I’m 25 and still sorting out the books I care to read. I’m overwhelmed with choice, particularly interesting works in genres that I don’t find much joy in.

I tried OpenSUSE and I ran into various issues installing software. Plus the immutable variant of OpenSUSE is an external project IIRC.

Problem is that I don’t know the format and I couldn’t find any documentation on the matter.

You can’t exactly type “man nano /etc/fstab” into the console.

But they’re deleting my social media.

Don’t “upgrade” to Kubuntu. I’m on it and want to upgrade away because Ubuntu. Fedora Kinoite is probably the best bet if you want KDE for a tech novice.

KDE is really annoying though. Kate is a horrible text editor if you’re not a programmer, and Kwrite has weird default shortcuts without any preconfigured “Gnome/Windows style” available. The Dolphin File Explorer doesn’t allow you to sort and group by different things. And Kparted isn’t as easy to use as Gnome Disk Utility. Still, I like how KDE had better themes than Cinnamon and how it actually lets me move programs to different categories in the start menu.

A lot of debate has been had about whether the CEO is trustworthy, but I guess if they’re not doing end to end encryption then there’s no point.

That’s because the feature is being abused by others.

What did clicking on the cloudflare button actually do? As far as I know just clicking on a link shouldn’t give you malware.

Clicking on things that look legit is a critical part of interaction with computers. Programs should not be installed unintentionally, so first and foremost Office Macros should not be enabled by default (and eventually Microsoft did disable them).

Recently I think the main avenue for malware is to send a PDF with a fake popup for an update, that links to a phishing site and prompts you to download an exe with malware. That kind of thing is a harder issue to solve, but at the very least an OS should probably not let that program update your BIOS.

It’ll have a devastating effect for people who work in the industries.

Those of us who don’t play AAA games or watch Warner Bros or Paramount movies don’t really have much to lose here. Worst case scenario there are always Nigerian and Uzbek movies.

He said that Republicans were more responsive on privacy than the Democrats, there’s nothing weird about that. Though it is pretty clear that the Republicans were responsive for all the wrong reasons.

Ah, I’m on KDE though.

I use KDE and it keeps asking me for a password to mount one of my partitions. I tried to edit it using nano but couldn’t find any documentation about how etc/fstab even works so I was hoping for a way to do it with the CLI.

It’s okay, I’m Australian, my government’s got me covered.

I wish there was a graphical or CLI option to add a Linux drive to etc/fstab.

My point was that those kinds of reports are useless, this kind of feature is only useful if experienced devs voluntarily use it.

Better a false positive than false negative, as long as people aren’t submitting AI generated bug bounty reports to projects and hiding the fact they’re AI.

GitHub Advanced Security seems useful. AI has successfully found security vulnerabilities that would’ve otherwise gone undetected, and as a rule of thumb all security vulnerabilities need to be found and patched.

Oh, looking it up they do come to about the same weight in the end (information that was very difficult to source BTW). Guess that eliminates much of the entire point of this. All I would need is 80km of range at most so I’m put off by all these cars offering 500km that I don’t want or need.

I guess an old EV is probably the better option. With the added advantage that I’ll probably get physical controls instead of a damn touch-screen.

Battery fires get more news coverage not because their more common, but because they are so catastrophic when they do happen. As for comparisons to gasoline, I’d be leaving the tank empty so that’s not a concern for me.

I would prefer not to use waste rubber and money thicker tyres carrying around a huge battery I don’t need. Worst case I can use those same tires on a car with a lighter battery.

Good point about regenerative braking, I forgot about that.