say that because someone who knows how to get Fennec on their phones will also be aware on what search engine they use, so it's not like the maintainer is advertising Google or anything IMO

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It's a fair take, but even still, someone who goes out of their way to get to fdroid and install Fennec should very well be aware of alternatives to Google.

An argument that discards knowledge as a factor only makes sense to me in a context of a tech illiterate installing Firefox directly from the Play Store.

Also, from my own knowledge (correct me if I'm wrong) the point of Fennec is to be as FOSS as possible, and not to have all the provacy-oriented defaults, if that were the case, I presume it would come with uBlock preinstalled, for example.

It's also worth mentioning that Fennec never changes what defaults you set with updates (at least in my personal experience, would like to hear if anyone had a different story)
EDIT my own default settings was changed to Google later that day. So can't argue on that 😂

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The reason why I stick with motorola is because the Android they ship is the closest to pure AOSP. (From what's avaiable in my country)

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I daily drive a moto g14 for about a year now. A rather basic phone, but thankfully still didnt have any software related issues yet :P hope motorola gives some care to your model tho

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Alternatively, you could try to install a GSI instead of a fully custom built ROM, that's how I got a custom rom back when I had a Samsung A03 Core.
But even then, the way android is locked down on each device along the absurdly short support Motorola offers is really infuriating.

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dumb fuck ‼️

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I managed to run Office 2007 and Office 2010, the latter requiring the winbind package to be installed.

But both of these are quite old, so Libreoffice seems more reliable to use anyway.

I managed to install Office 2013 (sometimes with success, sometimes not) and it ran close to perfectly, if it wasnt for the pop up menus disappearing :(

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Ikr? Makes me wonder what that celeron was meant for? It barely ran the Win 7 that came preinstalled. That's why I'm so happy to see it run modern Debian with modern packages. Also why I'm doing some research on CPUs to upgrade it to

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I'll keep these in mind, hope debian still got 32 bit version of these packages.

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Haha, I've been used to 4gb ram minimum for most of my life 😆

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Do you daily drive htop or something? 😆

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But why would a 1.6 ghz, single core CPU not be low end in 2025? Perfomance itself is very sluggish, and it has only been able to do very simple offline tasks for now.
Yeah, yeah, many people used to run 512mb ram and 500mhz cpu setups.. But that was in 2000 and whatever.

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But why would a 1.6 ghz, single core CPU not be low end in 2025? Perfomance itself is very sluggish, and it has only been able to do very simple offline tasks for now.
Yeah, yeah, many people used to run 512mb ram and 500mhz cpu setups.. But that was in 2000 and whatever.

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Yes, the title say lowest I ever ran
That was the lowest for me, I really don't get the confusion. And even then, a celeron m 380 was lower end even for it's own time

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I also daily drive LMDE on a... Considerably old inspiron, but not even close to being as old as the one in my post tho 😄

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I didnt have the intention to compete, was just proud of seeing this 2007 laptop running a modern OS again!

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This one is actually obscenely underpowered but obscenely large laptop

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Yeah, that's what I'm researching right now.. I hope I can at least make it useable enough for web browsing

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Actually.. You're right about the 21st century lmao. I just wanted an excuse to quote Metal Gear Solid

Also, the issue is not ram itself, of course, 2GB is enough for lots of fun on Linux, it's the CPU that's killing me

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Not sure, but this one is a 2007 piece of art

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I got the icons and themes directly from a Mint install on another machine (cause I couldnt find these online) 😁

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Is it avaiable on debian repos?

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    haven't beaten Heart Star yet (mostly for being lazy) but I loved the game! thanks for recommending