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[–] provisional 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lots of Fedora haters here, but I agree. Fedora is the best distro ever, especially if you like stock GNOME.

[–] provisional 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fedora is a fine distro. Red Hat is still a huge contributor to the open source community, despite the decisions made by IBM managers to restrict RHEL source code. It just means that it'll be a little more difficult to make RHEL clones going forward, but I doubt it'll have any lasting impact. Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux and other RHEL based distros have all announced that they intend to continue their operations, with little to no change in how they do things. Really, the controversy is overblown.

[–] provisional 4 points 2 years ago

IIRC you can download Wireguard configs and just use it as a regular wireguard VPN. However, this limits you to the server that you picked unless you want to generate another config for a different server.

[–] provisional 4 points 2 years ago

I'm subscribed to three publications: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs. I regularly read articles from The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, and other publications like ProPublica. I also read academic blogs on journalism, nuclear weapons, and other topics. I follow a lot of academics and experts on Twitter to get their hot takes.

[–] provisional 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When it comes to communicating well in English, it's easy to get stuck between words that seem very similar. For example: poll vs vote, citizen vs civilian, politician vs representative. When you don't know the difference between words, try to find what makes them different from each other.

For example: a poll can be an opinion poll, but a vote is only for an election. So all votes are a kind of poll, but not all polls are specifically votes.

Another example: a politician politically represents the will of their constituents. A representative may represent any company, organization, or government. So representatives generally represent groups of people, but politicians specifically represent their constituents in government.

Another example: what's the difference between plausible and reasonable? Something reasonable means it's logical or can be reached through reasoning. Something plausible is a story that makes sense, a good enough story that could actually happen. So something reasonable needs to have a relatively consistent logical thread to it, whole something plausible needs to make enough sense as to be possibly true.

When you are asking if something is plausible, you are asking if the story is true or if the reasons given make enough sense to make the story true. When you are asking if something is reasonable, you are asking if using your reasoning ability, you would come to the same conclusions.

[–] provisional 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

"When in doubt, draw a distinction." - Neil Postman

[–] provisional 0 points 2 years ago

Personally wouldn't recommend Fedora as a newbie distro because most guides assume Debian/Ubuntu-based package managers. When I first switched from Pop!_OS, I couldn't understand why my apt-get commands weren't working. Of course, that was until I learned about other package managers like DNF, Yum, etc. Also, Nvidia proprietary drivers and media codecs can be a pain.

Pop!_OS, Ubuntu and Mint are all great recommendations though!

[–] provisional 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

+1 for Fedora. Red Hat's new policy to restrict open source code though, IDK.

[–] provisional 1 points 2 years ago

Dropsync for syncing files to my phone. Tasks.org for an open source to-do list.

[–] provisional 4 points 2 years ago

You don't need to buy a new computer just to learn Linux. You can create a bootable flash drive and install it on an external SSD and boot from the SSD when you need to use Linux. If you don't want an external SSD, you can dual-boot and keep Linux on a separate partition on your machine.

In terms of distros, I'd recommend Ubuntu or Pop!_OS to get started with. Other distros like Elementary OS, Linux Mint, or Debian can be suitable as well.

[–] provisional 1 points 2 years ago

It's rather unlikely someone would get access to your vault if you use a physical authentication key like YubiKey. However, I take your point. I personally keep my 2FA, passwords, and backups in separate places.

The reason why I answered with Bitwarden as 2FA is because OP asked what was the Bitwarden of 2FA, so obviously OP didn't know Bitwarden itself had that feature.

[–] provisional 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, they definitely could have grandfathered current apps into a new low tier for 1-2 years and have separate tiers for AI/LLMs, 3rd party apps, and bots. Also, they could expose their ads through their API, so app developers can run their ads and potentially continue calling the API for free.

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